True leadership requires both worldly authority and spiritual wisdom rooted in Krishna consciousness.Listen — Srila Prabhupada Uvaca
Prabhupāda: Don’t take that I am simply paying agent. Is that all right, that I shall simply go on paying? Mahāṁsa: No. Prabhupāda: You have got so many trustees, and you all trustees and managing trustee and this trustee, and for payment I am responsible. Even for purchasing your utensils. What is this?
I did not say at that time, but I talked this morning to them that what is this? I shall pay everything, and you are all big, big trustees? So you give me in writing that including the four lakhs already paid. Already, I am a debtor, and plus this money, whatever I shall, you shall return me within three years.
Where is that letter? Jagadīśa: I can get it typed. Prabhupāda: Get it typed. Let me see it. Jagadīśa: This is, ah… Prabhupāda: No, no, I can read. You can write letter. Bank of Rajasthan.
What is it? Mahāṁsa: Yes, this was fixed deposit which was in Madras, and since there is nobody in Madras now, Gopāla Kṛṣṇa wanted to transfer that amount to BBT in Bombay. So he told me to get it done. And both the signers, Bhavabhūti and Śravaṇānanda, are not available. So if you dictate to the bank as founder-ācārya of ISKCON, then they will send the money and I will direct it to BBT. Jagadīśa: This is the amount that Gopāla Kṛṣṇa was mentioning in his letter that we read last night that’s supposed to go to the BBT. Prabhupāda: Manager, Bank of Rajasthan, Madras.
You can do that. You have got influence, you have got intelligence, you have got the mind, you have got the appreciative power. Therefore, I am asking you amongst our… It will be… Take, for example, our Indian government is secular. So who can be greater secular than our… [break] Actually, better become Muhammadan.
Therefore, so many Muhammadans. Otherwise they are not imported. Indian man: They are not imported. They are all our Hindus. Prabhupāda: Yes. [aside:] What is that? Devotee (3): Aśraddadhānāḥ puruṣāḥ [Bg 9.3]? Prabhupāda: Not that.
In Sixteenth Chapter there is verse, that janmani janmani. Devotee (3): Oh. Oh. [break]