Krishna's grace built our movement; mismanagement destroys it—simplicity and accountability preserve the devotional standard.Listen — Srila Prabhupada Uvaca
Prabhupāda: You know that? Are you aware of this plan? Gopāla Kṛṣṇa: Yes. Prabhupāda: One man is kneading flour, five sers, and he's getting two hundred rupees' salary, and paratha and halavā. This is management, going on. Now today it has been checked.
They are eating paratha and our men are starving. He is getting two hundred rupees, three hundred rupees. This is management. What can be done?
And he has... Three dozen manager, four dozen cook. This is... I am giving you report which he has given to me.
Money is squandered like anything, and live blindly, and "Still, I want everything for myself." Everything is in my notice. I can feel now actually [indistinct] is coming. Anyway, we want... In India, the affairs are most mismanaged.
That we see. In foreign countries they are doing very nice—in New York, in Los Angeles, in Chicago. Now there is Toronto report. This Toronto report...
I do not know how things are managed there very nicely, and here—three dozen cook. "Too many cooks spoil the broth." Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: They're not cooking for any more people here than they do in New York. They don't have one hired person. Gopāla Kṛṣṇa: How many you have? Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: We have plenty of devotees here.
There the devotees are being... Prabhupāda: You see how things are mismanaged. There is no place for accommodating the cooks. What is the question of cooking? Have you seen it?