True leadership emerges only through faithful discipleship; guard the movement from materialistic infiltrators seeking power.Listen — Srila Prabhupada Uvaca
Prabhupāda: ...that "After you, who will take the leadership?" And "Everyone will take, all my disciples. If you want, you can take also. [laughter] But if you follow. They are prepared to sacrifice everything, so they'll take the leadership.
I may, one, go away, but there will be hundreds, and they'll preach. If you want, you can also become leader. We have no such thing, that 'Here is leader.' Anyone who follows the previous leadership, he's a leader. 'Indian,' we have no such distinction, 'Indian,' 'European.' " Brahmānanda: They wanted an Indian to be the leader? Prabhupāda: Yes. [laughs] "Everyone, all my disciples, they are leaders.
As purely as they follow, they become leader. If you want to follow, you can become a leader—you are Indian—but you don't want." I told them that. Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: Yes, they probably wanted to propose somebody who would take over our Movement. Prabhupāda: Yes. Leaders. All nonsense.
Leader means one who has become first-class disciple. He is leader. Evaṁ paramparā-prāpta... One who is perfectly following...
Our instruction is āra nā kariha mane āśā. You know this? What is that? Guru-mukha-padma-vākya, cittete kariyā aikya, āra nā kariha mane āśā.
Who is leader? A leader..., to become leader is not very difficult, provided one is prepared to follow the instruction of a bona fide guru. That's all. Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: Why they wanted us to leave the room? They wanted us to leave the room.
They wanted us to go out when they were talking to you. Prabhupāda: [laughs] Anyway, they are going away. Now they are finished. One day... What they will talk?