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honeyflowerservant · Joined: 03 Oct 2005 Posts: 76

"Good manager means he is able to satisfy everyone and live in cooperative manner with all the devotees.."
[Letter to Giriraja: 2nd May 1972]

honeyflowerservant · Joined: 03 Oct 2005 Posts: 76

"Those who are advanced devotees try to see only the good that others are doing, just as bees are attracted to honey, while flies are attracted to sores. .... Let us try to work cooperatively, otherwise the fighting spirit will ruin our great movement."
[Letter to Ramesvara: 10 April, 1974]

BhaktaRay · Joined: 05 Dec 2005 Posts: 16

Let us try to work cooperatively, otherwise the fighting spirit will ruin our great movement."
[Letter to Ramesvara: 10 April, 1974]

Interesting that Prabhupada wrote this to Rameswara. I was living in the temple at that time. So many nefarious things this bogus guru was doing were being supressed again under this idea that 'it isn't Vaisnava to find fault'. Eventually a few devotees had the courage and integrity to expose him and, thank Krsna, he was outed.
Cooperation is a different thing from 'playing ostrich' and ignoring serious problems.

honeyflowerservant · Joined: 03 Oct 2005 Posts: 76

honeyflowerservant wrote: best not to just find fault, but rather you take up the challenge and fulfill that need.

there was nothing there implying that fault finding should be repressed,
best not to just find fault. i.e, that if a fault is seen, it should be fixed, not ignorerd.
Hari bol, Jaya Srila Prabhupada

BhaktaRay · Joined: 05 Dec 2005 Posts: 16

The first step in solving a problem is to acknowledge it.