Global Duties & Responsibilities of the Governing Body Commission (GBC)<\/a>\u201d is accepted as an official statement and shall be part of ISKCON Law.
\n\u2014\u2013<\/p>\n(The following is an excerpt from the above mentioned document)<\/em><\/p>\nConfiguring Zones and Assigning Overseers<\/strong><\/center><\/p>\nPlanning for the whole world includes designing zones, redesigning those zones as the need arises, and appointing responsible zonal officers. Srila Prabhupada delineated some of the principles of zonal configuration and zonal assignments in a meeting with the GBC in Los Angeles:<\/p>\n
Prabhupada: So, fix up the zone . . . Take this, take this map. First of all find out the zone, what will be the zone . . . First of all divide the whole world. It doesn\u2019t matter who goes where . . . Divide the whole world into twelve parts. That is first . . . I want to divide it in twelve zones. And we have to make more propaganda throughout the whole world. Now if you think that the world is so big, twelve members are insufficient, then you can increase more than that and make the zone similarly divided. It is world affair after all . . . You can increase the number. So according to vacant position, how many, it may be fifteen?<\/p>\n
Devotee: Thirteen.<\/p>\n
Prabhupada: Why not fifteen, make fifteen? . . . Then you have to reorganize the zones, fifteen zones.<\/p>\n
Rupanuga: This is much better if we\u2019re actually expanding.<\/p>\n
Prabhupada: Yes, we must expand, we must expand. Now the framework of expansion is done by me, but this, they should be solidified. Just like your skyscraper building. The framework is done then they are made nicely air-conditioned and covered by glass . . . It makes a nice house. Similarly, so far the framework is done. I have done with your help. Now we have to push this movement.<\/p>\n
\u2013 Conversation with the GBC, Los Angeles, May 25, 1972<\/p>\n
Resourcing ISKCON Global Services<\/strong><\/center><\/p>\nSrila Prabhupada wrote: \u201cI have formed this GBC for that purpose, to keep the devotional standards at the highest level and at the same time to manage a world-wide 14 organization.\u201d (Letter to Rupanuga, November 4, 1970) Although most management takes place locally, a number of global functions for which the GBC is responsible need funding and staffing for effective operation. As Srila Prabhupada explains in the Bhagavad-gita (12.10, purport): \u201cEvery endeavor requires land, capital, organization, and labor. Just as in business one requires a place to stay, some capital to use, some labor, and some organization to expand, so the same is required in the service of Krishna.\u201d<\/p>\n
And the same is required for the various global services the GBC offers to the International Society for Krishna Consciousness: the various Ministries that offer consultation and training to individual members and groups, the Child Protection Office, ISKCON Resolve, and for legal expenses, communication, ISKCON\u2019s internet presence, covering the administrative budget, third-world emergencies\u2026 and the list goes on. GBC members themselves need maintenance and travel expenses at times. As Srila Prabhupada said: \u201cIntelligence alone cannot work. Money is required . . . Simple capital will not do. Simple organization will not do. A man may have very good brain power, organization, but if he has no money \u2013 useless.\u201d (Room Conversation, Hyderabad, August 19, 1976)<\/p>\n
Therefore it is the GBC\u2019s duty to find ways to resource its service of governing the worldwide organization. This is an example of a crucial global function about which Srila Prabhupada might not have spoken much but which is clearly important in today\u2019s ISKCON.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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By the GBC<\/strong><\/p>\n Srila Prabhupada wrote: \u201cI have formed this GBC for that purpose, to keep the devotional standards at the highest level and at the same time to manage a world-wide 14 organization.\u201d (Letter to Rupanuga, November 4, 1970) Although most management takes place locally, a number of global functions for which the GBC is responsible need funding and staffing for effective operation. As Srila Prabhupada explains in the Bhagavad-gita (12.10, purport): \u201cEvery endeavor requires land, capital, organization, and labor. Just as in business one requires a place to stay, some capital to use, some labor, and some organization to expand, so the same is required in the service of Krishna.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-44852","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gbc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44852","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=44852"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44852\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44854,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44852\/revisions\/44854"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=44852"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=44852"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=44852"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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