Servant%20Leadership

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Servant Leadership
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So many people are suffering for want of good
leader throughout the whole world. Morning Talk
-- April 25, 1977, Bombay
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Leader means authority. His instruction is
followed, and actually it happens. That is
leader. December 16, 1973, Los Angeles
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You can become perfect if you follow a perfect
leader. That's all.Morning Walk -- March 16,
1976, Mayapura
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Although we are imperfect, because we are
following the perfect, our proposition is
perfect. Morning Walk -- December 12, 1973,
Los Angeles
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Qualified leaders. That is wanted.Morning Walk
-- January 7, 1974, Los Angeles
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Leader means better qualified man to lead others.
That is leader. Morning Walk -- January 7,
1974, Los Angeles
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A leader means one that if someone follows him,
he's benefited.Morning Walk -- July 9, 1974,
Los Angeles
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Roles of a leader

• Example
• Support
• Inspiration
• Guidance
• Training
• Challenge
• Action

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EXAMPLE
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Everyone is trying to keep his position by hook
and crook. How he'll think of the people? How
they will be happy? He is thinking of his own
happiness.Room Conversation with Dr. Theodore
Kneupper -- November 6, 1976, Vrndavana
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Our business is to raise ourselves to the highest
status of life as preachers of Krsna's message,
and one should behave himself rigidly, then he
should instruct others. Letter to Name
withheld -- 17 December, 1972
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Two things Be himself exemplary, then teach
others to be exemplary. Letter to Name
withheld -- 17 December, 1972
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Only those who are above suspicion can judge
others. One must himself act in such a way that
he is always above suspicion. Then he can judge,
then he can preach.Letter to Name withheld --
17 December, 1972
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One who is not following himself, how he can
instruct others?Letter to Name withheld --
17 December, 1972
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Yad yad acarati sresthas tat tad evetaro janah
Bg. 3.21. If the srestha, the leader, is ideal,
then others will follow. Room Conversation with
Mr. Tombe (M.L.A.) -- December 25, 1976, Bombay
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If the leader is not ideal, if he is not in the
awareness of things, then people will be
misguided.Room Conversation with Mr. Tombe
(M.L.A.) -- December 25, 1976, Bombay
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Criteria

• The four leaders of the human society, namely the
  sannyasis, the brahmana, the king and the public
  leader, must be tested crucially by their
  character and qualification. Before one can be
  accepted as a spiritual or material master of
  society, he must be tested by the above-mentioned
  criteria of character. SB 1.17.41

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Our leaders must be very good. Conversation on
Train to Allahabad -- January 11, 1977, India
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We must have a solid foundation of chanting and
following the regulative principles. Then one is
fit to lead others. Letter to Jagajivana --
Vrindaban 6 September, 1974
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He is leader. ... One who is perfectly following
... Room Conversation -- November 2, 1977,
Vrndavana
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Leader means one who has become first-class
disciple. Room Conversation -- November 2,
1977, Vrndavana
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To become leader is not very difficult, provided
one is prepared to follow the instructions of a
bona fide guru.Room Conversation -- November 2,
1977, Vrndavana
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Real leader means who does not commit mistake,
who is not illusioned, who does not cheat and who
has no imperfect senses, who has, or, other
words, one who has got perfect senses. So if you
say, "How it is possible for the conditioned
soul?" "Yes, it is possible if you follow the
perfect." Morning Walk -- December 12, 1973,
Los Angeles
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Tamala Krsna Srila Prabhupada, what are the
qualifications of a perfect leader?Prabhupada
No mistake, no illusion, no cheating, no
imperfection. Morning Walk -- March 16, 1976,
Mayapura
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By becoming a servant of the senses, one becomes
a great material hero, and by becoming master of
the senses, he becomes a gosvami, or spiritual
hero.SB 4.25.25 P
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In the Srimad-Bhagavatam it is stated that when a
woman comes to serve you, you must be very
careful, especially for sannyasis and
brahmacaries.Letter to Name withheld -- 17
December, 1972
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SUPPORT
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Politics means planning for one's own happiness.
That is politics. So in our society there should
be no diplomacy, no politics. Everyone should be
eager how to do good to others. That is Vaisnava.
Morning Walk -- March 15, 1974, Vrndavana
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Leader means he must... He's always busy how to
make you happy, how to make without any cares,
anxiety.Srimad-Bhagavatam 1.16.21 -- Hawaii,
January 17, 1974
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There must be some leader. But why not the
supreme leader, who will never misguide you? He
will give you actual path of happiness. Then you
will become happy.Bhagavad-gita 3.6-10 -- Los
Angeles, December 23, 1968
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Those who want to be leader of the society, they
should be ideal persons, they should be Krsna
conscious person. Then the whole world will be
happy. Bhagavad-gita 3.18-30 -- Los Angeles,
December 30, 1968
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Supreme leader, perfect leader, without any
mistake, without any illusion, without any
cheating, and without any imperfection of the
senses. We have to take direction from such a
leader, then our life will be successful.
Bhagavad-gita 4.9 -- Bombay, March 29, 1974
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Everyone must be a real leader, then people will
be happy. Srimad-Bhagavatam 1.15.29 -- Los
Angeles, December 7, 1973
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The only opportunity of becoming happy is that
you preach this Krsna consciousness movement
amongst the people, so if the people become
educated in Krsna consciousness, and if they
decide that "We shall vote for Krsna conscious
leader," then there will be happiness.
Srimad-Bhagavatam 2.3.19 -- Los Angeles, June
15, 1972
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Everyone is trying to be happy. That happiness is
not possible, that peace is not possible unless
you have got a leader or king like Bharata
Maharaja, after whose name this planet is called
Bharatavarsa, this Bharata Maharaja. So we have
to find out such leader. Srimad-Bhagavatam
5.5.29 -- Vrndavana, November 16, 1976
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We want to see everyone is happy. That is our
mission.Interview -- July 20, 1972, Paris
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Everyone will be happy if they take to this
movement. We want to see that everyone is happy.
That is our mission. Interview -- July 20,
1972, Paris
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We don't want to exploit others. Interview --
July 20, 1972, Paris
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INSPIRATION
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That is the business of leader He must be
himself always enthusiastic and inspire others to
be always enthusiastic. Then he is real leader.
Letter to Trai -- Bombay December 27, 1972
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If under changing conditions I lose my
enthusiasm, if I cannot endure the difficulties
of my duty, therefore I go away -- then how I can
be leader?Letter to Satsvarupa -- Vrindaban
5 November, 1972
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Enthusiasm and patience, these things required.
Letter to Satsvarupa -- Vrindaban 5
November, 1972
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GUIDANCE
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Take the best, first-class, perfect leader
Krsna. Then you'll be happy. Otherwise it is not
possible. Srimad-Bhagavatam 7.12.4 -- Bombay,
April 15, 1976
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Here is Krsna, the perfect leader, and they're
going this side, that leader, that leader, that
leader. Why?Morning Walk -- March 29, 1974,
Bombay
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We are following Krsna. He does not commit
mistake, He is not illusioned, His senses are not
imperfect, and He does not cheat. Morning Walk
-- December 12, 1973, Los Angeles
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The perfect leader is there, His instruction is
there, in all fields of life, any field of life.
And ultimately spiritual realization.Morning
Walk -- March 29, 1974, Bombay
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If you learn from Krsna you become perfect
leader. But we do not take Krsna's instruction.
We manufacture our own ideas. Room Conversation
with Mr. Tombe (M.L.A.) -- December 25, 1976,
Bombay
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If the society is led by real, learned scholars,
then it will be nice. Morning Walk -- January
7, 1974, Los Angeles
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People will be happy when a trained leader,
whether a monarch or a dictator, takes control of
the government and rules the people according to
the standard regulations of the authorized
scriptures. SB 9.13.12 P
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Now the Krsna consciousness movement will provide
them with good leader if they take it
seriously.Letter to Bhagavan -- Bombay 14
November, 1975
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The Westerners have good brains, but they do not
have any good leader. Letter to Bhagavan --
Bombay 14 November, 1975
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So far as being leader is concerned, leader means
spiritually not materially. This you should
understand very clearly. Letter to
Jagajivana -- Vrindaban 6 September, 1974
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If spiritual potency and strength is there, then
material intelligence will automatically follow.
Letter to Jagajivana -- Vrindaban 6
September, 1974
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For the most part, the ordinary citizens of the
society are innocent enough, they simply require
good leaders and everything can be rectified.
Letter to Amarendra -- Los Angeles 12 June,
1972
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Because we are taking direction from imperfect
leaders, cheater leaders, therefore we are
meeting with so many problems. Bhagavad-gita
4.9 -- Bombay, March 29, 1974
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According to Vedic civilization, the brahmanas
guide the ksatriyas how to rule. So our position
is to reform the politicians. We are not going to
compete with them, we have no business, neither
we have time. But because people are suffering -
we want everyone to be happy - therefore we want
to reform these rascals. That is our goal.
Morning Walk -- December 8, 1973, Los Angeles
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TRAINING
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You have pointed out that you want to train
others to be leaders, because you have observed
there is at present not very many qualified
leaders. That is good proposal. Sudama --
Bombay 23 December, 1972
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Find out some intelligent men from schools,
colleges, and being always very tolerant try to
convince them gradually to utilize their
intelligence and education in the service of
Krishna. Sudama -- Bombay 23 December, 1972
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CHALLENGE
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Fresh Challenge

• Our leaders shall be careful not to kill the
  spirit of enthusiastic service, which is
  individual and spontaneous and voluntary. They
  should try always to generate some atmosphere of
  fresh challenge to the devotees, so that they
  will agree enthusiastically to rise and meet it.
  That is the art of management to draw out
  spontaneous loving spirit of sacrificing some
  energy for Krishna ... All of us should become
  expert managers and preachers.
• - Srila Prabhupada

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ACTION
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Simply ruling the land cannot solve man's
problems unless the leader has spiritual
capabilities. He must be like Maharaja
Yudhisthira, Pariksit Maharaja or Ramacandra.
Then all the inhabitants of the land will be
extremely happy. SB 6.14.10 P
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It is our great responsibility to become very
serious in the matter of executing Krishna
consciousness, and if we are sincere and go on
expanding this movement all over the world,
gradually we shall induce the leaders to accept
our philosophy more and more. Letter to
Amarendra -- Los Angeles 12 June, 1972
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Good leadership means you must learn how to lead
people. Room Conversation with Mr. Tombe
(M.L.A.) -- December 25, 1976, Bombay
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Why we select one leader? The leader should be
such a leader that he shall make happy and
prosperous persons who follow him. That is the
question of leadership. Bhagavad-gita 4.11 --
New York, July 27, 1966
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They are not leader they are jackals. So jackals
cannot anymore rule over. That should be our
propaganda. Not only scientific, all political
things, social things, everything. Morning Walk
-- May 3, 1973, Los Angeles
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They should be all kicked out. They should be
replaced by Krsna consciousness. Then people will
be happy. This should be our program. Morning
Walk -- May 3, 1973, Los Angeles
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Our, this propaganda means to make people happy.
Morning Walk -- May 3, 1973, Los Angeles
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Because God has favored them, so many things. And
this movement has been started from America. I
started this movement from New York. So it should
be taken very seriously by the government.
Morning Walk -- December 11, 1973, Los Angeles
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You must find out a leader who is free from
these sinful activities. Then you will be happy.
And you also give up. Otherwise, how you will be
able to select such a leader?" This should be our
real propaganda. Morning Walk -- January 12,
1974, Los Angeles
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Everyone should be expert. The leaders must be
expert and the worker must be expert so that they
may follow the instruction of the leader. If the
leader says something and the workers, "Hm, I
shall consider it, later on," then how the leader
will execute his leadership? Both of them should
be cooperating and know that "We are all working
for Krsna." Morning Walk -- March 14, 1974,
Vrndavana
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Sarve sukhino bhavantu. This is Vedic
civilization. "Let everyone be happy." That is
Vedic civilization. And the demonic civilization,
they're "Let everyone suffer I become
happy.Morning Walk -- March 15, 1974, Vrndavana
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If he's planning something, that "I shall be
leader," "I shall be doing something," that is
not Vaisnavism. Morning Walk -- March 15, 1974,
Vrndavana
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It is the duty of the leader, government, father,
teacher, gurus, to see that the subordinates are
very, very happy.Press Conference -- April 18,
1974, Hyderabad
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It is the duty of the leaders of the people and
the government to see that the citizens are
perfectly happy in their occupational duties and
they are advancing in spiritual knowledge.Press
Conference -- April 18, 1974, Hyderabad
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Everyone should be employed. Everyone should be
engaged in some service. That should be the
policy of the government. Room Conversation
with Richard Webster, chairman, Societa
Filosofica Italiana -- May 24, 1974, Rome
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Everyone should be happy, without any anxiety.
That is good government.Room Conversation with
Richard Webster, chairman, Societa Filosofica
Italiana -- May 24, 1974, Rome
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This Krsna consciousness movement should be taken
very seriously. It is the finishing touch of
American advancement of material comforts. Then
people will be very happy, and America is already
leader of the world. They will be first-class
leader. The world will be benefited, and you will
be benefited. And my endeavor will be also
successful.Press Conference at Airport -- July
28, 1975, Dallas
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It is very much favorable to our advancement in
spiritual life if we are engaged in some service
for Krishna which is also pleasing to us to
perform. Letter to Saucarya, Vrindaban 23
October 1972
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So if you have got some special talent or
experience you may discuss with Jagadisa how to
engage yourself in that way. That is his duty as
leader, to give you good engagement.Letter to
Saucarya -- Vrindaban 23 October, 1972
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Real attitude of devotional service is, whether I
am here or there, whether I am doing this or
that, it doesn't matter, just give me little
prasada, little service, or if you make me big
leader, that's all right -- that is devotee,
satisfied to serve Krishna in any circumstances
of life.Letter to Satsvarupa -- Vrindaban 5
November, 1972
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That enthusiastic mood is maintained when
everyone is always without fail chanting 16
rounds daily, rising early for mangala aratrika,
reading books, preaching - in this way, by
observing strictly the regulative principles of
devotional life, that enthusiasm or great
eagerness to have Krsna will come out. Letter
to Trai -- Bombay December 27, 1972
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