Over the last two weeks there have been several complaints about Hansaduta's style of management. Devotees have approached Aksayananda and Gopala Krsna, and they in turn approached Prabhupada this morning. As a result Prabhupada has decided to end his experiment. This is not so much because Aksayananda is any more capable than Hansaduta, but simply because he has been in India for a few years and knows better the way things may be done here.
Prabhupada said he could not blame Hansaduta because, although he is enthusiastic, he doesn't have the experience in India. Neither could he find fault with Gopala because he has been busy with other things. As he said, "Gopala Krsna's first business is printing." Prabhupada is prepared to overlook other things, as long as book production is nicely organized.
Hansaduta didn't take the change badly. He recognized that there has been some friction, and he was happy to surrender to whatever Srila Prabhupada wants of him.
This afternoon, Prabhupada sat at his desk, his managers before him. He lamented that it has been his constant headache ever since the temple was opened a year and half ago, that no person can be found who can manage it nicely. With a wry humor born from the barren seeds of repeated, unavailing attempts to find a competent manager, he smiled and quoted an old saying: yaya sei lanka sei haya ravana, "Anyone who comes to Lanka, he becomes a Ravana."
"So how will Ravana be defeated?" he asked. "Another one, another one -- it is like that. No matter who comes here this Ravana of mismanagement continues. Gurudasa could not do anything, Dhananjaya, Aksayananda, Haihaya, Hansaduta -- in this way everyone becomes a Ravana. Unless the management is able to bring about a complete change, things will not go on."
- From "A Transcendental Diary Vol 4" by HG Hari Sauri Prabhu
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