Paramatma Das and I are engaged in helping to develop the Strategy for Preaching in Latin American for the Regional GBC. Here is our current response comment:

Hare Krsna, Prabhu,

AgtSP!  Paoho.    We are running at about 83% efficiency. I guess that is pretty good

for the material world. We have survived the 14-week, fourteen airport, tour and arrived in Houston.

As I proposed in the last LARGBC meeting lettuce continue with our dialog.

I registered my thoughts about your strategy.  Very, very, very nice and improvement would be to 1. integrate with our management culture more explicitly, which is Varna Ashrama Dharma, and 2. base it on Sastric references, 3. develop the strategy in stages of deeper and deeper complexity.

1. Who am I????  I really have struggled with this in this current dialog, and it has been a big advance in my spiritual life trying to write it for you.

I remember the exact moment. I was using a cross-cut, arm-saw in Gunar Lindh's Custom Carpentry Shop, Sacramento, California. I had got a book, was visiting the San Francisco temple and trying to get from Adau sraddha, Sadhu sanga to Bhajana kriya, although at the time I didn't know it. I was trying to get from random chanting to focused, systematic chanting.

Then, using the saw, I made the decision, that in the midst of all these new spiritual rituals, I would always chant "Hare Krsna" and remember the lotus feet of Srila Prabhupada within the core of my heart.

Of course, we are still a long, long way from perfecting that, and doing book distribution, and going to Mangala arati are necessary for doing it, but that is who we are. Later we realized that it is definitely a Sannyasa perspective. 'A Sannyasi is happy when he is always remembering Krsna within the core of his heart', Jagadananda's prayer at the end of NOI 1 purport.

So that is who we are, Sannyasis endeavoring for Bhava, expecting plans to develop in our minds as a natural sequence.

Do you see our point?

Where do we fit Sannyasis into our Strategic Plan for preaching (in Latin America)?

Are you planning on taking Sannyasa?

Are our Sannyasis involved in management up to 80% really Sannyasis?

Without dealing with these fundamental issues it is Tactical Planning, not Strategic Planning, no?

Of course, I agree that we need to progress in both areas. The best way to develop a preaching strategy is to preach. No Commander ever made mistake in battle if he decided to pull his ship alongside the enemy and fire.

So, I guess my next shot would be, does your honorable self plan on taking Sannyasa?

Can we adopt this as a basic statement of our Mission, from the Intro to NOI: Our Mission is to qualify ourselves to help Lord Caitanya in his mission of spreading the science of Krsna consciousness to the conditioned souls by studying the books of Srila Prabhupada scrutinizingly.