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This umbrella will go like this

Hridayananda Goswami: I remember when Prabhupada called us all in emergency GBC meeting to Los Angeles because of the umbrella corporation. There was an attempt to centralize management, to make one corporation for all the ISKCON temples, an umbrella corporation. Jayatirtha was very enthusiastic to do this and Prabhupada was saying he didn't want it, and Jayatirtha wasn't really listening.

So Prabhupada called on an emergency basis that all the GBC should come to L.A., and so we all came to L.A. I remember being in Prabhupada's room and Prabhupada telling Jayatirtha, "We're not going to do this," and Jayatirtha was so upset he burst into tears and just ran out. And I remember then we had to actually preach to Ramesvara. Ramesvara was much more calm about it and he wasn't that emotional about it, but he was just frankly saying, "I don't understand why Prabhupada is doing this." And, of course, it turned out Prabhupada was perfectly right because with all the legal cases we've had, if it had been one corporation it would have ruined everything. So Prabhupada was absolutely right. But Prabhupada, with an upward motion with his hands, he said, "This umbrella will go like this," like an umbrella that suddenly flips up and stops being an umbrella.


Reference: Following Srila Prabhupada-A Chronological Series by Hridayananda Dasa