DIRECTION OF MANAGEMENT (1970)

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74-09-29. Letter: Mukunda: Please accept my blessings. I am in due receipt

of your letter dated September 22, 1974 and have noted the contents. Regarding

the election of President, a president can only be changed by vote. If no vote

was taken, then the president cannot be changed. Neither Hamsaduta can change

the president whimsically or can anybody else change the president. According

the "Direction of Management" the GBC cannot change the President but only by

vote can it be done. The GBC's business is to see that the President and the

members are doing nicely, following the regulative principles, and chanting 16

rounds and that other things are going on nicely.

 

74-11-07. Letter: Rupanuga: ACBS.bs N.B. Regarding replacing Abhirama and

Damodara I refer to the "Direction of Management" as follows: "Removal of a

Temple President by GBC requires support by the local Temple members."

Therefore you should take a vote of the Temple members and do the needful. A.

C. B.S.

 

74-11-08. Letter: Rupanuga: Regarding Abhirama, in your letter you mention

that in Miami it is so important center, 65 devotees, growing each day, ideal

location. So Abhirama, has done this. He has done much service. He cannot be

removed whimsically. Sex disturbance is the permanent disease of the Western

people. Anyway I have already written you that the local members must agree for

him to be removed by you, according to the "Direction of Management." Regarding

his divorce enclosed is one letter dated 1.10.74 regarding this.

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DIRECTION OF MANAGEMENT (1970)

 

INTERNATIONAL SOCIETY FOR KRISHNA CONSCIOUSNESS, INCORPORATED

FOUNDER-ACHARYA: HIS DIVINE GRACE A.C. BHAKTIVEDANTA SWAMI PRABHUPADA

DIRECTION OF MANAGEMENT

 

I, the undersigned, A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami, disciple of Om Visnupad

Paramhansa 108 Sri Srimad Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati Gosvami Maharaj Prabhupada,

came in the United States in 1965 on September 18th for the purpose of starting

Krishna Consciousness Movement. For one year I had no shelter. I was travelling

in many parts of this country. Then in 1966, July, I incorporated the Society

under the name and style the International Society for Krishna Consciousness,

briefly ISKCON. The lawyer was Mr. J. Goldsmith. Gradually the Society

increased, and one after another branches were opened. Now we have got

thirty-four (34) branches enlisted herewith:

 

Amsterdam, Holland Atlanta, Georgia.........1476 Oxford Rd. N.E. 30322

Baltimore, Maryland.........1300 N. Calvert St. Berkeley,

California.........2710 Durant Avenue 94704 Berlin, West Germany Boston,

Massachusetts...... 40 N. Beacon St. 02134 Boulder, Colorado.........623

Concord St. Buffalo, New York.........40 Englewood Ave. 14214 Chicago,

Illinois.........2210 N. Halstead St.

Columbus,Ohio.........318East20thAve.43201 Detroit, Michigan.........74 West

Forest St. 48201 Edinburgh, Scotland, U.K. Hamburg, West Germany......2000

Hamburg 6, Bartelstrasse 65 Honolulu, Hawaii.........2016 McKinley St. 96822

Laguna Beach, California......130 Woodland Drive 92651 London,

England.........7 Bury Place, Bloomsbury, W..C. 1 Los Angeles,

California......3764 Watseka Ave. 90034 Montreal, Canada.........3720 Park

Ave. New Vrndavana, W. Virginia...RD 3 Moundsville 26041 New York City,

New York...... 61 Second Ave. 10003 Paris, France............c/o Serge

Elbeze, BO 113 Paris 14 Philadelphia, Pennsylvania......416 South 10th St.

19147 Provincetown, Massachusetts...104 Bradford St. San Diego,

California......3689 Park Blvd. San Francisco, California......618 Frederick

St. 94117 San Jose, California.........70 Hawthorne Way Santa Barbara,

California ......6654 del Playa, Goleta 93017 Seattle,

Washington.........n5516 Roosevelt Way N.E. 98105 St. Louis,

Missouri.........4544 LaClede Ave. 63110 Sydney, Australia.........298

Birrell St. Bondi, N.S.W. 2026 Tokyo, Japan............6-16, 2 Chome Ohhashi,

Meguro-Ku Toronto, Canada.........40 Beverly St., Ontario Vancouver,

Canada.........260 Raymur St., No. 305, B.C. Washington, D.C..........2015 Q

Street N.W. 20009 As we have increased our volume of activities, now I

think a Governing Body Commission (hereinafter referred to as the GBC) should

be established. I am getting old, 75 years old, therefore at any time I may be

out of the scene, therefore I think it is necessary to give instruction to my

disciples how they shall manage the whole institution. They are already

managing individual centers represented by one president, one secretary and one

treasurer, and in my opinion they are doing nice. But we want still more

improvement in the standard of Temple management, propaganda for Krishna

Consciousness, distribution of books and literatures, opening of new centers

and educating devotees to the right standard. Therefore, I have decided to

adopt the following principles and I hope my beloved disciples will kindly

accept them. There was a meeting in San Francisco during the Ratha Yatra

festival 1970 and many presidents of the centers were present. In that meeting

it was resolved that an ad hoc committee be set up to form the constitution

which is taken into consideration. My duty was to first appoint twelve (12)

persons to my free choice amongst my disciples and I do it now and their names

are as follows:

 

1. Sriman Rupanuga Das Adhikary 2. Sriman Bhagavandas Adhikary 3. Sriman

Syamsundar Das Adhikary 4. Sriman Satsvarupa Das Adhikary 5. Sriman

Karandhar Das Adhikary 6. Sriman Hansadutta Das Adhikary 7. Sriman Tamala

Krsna Das Adhikary 8. Sriman Sudama Das Adhikary 9. Sriman Bali Mardan Das

Brahmacary 10. Sriman Jagadisa Das Adhikary 11. Sriman Hayagriva Das

Adhikary 12. Sriman Krsnadas Adhikary

 

These personalities are now considered as my direct representatives. While I

am living they will act as my zonal secretaries and after my demise they will

be known as Executors. I have already awarded Sannyas or the renounced order

of life to some of my students and they have also got very important duties to

perform in this connection. The Sannyasis will travel to our different centers

for preaching purpose as well as enlightening the members of the center for

spiritual advancement. The Sannyasis will suggest for opening new centers in

suitable places and the GBC will take action on it. As was stipulated by the

ad hoc committee, the function of the GBC will be as follows with particulars:

 

PARTICULARS OF THE GOVERNING BODY COMMISSION

 

"The purpose of the Governing Body Commission is to act as the instrument

for the execution of the Will of His Divine Grace. And further, 1. The GBC

oversees all operations and management of ISKCON, as it receives direction from

Srila Prabhupada and His Divine Grace has the final approval in all matters.

2. His Divine Grace will select the initial 12 members of the GBC. In the

succeeding years the GBC will be elected by a vote of all Temple presidents who

will vote for 8 from a ballot of all Temple presidents, which may also include

any secretary who is in charge of a Temple. Those 8 with the greatest number of

votes will be members for the next term of GBC. Srila Prabhupada will choose to

retain four commissioners. In the event of Srila Prabhupada's absence, the

retiring members will decide which four will remain. 3. The commissioners

will serve for a period of 3 years, and they may be re-elected at the end of

this period. 4. The chairman is elected by the GBC for each meeting. He has

no veto power, but in even of a vote tie, his vote will decide. The same will

apply for votes cast by mail between regular meetings. 5. Throughout the

year, each of the commissioners will stay with His Divine Grace for one month

at a time and keep the other commissioners informed of His Divine Grace's

instructions. 6. The primary objective of the GBC is to organize the

opening of new Temples and to maintain the established Temples. 7. Advice

will be given by the GBC in cases of real property purchases, which will be in

the name of ISKCON, INC. (Trucks or other vehicles will be purchased in the

name of the local president). 8. Removal of a Temple president by the GBC

requires support by the local Temple members. 9. The GBC has no

jurisdiction in the publication of manuscripts, which will be handled by a

separate committee; profits to be returned to Srila Prabhupada."

 

So far my books are concerned, I am setting up a different body of management

known as the BHAKTIVEDANTA BOOK TRUST. The trustees of this body are also

members of the GBC, but their function is not dependent on the GBC. ISKCON

Press was created for the exclusive publication of my books and literatures and

should be continued in that way. During my absence no one shall live in my

apartment.ACBA. C. Bhaktivedanta SwamiWitnessed by:Date July 28th 1970(Robert

F. Corens)Rupanuga das Adhikary(William R. Ehrlichman)Bhagavan das

Adhikary(Kelly Gifford Smith)Karandhar das AdhikaryDate July 28th, 1970At the

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