@ 1975: GBC RESOLUTIONS, March 1975
1) Jayatirtha presented a definition of GBC, which
was accepted as follows:
Resolved: The GBC (Governing Body Commissioned) has
been established by His Divine Grace A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada to
represent Him in carrying out the responsibility of managing the International
Society for Krishna Consciousness of which He is the Founder-Acarya and supreme
authority. The GBC accepts as its life and soul His divine instructions and
recognizes that it is completely dependent on His mercy in all respects. The
GBC has no other function or purpose other than to execute the instructions so
kindly given by His Divine Grace and preserve and spread his Teachings to the
world in their pure form.
It is understood that the GBC, as a collective body of 14-members has been
authorized by His Divine Grace to make necessary arrangements for carrying out
these responsibilities of management. These arrangements may include delegating
authority, managing resources, setting objectives, making plans, calling for
reports, evaluating results, training others, maintaining spiritual standards
and defining sphere of influence of the various GBC members as well as other
devotees.
The members of the GBC do not have any inherent
authority but rather derive their authority from the Governing Body Commission
itself and ultimately from His Divine Grace. Their authority may be over a
particular geographic area or over a particular function. Whichever area of
responsibility be given to the various members their primary responsibility is
to the society as a whole.
2) Resolved: A GBC member should not consider
himself as the whole GBC, but as a member or commissioner, commissioned by the
whole Governing Board.
3) Resolved: The Governing Board may authorized one
of its commissioners to go to any GBC member to get a report from him on his
activities. The GBC member must co-operate and give the Board his report.
4) Resolved: If a GBC man whose behavior is in
question does not co-operate, Srila Prabhupada and the GBC must immediately be
informed.
5) Resolved: The selection of GBC members is that
Srila Prabhupada will nominate, and if there is a discrepancy, His Grace will
change him. There will be no elections, and the present GBC member will remain.
6) Resolved: An annual oath of allegiance should be
signed by each GBC and Temple President.
7) Resolved: Committees may be formed from time to
time by His Divine Grace for a certain purpose and may be disbanded by Him.
8) Resolved: The GBC must resolved the problem:
Indian Life Members are complaining that they are not getting the books, due to
Indian temples spending BBT funds on maintenance.
9) Resolved: In order to receive first initiation
one must have been a full time member for 6-months. For second initiation,
there should be at least another one year after first initiation.
March 26th 1975
1) Resolved: Each Temple President should submit a
monthly report to the GBC, containing an itemized account of income and
expenditure. The report should include number of books sold , and inventor of
books. A GBC member can go to the center and see and correct any unbonafide
expenditure.
2) Resolved: An information card will be kept on
each devotee, containing personal information. It will be kept on file at the
temple he is staying in, and another copy will be kept by the GBC. The card
will be transfered wherever the devotee is.
3) Resolved: If a devotee wants to change temples,
his present President should agree as well as the new temple president. The GBC
member may be consulted if there is disagreement.
4) Resolved: There should be no change of Presidents
but difficulties should be worked out. In the case of an incorrigible President
who
1)doesn't submit reports or submits false reports
2) who
mis-spends money
3) who
doesn't follow regulative principles he must be changed. Three GBC men may
decide on this in an urgent case and in a non-urgent case it may be done by
majority vote of GBC by letter.
5) Resolved: No new thing should be instituted
within a year, but at the annual meeting.
6) Resolved: Each GBC has to spend one month a year
with Srila Prabhupada.
7) Resolved: The GBC will vote in yearly meeting how
the 50% of the BBT money will be spent.
8) Resolved: The GBC member should co-operate to
send men to ISKCON Africa.
March 27, 1975
1) Resolved: GBC members will stay with Srila
Prabhupada one month each:
APRIL
BRAHMANANDA SWAMI
MAY
HAMSADUTTA DAS
JUNE
BHAGAVAN DAS
JULY
JAYATIRTHA DAS
AUGUST
SATSVARUPA DAS GOSWAMI
SEPTEMBER
HRDAYANANDA DAS GOSWAMI
OCTOBER
RUPANUGA DAS
NOVEMBER
GURUKRPA SWAMI
DECEMBER
KIRTANANANDA SWAMI
JANUARY
MADHUVISA SWAMI
FEBRUARY
TAMAL KRISHNA GOSWAMI
MARCH
GOPAL KRISHNA DAS
2) Resolved: Method of initiating sannyasi:
Each year at Gaur Purnima festival, any GBC member
can nominate a man from zone for sannyasa. The man must be a preacher and not
sexually inclined. He must be an initiated brahmin. GBC should avoid
recommending a sannyasi whimsically. After his nomination is recorded, then a
year must pass, and if at the next Gaur Purnima festival, the man has
continually preached and not fallen down, he can be initiated.
Hrdayananda Goswami submitted the name of two
Brahmacaris, Viraha and Pramana, and Brahmananda Maharaj submitted the names of
Jagat Guru and Navayogendra, and Tamal Krishna Goswami submitted the name of
Dristadyumna, and Gopal Krishna recommended Satadhanya.
3) Resolved:
A meeting will be held at 3pm. March 28 to discuss Gurukul and Spiritual Sky
Incence Co. A meeting will be held at 3
pm. March 29 to discuss Indian BBT and Indian temple maintenance and India in
general. Garga Muni Swami and Giriraj das should attend. A meeting may be held
whenever other meetings are finished to discuss ISKCON Press and BTG.
Rameswara, Radhavallabha and Gopijanavallabha should attend.
4) Resolved:
All BBT paintings not sold three months after completion should be sent to
Mayapur Chandrodaya Mandir.
5) Openings of an ISKCON temple must be done at Gaur
Purnima after consideration of entire GBC at annual meeting. Once opened, a
temple should never be closed.
March 27, 1975:
1) Resolved:
GBC has divided zones as follows, based on recommendation of Srila Prabhupada
that GBC members should have jurisdiction over no more that about 6-temples.
Rupanuga das- New York, Boston, Wash. D.C.,
Philadelphia, Baltimore, Atlanta.
Kirtanananda Swami- New Vrndavan, Buffalo,
Cleveland, Pittsburgh.
Satsvarupa das Goswami- Miami, Gainesville, New
Orleans, St. Louis, Phoenix, Denver, Houston.
Jagadish das- Montreal, Ottawa, Toronto, Winnipes,
Chicago, Detroit, Ann Arbor, Dallas.
Jayatirtha das- Los Angeles, San Francisco, Laguna
Beach, San Diego, Portland, Seattle, Vancouver.
Gurukrpa Swami- Japan and Hawai.
Hrdayananda Swami- South America and Caribean.
Bhagavan Das- Barcelona, Paris, France; farm Geneva,
Rome.
Hamsadutta das- Frankfurt, Stockholm, Copenhagen,
London, Bhaktivedanta Manor, Berlin.
2) Resolved:
No temple shall be opened in Zurich during the following year. Any temple
opening requires consultations with the whole GBC.
3) Resolved:
Amsterdam temple shall be in Bhagavan das's zone. All spiritual sky profit
shall go to support Amsterdam center.
4) Resolved:
Madhuvisa Swami- his zone include Australia, New Zealand, Indonesia, Fiji and
the Phillipines.
5) Resolved: Gopal Krishna Goswami- his zone is
India and also S.E. Asia excluding Japan, Phillipines and Indonesia.
6) Resolved: Brahmananda Swami- Africa, including
North Africa. North Africa should be developed jointly with Atreya Rsi.
7) Atreya Rsi does not want zonal responsibilities
but is responsible for any future development in the entire Mid-East.
8) Resolved: Tamal Krishna's travelling buses are
his jurisdiction.
March 28, 1975:
1) Resolved: Dallas should increase their Sankirtan
by training their own men in Dallas. Tripurari will be
requested to help them by contributing his profits
for 6-months.
2) Resolved: Unless he becomes a first class devotee
and follows the four regulative principles, Karandhar must be removed as
President of Spiritual Sky.
March 29, 1975
1) Resolved: Ramesvara das is appointed a trustee of
BBT.
2) Resolved: The ISKCON Press will be moved to LA.
In order to compensate for the loss of considerable manpower for New York,
Bhavananda Maharaj will go to New York for preaching six months a year.
Trivikrama Swami and Tusta Krishna Swami will remain in Mayapur to assist
Jayapataka Swami.
3) Resolved: Gadadhara Pandit will go to LA to take
over the Presidentship of Spiritual sky Incence Co. Karandhara will stay for
one month to turn over the Management.
4) Resolved:
Tamal Krishna Maharaj is granted permission to increase his SKP fleet by six
buses amounting to BBT loans up to 60,000 dollars.
5) Resolved: ISKCON India temples will pay cash in
advance for BBT books and they may then sell them and distribute profits above
costs to temple maintainance and the building fund, as they determine.
6) Resolved: A general meeting will be held March on 30th at which all Temple Presidents will attend and hear the resolutions adopted at the above GBC meetings.