# Constitution of Association **International Society for Krishna Consciousness** --- 1. The name of the society is The International Society for Krishna Consciousness. 2. The headquarters of the Society are located at Radhakrishna Temple, 26 Second Avenue, New York City, 10003, USA. 3. The objectives for which the Society is being established are: --- ## Primary Objectives **(A)** To educate the greater human society in the techniques of spiritual life as the basis for a balanced psychic and biological development, and thereby achieve for the first time in human society a real peace and unity among the contending forces in the world today. **(B)** To propagate the Sense of Godhead, the all attractive Personality of primal and eternal Form, as He Himself revealed in His own words in the Bhagavad Gita, the Holy Scripture of the Lord Sri Krishna, the Godhead. **(C)** To bring together individuals in a Society, regardless of nationality and irrespective of creed or caste, in order to develop a nearness to the Godhead and thereby the idea that within the members and humanity-at-large there is an infinitesimal soul-spirit that is part and parcel in quality with the Godhead. **(D)** To encourage the teachings of Lord Sri Chaitanya Mahaprabhu who demonstrated practically the transcendental process of approaching the absolute Personality of Godhead by His acts of congregational chanting of the holy name of God, a process known as Samkirtan. **(E)** To prove by active work and preaching that Lord Sri Krishna is the only enjoyer of all the outcomes of individual and collective sacrifice, penance, meditation, arts, culture, science, because He is the Supreme Proprietor of the whole universe, eternally apart of Him everyone knows Him as a friend. **(F)** To assist whenever and wherever possible in the building of a social structure on the real foundation of spiritual progress and establishment of peace and unity between men throughout the world. **(G)** To attempt to save men individually from the chain of victimization the ongoing trend in modern civilization operates by, in the name of ideologies of false sentiment, so that Man may again be a free soul. **(H)** To further toward realization this highest truth as revealed by Lord Sri Chaitanya Mahaprabhu and the six Gosvamis headed by Srila Rupa and Sanatana Gosvamis. **(I)** To have for its objectives amongst the others four principles which the Gosvamis had in view: 1. To erect a holy place of transcendental pastimes as well as a place where members of the Lord Sri Krishna can flourish. 2. To propagate all over the world in the form of missionaries the process of devotion, the transcendental service to the Godhead. 3. To establish a broader society of association for all members, including scholars and admirers. 4. To install, wherever it is possible, the worship and temple of Radhakrishna. **(J)** To introduce to the members of the Society and humanity-at-large a simpler and more natural purpose in life. **(K)** To organize educational programs, such as classes and lecture tours. **(L)** To publish periodicals, books and/or pamphlets in all important languages. **(M)** To invoke the quality of goodness particularly in every member of the Society. --- ## Secondary Objectives **(N)** Among the secondary objectives of the Society: 1. To revive the scientific system of social orders of classification based on intelligence, martial spirit, productivity and common assistance. 2. To discharge the vitiated system of supremacy of one man over another by false prestige of birthright or vested interests. 3. To popularize the vegetable-grain diet. 4. To discourage intoxicating or addicting habits of all descriptions. --- **Signatories:** A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami, Acharya Raymond Marais Michael A. Grant Robert Lefkowitz James S. Greene