Chapter I Gurukuls (Schools)🔗

1. Among the means to foster education, the Kailasians are to hold gurukuls in esteem; gurukuls are the principal assistance to parents in fulfilling the function of education.

• a. Parents must cooperate closely with the teachers of the gurukuls to which they entrust their children to be educated; moreover, teachers in fulfilling their responsibility are to collaborate very closely with parents, who are to be heard willingly and for whom associations or meetings are to be established and highly esteemed.
  • b. The Kailasians are to foster gurukuls, assisting in their establishment and maintenance according to their means.

1. Religious institutes whose proper mission is education, retaining their mission faithfully, are also to strive to devote themselves to Hindu education through their gurukuls.
2. If gurukuls which offer Hindu education are not available, it is for the minister to take care that they are established.

• a. Where it is expedient, the minister is to make provision for the establishment of professional schools, technical schools, and other schools required by special needs.

1. A gurukul is understood as one which a competent ecclesiastical authority or a public ecclesiastical juridic person directs or which ecclesiastical authority recognizes as such through a written document.

• a. The instruction and education in a gurukul must be grounded in the principles of Hinduism; teachers are to be outstanding in correct doctrine and integrity of life.

1. The Hindu religious instruction and education which are imparted in any gurukuls whatsoever or are provided through the various instruments of social communication are subject to the authority of Kailasa. It is for the council of Ministers to issue general norms about this field of action and for the minister to regulate and watch over it.
2. The minister has the right to watch over and visit the gurukuls in his territory, even those which members of religious institutes have founded or direct. He also issues prescripts which pertain to the general regulation of gurukuls.

CHAPTER II

CHAPTER III

Hindu Universities and other Institutes of Higher Studies

1. Kailasa has the right and responsibility to erect and direct universities, which contribute to a more profound Hindu culture, the fuller development of the individual, and the fulfillment of the teaching function of Kailasa.
2. No university is to bear the title or name of Hindu university without the consent of competent ecclesiastical authority.
3. If it is possible and expedient, conferences of ministers are to take care that there are universities or at least faculties suitably spread through their territory, in which the various disciplines are studied and taught, with their academic autonomy preserved and in light of the Hindu doctrine.
4. The authority competent according to the statutes has the responsibility to make provision so that teachers are appointed in Hindu universities who besides their scientific and educational qualifications are outstanding in integrity of doctrine and probity of life and that they are removed from their function when they lack these requirements; the manner of proceeding defined in the statutes is to be observed.

• a. The conferences of ministers concerned have the responsibility and right of being watchful so that the principles of Hindu doctrine are observed faithfully in these same universities.

1. The competent ecclesiastical authority is to take care that in Hindu universities a faculty or institute or at least a chair of Hinduism is erected in which classes are also given for lay students.
2. Those who teach Hindu disciplines in any institutes of higher studies whatsoever must have a mandate from the competent ecclesiastical authority.
3. The minister is to have earnest care for students, give assistance, especially spiritual assistance, to youth.
4. The prescripts established for universities apply equally to other institutes of higher learning.

Ecclesiastical Universities and Faculties

1. Ecclesiastical universities or faculties, which are to investigate the sacred disciplines or those connected to the sacred and to instruct students scientifically in the same disciplines, are proper to the temple by virtue of its function to announce the revealed truth.
2. Ecclesiastical universities and faculties can be established only through erection by Kailasa or with its approval; their higher direction also pertains to it.

• a. Individual ecclesiastical universities and faculties must have their own statutes and plan of studies approved by Kailasa.

1. No university or faculty which has not been erected or approved by Kailasa is able to confer academic degrees.
2. To the extent that the good of a temple, a religious institute requires it, ministers or the competent superiors of the institutes must send to ecclesiastical universities or faculties youth, clerics, and members, who are outstanding in character, virtue, and talent.
3. The conference of ministers are to make provision so that where possible, higher institutes of the religious sciences are established, namely, those which teach the spiritual disciplines and other disciplines which pertain to Hindu culture.