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Title XII

Title XIII

Ministers of Kailasa

  • 1. Kailasa has the duty and the proper and exclusive right to form those who are designated for the sacred ministries.
  • 2. The duty of fostering vocations rests with the entire citizenry of Kailasa so that the needs of the sacred ministry are provided for sufficiently. This duty especially binds families, educators, priests, who most especially are to be concerned for promoting vocations, to teach the people entrusted to them of the importance of the sacred ministry and to encourage and support endeavors to foster vocations, especially by means of projects established for that purpose.
    • a. Monasteries and other similar institutions are to be preserved, where they exist, and fostered; for the sake of fostering vocations, these institutions provide special religious formation.
    • b. Unless in certain cases circumstances indicate otherwise, young men and women disposed to sanyas (monkhood) are to be provided with training and facilities for the same.
    • c. Young men and women who intend to enter into sanyas are to be provided with a suitable spiritual formation and prepared in a monastery throughout the entire time of formation or for at least four years.
  • 3. Monasteries legitimately erected possess juridic personality in Kailasa by the law itself.
  • 4. Every monastery is to have a spiritual head who presides over it, an administrative head, a finance officer, and teachers who give instruction in various disciplines coordinated in an appropriate manner.
  • a. The statutes of a monastery are to provide ways through which the other moderators, the teachers, and even the students themselves participate in the responsibility of running the monastery, especially in maintaining discipline.
  • 5. A monastery head is to admit to a monastery only those who are judged qualified to dedicate themselves permanently to the sacred ministries, with due consideration of their spiritual inclinations, dedication, integrity, commitment, devotion, and health.
    • a. Before they are accepted, they must submit documents of initiation and any other things required by the prescripts of the program of sannyas training.
    • b. If it concerns admitting those who were dismissed from another monastery or religious institute, testimony of the respective head is also required, especially concerning the cause for their dismissal or departure.
  • 6. The monastic rules, guidelines, and spiritual edicts should be taught with inspiration and integrity and follow the monastic training guidelines so that they can evolve as integrated active sanyasis who can live and radiate the teachings and qualities of Hinduism embodied by THE SUPREME PONTIFF OF HINDUISM BHAGAWAN SRI NITHYANANDA PARAMASHIVAM.
  • 7. Sanyasis are bound by a special obligation to show reverence and obedience to THE SUPREME PONTIFF OF HINDUISM BHAGAWAN SRI NITHYANANDA PARAMASHIVAM and their own ordinary.
  • 8. Sanyasis can obtain offices for whose exercise the power of orders or the power of ecclesiastical governance is required.
    • a. Unless a legitimate impediment excuses them, sanyasis are bound to undertake and fulfill faithfully a function which their ordinary has entrusted to them.
  • 9. Since sanyasis all work for the same purpose, namely, the building of Kailasa, they are to be united among themselves by a bond of sanyashood and integrity, devotion and shraddha and are to strive for cooperation among themselves according to the prescripts of law.
  • 10. Sanyasis are to acknowledge and promote the mission which the laity, each for his or her part, exercise in Kailasa and in the world.
  • 11. Once validly received, sacred ordination into sanyas never becomes invalid. A sanyasi, nevertheless, loses the sanyasi minister state:
    • a. by a judicial sentence or administrative decree, which declares the invalidity of sacred ordination;
    • b. by a penalty of dismissal legitimately imposed;
  • 12. Loss of the state does not entail a dispensation from the obligation of celibacy.
  • 13. A sanyasi who loses the sanyasi minister state according to the norm of law loses with it the rights proper to the minister state and is no longer bound by any obligations of the minister state. He is prohibited from exercising the power of orders. By the loss of the minister state, he is deprived of all offices, functions, and any delegated power.
  • 14. A minister who loses the minister state cannot be enrolled among ministers again except through provision of the law.

The Hierarchy of Governance of Kailasa

  • 1. The various Eashwaras, who by divine institution are ordained and who function towards being established in the state, space, powers and being of Paramashiva whose living embodiment is THE SUPREME PONTIFF OF HINDUISM BHAGAWAN SRI NITHYANANDA PARAMASHIVAM, are constituted ministers in Kailasa, so that they are teachers of doctrine, priests of sacred worship, and ministers of governance.
  • 2. THE SUPREME PONTIFF OF HINDUISM BHAGAWAN SRI NITHYANANDA PARAMASHIVAM freely appoints ministers or confirms those legitimately elected.
  • 3. A minister is to act with integrity and compassion toward the fellow Kailasans to foster Paramashivatva as revealed by THE SUPREME PONTIFF OF HINDUISM BHAGAWAN SRI NITHYANANDA PARAMASHIVAM.
  • 4. With special solicitude, a minister is to attend to the members of his sabha and listen to them as assistants and counselors. He is to protect their rights and take care that they correctly fulfill the obligations proper to their state and that the means and institutions which they need to foster spiritual and intellectual life are available to them.
  • 5. As much as possible, a minister is to foster vocations to different ministries and to consecrated life, with special care shown for sanyas vocations.
  • 6. Through more suitable means, he is firmly to protect the integrity and unity of the devoted, while nonetheless acknowledging a just freedom in further investigating its truths.
  • 7. Since he must protect the unity of Kailasa, a minister is bound to promote the common discipline of Kailasa and therefore to urge the observance of all ecclesiastical laws.
    • a. He is to exercise vigilance so that abuses do not creep into ecclesiastical discipline, especially regarding the ministry of the word, the celebration of the sacred, the worship of the Divine, and the administration of goods.
  • 8. The minister represents his ministry in all its juridic affairs.
  • 9. A minister is to foster various forms of the ministry and is to take care that in the entire ministry or in its particular districts, all the works of the ministry are coordinated under his direction, with due regard for the proper character of each.
    • a. He is to insist upon the responsibility which binds the devoted to exercise the ministry according to each one's condition and ability and is to exhort them to participate in and assist the various works of the ministry according to the needs of place and time.
  • 10. A ministry is understood to be impeded if by reason of captivity, banishment, exile, or incapacity a minister is clearly prevented from fulfilling his function in the ministry, so that he is not able to communicate with those in his ministry even by letter. In this case the Council of Eashwaras (Ministers) should do the needful to immediately take care of the Ministry.
  • 11. A ministry is vacant upon the death of a minister, resignation accepted by THE SUPREME PONTIFF OF HINDUISM BHAGAWAN SRI NITHYANANDA PARAMASHIVAM, transfer, or privation made known to the minister. In this case the Council of Eashwaras (Ministers) should do the needful to immediately take care of the Ministry.
  • 12. A conference of ministers, a permanent institution, is a group of ministers of some nation or certain territory who jointly exercise certain functions for the citizens of Kailasa of their territory in order to promote the greater good which Kailasa offers to humanity.
  • 13. As a general rule, a conference of ministers includes those who preside over all the particular Kailasas of the same nation.
  • 14. It is only for the supreme authority of Kailasa (Mahakailasa) to erect, suppress, or alter conferences of ministers, after having heard the ministers concerned.
  • 15. A legitimately erected conference of ministers possesses juridic personality by the law itself.