Chapter 2

Chapter Iv The Sanyasi Council

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Chapter Iv The Sanyasi Council

1. In each ministry a sanyasi council is to be established, that is, a group of sanyasis which, representing the sanyashood, is to be like a senate of the minister and which assists the minister in the governance of the ministry according to the norm of law to promote as much as possible the spiritual good of the portion of the citizens of Kailasa entrusted to him.
1. In what pertains to the designation of members of the sanyas council:
- a. the sanyasis themselves are free to elect about half, according to the norm of the following canons and of the statutes;
- b. according to the norm of the statutes, some sanyasis must be ex officio members, that is, members who are to belong to the council by reason of the office entrusted to them;
- c. the minister is freely entitled to appoint others.
1. The following have the right of election, both active and passive, in constituting a sanyas council:
- a. all initiates sanyasis in the ministry;
1. It is for the minister to convene the sanyas council, preside over it, and determine the questions to be treated by it or receive proposals from the members.
- a. The sanyas council possesses only a consultative vote; the minister is to hear it in affairs of greater importance but needs its consent only in cases expressly defined by law.
b. The sanyas council is not able to act without the minister who alone has charge of making public those things which have been established according to the norm above.
1. Members of the sanyas council are to be designated for a time determined in the statutes, in such a way, however, that the entire council or some part of it is renewed within five years.
1. From among the members of the sanyas council and in a number not less than six nor more than twelve, the minister freely appoints some sanyasis who are to constitute for five years a college of consultors, to which belongs the functions determined by law. When the five years elapse, however, it continues to exercise its proper functions until a new college is established.
- a. The minister presides over the college of consultors. When a ministry is impeded or vacant, however, the one who temporarily takes the place of the minister or, if he has not yet been appointed, the sanyasi who is senior in ordination in the college of consultors presides.

Members Of Spiritual Structures

1. As an experiential realization of the truths of life, spiritual life manifests in Kailasa on the individual and collective level the pure Consciousness, state, space, powers, being of Paramashiva the ultimate. This manifests in daily living in various forms aligned to the tattvas (principles) of life and the vows a member has chosen to take, lifestyle the member has chosen to live in accordance with the Vedagamas, through which his or her whole existence becomes a continuous celebration of life in all its dimensions and auspiciousness.
1. A spiritual institute is a society in which members, according to proper law, pronounce public vows, either perpetual or temporary which are to be renewed, however, when the period of time has elapsed, and lead a life of advaita (oneness) with the cosmos.
1. The public witness to be rendered by the members entails a separation from the world proper to the character and purpose of each institute.

The Teaching Function Of Kailasa

1. Kailasa, to which Paramashiva has entrusted the responsibility to live, protect and spread the ultimate truths revealed in the Vedagamas reverently, intranalyze closely, proclaim and expound it faithfully, has the responsibility and innate right, independent of any human power whatsoever, to teach the truths to all peoples, also using the means of social communication proper to it.
1. It belongs to Kailasa always and everywhere to announce the cosmic principles, even about the social order, and to render judgment concerning any human affairs insofar as the fundamental rights of the human person or their enlightenment requires it.
1. All persons are bound to seek the truth in those things which regard Paramashiva and Kailasa and by virtue of divine law are bound by the obligation and possess the right of embracing and observing the truth which they have come to know.
1. No one is ever permitted to coerce persons to embrace Sanatana Hindu Dharma.
1. By virtue of his office, THE SUPREME PONTIFF OF HINDUISM BHAGAWAN SRI NITHYANANDA PARAMASHIVAM possesses infallibility in teaching when as the supreme pontiff and teacher of all the living and practicing Hindus, he proclaims by definitive act that the doctrine of Kailasa is to be held.
1. A ministry also possesses infallibility in teaching when the ministers gathered together in a council exercise the magisterium as teachers and judges of faith and principles who declare for Kailasa that a doctrine of faith or principles is to be held definitively; or when dispersed throughout the world but preserving the bond of communion among themselves and teaching authentically together with THE SUPREME PONTIFF OF HINDUISM BHAGAWAN SRI NITHYANANDA PARAMASHIVAM the ultimate truths whose experiential understanding is given by THE SUPREME PONTIFF OF HINDUISM BHAGAWAN SRI NITHYANANDA PARAMASHIVAM, they agree that a particular proposition is to be held definitively.
1. No doctrine is understood as defined infallibly unless this is manifestly evident.
1. A person must believe with integrity, shraddha (authenticity) and devotion all those things contained in the Vedagamas, written or handed on, and at the same time proposed as divinely revealed either by the solemn magisterium of Kailasa or by its ordinary and universal magisterium which is manifested by the common adherence of the citizens of Kailasa under the leadership of the sacred magisterium; therefore all are bound to avoid any doctrines whatsoever contrary to them.

The Ministry Of The Divine Word

1. With respect to Kailasa, the function of proclaiming Paramashiva's revelations has been entrusted principally to THE SUPREME PONTIFF OF HINDUISM BHAGAWAN SRI NITHYANANDA PARAMASHIVAM and the Council of Ministers.
1. With respect to the particular Kailasian ministry entrusted to him, an individual minister, who is the moderator of the entire ministry of the word within it, exercises that function; sometimes several ministers fulfill this function jointly at once, according to the norm of law.
1. It is proper for the team and the administration, who are co-workers of the ministers, to proclaim the word of Paramashiva; this responsibility binds especially the spiritual fraternity of Kailasa and others to whom the care of the citizens is entrusted to.
1. Members of spiritual institutes give witness to the divine word in a special way and the minister appropriately calls upon them as a help in proclaiming the divine word.
1. By virtue of initiation, lay members citizens of Kailasa are witnesses of the divine word and the example of a Hindu life; they can also be called upon to cooperate with the minister and his team in the exercise of the ministry of the word.
1. The revelations of Paramashiva is to be set forth completely and faithfully in the ministry of the word, which must be based upon sacred scriptures, Hindu tradition, worship, the magisterium of Kailasa.
1. The various means available are to be used to proclaim the Hindu doctrine: teaching by shravana-manana-nidhidhyasana (listening-intranalyzing-living) and vakyartha sadas (Hindu debate), which always hold the principal place, but also the presentation of the doctrine in schools, academies, conferences, and meetings of every type and its dissemination through public declarations in the press or in other instruments of social communication by legitimate authority on the occasion of certain events.

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