Hare Krishna Community

Hare Krishna Community (HKC) - Legal Position
HKC is a charitable trust whose aim is to fulfill the same objectives for which His Divine Grace A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada founded ISKCON. It is registered under IT act 12 AA (order number 24/3-09-10/2009-10/48) All Donation are exempted under IT act of 80G.The trust deed was executed as per DOM (refer to www.ISKCON-DOM.com for detail information on DOM) which was given by His Divine Grace A C Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada as the final document to run his society ISKCON.

The following clause is also inbuilt in the trust deed of HKC :
“This trust shall be dissolved and merged with ISKCON whenever ISKCON starts following the ritvik system and the ‘Direction of Management’ given by His Divine Grace A.C. Bhakivedanta Swami Prabhupada, who is the Founder & Acharya of ISKCON. Ritvik system of initiation is mentioned in a letter dated 9th July 1977 and ‘DOM’ is mentioned in a document signed by Srila Prabhupada himself in 1970."