Original Members of The Governing Body Commission
According to the letter of 28 July 1970 A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada appointed the following members to the commission, all of them non-sannyasis (non-renunciates). After the death of A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada in 1977 only five of the original Commissioners would be eventually approved to become diksa gurus:
1. Śrīmān Rupanuga Das Adhikari
2. Śrīmān Bhagavandas Adhikari
3. Śrīmān Syamsundar Das Adhikari
4. Śrīmān Satsvarupa Das Adhikari
5. Śrīmān Karandhar Das Adhikari
6. Śrīmān Hansadutta Das Adhikari
7. Śrīmān Tamala Kṛṣṇa Das Adhikari
8. Śrīmān Sudama Das Adhikari
9. Śrīmān Bali Mardan Das Brahmachari
10. Śrīmān Jagadisa Das Adhikari
11. Śrīmān Hayagriva Das Adhikari
12. Śrīmān Kṛṣṇadas Adhikari
This letter outlines the following purposes of the commission:
- Providing a structure to ensure the continuation of ISKCON after Prabhupada's death.
- Improving the standard of temple management
- Promoting Krishna consciousness
- Distributing books and literature
- Opening new centers
- Education of the devotees.
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