Establish permanent legal structures to protect ISKCON's properties and ensure the movement survives beyond the founder-acharya's physical presence.Listen — Srila Prabhupada Uvaca
Svarūpa Dāmodara: ...this summer and he can come. We can provide free lodging and... Prabhupāda: Yes, everyone should be provided free lodging. Svarūpa Dāmodara: We can invite about two hundred guests and have a week-long conference. Prabhupāda: If they voluntarily give contribution, that's all right. Otherwise we shall provide. We have got guesthouse.
It is very nice. Even they do not pay, we shall pay. Svarūpa Dāmodara: We can make a scientific propaganda. And we can also do the same thing in Bombay. Bombay will be bigger. Prabhupāda: Therefore you have been trained up, [chuckles] for this purpose.
Girirāja: Yes. Prabhupāda: Nobody can say in court case that "This temple will be in charge of this person, this temple..." Rāmeśvara: Yes, just like you said. Girirāja: So we've included those points and the points in your brief will. Should I read it? Prabhupāda: Hmm? Girirāja: Then we can type it. "I, A. C.
Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupāda, Founder-Ācārya of the International Society for Krishna Consciousness, settlor of the Bhaktivedanta Book Trust, and disciple of Oṁ Viṣṇupāda 108 Śrī Śrīmad Bhaktisiddhānta Sarasvatī Gosvāmī Mahārāja Prabhupāda, presently residing at Śrī Kṛṣṇa-Balarāma Mandir in Vṛndāvana, make this, my last will. 1. The Governing Body Commission, GBC, will be the trustees of the entire International Society for Krishna Consciousness." Prabhupāda: You can... Then there will be question, "The trust deed will be given? Then there will tax." Girirāja: No, because the ISKCON trust is already there, and ISKCON is already tax exempt.
The only difficulty is if you create a new trust. Prabhupāda: No, no new trust. Girirāja: No. Prabhupāda: Instead of trustees... Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: Use a different word. Prabhupāda: Ah!
Prabhupāda: Supreme managers. Gopāla Kṛṣṇa: Supreme managers. [laughter]
Prabhupāda: Or the ultimate managers, like that. Gopāla Kṛṣṇa: The ultimate executives?