Our Objectives and Goals

Primary Objectives:

1. Providing guidance for Puja ( Prayer ) as existing in Veda, Upanishad, Mahabharata, Bhagavat Gita duly modified to suit modern times with the intermission of songs.
2. Providing guidance to the performance of Yajna (Havan) as existing in Vedic times with necessary changes to suit modern times with the accompaniment of songs.
3. Sri Sri Thakur Sri Srimat Premananda Tirthaswamijee Maharaj (Sri Sri Thakur) compiled and introduced these Puja and Yajna for the benefit of the all humanity. The reciting Mantras as a prayer or Havan provides a clear and direct route to achieve self upliftment. With great hesitation he kept those Mantras in their own language, Sanskrit, though the Mantras themselves are not sectarian.
4. Providing help for needy students, poor families, the sick, orphan children and disabled people but not believe in what is commonly termed as "doing good for others". Our aim is to release the internal energy hidden in every human through diligence and contemplation, the path of God realization. The most important task is to make everybody self-sufficient.
5. Believe that everyone has a right to his or her own faith whatever that may be.
6. Establish a central library at the registered office of the Sangha and a chain of libraries and schools for philosophical and cultural education, study centers for Vedic literature and the literature of all religions.
7. Perform collective prayer (Samabeta Puja) and Havan (Yajna) as preached by Sri Sri Thakur and taught by Sri Srimat Swami Sadanandajee Maharaj.
8. Collect donations small as well as large amounts provided the gift is not more than 6% of total income of individual donors per annum. Funding may be made from sale of books and medicines but sale price should not be more than 20% above the gross expenditure of production of said items.
9. The publication of religious books and periodicals is an important objective of the Sangha. Work is worship, books are better Gurus in the modern age, and pure love to mankind without expectation is the true love to God.

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Rules & Regulations :

1. Any one may become member of the Sangha provided he or she agrees to the objectives of the Sangha and is recommended by any one of the existing members. The member should be an adult and earn enough to pay the annual subscription or life membership fees with the admission fees.
2. At present the annual subscription is Rs. 100/- per annum and life membership is Rs. 1000/-. The admission fee is Rs. 10/-. The Sangha may alter these fees.
3. Outstanding people of the society who agree with the objectives of the Sangha are granted honorary membership of the Sangha. Those annual members who are above 70 years of age and have been annual members of the Sangha for more than five years may be transferred to the status of Honorary members.

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Current Activity and Progress :

• Every-day Puja (Prayer) is organized at Anandadham Abasan at 6 p.m. and similar evening Puja is performed at Barasat branch of Srikrishna Sangha. The motto of the Sangha is that every home is a unit of the Sangha and hence each member is requested to organize such evening Puja at their homes individually to join in spirit with the timings of the Sangha or at least once a week.
• Yajna is organized twice a year, once on 2nd of May on the day of demise of Sri Sri Thakur and on his birthday, the Rash-Purnima day, ( this day is kept by the lunar calendar, Tithi ). Since the establishment of Srikrishna Sangha these two Utsabs have been performed. Even before the Sangha was organized Rash-Purnima Utsab was held in his presence. Now the Sangha will perform Yajna on two more days of the year; the birthday of  Sri Srimat Sadanandajee Maharaj the 18th March and the 23rd September, the day of demise of the Maharaj.
• Srikrishna Sangha will establish branches where more than 10 members desire to open a library. The central library has been established at its registered office at 1/1A, Khanpur Road, Calcutta 700 047 with about 2000 books on various subjects but mostly on different religions. The central library, at present is kept open for lending of books to its members every Sunday morning and Wednesday afternoon. This central library has its own rules for the lending of books.
• A branch, "Sadananda Achi Parishad" is being established as desired by Sri Srimat Swami Sadanandajee, the founder President of Srikrishna Sangha, in his last wishes written in 1989 published in "Srikrishna Sangha Barta" Vol. no. 23/3 & 23/4 as "Amar Iccha" and he desired that all his savings be utilized for implementation of his last wishes.
• At Barasat, a branch having 20 plus members, a meditation room and a library have been established in a building donated by Late Indumati Chattopadhya, wife of Late Jatindra Mohan Chattopadhya. The donation was conditional that it will be for Sri Srimat Swami Sadanandajee Maharaj for his life time use and also for Srikrishna Sangha for local activities, if it continues even after his demise, discontinuation of which the donor will get back the donated portion of the building. It is now, therefore, proposed to own a separate building in its present site.
• At Durgapur a branch having 10 plus members is being established for it's local members.
• Similar effort is being made to open more branches at Varanasi, Sreerampore, Lucknow, Delhi, Dhanbad etc.
• A four storied building has been constructed with six flats for five members and one for Srikrishna Sangha to house its registered office and its central library in Calcutta. One Puja-ghar has been provided in the ground floor as agreed to by the owners of the flats at "Anandadham Abasan", 1/1A, Khanpur Road, Calcutta 700 047. A coaching center and a text book library are being organized at the ground floor. Ayurvedic medicines, manufactured and given to the ailing devotees by Sri Sri Thakur, are now being manufactured again at the ground floor of this building.
• Srikrishna Sangha has published more than 20 books written by Sri Sri Thakur in Bengali language . These books are available in the Library at Anandadham Abasan, 1/1A, Khanpur Road, Calcutta 700 047 and at the both branches in Barasat and Durgapur. A few of the above books have been translated in Hindi and one or two in English. Every effort is being made to translate all books in other languages.
• Books on Puja and Yajna have been published in various forms regularly since 1938, even before the Srikrishna Sangha was formed and over the lifetime of Sri Sri Thakur after an informal Trust Board was constituted by him for publication of his books.
• "Srikrishna Sangha Barta", a periodical, is being published bi-annually (once on the day of demise of Sri Sri Thakur on 2nd May, and again on the Rash-Purnima day) since 1966. This periodical not only publishes the news items of Srikrishna Sangha but also unpublished articles of Sri Sri Thakur and articles from eminent scholars in three languages mainly in Bengali, Hindi and English.

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Member Participation:

• Every member is required to participate in the activities of the Sangha in any of the field according to his or her choice in any center of the Sangha. If the member lives in Calcutta he or she should visit Anandadham Abasan daily or weekly or once a year according to his or her capability and/or fitness. If physically unable to join the activities of the Sangha at the center he or she should join center at the branch or may perform in his or her own way at the home.
• Those who are far away from Calcutta and/or from India may participate in any of the activities of the Sangha such as sale of books, sale of medicines, organize weekly or monthly Puja at his or her locality. These may be held by rotation in the homes of the members or of the devotees. In these prayer every members of the family should be requested to join.
• Every day or week some kind of service to the family and to the society should be performed in addition to personal meditation. Puja is nothing but autosuggestion, therefore the method of Puja should be according to the member's taste and may be different from the method proscribed by the Sangha.
• In every locality the members duly authorized by the Sangha may organize donations for the Sangha. Individual donations may be sent directly to the Sangha at the Registered office in Calcutta, India. The money may be remitted by demand draft from outside Calcutta and Bankers' check/pay order if it is from inside Calcutta in favor of "Srikrishna Sangha" for General Fund, "Library Fund Srikrishna Sangha" and "Building Fund Srikrishna Sangha" as the case may be to the Bank of the remitter having a branch at Calcutta. Money may be remitted in the personal check from outside Calcutta but it will take considerable time and the Sangha is liable for substantial Banking charges. However if money is remitted from outside India it may kindly be sent by personal check although it takes about 2 months to cash the same in Calcutta to avoid complications of cashing foreign exchange.

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