To the people with great enthusiasm and force and soon afterwards the number of the Samajas actually increased manifold.
A modernized, workable organizational apparatus were created for the Samaj in 1986 which was, briefly, as follows:
General:
The most striking features in connection with the Arya Samaj, which makes it at once the most powerful and the most influential of all reformmovements in the country, is its complete and unique organization. Every Arya Samaj is a unit in itself. Generally, there is one in every city or village which has come under its incluence, but in some cities there are morel, either because of the distances separating the different parts of the same city, or of some slight variations in principle. The latter distinction is mostly confined to the Punjab.
Membership:
Effective membership involves (a) the acceptace of the Ten Principles; (b) the payment of one per cent of one's income, either monthly or yearly, towards the revenues of the Samaj; (c) attendance at meetings; (d) upright conduct.
Weekly Services:
The Samaj meets once a week for congregational service, which consists generally of (a) Homa; (b) singing of hymns; (c) prayer and sermon; (d) lecture. The service can be conducted by any member, regardless of caste, whom the offcicers of the Samaj select for the purpose. The Samaj does not ordain ministers or priests. Any layman can officiate at the services or at ceremonies and be asked to lecture. The weekly service meetings are open to the public, and no distinction is made between membercs and non-members, or between Hindus and non - Hindus. Anybody can come into the Church of God and occupy whatever seat he likes.
Executive Committee
The affairs of each Arya Samaj are controlled by an executive committee comprising elected officers and as many members as may be elected in proportion to the size of the Samaj. Only effective members can vote in the election of officers and the committee. The officers are: (a) President; one or more Vice- Presidents; (c) one or more Secretaries; (d) Accountant; (e) Librarian. They must be effective members themselves. They are elected for the year at an annual meeting convened for the purpose, where the voting is by ballot. At this annual meeting the outgoing officers and the committee render to the general body an account of the income and expenditure of the Samaj during the year together with a report of the year's working: after which the meeting proceeds to elect officers and committee for the coming year.
The outgoing officers and committee are eligible for re-election. In the larger Samajas, the general body of members is divided into groups of ten, for electing representatives on the committee. This is in addition to a few members, not exceeding five, who are elected by the whole body of members. The Samaj may meet for the transaction of such business as may be referred to it by the committee, ior by the officers, or on the requisition of a certain number of members, for the consideration of such proposals as they wish to bring under purview by the general body. Failure to pay the stipulated one per cent of income, or any other misconduct, may lead to suspension of a member by the Samaj, or to the removal of his name altogether from the register of effective members. This is no bar to readmission at the at the discretion of the committee, from whose decisions in all matters there is, moreover, the right of appeal to the general body. Neither the committee nor the general body is empowered to make changes in the creed, or the constitution, of the Samaj.
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