Sri Balaji Temple and Cultural Center

Form 990-ez, Part III

“1. Maintain a cultural, educational and spiritual center to preserve and grow the sri vaishnava tradition according to the teachings of sri ramanuja charya and the previous azhwar saints. 2. Promote the traditional arts such as dance, music, painting and sculpture, poetry and cuisine as practiced in vedic communities from antiquity. 3. Provide and online platform for disseminating vedic culture 4. Encourage non-violent living and cow protection by maintaining a vegetarian diet and financially supportuing farms that protect cows. 5. Promote the qualities of the mode of goodness such as equilibrium of the mind, self-control, austerity, cleanliness, tolerance, compassion, honesty, theoretical knowledge, and realized knowledge. 6. Create a community that teaches and lives without envy of one another and promotes kind friendship to all people based on restpect, empathy, tolerance, charity, freedom from greed, lust, anger from frustation, illusion, irresponsible behavior that ignores the consequences of dharma (spiritual duties without any selfish motives) 7. Encourage a god-centered life by cultivating a personal relationship with supreme personality of godhead based on service with devotion and determination to always act guided by the good counsel of enlightened mentors following the sri vaishnava philosophy. 8. Encourage faithfulness in sacred marriage and strong family values. 9. Educate people how to build a cooperative society based on the varnasrama system of organization of social and spritual divisions of society based on qualityand work- the divisions of society are not based on birth as exemplified by the teaching and life of sri ramanuja charya. 10. Provide a charitable fund to help children of lower income families to gain access to good education from preschool to university. 11. Install and worship lord balaji (venkateshwara - srinvasa - govinda)”