On July 28, Srila Prabhupada drafted a statement officially setting up a Governing Body Commission. With this document, he effectively prevented any one person, or any outsiders, from trying to take control of ISKCON. The twelve grhasthas Srila Prabhupada selected are: Bali Mardan, Bhagavan, Hansadutta, Hayagriva, Jagadisa, Karandhara, Krishna Dasa, Rupanuga, Satsvarupa, Sudama, Shyamasundara, and Tamal Krishna.
Prabhupada's legal document, the Direction of Management, went on to set forth general directions for the G.B.C. secretaries. They should travel regularly to the temples in their respective zones to ensure that each devotee chanted sixteen rounds and followed a regulated schedule and that the temples were clean.
His twelve G.B.C. secretaries would relieve him of management, and they would rectify present and future difficulties within the society. That rectification, Prabhupada's document explained, would be possible only when the devotees in each temple engaged fully in regulated devotional service.