( 1 ) THE current phenomenon is that Religious Charities and Endowments, Religious Institutions and Maths are quite often brought under the spell of bureaucracy thereby defeating the very goals for which these institutions were founded or established. The bureaucracy alone cannot be balmed for such sorry state by affiars. It is expected that by the exemplary conduct, character, piety, erudition and dedication the spiritual heads should inspire faith in their devotees in particular and the people at large in general. But, it is quite often complained that the modern heads of these institutions, by and large, tend to imbibe in them the art of political manoeuvers and greed to enrichments in terms of wealth as well as power at secular and temporal planes rather than to pursue the age-old path of Moksha or Nirvana as mandated by the great rishis and preceptors and in this process the bureaucracy and the statutory authorities readily find one or the other loophole or excuse to usurp the powers of Mahants, Matadipathis and Shebaits. A solution to the question,the question being who should succeed as Uttaradhikari of the predecessor Mathadhipa-thi, namely, Sri Karibasava Sw