Hare Rama, Hare Rama, Rama Rama, Hare Hare. A president serves each local facility as its spiritual leader and administrator. Each devotee is required to arise before sunrise for worship and chanting. The evening ceremony is similar. Worship is normally performed in a temple with an alter, deities and a seat for the spiritual master.
Devotees eat no fish, meat, eggs, garlic or onions.
Alcohol, drugs, coffee, tea, and smoking are not permitted. There are no restrictions on autopsy, and cremation is generally encouraged. It is highly desirable for a priest to be present at the time of death, but the blessings of a qualified priest are not required for a person to go back to Godhead. Devotees are nonviolent, although not pacifists. On the basis of full time devotional service, devotees have sought draft exempt status as ministerial students on an individual basis.