Statuts de la SRCM Belgique

Le greffe du Tribunal de commerce de Nivelles a enregistré les statuts de l’association sans but lucratif (asbl) SRCM Belgique le 21 juin 2007.

Membres effectifs, membres bienfaiteurs et membres adhérents, 3 catégories aux pouvoirs très distincts. Les adhérents, position commune et majoritaire des abhyasis n’ont aucun droit, sauf celui d’assister en observateurs aux assemblées générales.

A l’inverse, les membres effectifs sont choisis par le Président en fonction de la SRCM Inde et c’est seulement parmi eux que seront désignés les membres du Conseil d’administration.

Quant aux membres bienfaiteurs, ils sont choisis par le Conseil d’administration. Avec les membres effectifs, ils sont les seuls à disposer du droit de vote lors des assemblées générales. Notamment pour élire le Conseil d’administration.

Enfin, le président peut établir un règlement intérieur et peut seul le modifier à son gré.

Extraits :

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Titre III – MEMBRES

Article 5 : Nombre, qualifications et admission

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L’Association est composée de membres « effectifs », de membres « adhérents » et de membres « bienfaiteurs »

Seuls les membres effectifs jouissent de la plénitude des droits accordés aux membres par la loi et les présents statuts. Les membres adhérents jouissent des seuls droits sociaux qui leur sont reconnus par les statuts de l’Association. Le titre de membre bienfaiteur peut être décerné annuellement par le conseil d’administration aux personnes qui rendent ou qui ont rendu des services à l’association.

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Sont membres effectifs

1 Le président en fonction de la « Shri Ram Chandra Mission » en Inde, enregistrée dans le « Societies Registration Act of U.P. (1860) » par Shri Ram Chandra de Shajahanpur, son Président Fondateur. Celui-ci est membre de droit.

2 Les personnes qui participent à la vie de l’Association, prennent part à ses travaux, à quelque titre que ce soit et qui en ont fait la demande au Président qui statue seul sur ces demandes sans avoir à motiver sa décision.

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TITRE IV – CONSEIL D’ADMINISTRATION

Article 8 : Composition

L’Association est gérée par un conseil d’administration composé de trois membres au moins, élus parmi les membres effectifs par l’assemblée générale à la majorité des deux tiers des voix de ses membres présents ou représentés, sur proposition du président en fonction de la « Shri Ram Chandra Mission » en Inde, enregistrée dans le « Societies Registration Act of U.P. (1860) »

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TITRE V – ASSEMBLEE GENERALE

Article 14 : Composition

L’assemblée générale se composée [sic] des membres effectifs et des membres bienfaiteurs. Les membres adhérents sont informés de la tenue des assemblées et peuvent y assister sans toutefois pouvoir voter.

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Article 19 : Règlement d’Ordre Intérieur

Il peut être établi un Règlement d’ordre intérieur. (…) Ce Règlement est entre les mains du Président qui est seul habilité à le faire évoluer (…).

Pour en savoir +

- Guide pour créer une association locale : comment contourner la démocratie ?

- Exemple du règlement intérieur français

- Organisation spirituelle et matérielle de la Mission

- SRCM Belgique

Comment contourner la démocratie ?

Guide pour créer une organisation locale

Créer une structure locale devient indispensable quand le nombre d’abhyasis augmente et qu’il est nécessaire d’acheter ou louer des biens (ashrams ou centres de méditation), et d’ouvrir des comptes bancaires pour collecter les "contributions volontaires".
Mais le caractère démocratique des différents types d’organisations proposés par tous les Etats de la planète s’accorde vraiment bien mal avec le fonctionnement d’une Mission spiritualiste comme la SRCM de Chari, totalement a-démocratique.
Concilier les deux est un travail d’orfèvre.
D’où la mise en place par la SRCM d’un guide pour créer une structure locale ad hoc. Cette note interne de 19 pages, datée de 2008, récapitule les principales questions à se poser pour déterminer le type d’organisation le plus pertinent, les étapes clés à respecter, et propose des modèles de statuts pré-rédigés.
Habituellement en démocratie, l’assemblée générale des membres adhérents à une organisation est plénipotentiaire. L’objectif majeur de Chari (et de cette note) est de lui ôter tous ses pouvoirs…

La SRCM est basée sur les adhésions de ses membres mais elle est dirigée par un leader. Aucune élection de ses dirigeants n’est prévue. Le Président, du fait de son rôle de guide spirituel, est l'autorité suprême. Son autorité ne peut être mise en question. Malheureusement, il faut que ce soit conforme aux lois du pays d’accueil, d’où les difficultés pour choisir le meilleur type d’organisation.
Le président doit absolument conserver le contrôle général de l’organisation, mais avec une responsabilité limitée et si possible le moins de risques juridiques à encourir. L’organisation doit permettre le transfert des excédents financiers vers d’autres structures, dans et hors du pays. Le Président doit également pouvoir fixer une limite maximale de retraits sur le compte bancaire de la structure locale pour ses dépenses.

“The Mission in India is a membership based organization but it is leader-driven. It does not provide for elected officers or elected working committees/supervisory commissions. There are officers and there is an advisory body but these are appointed by the President. The President (by the nature of his role as a spiritual guide) is supreme and his authority cannot be questioned. All this is of course in compliance with the laws of the land where the Mission is active. (…) It is also common practice for surpluses to be transferred to the Mission or an entity designated by the Mission so that they may be applied in another country where local voluntary contributions are not enough to support the local organization. Thus contributions may flow both ways into and out of a given country. (…) Is it a body corporate and is the liability of the founders/owners limited? What are the legal risks that the President and the office-bearers face under law? (…) Can we provide safeguards within the constitutional document of this organization to ensure that the President retains overall control of the organization? (…) The local signing officers being the members of the Executive Committee must have a preset authorized spending limit based on local economic conditions, above which requires written consent from the President.”

Les statuts de l’organisation locale doivent permettre la reconnaissance de l’autorité suprême du Maître, un Président omnipotent et de nationalité étrangère.
Dans ce cas de figure, le schéma manageurial recommandé est composé de 3 niveaux : le conseil de direction, le comité exécutif et les membres. Le conseil de direction comprend Chari, le Maître Président, ainsi que son successeur et le ‘region-in-charge’, tous 2 désignés par Chari. Le comité exécutif comprend un vice-président (ou ‘centre-in-charge’), un trésorier et un secrétaire, tous sélectionnés par Chari qui conserve en outre le droit de veto sur toutes leurs décisions. Les membres constituent le plus bas niveau, ce sont les abhyasis.
Ce schéma manageurial correspond donc à l’idéal organisationnel imaginé par Chari. Les pays où ce type de structure est légalement possible constituent ce que la SRCM appelle la catégorie A. Malheureusement, la plupart des pays ne permettent pas un tel déni de démocratie. D’où les cas de figure B et C dans lesquels il faut contourner et/ou détourner les statuts pour permettre d’arriver aux mêmes résultats.

“The supreme authority of the local legal entity must be our Master in his capacity as President, SRCM India. This is implemented in countries where the law so allows (“Category A Countries”) by defining the highest ranking position in the organization, the office of the President, as being occupied by the then current President of SRCM India. (…)
The President, being our Master, must also be in a position to exercise overall authority over the organization including the right to veto decisions of the management council or other governing body. (…)
It is our approach to adopt a membership-based form of organization where possible. However, laws governing membership-based organizations in many countries do not permit any other body or person to have greater control over the affairs of an organization than its general members in assembly. While this is reasonable as a principle it poses some hurdles for a spiritual organization such as ours which cannot give way to procedures such as voting and election of officers. Thus, Master’s position as President although set forth in the Governing Documents, may not be secure because the general membership typically has the power to amend the Governing Documents. For this reason, it may also be difficult to enshrine the President’s veto rights in the Governing Documents. Furthermore, there are countries where foreign nationals or non-residents cannot be founders or members or officers (“Category B Countries”). Despite such restrictions we may approach this with the object that every effort must be made to reflect Master’s real authority in the organizational rules and governance structure to the extent possible and in accordance with the law. (…)
While Master must be the supreme authority, it is prudent that a separate body remains responsible (under law and the rules of the organization) for day-to-day affairs since this is likely to buffer Master from the immediate risk of any liabilities that may arise under contract or law due to the acts or omissions of functionaries. Where Master is the President of the membership-based organization, we can have a supervisory body and an executive body as depicted in the figure below.
(…) A list of key officers (Step 1b – See Section 5 on Management) must be prepared and kept ready for Master’s review and approval while the type of legal entity is considered and decided upon. It is preferable that more than one name be proposed for key positions such as the Chief Financial Officer and Compliance Officer. A record of their background, work experience and photographs may also be kept on file. The volunteers who agree to act as officers must be clear that there are no restrictions under contract or otherwise on their ability to serve as officers of our organization.”

Une fois traité le cas le plus facile des pays de la catégorie A, il va falloir commencer à ruser et/ou tricher avec les lois en vigueur. La SRCM propose donc une option B pour les pays où il n’est pas possible que Chari occupe la présidence. Contrairement au schéma précédent, le premier niveau n’existe plus. Le ‘centre-in-charge’ est donc le président par la force des choses, et il est membre du comité de management, avec le trésorier et le secrétaire.
Dans ce cas de figure, on va jouer sur le niveau le plus bas, celui des membres, les abhyasis actifs. Pour ce faire, la SRCM distingue parmi eux les précepteurs (désignés par Chari), au sein desquels il nomme des ‘membres délégués’, seuls habilités à voter. Tous les autres membres actifs sont appelés ‘membres généraux’, ils n’ont pas le droit de vote (sauf si le président en décide autrement), ne sont pas comptabilisés dans le quorum, et n’ont pas plus de rôle consultatif. Le président peut aussi déterminer si un membre est actif ou non. Aux Etats-Unis, la SRCM applique à la lettre ce schéma de 2 groupes de membres généraux non votants et de membres délégués votants…
Enfin, Chari doit pouvoir exercer son pouvoir de veto sur le comité de management. Il va donc falloir jouer avec les documents fondateurs constitutifs de l’organisation. Ils sont souvent de 2 types : les statuts fondateurs d’un côté, un document opérationnel subsidiaire de l’autre. Et c’est seulement sur ce dernier que l’on va indiquer le véritable mode de fonctionnement a-démocratique de la structure. C’est le schéma type qui a été choisi en France, avec les statuts fondateurs de l’association loi 1901 d’un côté, un règlement intérieur totalement dictatorial de l’autre (voir à ce sujet - Règlement intérieur français).

“Option B :
Where the laws do not permit Master to occupy the office of President, the need for two separate bodies within the governing structure is dispensed with. So we can have a single Managing Committee (consisting of the three main functionaries at the least and any additional members if the law so requires).
In such a case we still need to provide for a manner in which Master can secure the direction in which the organization proceeds. This may be done by providing for the power of the President, SRCM India to designate a class of voting members from the general membership. Alternately it may also be provided that this class of members, the Delegate Members, will need to be prefects certified by the President, SRCM in order to be so chosen.
(…) “Prefects” means spiritual trainers of the Sahaj Marg system of meditation as authorized and certified by the President, SRCM India.
General Membership. Active practitioners of the Sahaj Marg system of meditation, practising under the guidance of the spiritual Master being the President [replace with - President, SRCM India – for Category B Country] SRCM may be admitted as “General Members” by Prefects. Active practitioners are those who: (i) regularly practice morning meditation, evening cleaning, nightly prayer; (ii) are given regular individual sittings by Prefects; (iii) regularly participate in group meditations; and (iv) show interest in progressing spiritually in the Sahaj Marg system. The President may, from time to time, determine whether a practitioner is active or non-active. It being understood that this is a spiritual determination the decision of the President on this matter shall be final and not open for examination or review by the [Board of Directors/Executive Committee/Committee of Management] or the members (in general meeting or otherwise) or any office bearers.
Delegate Members. General Members may be designated and appointed as “Delegate Members” by the President at his discretion. On such appointment Delegate Members shall be entitled to vote at annual general meetings and special meetings.
For the purpose of abundant clarity, General Members shall not have voting rights and shall not (unless the President otherwise directs) be included for the purposes of notices or constitution of quorum in connection with meetings of the members (including annual general meetings and special meetings); Preceptors shall have no legal status or entitlements in the Mission other than the duty to facilitate the admission of General Members; the issuance of an identity card to any practitioner shall in no way be construed as a proof of membership in the Mission; the authoritative record of General Membership and Delegate Membership shall be the Register of Members; the President may at any time instruct the Vice President to re-designate a Delegate Member as a General Member in the Register of Members and such a member shall lose his Delegate Member status with effect from the date of such instruction by the President.
The Mission shall keep in written form or any form capable of being converted into written form a current register of members (“Register of Members”) of the Mission containing the name, address, and occupation of each member, together with the date on which the person became a member and the class of each member. The Register of Members shall be maintained and updated by the Vice President under directions from the President, shall be kept at the principal office of the Mission and shall be subject to the rights of inspection required by law.
Members Are Not Agents. The management of the Mission is vested in the Board and its authorized officers acting with the approval of the President. No Member, acting solely in the capacity of a Member, is an agent of the Mission nor can any Member in such capacity bind nor execute any instrument on behalf of the Mission.
(…) Governing documents refer to the documents by which an organization is run. They are usually prepared and executed by the founders of the organization and thereafter by members of the organization. They are referred to variously as charter documents, constitutional documents or statutes. In many countries there are two sets of charter documents (a) a founding document (such as a memorandum of association in UK or a declaration in France) (b) a subsidiary operational document (such as articles of association in UK or internal regulations in France). Typically, the subsidiary document is meant to be more flexible and detailed and the bar for amending it is much lower than with a founding document. In other countries and/or for certain types of organizations, there is a single governing document such as a charter (устав) in the former Soviet Republics or a trust deed in the UK, India and other commonwealth countries. Many of the suggestions in this note relate to the Governing Documents and the language and provisions they may contain.”

Restent malheureusement bien des pays où il existe des règles d’élection trop strictes, voire d’autres aspects démocratiques particulièrement dérangeants. D’où l’option C prévue par la SRCM, où il est tout simplement envisagé de séparer la possession des actifs des autres activités de la Mission.
Dans ce cas de figure, il faut créer une structure supplémentaire, de type fondation, au seul nom de Chari pour la détention et la gestion des actifs de la Mission. Celle-ci met alors à disposition ses biens à l’organisation locale beaucoup trop démocrate aux yeux de Chari.
On notera que suite à la diffusion de cette note interne en 2008, on compte très peu d’associations sans but lucratif parmi les récentes organisations locales créées, à l’exception des SRCM du Royaume-Uni, de l’Irlande, du Népal ou de l’Etat du Jammu–et-Cachemire en Inde.
A l’inverse, une Sahaj Marg Spirituality Foundation, organisation sans but lucratif est déclarée au Département du développement économique de Dubaï le 31 mai 2004. Après la Fondation SMSF de Dubaï, une nouvelle Sahaj Marg Spirituality Foundation a vu officiellement le jour le 5 mars 2012 à Singapour. De même à Hong Kong, nouvelle tête de pont du développement de la Mission en Chine.

“Option C :
An option to be considered in countries that are particular about elections and other democratic aspects of an organization, is to separate the asset holding functions from other activities in the following manner:
Where it is structurally difficult to avoid elections and other aspects of democratic functioning in the membership organization the properties of the Mission may be held by a foundation, trust, institution or other similar single founder organization. This organization may then make available its premises to the membership organization for its activities.”

Au terme de ce long décryptage de la note interne de la SRCM, la conclusion est on ne plus simple : Chari et son organisation spiritualiste s’accordent particulièrement mal avec les principes démocratiques modernes et ne le cachent pas. Leur seul objectif est de les contourner, pour donner tous les pouvoirs à Chari, sans limites.
La relation idéalisée de Maître à disciple s’effondre, il n’y a que pouvoir de nomination, désignation et donc ségrégation ou droit de veto…
On serait tenté d’imaginer que c’est dû au rôle particulier d’un Maître spirituel, seul et unique guide dictatorial possible dans une religion ou dans ce spiritualisme. Mais l’attention accordée aux biens matériels dans cette note le prouve, la propriété (droit d’user et d’abuser) des actifs de la Mission est aussi importante que la toute puissance du Maître. Infaillible (comme le Pape), Chari se verrait volontiers à la tête d’une fondation uninominale pour gérer tous ces biens. La seule chose, c’est qu’il ne veut pas encourir de risques juridiques. Prêt à amasser et prendre tous les pouvoirs, mais pas prêt à en assumer la responsabilité…
Habituellement en démocratie, l’assemblée générale des membres adhérents à une organisation est plénipotentiaire. En spiritualité, il y a un Maître en relation d’amour avec ses disciples. Ici, cette organisation pyramidale ressemble à une entreprise avec un PDG qui réclame obéissance et service à ses salariés et engrange les bénéfices.

Source : Guidance note – Registering a local organization – 19 pages – SRCM, 12/08/2008
http://www.sahajmarg.org/c/document_library/get_file?p_l_id=57279&folderId=628266&name=DLFE-12905.pdf

Liens :
- Règlement intérieur
- Associations, fondations et sociétés

Règlement intérieur français

Extraits des statuts de la SRCM France à sa création en 1986 et de son règlement intérieur (13 juillet 1986) :

Article 17 : "le président qui est le véritable maître de l'Association exercera ses pouvoirs par le truchement du règlement intérieur, qu'il peut modifier à son gré, notamment pour tout ce qui a trait à l'orientation spirituelle et philosophique de l'Association."


Extraits du règlement intérieur en date du 13 juillet 1986 :

Article 2 - Organisation : "L'association sera dirigée et contrôlée par le seul fondateur ou son Représentant Spirituel qui lui succèdera en ligne directe, et il sera Président de l'Association".

Article 3 - Constitution et Fonctionnement : "Le président sélectionnera un Comité de travail parmi les Membres de l'Association pour l'assister dans tous les domaines touchant au contrôle et à l'organisation de l'Association. Le Président désignera, parmi les membres du Comité de travail, des personnes qui occuperont les postes suivants : un Vice-Président (…). A discrétion, ou selon les besoins de la situation, le président peut également désigner toute(s) autre(s) personne(s) aux postes ci-dessus, qu'elle(s) soi(ent) membre(s) ou non du Comité de Travail de l'Association (…). A discrétion, le Président peut à tout moment procéder aux nécessaires changements de structure du Comité et des devoirs des titulaires de postes et des Membres du Comité (…)."

Article 9 - Pouvoir de VETO - Comment l'exercer : " (…) le Président a le pouvoir de VETO. Si un certain point a été décidé et a été accepté lors d'une réunion du Comité de travail et que le Président n'est pas d'accord avec la décision, estimant qu'une telle décision peut mettre en danger ou d'une certaine façon peut nuire aux buts énoncés de l'Association, il opposera son VETO à une telle décision en déclarant son désaccord, avec ou sans raison de ce désaccord. Il écrira VETO de sa propre écriture dans le livre des délibérations. Ce cas échéant devra être soumis et signalé à la prochaine Assemblée Générale."

Liens :
- SRCM France (en chantier)
- Associations, fondations et sociétés
- Guide pour créer une organisation

Procès-verbaux du Comité de travail et de l’AG de la SRCM de février 84

Les minutes du Comité de travail de la SRCM des 6 et 7 février 1984
(fautes typographiques comprises)

Minutes of the working committee meeting held on 6th and 7th February 1984 (Sunday and Monday) at 10 AM at Shahjahanpur.

The following members of the committee were present.
1. Shri PC Chaturvedi
2. Shri PC Saxena
3. Shri BM Heble
4. Shri R Rajagopalachari
5. Shri RL Mimani
6. Shri KV Subba Rao
7. Shri VR Vipat
8. Dr SP Srivastava
9. Shri KC Narayana

Ex-officio Members
1. Shri SA Sarnad, Secretary
2. Shri Kashi Ram Agarwal, Joint Secretary
3. Shri JRK Raizada, Secretary to president
4. Shri Rajeshwar Prasad Mathur, Zonal Secretary
5. Shri Dunderao Nagnoor, “ “
6. Shri Kanti Bhai V Patel “ “
7. Shri Ramapati Dinger “ “
8. Shri Raghubir Prasad Agarwal, Acting Zonal Secretary

BY SPECIAL INVITATION
1. Shri Sarvesh Chandra Saxena
2. Shri Jalbhai Cassad
3. Khoosalbhai K Patel
4. Shri SC Kishore
5. Shri Ram Gopal Verma
6. Shri Sushil Kumar
7. Shri RS Giri
8. Shri Nasib Chand
9. Shri KK Srivastava

ITEM NUMBER ONE OF THE AGENDA
Mr PC Chadurvedi being senior member requested the members of the working committee to propose the name of the Chairman who should conduct the proceedings of the meeting.

RESOLUTION
a) Shri S.A. Sarnad proposed and insisted that Shri P.C. Chadurvedi should be requested to chair the meeting being the senior member of the working committee and a close associate of our Revered Master, Shri Ram Chandra ji Maharaj. And Shri K.V. Subbarao seconded the proposal. The rest member of the house honoured the same. Shri P.C. Chadurvedi occupied the chair and conducted the proceedings of the meeting.
b) The chairman of the meeting proposed that all the members of the working committee should take an oath before the Samadhi of Revered Master and the following oath was taken by all the members of the working committee ;
“We the member of the working committee solemnly affirm an oath before the Master that ; -
I. We all shall be working jointly for the Mission and abide by the desire of the Master.
II. The desire of the Master shall be honoured in every matter and in all respects.
III. We shall endeavour to create a feeling of brother hood and co.operation among the Abhyasis of the Mission.
IV. We will not involve ourselves in any type of activity that would be determental to the ideals of and aims of the Mission.
V. We shall always live for the Mission and the Master.
VI. We shall abide by the rules and consittution of Shri Ram Chandra Mission and follow the ten commandments of Sahaj Marg.
We pray for Thy continued Blessings to live upto Thy expectations.”

At the request of the special invities the Chairman of the meeting agreed to take the items as listed in the agenda from 1 to 8. First immediately after the confirmation of the meeting of the working committee held on 10th July 1983.
The Chairman requested the committee members to takeup the items of the agenda one by one and decide the issue before us regarding the President of Shri Ram Chandra Mission.

RESOLUTION NO.1*
Mr. S.A. Sarnad Secretary of SRCM read the minutes of the meeting dated 10-7-1983 in details and members concerned had big objection on the sealed cover given by Shri Sharad Saxena for declaring as bogus and forge and also the claims of Shri P. Rajagopala chari vide his alleged nomination letter dated 23.3.74 x said to have been executed by Shri Ram Chandra Ji Maharaj and letter dated 19.3.1974 furnished by Shri P. Raja Gopala Chari along with the photocopy cover of the x envelope has to be re-discussed after the discussions of the items of the agenda., and this was the opinion of the all the members present in the meeting. The Chairman asserted and announced that the members will be given the opportunities to discuss on the above said two letters produced in the form of photocopies cannot be taken as authentic unless the originals are produced.
The rest of the minutes as read by Shri S.A. Sarnad were confirmed and adopted. Resolved that the minutes of the meeting dated 10.7.83 were read confirmed and adopted subject to the uscertvue opinion of Chairman Shri. P.C. Chadurvedi regarding the alleged nomination dated 23.3.74 and a covering letter dated 19.3.74 which are to be examined and the opinion of the members to be obtained accordingly

2. Shri S.A. Sarnad produced before the working committee a letter dated 5.5.1983 and 22.8.1983 of Shri Umesh Chandra Saxena alongwith the nomination letter dated 16.4.1982 before the members of the working committee. The members present examined the documents including the declaration/nomination letter dt. 16.4.1982 made by Shri Ram Chandra Ji, Founder President Shri Ram Chandra Mission in favour of Shri Umesh Chandra Saxena and found the same as genuine. Mr. Umesh Chandra Saxena who was present in the meeting on request also showed the originals of the declaration/nomination letter dated 16.4.1982 including the letter dated 5.5.1983 and 22.8.1983. before the Chairman and later on to all members present in the meeting. Mr. P.C. Chadurvedi examined the documents with reference to the registered constitution and rules and by-laws of Shri Ram Chandra Mission and gave the opinion that the nomination of Shri Umesh Chandra Saxena is validly held and is as per the rule 3(b)of the rules and constitution of Shri Ram Chandra Mission.
Under the circumsatances the members present accepted the document and the following resolution was passed.
RESOLVED THAT SHRI UMESH CHANDRA SAXENA IS AND BE HEREBY ACCEPTED AND APPROVED AS THE PRESIDENT OF SHRI RAM CHANDRA MISSION IN VIEW OF THE NOMINATION/DECLARATION DATED 16.4.1982 MADE BY SHRI RAM CHANDRAJI, THE FOUNDER PRESIDENT OF SHRI RAM CHANDRA MISSION UNDER RULE 3(b) OF THE RULES AND CONSTITUTION OF OF SHRI RAM CHANDRA MISSION.”
IT WAS FURTHER RESOLVED THAT Shri Umesh Chandra Saxena, President Shri Ram Chandra mission shall enjoy all the powers as vested with the Founder President under the rules and constitution of Shri Ram Chandra Mission”.
RESOLVED FURTHER THAT “Shri Umesh Chandra Saxena is and be hereby requested to form and appoint fresh members of the working committee or adopt the members already in the list of working committee appointed by the Founder at His own discretion”.

3. Mr. S.A. Sarnad informed the members that the notice was given will in advance to Shri P. Rajagopala chari for attending the working committee meeting and to bring the original papers of nomination letter (alleged) said to have been executed by Shri Ram Chandra Ji, the Founder President of Shri Ram Chandra Mission letter dated 23.3.1974 and 19.3.74. But, to our surprise neither he has attended the meeting nor he has brought the originals nor sent the originals through his brother and hence his claim in view of these circumstances is recommended to be rejected or cancelled but requested the member to give one more chance for amicable settlement and was further suggested that goodwill committee be formed to pursuate Shri P. Rajagopalachari for amicable settlement inorder to keep the solidarity in the Mission and to create a feeling of brotherhood and co-operation among the abhyasis of the Mission. However, this was further pointed out that inview of the latest nomination dated 16.4.1982 there is no need to go and consider this nomination (alleged) letter dated 23.3.1974. and it will be rightful attempt on the part of committee members for not to go inquestion of appointing a President and this dispute is settled and superceded the claim of Shri P. Rajagopalachari. In view of the above following resolution was passed ;
RESOLVED THAT “The claim of Shri P. Rajagopalachari vide his alleged nomination dated 23.3.1974 stands rejected/withdrawn”.

4. Shri S.A. Sarnad produced before the members a copy of the registered will dated 30.12.1976 and read the same before the members present. He also exclaimed that the registered will clearly states that our Revered Master Shri Ram Chandra Ji Maharaj was having a doubt of the lost papers may not be used in future by the person who has stolen it. for making it as a nomination or will in his favour and the members of the house now suspects that the alleged nomination dated 23.3.1974 and a covering letter 19.3.1974 is the result from those lost papers, said to have been said in the registered will dated 30.12.1976 in view of the declaration/nomination letter dated 16.4.1982. Mr. P.C. Chadurvedi during observation and the circumstances of the case was of the opinion that the alleged nomination dated 23.3.74 and covering letter dated 19.3.74 is the result of forgery. Since the incidents explained in the letter dated 19.3.1974 and especially clarifies a doubt from the second para of the letter.
“I have issued a certificate which I am sending with this letter. Preserve this certificate as valuable document.”
It can be very well imagined that the nomination which is [illisible] to have been issued on 23rd March, 1974 how can this be sent with the covering letter 19.3.74”.
And further that as it is asserted in the letter in the first para of 19.3.74 that Mr. and Mrs. Don is doing excellent service, thanks to them”.
Mr. Umesh Chandra Saxena showed me a letter dated 9.4.1975 in which it is stated that Mr. and Mrs. Don were in India during second week of April and left for Canada on 17th April, 1975, who has been doing his nursing” With this proof, it is evident that there is something fishy of the claim of Shri. P. Rajagopalachari
RESOLVED THAT “Shri Umesh Chandra Saxena President Shri Ram Chandra Mission be and is hereby requested to form a new working committee with the help of Shri P.C. Chadurvedi, Senior member and to make the via media arrangement for the appointment of the Chairman of the working committee till the atmosphere/undertainity is made under control amicably by interference of the senior members and bringing Mr. P. Rajagopalachari to some understanding so that the split in the Mission is avoided.”
In view of the above, a good-will committee was suggested to the President and the suggestion given by the member was well accepted

6. Mr. Umesh Chandra Saxena was requested to handover the photocopy of the letter dated 5.5.1983 and 22.8.1983 alongwith the declaration/nomination dated 16.4.1982 to Shri S.A. Sarnad who inturn will inform the acceptance of the declaration/nomination of Shri. Umesh Chandra Saxena to all the members/preceptors/abhyasis/organisers regarding such nomination.

7. Mr. S.A. Sarnad was requested by the house to send the copy of the resolution and the minutes of the meeting is being held on 6th February and 7th February, 1984 to all its centres/preceptors/abhyasis the relevatn government authorities including assistant registrar Firms/Societies and Chits Baraily for making necessary change in records of Shri Ram Chandra Mission and to add the work Successor President in place after Founder President.
All Banks, Post Offices, Income Tax Department, Foreign exchange Department, Local Administration, Police Administration etc. be also be informed accordingly.

8. RESIGNATION OF SHRI KASHI RAM AGGARWAL
Mr. Kashi Ram Aggarwal insisted that his resignation as Joint Secretary of the Mission was given in the meeting on 10.7.83 should be accepted and he is not interested to continue. Under the circumstances explained all the members present felt that the resignation of Shri. Kashi Ram Aggarwal should be accepted and the following resolution was passed.
“RESOLVED THAT the resignation of Shri Kashi Ram Aggarwal be and is hereby accepted and Mr. S.A. Sarnad be requested to inform all the person concerned accordingly”.

With the permission of the Chair the meeting was concluded.

Sri P.C. Chaturvedi
Chairman of the Meeting.

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Les minutes de l’Assemblée générale de la SRCM le 8 février 1984
(fautes typographiques comprises)


MINUTES OF THE MEETING OF THE GENERAL BODY HELD ON 8th FEBRUARY,1984
(TUESDAY AT 3 PM AT THE ASHRAM PREMISES) AT SHAHJAHANPUR.

Mr. P.C. Chadurvedi was requested to occupy the chair as a Chairman of the Mission.
There were 982 members assembled in the Meditation Hall of the ashram premises where the Preceptors, Prefects, Organisers, abhyasis and Working Committee Members including the President Shri Umesh Chandra Saxena nominated vide nomination letter dt.16.4.82 made by Shri Ram Chandra Ji Maharaj, the Founder President of Shri Ram Chandra Mission were present.

1. Mr. S.A. Sarnad read before the General Body the minutes of the Working Committee held on 6th 7th February, 1984. The resolution passed therein was un-animously accepted and approved by the General Body. The General Body Members present in the meeting were greatly concerned about the unnecessary conflicts created by P. Raja Gopalachari which they consider were not in the interest of the Members/Abhyasis/Preceptors and was very much against the Aims and Objects of the Shri Ram Chandra Mission. During the courseof questioner Mr. P.C. Chadurvedi tried topecify the members and is requested to forgive Shri P. Rajagopalachari and assured the house that necessary steps are taken to amicably settle the issue, sothat the brotherhood feeling remains for brother Parthasarathy in your hearts.
RESOLVED THAT “The resolution passed from resolution number 1 to 8 are unanimously accepted, approved and adopted, by all the Members present”.

2. The minutes of the meeting held on 10.7.83 held on at Head Quarters, Shajahanpur was approved and accepted by the Members subject to the incorporation of resolution 1 of the Working Committee held on 6th 7th February, 1984.

3. The members present requested the Chairman to read the declaration/nomination letter dated 16.4.82 made by Shri Ram Chandra Founder President of Shri Ram Chandra Mission. And the same was done before the members which reads as follows:

Gram-Sahajmarg
Tele
Phone- 2667
Shri Ram Chandra Mission
Shahjahanpur (UP) 242001 India

Regd. A.D. Date16th.April.1982

DECLARATION/NOMINATION"

I, Ram Chandra, Founder President of Shri Ram Chandra Mission, Diwan jograj, Shahjahanpur in Exercise of my Power under Rule 3 and 4 of the Rules and constitution of my Private Trust/Society, on my free Will and Accord and upon the due consideration of the totality of the circumstances prevailing in my said Mission including wishes and blessing of the Almighty and that of my Samarth Guru Shri Ram Chandraji Maharaj of Fatehgarh, do hereby nominate my Spiritual Representative as also my son Shri Umesh Chandra Saxena as Successor President of Shri Ram Chandra Mission Shahjahanpur, with liberty to him, to further nominate his successor President of Shri Ram Chandra Mission with the condition that the person so nominated by him as his successor President of the said Mission must be his spiritual representatives in his direct line of succession.
I shall however continue as President of aforesaid Mission till my life time and this nomination shall come into play only after my death.
Previous nomination if any, made by me, shall stand superceeded and cancelled.
Affectionately yours
RAM CHANDRA"

The above letters of nomination dated 16.4.82 the members present greated and congratulated Shri Umesh Chandra Saxena and requested him to carry and fulfil the dreams of our Revered Master. Shri Ram Chandra Mission and Mr. Umesh Chandra conveyed his willingness and promised to go with the path shown by our Revered Master.
RESOLVED THAT Shri Umesh Chandra Saxena is and be hereby authorised to carry out the functions as President Shri Ram Chandra Mission as per the rules and constitution, Shri Ram Chandra Mission”.

4. RESOLVED THAT the claims of P. Rajagopalachari in terms of the alleged photocopy of the nomination letter dated 23.3.1974 and covering letter dated 19.3.74 in view of the registered will dt. 30.12.76 made by Shri Ram Chandra Ji is being rejected.”

5. The Members present were informed by P.C. Chadurvedi, the Chair man of the meeting that as per the rules and constitution of Shri Ram Chandra Mission the President can come under clause or rules 3(b) of the constitution of SRCM which is reproduced below.

3. Organisation:
(a) The Mission shall have its Headquarters at Shahjahanpur, in the state of Uttar Pradesh, India.
(b) It shall work under the sole guidance and control of the Founder or His Spiritual Representative in the direct line of succession, and he shall be the President of the Mission.
(c) The President may at his discretion, establish branch societies and training centres affiliated to the Headquarters of the Mission in all matters of organisation and control, at other places as well, to promote the cause of the Mission.

Hence under the circumstances the nomination dated 16.4.1982 made by Shri Ram Chandra Ji Maharaj, in favour of Shri Umesh Chandra Saxena is valid and held to be genuine and further informed the members that he is the President of the Mission from today. He further requested the members, Abhyasis, Preceptors/Organisers and Members of the Working Committee to co-operate in carrying out the functions as President of Shri Ram Chandra Mission as per the direction and instructions given by the Founder President Shri Ram Chandra Mission.

6. Mr. P.C. Chaturvedi informed the Abhyasis, Preceptors, Organisers, Working Committee Members and others that one year long confusion has been vanished today by the grace of our Divine Master and we hope with your continued help and cooperation everyone will load his own way towards the success[xxx] of the Mission and will cooperate in fulfilling the dreams of our Revered Master, for which the Mission was established for the Mankind and the world at large. It is further my earnest pray to our Revered Master to bless us all in carrying out his duty and responsibilities given to our shoulders to His satisfaction.
Let in pray, with joined hands to maintain the solidarity and [illisible] feeling among the abhyasis of Shri Ram Chandra Mission. Let us also set an example so that the [illisible] once they look at us they should call ourselves as [illisible] members of such an Organisation, so that [illisible] our introduction [illisible] a lesson for [illisible] to follow.

With this in view we conclude our meeting.

Shri. P.C. Chadurvedi
Chairman of the Meeting.

Déclaration de nomination d’Umesh

Nomination of Umesh as the Spiritual Representative 1982.04.16, entitled "DECLARATION/NOMINATION" (written: not specified)

"I, Ram Chandra, Founder President of Shri Ram Chandra Mission, Diwan jograj, Shahjahanpur in Exercise of my Power under Rule 3 and 4 of the Rules and constitution of my Private Trust/Society, on my free Will and Accord and upon the due consideration of the totality of the circumstances prevailing in my said Mission including wishes and blessing of the Almighty and that of my Samarth Guru Shri Ram Chandraji Maharaj of Fatehgarh, do hereby nominate my Spiritual Representative as also my son Shri Umesh Chandra Saxena as Successor President of Shri Ram Chandra Mission Shahjahanpur, with liberty to him, to further nominate his successor President of Shri Ram Chandra Mission with the condition that the person so nominated by him as his successor President of the said Mission must be his spiritual representatives in his direct line of succession.
I shall however continue as President of aforesaid Mission till my life time and this nomination shall come into play only after my death.
Previous nomination if any, made by me, shall stand superceeded and cancelled.
Affectionately yours
RAM CHANDRA"

The letter is signed with Babuji's signature, stamped 3 times by the same stamp mentionning "Notary Public, India" and "App by Govt. of India, T.S. Upadryay" (not sure for the last word - almost illisible).
The copy is attested with a stamp mentionning "Attested Feu [??] Photo Copy, Notory Public, Noida", signed and added manually with the date of 16/9/93.

Liens :
- Une succession bien peu spirituelle
- Nomination de Chari
- Nomination d’Umesh
- Lettre de Babuji à Jahagirdar
- Procès-verbaux de la SRCM en 1984
- Circulaire de nomination du président
- Babuji et sa famille
- La SRCM et l’ashram de Shahjahanpur

Circulaire du Secrétaire S.A. Sarnad en date du 15 février 1984

CIRCULAR
To All the members of the working committee,
Centre-in-charges/Preceptors/Organisors
of Shri Ram Chandra Mission in India
and Abroad :
Sub : Declaration of Successor President
of Shri Ram Chandra Mission,
Shahjahanpur. U.P.

Dear Brothers/Sisters,
Here I am pleased to inform you that our Revered Master Shri Ram Chandraji Maharaj had nominated Shri Umesh Chandra Saxena vide declaration/nomination letter dated 16.04082 and the same was produced before the member of the working committee on the 6th and 7th. Feb. 1984 for approval and consent of the members and the members present have accepted and approved the nomination dt. 16.04.82 in favour of Shri Umesh Chandra Saxena S/o Late Mahatma Ram Chandraji Maharaj. Hence with effect from 7th. Feb. 1984 Mr. Umesh Chandra Saxena is now the SUCCESSOR PRESIDENT of Shri RAM Chandra Mission Shahjahanpur.
The Minutes of the working committee were further produced before the General Body members of Shri Ram Chandra Mission and the declaration/Nomination letter dt. 16.04.82 were unanismously approved and accepted, this is just for the information of the brothers and sisters. In this connection kindly find enclosed the following for your record of information.
1. The Copy of Declaration/Nomination Letter dt. 16.04.82
2. Extract of the minutes of the working committee meeting held on 6th. And 7th. Feb. 1984.
3. Extract of the minutes of the General Body meeting held on 8th. Feb. 1984.
We request all the members/abhiyasis/Preceptors/organisors to cooperate with the President of Shri Ram Chandra Mission, Shahjahanpur.
Yours affectionately
S.A. SARNAD
SECRETARY
CC Shri Umesh Chandra Saxena
President SRCM

Liens :
- Une succession bien peu spirituelle
- Nomination de Chari
- Nomination d’Umesh
- Lettre de Babuji à Jahagirdar
- Procès-verbaux de la SRCM en 1984

La declaration de nomination de Chari

Nomination of Chari as the President of the Mission, dated from the 23rd March 1974, not specified were it was written

"I hereby nominate my disciple Sri. P. Rajagopalachari as my representative to work for the Mission as President in the Sahaj Marg System. As long as I live, I will be doing my job, Afterwards he will enjoy the fullfledged authority given by the Constitution and bye-laws of the Mission.
May God's grace shower through him to all mankind.
President
Shri Ram Chandra Mission
Shahjahanpur U.P. (India)"

The letter is signed with Babuji's signature.

Babuji a donc rédigé une courte lettre de nomination de Chari. Elle est datée du 23 mars 1974. Il est désigné comme « son représentant pour accomplir le travail de la Mission en tant que Président ».
Kasturi déclare que Babuji lui a dicté la déclaration. KC Narayana confirme son existence et sa véracité mais ajoute qu’elle n’a pas été attestée par des témoins. Un disciple qui se fait appeler JM pour conserver son anonymat dit que Kasturi et Donald Sabourin en furent témoins.
Lors du comité de travail de la SRCM des 6 et 7 février 1984, il est signalé que la déclaration est datée du 23 mars, alors que le tampon du courrier est antérieur et porte la date du 19 mars, ce qui amène les membres du comité à craindre quelque chose de louche. Le secrétaire général ajoute que Babuji s’est plaint de la disparition de papiers à entête de la SRCM dès le 30 décembre 1976. Umesh Chandra Saxena produit un document qui établit que les Sabourin n’étaient plus en Inde mais sont retournés au Canada lorsque Babuji est censé avoir écrit cette lettre.
Umesh et ses enfants ajoutent que jamais Babuji n’aurait pu écrire une telle lettre sans citer son maître Lalaji. Ils disent en outre que les statuts de la SRCM rédigés par Babuji spécifient qu’elle ne peut être présidée que par « son fondateur ou son représentant spirituel, en ligne directe de succession », ce qui signifie pour eux un descendant direct.

Liens :
- Une succession bien peu spirituelle
- Nomination d’Umesh
-Chari (en chantier)

Document extrait du website de la SRCM de Shahjahanpur aujourd'hui disparu (juin 2007)

BRIEF FACTS / EVENTS OF SHRI RAM CHANDRA MISSION, SHAHJAHANPUR SUBMITTED TO VARIOUS AUTHORITIES IN THE COUNTRY FOR ACTION

1. Shri Ram Chandra ji Maharaj also called Babuji takes over from His Guru Lalaji Maharaj in 1931 at the age of 32 and a half years.


2. Sermons from Shri Ram Chandraji’s Guru Lalaji Maharaj that his successor shall be from His family as per Babuji’s diary dated 24.7.1944. – Proofs available


3. Shri Ram Chandraji Maharaj establishes Society Shri Ram Chandra Mission as Shahjahanpur, U.P. as headquarters on 21.7.1945. – Proofs available


4. Constitution of Mission stating that the Successor Representative to be in direct line of succession - Proofs available


5. In 1974, Babuji was hospitalized in Vivekananda Hospital, Lucknow.


6. Will of Babuji stating some blank papers signed missing.


7. Parthasarathi Rajagopalachari of Chennai removed from the post of General Secretary in 1981 – Proofs available


8. Letter of P. Rajagopalachari to Babuji admitting that he is devoid of spirituality – Proofs available on site.


9. Letter of nomination of Shri Umesh Chandra Saxena, S/o Babuji as his successor President as per constitution of the Mission – Proofs available on site.


10. Last letter of Babuji stating attempts to kill by Chari and expecting another attempt on his life.- Proofs available on site. (This letter confirms that nomination to his son Umesh Chandra Saxena seems to be issued)


11. From September 6th 1982 to April 19, 1983 long hospitalization of Babuji at Delhi in AIIMS and Klinic Helvetia.


12. Mahasamadhi of Babuji on 19.4.1983.(Left his physical body on this day)


13. Claim of P. Rajagopalachari as his successor President showing a document. – Proofs available on site.


14. as nomination dated 23.3.1974 and covering letter dated 19.3.1974


15. Contents of nomination of Parthasarthi Rajagopalachari states that it is not for presidentship of Shri Ram Chandra Mission.


• Working Committee Meeting and General Body meetings held on 6th, 7th and 8th February 1984 where Shri Umesh Chandra Saxena was approved as President based on genuine nomination letter and Parthasarathi Rajagopalachari letter stated as forged. – Proofs available on site.


• In retaliation, Parthasarathi Rajagopalachari forcibly takes over ashram at Hyderabad and occupies Chennai Ashram


• In 1984-85 forcibly captures ashrams at Visakhapatnam, Nellore and Vadodara.


16. Chari goes to court in 1983. Trial court rejects his plea for presidentship


17. Goes to High Court and gets the order of being President. Hon’ble Supreme Court of India refrains Chari from alienating any property and orders trial court to decide within six months. - Proofs available


18. Court of Shahjahanpur orders – verification of the document of Parthasarathi Rajagopalachari and expert verdicts it to be forged. Proof available


19. Law of U.P. changes in 1984 – Elections became mandatory in Societies in U.P. Based on which Dr. S.P. Srivastava was elected President to avoid dispute and disintegration of society. – Proofs available


20. In 1988 Parthasarathi Rajagopalachari and his associates (A.P. Dorai, now retired D.G. Police of Karnataka) forcibly enter Ashram, break opens locks Case pending at Hon. High Court at Allahabad. – Proofs available


21. In 1990, 1991 SDM Sadar approves the elected office bearers at headquarters, Shahjahanpur represented by Dr. S. P. Srivastava – Proofs available


22. In 1991, Charis men capture Delhi and Moradabad ashrams.


23. In 1994, Shri Umesh Chandra Saxena again takes over as elected President. – Proofs available


24. In 1997, Parthasarathi Rajagopalachari and his associates were charged u/s 498 by District Administration for trying to attack the Ashram, Shahjahanpur headquarters.


25. During 1996-97 attempts on the life of Shri Umesh Chandra Saxena done.


26. In 1999, a report of Naib Tehsidar issued based on enquiry by SDM Sadar in a proceedings conducted u/s 25 of the Societies Registration Act, stating Shri Umesh Chandra Saxena as President and Shri K.V. Reddy as Secretary of the Society - Proofs available


27. In 1999, Shri Umesh Chandra Saxena filed appeal for declaring himself to be president of Society against Parthasarathi Rajagopalachari.


28. The said appeal was dismissed thereafter challenged before Hon. Supreme Court of India, wherein order granted in favour of Petitioners at preliminary stage and thereafter the SLP converted to Civil Appeal 6619/2000 of which decision is still pending. – Proofs available on net.


29. In 1999-2000, FCRA issues notices regarding filing of two returns of one society Shri Ram Chandra Mission. Reply submitted by elected President Shri Umesh Chandra Saxena. – Proofs available letter dated 14.6.2000 Proofs available


30. Enquiry sets up against Parthasarathi Rajagopalachari by FCRA.


31. P. Rajagopalachari again acting against the rules of the Society by misleading the U.P. Government took loan from the Governor of Uttar Pradesh of Rs.10.00 lakhs and Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh of Rs.21 lakhs.


32. Received news of threat of life of Shri Umesh Chandra Saxena around 15th October 2003.


33. Sudden demise of Shri Umesh Chandra Saxena on 3.11.2003 (Went walking to the hospital lay down on the bed on his own but doctor’s report states that Shri Umesh Chandra Saxena arrived with no pulse !!!!).


34. On 4.11.2003, Shri Navneet Kumar Saxena is elected as President u/s 3A(4) and Section 4 of the Societies Registration Act 1860 – Proofs available


35. Letters sent to Chief Secretary, Uttar Pradesh regarding chances of attacks by Parthasarathi Rajagopalachari group on 5.11.2003. Proofs available


36. Soon after the death of Shri Umesh Chandra Saxena, on 14.11.2003, Shri Puneet Kumar Saxena was threatened on his way to Shahjahanpur from Delhi and a truck came and hit his car head on completely damaged the car thereby.


37. Parthasarathi Rajagopalachari group headed by his alleged Secretary Uma Shankar Bajpai, Amarjit Singh (now MLA of Samajvadi Party), sitting and retired IAS officers on attacks ashram at headquarters on 7.11.2003 in order to capture it – Proofs available


38. District Magistrate Shahjahanpur pressurizes supervisor grade employee of ashram at headquarters to sing on an illegal arrangement on 8.11.2003 and signed by Shri Kishan Tandon from Parthasarathi Rajagopalachari’s side to allow to enter the Ashram on Sundays between 10.00 AM and 12.00 noon. (under pressure of more than 10 IAS officers sitting and retired, sitting in the room of DM) – Proofs available


39. In 2003, Society Shri Ram Chandra Mission gets PAN and TAN numbers from Bareilly as Shahjahanpur falls in Bareilly zone. In 2004, a new PAN number is issued from Delhi in the name of the same Society with headquarters Chennai.


40. In the year 2004 letters were written to Hon. Vice President of India regarding illegal arrangement forced upon the elected Working Committee of the Society. Proofs available


41. Hon. Vice President directs the representation to The Principal Secretary, Department of Home, Govt. of U.P. (Action still awaited)


42. Wrote letters to His Highness President of India. He ordered DM to act as per law. Proofs available (No action taken by DM)


43. Letters to Prime Minister and reply from PMO came after 3 reminders ordering Chief Minister, U.P. for enquiry and report (CM orders further to District Magistrate, Shahjahanpur, Principal Secretary, Department of Home, U.P. and Principal Secretary, Department of Law for ) (Action still pending) Proofs available


44. On 19.6.2004 and 9.8.2004 an illegal order was passed by Registrar stating that Parthasarathi Rajagopalachari is President of the Society - Proofs available (Case pending at Allahabad High Court for review of order) (Not taken up for over a year)


45. Influence of Chari on the courts due to presence of retired judges and sitting judges, retired Police officials, businessmen as his Working Committee members. Proofs available


46. Chari also files fabricated constitution of the Society at Hon’ble Supreme Court of India.


47. D.M. illegally orders without consideration of our written statements and acting against the provisions of law on 31.3.2006.


48. On 2nd April 2006, during the illegal arrangement time, (i.e. 10am to 12 noon) about 150 people led by Uma Shanker Bajpai, Retired IG, Retired Justice R.R. K. Trivedi, Retired IAS Prabhat Kumar Sinha, sitting IAS, Pankaj Kumar Sinha and many others including D.M. Office’s staff Shri Ravinder Sinha (stamp clerk) entered the Ashram with arms, and attacked the mother of Shri Navneet Kumar Saxena aged about 60 years and Shri Amresh Kumar, Ashram in charge aged about 65 years in presence of Police and Administrative officers. Proofs available (newspaper cuttings) (They were manhandled and mobbed and pushed out of the ashram)


49. The hurt were taken to District Hospital, Shahjahanpur and given first aid. – Medical Reports annexed – Proofs available on net.


50. FIR was refused to be lodged by the local police Station, S.P. Office and DM Office (Stating “no one will file your FIR in Shahjahanpur)


51. High Court quashes the order of DM dated 31.3.2006 and orders to go to lower court for relief. (Even when High Court had the option of deciding on anti status quo order) – Proofs available.


52. In Lower Court arguments were held on 19th April 2006 for FIR to be registered. Order was passed on 24.4.2006 relying upon order passed by High Court on 25.4.2006 (Case still pending to be taken up).


53. The date of disposal of the Writ Petition was on 24.4.2006. Thereafter the file was sent to the record room and the copies applied by the petitioners or any other person were delivered by the copying section only when the file after orders were transferred on 25th April 2006. No copies taken by P. Rajagopalachari group but same being deposited on the earlier date i.e. 24.4.2006. (Hearing took place at 1.00 PM on the W.P. filed by us at Allahabad High Court and order sheet was attached at lower court on the same day at 12.00 noon before the first hearing at High Court could take place).


54. Forcibly taking in possession the licensed gun of Shri Puneet Kumar Saxena, Legal Adviser and Working Committee Member of the Society and S/o Shri Umesh Chandra Saxena, and personal vehicles, property papers, documents of Shri Puneet Kumar Saxena and Smt. Amita Kumari Saxena and the Ashram in charge, Shri Amresh Kumar.

Some misappropriations of Parthasarathi Rajagopalachari during the last 20 years.

• Taking Trademarks and copyrights in US at California with its headquarters at Chennai, thereby floating a parallel organization.


• Going against the set up and system laid down by Babuji Maharaj, the Founder President of the Society by
  


• Changing headquarters from Shahjahanpur


• Calling himself as President which is against the Constitution and by laws of the Society.


• Calling himself as Master which is also against the wishes of Babuji Maharaj and His Guru Lalaji Maharaj as written in Babuji’s diaries.


• Running the Mission as a commercial organization which is again against the wishes of the Founder President. Babuji made the Mission for the welfare of humanity and to be devoid of commercial activities like building townships, etc.


• Collecting of funds in the name of Shri Ram Chandra Mission.


• Writing absurd and obnoxious literature which is against Shri Ram Chandra Mission’s philosophy and preaching.


• Misappropriations of funds being collected in the name of Shri Ram Chandra Mission by self and his family members in their personal business.


• Misguiding people at large in the name of spirituality.


• Attempting on life of Shri Umesh Chandra Saxena and his family members.


• Repeated threats being received from Parthasarathi Rajagopalachari’s associates.


• Making another society Sahaj Marg Foundation and collecting funds in that Society in the name of Shri Ram Chandra Mission.


• Threats being given regularly by Chari and his people on life of family members of Shri Umesh Chandra Saxena. FIR already been lodged with the Police Station at Shri Ram Chandra Mission Thana, Shahjahanpur Proof available.


• There is a school running by name Babuji Memorial Public School Society, in the premises of Ashram at Shahjahanpur, which has been forcibly closed down by the attackers of cocus group of Chari since 2nd April 2006. (Future of students in vain)


• Trying to stop this website based on their parallel set up in the same name Shri Ram Chandra Mission registered at California by misguiding NIXI also recently. Arbitrator in the same was appointed against the Arbitration Law of the country. We have requested NIXI and arbitrator to wait until the Hon’ble Supreme Court of India decides the matter and passes order. But we have so far no response. Our complaint is already filed at NIXI. Awaiting response

Document extrait du website de la SRCM de Shahjahanpur, aujourd'hui disparu (juin 2007)

Les attaques de l’ashram de Shahjahanpur

Entre les 2 factions, l'ashram de Shahjahanpur est très disputé. Il a fait l'objet de multiples tentatives de reprise par la faction de Chari : en 1988, en 1997 puis en 2003 à la mort d'Umesh Chandra Saxena, pour enfin tomber dans ses mains au printemps 2006. Chari se rend enfin lui-même à Shahjahanpur en octobre 2007...

Ci dessous 2 articles relatant les tentatives de la faction de Chari pour s'emparer de l'ashram de Shahjahanpur détenu par la faction d'Umesh Chandra Saxena, fils de Babuji. Et un témoignage publié au printemps 2007...

Dainik Jagran 8th November 2003.
Ex-Minster and Ex-DIG tried to forcefully capture the RamChandra Mission Ashram.S
ituation volatile, administrative and police officer’s camp in the ashram.

In order to capture the position of president vacated after dismissal of Umesh Chandra, international president of Ram Chandra Mission, and with intention to capture the property worth millions of rupee’s , ex- state education minister Amarjeet singh Jansevak, ex director general of police, Uma Shanker Bajpai, along with dozens of associates attempted to capture the mission property, which was successfully foiled by the state administration, in addition to dozens of other people, Uma Shanker Bajpai secretary of RamChandra mission Chennai, Mr. Krishna Tondon, Veenet Chandra, along with their associates, attacked the ashram, in the evening around 7:30 PM. Office superintendent of mission Mr. D. Krishna had previously expressed his concerns regarding bad intentions of above stated people, to the local administration. Mr D. Krishna had already informed the district magistrate Shahjahanpur, Mr Ashok Kumar Verma, city magistrate Mr. J.K Dixit and supretendent of police Mr shushil Kr. Singh, regarding possibility of violent attack by these people, keeping in view the threat of Chennai group people, administration had already appointed the station officer in the mission. When ex-minister along with his associates were attempting to enter into the ashram, with intentions of capturing it, immediately police and administration officer’s got alarmed, ASP Rambahadur, city magistrate J.K dixit circle officer J.N Bhadauriya, and other administrative officer’s immediately reached the spot and prevented the situation from getting volatile.Administrative officer’s asked prepetrators, who were trying to enter into the mission property with intention to capture it, regarding documentary proof’s that they are the owner’s of that property. Between, when ex minister tried to enter inside the ashram, for negotiation, the private security guard in the premises warned the attackers that they will start firing if anyone attempts to enter inside the ashram premises. Sensing the volatile situation, the administrative officer’s on the spot prevented ex-IPS officer and ex-minister and their associates from entering into the mission and requested them to produce documentary proof for the ownership of the property next morning. Office in-charge D. Krishna said that death of president Umesh Chandra Saxsena, is part of the conspiracy hatched by these people only.D. Krishna further said that news of death of Umesh Chandra saxsena reached their family member’s later and these people knew before hand that Umesh Chandra has expired, he stated that, Krishna tondon had called me and informed me that Umesh Chandra has expired, whereas I was unaware of it. A day before youngest son of Umesh got engaged in Barrali, and I was present there, next day I returned to Shahjahanpur and Umesh Chandra left for Noida, where he felt a bit uneasy, and hence went to hospital, and died there. D. Krishna has further said, that Babuji’s death is also part of conspiracy hatched by Chennai group people only, as he also died of poisoning, he suspected that even Umesh Chandra death is also due to poisoning only.

Hindustan, 3rd November 2006.
Ram Chandra Mission captured, after Violence
Women amongst 3 other’s injured

Shahjahanpur, Under police station Ram Chandra Mission, on Sunday daughter-in-law of late shree Ramchandra ji, her brother and her son, were mercilessly beaten up by Anti-Ramchandra, P. Rajagopalachari group people. The perpetrator’s destroyed property worth missions of rupees and captured the immoveable property, they dragged the people inside the mission and threw them outside the ashram forcefully. Victims when approached police for launching the FIR, they were asked to leave from there also, and FIR was not registered, Amita saxsena, daughter-in-law of RamChandra ji informed the media that on Sunday afternoon, ex-IPS Uma shanker bajpai, self proclaimed secretary of Parthsarthi group, ex-justice R.R.K Trivedi, Prabhat Kumar Sinha, in association with lot more people attacked the mission and destroyed property worth million of rupee’s. When she tried to stop the predator’s, they attacked her, her brother and her son, and beat them to near death, after which they dragged her, her brother and her son, out of mission and threw them. In addition to this they also captured the vehicles and licensed revolver of her son puneet saxsena. When she approached police for help, police refused to help them owing to pressure from influential people from P. Rajagopalachari group. It should also be mentioned that same people tried to capture the same property back in the year 2003 also, when administration foiled their attempt. Later on ex-IPS UmaShanker Bajpai, informed the media, that HE is now the new secretary of the mission and family those who were running the mission till yesterday have nothing to do with the mission any more.

Témoignage de Ravi sur la reprise de l’ashram de Shahjahanpur en 2006
Hi Everyone associated with SRCM
Pranams,
What is your opinion on illegal capture of Ashram at Shahjahanpur by Chari group during March - April 2006. Being an Abhyasi I sincerely condemn it.I am an Abhyasi from a group who do not believe in The Living Master or simply do not consider Chari as Master. As there was no such concept when Babuji was there. Rather, he stressed on strong living media, i.e. a strong preceptor with strong will power.
For us only Babuji Maharaj is eternal master. Divine Master in the real sense never dies nor he requires physical body, hence, no question of living master.The Chari group people illegally captured the Ashram. They forcefully quit the people in the Ashram who are not associate with Chari. There were such capturing occasions earlier also in some other places like Vijayawada, Raichoor etc. Where is spirituality in that group? What for they are doing such things. Do they think being very rich group any thing can be done? I have seen people are getting attracted to the Buildings / Posh Ashrams etc.
What is your opinion on this?
Once again
Pranam
Ravi

Témoignage de Narayana

Peter et Inès, anciens abhyasis de Chari qui ont rejoint l'ISRC, ont d'abord longuement échangé avec lui par mail en mars et avril 2006. Voici des extraits des réponses de Narayana :

Dear brother
Thank you for your kind mail. I have been in the system of Rev. Babuji since 1955 and worked as a preceptor of SRCM from 1967 to 1991. I have been in personal contact with the Master Sri Ramchandraji Maharaj of Shahjahanpur who took me to the acme of perfection in this system of sadhana though I still feel I am a beginner in the path. I worked very closely with Parthasarathy Rajagopala Chari from the beginning till 1991 and more closely since the physical veiling of the Master in 1983. I knew Brother Andre Poray of France as he used to visit my respected and venerable father Dr. K.C.Varadachari but I did not have any opportunity to discuss with him at any point of time. We ( some serious practicants of the system) separated when my brother Parthasarathy was projected as a Living Master and less emphasis was sought to be given to the methods of Rajayoga given by the Master Babuji Maharaj and a casual approach was taken towards the Commentary on Ten Commandments of the Master which Master is on record to say that is his master piece. We believe and feel sure that Rev. Babuji Maharaj is the eternal master governing the destinies of spiritual life of all aspirants in the world for the millennia to come. Also we consider Pranahuti to be a yogic achievement and is not dependant on any person for its source thus converting the process itself to the ridiculous level of being a medium. We do not charge any fees for any work that we do and in fact provide lot of material free of cost and books which may cost in the market around ($20) for a just about ½ a $ towards the handling charges that also being optional. We are more interested in conveying the message of the Master as also propound it according to our capacity and approach and all the material is available in our site www//sriramchandra.org and www// imperience.org. We also believe in assisting the aspirants to evaluate themselves according to the Ten Commandments of the Master and also the map given in the book Towards Infinity. I have recently published and made it available in the internet for free down load my commentary on the book called Path of Grace. We do agree that brother Parthasarathy is the President of SRCM as a successor to Babuji Maharaj but not as a successor to the spiritual Master or Special Personality who is guiding all of us. I have by the grace of my Master link with Him and am serving those who seek to serve the Master by enabling them have the connection with the Master. It is only when a person has access upto Brahmand Mandal the case is taken up at the request of the individual aspirant to get him connected with Master and then he is permitted to work as a trainer in the ISRC. You can get more information by reading our site patiently under the head Dr.K.C.V. Order. I think I gave more information than normally I do and hope this would enable you to understand our position better.
Yours in the service of the Master
K.C.Narayana

Q: Indeed, I worry about what Chari said recently concerning 95% of abhyasis : they are still at the 1st point, and the rest are at the 2nd... my wife and I have been meditating for 18 years and we feel completely lost and powerless in front of such a reality... We don't have tools, answers, which could help us to overwhelm these obstacles.
K.C.N: Bro. Chari did not deviate much from the procedure of permitting persons as PREFECTS. During Rev. Babuji also used to permit like that and there were very few PRECEPTORS (known as full fledged permission those days.
We used to receive a Big certificate while the Prefects used to receive a smaller one.) In ISRC no permission is given unless a person has access upto the Brahmand and this is after a thorough assessment by a group of persons forming what we call Governing Council. When we separated from SRCM Bro. Chari wanted the certificates given earlier to be returned to him which was duly complied with. We are of the firm opinion that Spiritual progress is not dependant on the papers given to us. To assess the spiritual progress we have since developed certain self evaluation tools to assess oneself regarding the compliance on the Ten Commandments given by the Master. We have also a questionnaire to evaluate oneself of his progress in the Pind desh. The ISRC insists on practice of meditation on points A and B which was fully explained by the Master in his book Efficacy of Rajayoga. Also we practice the prayer at 9 P.M. stating " That all the persons in the world are brethren and they are all developing true love and devotion to the Master." These were all found as omissions by us in SRCM in 1991 though there has always been some serious aspirants insisting on these since 1967.
Q: In our little center of meditation, we sent two days ago a letter to the responsible for Europe; we are everyone of us very dedicated but upset by the recent transformation of the SRCM into something like a "multinational enterprise". (it is very hard for me to speak like that of my spiritual organization, but...).
We worry about the prices of subscriptions, fees for seminars (200, 250, 300 euros...), books... I have got a question concernig the latest book called"Whispers from the Brighter World", which is a "series of messages transmitted from Babuji to a French abhyasi "( for information, this book was sold like a subscription for 250 euros last year and the center paid to have one; but it is proposed now in french, which is the original language, for 300 euros... without the possibility of regrouping to buy it...Many abhyasis cannot afford it...) I read it and felt sweetness but there is no spiritual teaching in these messages... What do you think about it?
K.C.N: Dear brother, I am very sorry I cannot say anything about these organizational matters. I do not believe that Institutions can help much in spirituality. I was told earlier that the book mentioned by you is a series of messages that brother Chari got and now you say something else. Anyway I am not interested in that as my approach to Spirituality does not permit any deviation of attention from the Homeland.
Q: We worry about "sales by auction" which took place... in the meditation hall instead of meditation twice during the last seminars in Italy and Denmark....
K.C.N: This ofcourse is bit odd but what can I say about that? It is all organizational matters. Have you at any time read the books "letters of the Master Vol. 1 and 2. My revered father writing to Master stated in his letter dated18th June.1970, that "I fully realise that you require freedom from organizational work for the sake of spiritual work. I trust everyone will cooperate with you. But I must utter a word of warning if I ought not to be misunderstood. Let us not commercialise our Mission in our haste to secure financial stability for the Mission and in embarking upon works which are not immediately helpful to spiritual development for the abhyasis. We have to imbue the sense of Mission- spiritual and not mix it up with other ends. If I am not misunderstood I believe some things can be thrashed out with other seekers who also know about the deviations that take place in spiritual work. I trust you will not misunderstand me." {pps412-413}.
Q: We worry because of the project of giving 5 euros when a spiritual gathering (satsang+meal for instance) is organized. We worry because we don't find anymore the fraternal, generous, loving and studious spirit we found there at the beginning..
K.C.N: In ISRC also when there are celebrations of the birthday of Rev. Lalaji and beloved Master when large number of persons gather ( 5 to 6 hundreds) they do donate some money but no fixed charge is there. Usually the donations are more than our requirement and we donate the extra amount to the Sahaj Seva Samsthan. { Please see our site www// Sahaj seva Samsthan.org} which runs a free school for slow-learners, and a highly subsidized Hospital in the name of Sri Ramchandra memorial hospital. We consider and promote the feeling fraternity and service and sacrifice are the virtues that we need to develop in spiritual life.
Q : Dear Brother, I could add that I don't feel we are progressing on the spiritual path; as a preceptor, I would like to see that everybody is changing but it isn't the case. I would like personnally to be more aware of where I am, how I can learn better, and how I could be useful to help my brothers. I am longing for a real spiritual teaching with spiritual questions, answers and ethics. I would be glad if you could give me some advice : what and how can I do from France?
K.C.N: It is very good that you have sincere feelings of serving others in spiritual life. The spiritual teachings of the Master Babuji is the best that I am aware of. We have provided the same in our site as down loadable material. I suggest that you do read our 1. Showers of Divine grace 2. Sruti and 3. Path of grace. Also try to browse the site Imperience and go through the papers presented in our seminars. As for actual spiritual training, I do not know whether brother Chari has given any manuals of training. The ISRC has one which from my point of view is a good commentary on the manual 1 and 2 given to me by my Master. But we have a policy not to give to those who are not trainers in ISRC.

Q: Today, by a (very!) strange way, it seems that we are going back way home and it is very disturbing because we have always been told that Chari was Babuji's spiritual successor, appointed by him, in presence of witnesses. Thus how can we explain this? Is it possible to explain this? Can you explain this?
K.C.N: I do not know whether I can explain things but I can tell you certain facts.
1. Brother Parthasarathy was nominated as President of SRCM in March 1974. The words Spiritual Representative IS NOT there in the original document. This document was NOT attested by witnesses.
2. I being one of the members of the Working Committee nominated by Rev.Babuji Maharaj was the first to say the document need not be doubted as another document produced by one of the sons of our Master was a fake/bogus one.
3. The confusion arises only the position of the President of SRCM is confused with Spiritual Master who works for a millennia. Rev. Master is on record saying that he would be more useful after his physical veiling.
4. The problem or pseudo problem is necessity felt by some for a physically present Master. That there are realms beyond the physical is the basis of spirituality- as you can see the word spiritual would loose its sense the moment we want to have in the physical realm.
5. As a Prefect of SRCM you should be knowing that we do not do anything physically and all our work is in the astral plane only. { I do hope you were supplied with copy of the Manual of training issued by Rev.Babuji. This I am stating because since middle of Seventees this practice was stopped- I understand later some manual is being given}
Q: In reality, we are divided: mentally, we have got a sort a culpability in relation with Chari; within our heart, we have the certainty that we are right, that something very important is happening, that we are coming back to our Homeland...
K.C.N: Happy to hear this: the Master always guides the sincere and devoted.

Q & R:
From yesterday night, there were some clouds in my heart when I thought about the meeting which occurred today with a SRCM responsible for the southern zone. Indeed, she came because we sent a collective letter to express ourselves on our concern about SRCM financial options. The official answer to our anxiety has been:
- you don't have faith enough
K.C.N: Faith is a big subject. We need to have faith in ourselves, we should have faith in the method and faith in the guide/Master in the path. The subject of faith is dealt with very seriously in the philosophies of Surrender of various religions. The chapter in Reality at Dawn relating to Guru can be read by you with profit.
- you should be confident in the Master
- you should obey the Master
K.C.N: The whole problem is who is the Master? If it is God who is the real guru there is no problem and the co traveler in the path is duty bound to help us reach the feet of the Lord or gain Oneness with Him.
- only Master can know the Divine planes and your critics are only the expression of your ego.
K.C.N: If the words “ planes” in your mail is right I do not think so. God has only one Plane and that is the Blessing Splendour as I call it which is the nature of the 23 ring towards the centre. How we can judge ourselves regarding the plane of consciousness in which we normally function is what is sought to be explained in the book “ Towards Infinity” by the Master. I tried to put on record my thoughts in the book “ Path of Grace” available for free down load.
If otherwise you meant “ Plans” then surely the Supreme Personality alone knows it; no matter whether a person is the President of SRCM or not. That the Supreme Personality is the one who is working to better the quality of human being and he has his own plans is a fact beyond doubt. Human transformation is happening and that will happen very soon.
- all this shows that you have got a problem with money and materiality
K.C.N: What answer can I give on this. Every one has a need for money and body has its own requirements. That is why the system of our beloved Master is essentially meant for house holders and is not a method of the renounced/ ascetics.
- give up your dreams, you must face materiality within your spiritual organization.
K.C.N: Some person advised you and who am I to say on these matters. All that I can say we should live happily working for the transformation of humanity incessantly with total conviction in the cause of the Master and his method. 9 P.M. Prayer is the most important tool that we should invariably use for this purpose.

Q: I felt very bad because for me, obediance comes from the heart naturally when it is the good moment and , more important, love doesn't exclude critical sense, on the contrary...
K.C.N: I totally agree with you. If this freedom of expression is lost what freedom are we seeking in spirituality? May be I can suggest you to read the volumes 1 and 2 of Masters letters which is the correspondence between my revered father and the Master.
Q: Finally, the minimum of fraternity should be to listen with the heart different opinions. But it was not the case of course...
K.C.N: Any brand of Spirituality worth its name should encourage constructive individual development. Further it should be motivated by unselfish service to humanity. It should enable the individual to find out the narrow path of self effort and individual responsibility for spiritual development. It should appeal to reason and common sense and encourages verification through direct personal experience. To say Master will take care of all this is simple laziness at its worst and slavery at its best.
True spirituality supports the spiritual prosperity of the individual through holding out the vision of continuous progress through self effort and support of the Master
Real spirituality should encourage free discussion and rational explanations. And it should make its instructions and teachings of the Master available to all the worthy persons.(No discrimination intended)
Q: If I summ up, when I am thinking about all this, I don't feel very well with an impression of treason, culpability, irrespect in relation with my Master Chari. When it is my heart which is speaking, I would be crying with gratefulness the whole day. Do you see the problem?... I have a certain impression of "doing the splits"... and my wife too.
K.C.N: No other person can understand this agony than me. Since that will lead to my story of agony and ecstasy in spirituality I refrain writing further on this.

Dear brother
Thank you for your kind mail. Letters of the Master Volume I and II is published by SRCM only. I gave the correspondence from 1954 to 1971 maintained by my revered father Dr.K.C.Varadachari to brother Parthasarathy on his request in 1984. He provided me with a Xerox copy of the same in 1985. He got it published first in 1992 and the copy right is held by the SRCM North American Publishing Committee Pacific Grove CA USA. Then Mr. Thomas J. Whitlam who edited the correspondence sent me a copy of the two volumes. I do not have them now as my son Srihari took it from me. I do not know anything about other volumes of Letters of the Master and I wonder whether any of them contain my letters and Rev. Babujis’ replies to me which were also given to brother Parthasarathy in 1984. However Sri Ramchandra Publishers Hyderabad have published a book titled “Event Horizon” which is an abridged version of the correspondence based on the Xerox copies of the letters with me. This is available for down load from the site www// sriramchandra.org
Regarding the manual of training given by Rev. Babuji Maharaj it consists of two volumes. Volume I is meant for prefects and Volume II is also given to Preceptors who were very few in number those days. I was given both of them by the Master and so was brother Parthasarathy. Perhaps he has given Volume I only to prefects. Since you are referring to the period 1988, I have to say I have a copy of the same given by brother Parthasarathy saying that he started giving the manuals.
With blessings of the Master
K.C.Narayana

Dear brother,
Your mails have raised many questions and I do not know how far I can answer them satisfactorily to you.
The issues raised may be stated broadly as:
1.Regarding the manuals of training
2.As to why I parted ways with brother Parthasarathy.
3.The evaluations of the aspirants as whole done by the President SRCM and the ethical and otherwise correctness of the same
4.If the evaluation of no evolution in majority of the aspirants in the SRCM is correct whether it is not a joke played by the system.
5.The progress made by the aspirants in ISRC and a few supplementaries to that.
I shall try to answer them one by one and I promise you that it is going to be a tedious reading for you but the nature of your questions is such. Bear with me for that.
First and the easiest one to answer is the Manuals of training given to you by brother Parthasarathy. It does cover to some extent the manuals given by Master particularly the part I. It would not be proper for me to say anything more than this.
Regarding why I parted with SRCM I wrote about this earlier in a small way. However as you desire me to answer again I shall do so. The story is really long but to make it short I should say that it was way back in late Nineteen Fifties and early Sixties the problem arose regarding the relative importance of the institutional structures (Ashram buildings etc.,) and spiritual procedures and progress. This was when the first Ashram of SRCM was getting constructed at Tirupati. A substantial donation was offered by a lady doctor and wife of a senior police official in Andhra Pradesh but she would not accept any receipt from my father for that and therefore it was not accepted. But as things were to happen the amount was paid at Shahjahanpur and Master sent the money to Tirupati for construction which was reluctantly received by my revered father. Construction means bricks and mortar: very gross matters. My father wriggled himself out of this problem. The correspondence between my revered father and our Master Babuji Maharaj in this matter can be seen in the letters when you get the books. To be more precise the problem is the relative importance of materialism and spirituality. My revered father wanted spirituality to be given more importance and the system of training should not become casuality. Others members of SRCM had different views. The simmering discontent was there since then. The problem blew into greater dimension when the SRCM was getting commercialized in the language of my revered father and Rev. Babuji was trying to convince him that no curvature was developing as feared. I apart from being a son was a close disciple of my revered father and studied under him Indian Philosophy, Western Philosophy including Henri Bergson as part of philosophies of evolution which included Aurobindo and others too. Further I specialized in a branch of Vedanta called Visistadvaita. Apart from that my professors in Psychology were close associates of my revered father and I studied Psychoanalysis for two years along with Constitutional Psychology. With all this back ground I found myself in total agreement with my revered father that Institutions are also a powerful binding influence in the path of spiritual freedom and one needs to keep a close vigil on Institutionalism. But the process of constructing Ashram buildings in various centres started and funds were getting raised for the purpose with all good intentions. Our books which costing very little ( as little as less than a rupee) were getting printed and published surely in better manner at a cost that is high according to the then prevailing Indian standards. The marketing skills of brother Parthasarathy were being fully utilized and he is a very efficient person as you also know. But this disturbed my revered father and he thought spirituality is gaining low priority as the aspirants were all busy in fund collection for the books, magazines, advertisements for the magazines and souvenirs published on annual celebrations of the Masters. He wrote to Master about this commercialization and the curves that are getting formed in SRCM which ofcourse Master explained away; all this can be seen between the lines in the correspondence between him and the Master.
In addition to this, the criteria for correct evaluation of spiritual condition of the aspirants were posing problems which could not be sorted out easily. Evaluations made by the Master also were not acceptable to some Preceptors and this put persons like my revered father in anguish. He expressed to Master his anguish stating “It has grave consequences in our appraisal of the ultimate state possible under our system.” Different Preceptors were evaluating aspirants differently and the SRCM was taking more and more the position of leaving the matter of evaluation to the Master and the prefects and preceptors were asked to keep their mouths shut- a practice that is being continued even now if I am right. The responsibility for performing Yatra in the abhyasis was thrown on the Master stating that it is not the task of the preceptors. This problem emanated mainly because the number of prefects were more and they were expecting to be treated on par with preceptors. The task of promoting them to the level of the preceptor being tougher because of their lack of sadhana and other difficulties, the easiest solution is to treat them as equal and there by effectively nullifying the original distinction and in the process the motivation to grow in spiritual stature. But this ensured increase in the number of persons getting enrolled as members of the SRCM. The quantity as usual killed the quality in this case also. All these are unpalatable to many of us.
Further Master himself has evaluated differently the same person in some cases and this led to the need for arriving at standardization of evaluation techniques and procedures. This has led to the Master clarifying that there are two positions for the person being evaluated 1. Aksi and 2. Kasbi or 1.Potential and 2. Actual. Or 1.Reflected and 2 Acquired. I am sure you have some information from the manuals supplied to you by brother Parthasarathy. It is absolutely essential to understand these concepts in work to assess properly the condition of the aspirant. Two seminar were held at Tirupati in late Nineteen Seventy and in one of them Master talked about the “Method of Training” which to my knowledge was not published by SRCM so far. It is part of the book “Showers of Divine Grace” published by Sri Ramchandra Publishers available for download in the site of sriramchandra.org. The Master stressed in the article that “moulding is the responsibility of the preceptors”. But this was ignored to such an extent that the article itself will be difficult for you to locate in SRCM.
In addition to these the prefects and some preceptors of SRCM were not giving enough importance to the “Ten Commandments of Sahaj Marg” though Master is on record that the book is his Master Piece. They went to such an extent during his life time itself to call the book “Ten Maxims of Sahaj Marg”.
Also the importance of the meditations on points A and B explained in the book “Efficacy of Rajayoga” was bypassed in preference to what is called love for the Master. That A and B points are discoveries of the Master the purification of which alone enables the aspirants to move into the higher realms of consciousness and also the cleansing of the points A1, B1; A2, B2; and A3 and B3 which enable one to stabilize in the higher realms of consciousness is totally neglected and ignored and to a certain extent denounced. The matter came up for discussion before the Master and I contended that if Master agrees that these are not necessary he in all fairness and honesty should withdraw the book “ Efficacy of Rajayoga” from the public where it is already in circulation for over 2 decades and give an open apology for misguiding aspirants. Shocked at this he sat immediately in meditation and communed with his master Rev. Lalaji and confirmed that what he wrote in the book is correct and should be practiced. A few hundred copies of a booklet listing the duties and responsibilities of the aspirant which I took with me to Shahjahanpur were given to the then Secretary Brother Parthasarathy and Master said they are to be treated as Mission publication. But the weak and fragile Master was ignored by many and majority of the prefects/ preceptors said that Master can do everything and there is no need for any practice other than love and devotion. This meant total abdication of responsibility for the Yatra by the preceptors and the whole responsibility was shifted to the Master.
I differed and was keeping a low profile busy as I was with my duties as a senior official of Government of A.P. However I continued my contact with Master and practice as I was advised and wrote letters to Master who also replied in some cases.
Later in Oct.1979 he wrote
“My dear Narayana,
Your letters received. But I could not reply due to illness. I have been thinking over the suggestions offered by you for educating abhyasis into Sahaj Marg system. I am very happy to read your previous letters that you have got the courage and will for the work. May you live long.”
You know Narayana that I have done whatever the need was for the spiritual life of man and the work is still continued. The system is there, my support is there, yet it is for the persons like you to first educate abhyasis and then do further research. I have great hope from you. I wish to have you and Parthasarathy together for the work…”
Slowly and steadily I have been telling the importance of the discoveries of the Master in spiritual growth and the fragile frame of the Master slowly deteriorated though it has not affected the quality of transmissions received from him directly or through the preceptors and prefects showing that the physical body is not all that important for spiritual work. The physical veiling came as you know in April 1983 and the claims for the Chair of the President started between several parties. If I am correct some of the legal cases are still on and that is but natural for persons who seek power and status. The status of Guru can be very attractive! (Read Guru Chapter in Reality at Dawn)
As already informed to you in the earlier mails brother Parthasarathy came to me in 1984 and asked for cooperation and I readily agreed. He asked me to be in addition to the membership of the working committee as nominated by Rev. Babuji Maharaj, take additional responsibilities as the Zonal Secretary, Director of S.M.R.I. Centre in Charge of Hyderabad. I did accept all the responsibilities and discharged them to his and my utter satisfaction.
Then I mooted the idea of Training classes for the aspirants in 1987 and participants who were kept ignorant of the important practices mentioned above in this mail started asking brother Parthasarathy and other prefects and preceptors why they were not told the importance of these methods and more particularly the 9 P.M. prayer advised by the Master. In this atmosphere I was able to conduct about 6 or 8 training classes and brother Parthasarathy was uncomfortable with the growing demand for admission to the course and also the growing discontentment among the aspirants in the system.
In one such training session, in 1991 some speakers were suggested by brother Parthasarathy to speak more about the newly developing concept of Living Master and the need to love and be devoted to him more than practicing the system. As this was something totally unacceptable I was watching the program and keeping quiet. Major. Dr. Madhava a senior practicant of the system and a member of the research committee was talking on the Essential of Sahaj Marg and was covering all the aspects explained by the Master. After the talk he was summoned by brother Parthasarathy and was chided for not talking of the importance of the Living Master as an essential aspect of the system and was asked to make amends. He came to me and I advised him to do as the President told for I convinced him that Rev. Babuji is the Living Master in the astral plane and physical plane does not matter much. That evening on that fateful day there was a lecture session in the head quarters of State Bank of India in which one speaker went to the extent of saying that the great saint Ramakrishna Paramahamsa could convert only one Narendra into a Vivekananda while brother Parthasarathy is making every person going to Chennai a Vivekananda. As I was on the Dias of the function sitting by brother Parthasarathy I kept quiet but as soon as the function was over went home and thought well over the happening on the day and came to the conclusion that the Organization has taken a deep curve and is drifting away from spiritual goals. Two days later brother Parthasarathy spoke to me why I have not met him to which I told him I have not been fortunate to become a Vivekananda inspite of several transmissions from Rev.Babuji and Rev. Lalaji Saheb and felt totally unfit in the field. This in short is the story you desired to know. I have omitted many details which if mentioned would make a good movie. I attach to this long mail a document on what is written as a Preamble for the ISRC which may throw light on why we parted ways. What lessons you can draw from this I do not know
3. Regarding your questions about the ethically correctness of the alleged statements of brother Parthasarathy about members of the SRCM do you not know that it is improper for me to say anything about that since I left the organization long back. However I must say that routine practices for any number of hours a day for any period of time without taking regular individual sittings, cleaning sessions and without love and devotion to Master may not lead a person in the path far. Further when the responsibility for performing Yatra is not vested with the prefects and the whole responsibility rests with the President SRCM I do not know how he was able to assess and evaluate the aspirants to make such sweeping statements as he did. I must however tell you I donot know the context in which it was said and may be you are over reacting to the same. I must also inform you that for over twenty years I have not been reading literature about this system from any other source than that of the original books of Rev. Babuji, my revered father and Rev. Lalaji. Ofcourse I keep track of many developments in transpersonal psychology and para psychology. Ofcourse for amusement sake I do read the writings of the modern day self declared Masters available dime a dozen- humour is a good medicine you know. In the context of what is written in the earlier paragraphs any evaluation has to take into consideration the position of Aksi and Kasbi in respect of each individual. So I am not able to help you to find whether the judgments of the President are ethical or otherwise.
4. Regarding the position of the ISRC I should bring to your kind notice that it is a administered by a Governing Council and no one is superior to the other. This council is an elected body during general body meetings held on Rev. Babuji Birthday celebrations. It after due examination of the candidature of the person permits a person among the Governing Council to seek permission to work under Dr. K.C.V. Order. In the Institute permission to work is given only when a person has access to Brahmand mandal in the Aksi manner though his/her Kasbi position may be only 3rd or 2nd knot. As there are about 150 persons working as trainer in ISRC it may be safely said that so many are in Brahmand mandal. We have about 12 or more persons moving in the Rings of Splendour and atleast 2 in the Central Region itself. There are quite a few souls after having crossed Para Brahmand mandal coursing at the various points in the 64 points before the Sahasrara.
You may kindly note that persons are admitted into the system of sadhana only after go through 2day training program in India and in Western countries it varies for 1 to 2 days. This is an intensive introduction to the system which makes it all the more sure that only serious person seeking the transformation of humanity as the main goal of life is admitted. Then only the 3 introductory sittings are given according to a fixed procedure; and it is not just sit for half an hour and go.
I may safely say that who ever has been coming for individual sittings regularly to me have all started yatra and in 100 % of the cases Ajapa is experienced very early enabling me to take up their Yatra without delay. Those who are very sincere and earnest have traveled considerable distance and many are both in Aksi and Kasbi manner crossed the Pind desh. Regarding the persons who go to other trainers who number about 150, I do not have records for all the persons maintained by the trainers and/or the Institute so I cannot give you the percentage of persons who have moved considerable distance in the path and the extent to which they progressed. I have however a feeling that those who attend the annual congregations which number about 5 to 6 hundreds they have all advanced to the extent I see my Master in them and I do offer Pranams to all of them before conducting the Satsang most of the times. My co travelers in the path in the Institute here are working out various methods by which we can present a more cogent picture of the work done. You may care to see the site www//imperience.org.
Regarding your question how much time it may take for a person to move into the 2nd knot, it depends. If the aspirant is serious and has a good trainer to work on him it may not take more than a year and this can be much earlier also.
As already pointed out that in order to ensure the objectivity of assessment or evaluation of the condition of the aspirant the ISRC has adopted a system of evaluation by 5 or more persons who are advanced and sensitive enough to study the conditions. The evaluation of all these persons is taken into consideration while arriving at the final evaluation of the aspirant. This procedure at present is confined to the aspirants who are going to be granted permission to work under the Dr. K.C.V. Order. For more information on this please see the site. Apart from the evaluation of the condition through this method, we do take into consideration the compliance of the Ten Commandments of the Master by the aspirant. Evaluation tools are developed and is available in the site. Further we have developed a beta version of the Pind desh Evaluation which gives an idea about the progress of the individual in respect of the conditions of the first five knots. We also administer a questionnaire on Altruism to find out the progress of the individual in transpersonal consciousness. What is mainly sought to be studied are the qualities of the Truth, Non-Injury ( Compassion), love ( non –jealousy), Non covetousness and celibacy the five basic pillars on which the structure of Super consciousness rests. It is the considered view of ISRC that the U portion of the heart as depicted in the book “ Efficacy of Rajayoga” signifies these qualities compared with the lower nature of the individual located in the L portion of the heart diagram. We are trying to utilise the statistical technique of Meta Analysis to present our evaluations of the aspirants. This is broadly the position.
5.Regarding whether the system itself is not a joke played I must say the information that the membership of the SRCM which was around 20,000 in 1991 now has grown to approximately 300,000 persons is heartening. I am very happy that so many know about Rev. Babuji and that itself is a great service to humanity.
6.Regarding the non-evolution of its members I appreciate your concern. But really speaking how many of this large numbers are seekers? Are you not aware of the categories of sadhakas who come to us classified by Rev. Babuji? It is a spiritual truth that when the disciple is ready the Master knocks at the door. Institutions can only spread the messages and it is the individual relationship between the Master and the disciple that matters in spiritual progress. The Institutions however have the onerous responsibility to spread the message of the Master in purity of content and that is where I find the SRCM erred more than in other aspects mentioned already in this mail.
7.As for the point regarding your spiritual condition I hope these letters are written by you and I can venture an assessment. You should have completed about 60% yatra in 1st knot and 2nd knots and about 75 % percent in the 3rd knot and 40 % in the 4th knot and are coursing in the 5th knot. These are based on the feelings and thoughts that were expressed in your mails. For more information on how Yatra is possible simultaneously on different knots you may kindly ask Dr. K. or any other trainer who may be there on the day of your visit to explain. Broadly speaking you are a sincere seeker and can be classified as the 3rd category of Sadhakas and aspiring to become the 4th category according to the categorization of aspirants made by Rev. Babuji Maharaj. (See the article “ Types of Gurus and disciples” of Rev. Babuji in Voice Real a publication of SRCM). I pray that you realise your true nature soon and serve mankind even as Master would wish us all to.
8. Brother Dr. K. is an excellent person and I am sure you will be benefited by the transmission from him, if you are so willing.
I do hope I answered your queries to some extent. However answers are to well up from within the heart by the grace of our beloved Master Babuji Maharaj.
With blessings of the Master
K.C.Narayana

The Sri Ramchandra Mission named after the Samarth Guru Mahatma Sri Ramchandraji Maharaj of Fatehgarh was founded by Mahatma Sri Ramchandraji of Shahjahanpur in 1945 to fulfill the sacred Mission of the Master and serve humanity in an organized way However over a period of time, the status of the Master and that of the President of Sri Ramchandra Mission, in view of both being the same in the form of Sri Babuji Maharaj have got intertwined This has however created confusion in the minds of spiritual aspirants. That the great Master is none but God is an established truth of spirituality.
The Guru as a means many times got identified with God and more so in the case of Avatars like Lord Krishna, Buddha or Rev Babuji Maharaj. Such Gurus who may be classified as Azli-Fazli Gurus or Gurus who are of the caliber of Sambhava as explained in Tejo Bindu Upanishad are rare and far and few between They are said to come once in a millennia The propagation of the system founded by them rests on lesser mortals who however have the capacity to serve others to the extent they can and hand them over spiritually to the original source or founder They are classified as Fazli gurus or Shaktas which by itself is of a very high order of attainment However illusion crept in thinking and these persons also now and then claim to be of the status of original founders of the system. This unfortunate situation arises out of Gurudom getting into their heads and pomp and glory attract them. Such a trend is a big curvature and has a path down the hill and these are to be corrected.
That Pranahuti is a spiritual capacity of a salik is forgotten and is most often confused with mysterious mystic force. The head of an organization who arranges to establish training centers and gives permission to the deserved, chooses to think that the persons permitted without proper preparation will automatically develop the power of transmission is very unfortunate. It so happens due mainly to the human frailties that the head of the organization thinks himself to be having the exclusive privilege of preparing persons to be in charge of training centers and impart training through Pranahuti. The capacity to foment in others spiritual dynamism is essentially a yogic achievement (all yogic achievements are divine gifts) should not be forgotten. Also the responsibility of training others cannot be entrusted to all and sundry and one has to be circumspect in obtaining permission from the Master not withstanding one’s capacity to instill some divine light in others.
Unfortunate as it is, these two errors have crept into the Sri Ramchandra Mission and there is an urgent need to rectify. Accordingly, a society for bringing in the corrections in the main stream of the Mission is formed with the explicit purpose of achieving the above two objectives. The society shall be wound up the moment the objectives are achieved.

Q: I went on Internet and I found a page where it is said that Lalaji was a Master in a Soufi Order (Nashqbandi), that he has been initiated by this Order and that he has been the only non muslim Master of this Order. 1- Is all this true?
K.C.N: True. Rev. Lalaji had a Master called Rev. Fazl Ahmed khan. But my Masters’ opinion about his Master is that he is blessing to humanity from God and he was born perfect even as Lord Krishna an Avatar had a guru in Sandeepani.
Q: 2- If yes, why don't you speak about it in your site?
K.C.N: The story of Rev.Lalaji in ISRC site is essentially the version of Rev. Babuji on his Master. I accept only my Masters version and that is why the site of ISRC does not mention about that.
Q: 3- Did Babuji use to speak about this?
K.C.N: He did say about the Master of his Master but he said we have nothing to do with Naqshabandi order. His system has taken the best of all other streams and fused into forming the well knit modified system of Rajayoga.
Q: 4- Why don't we find any reference to this in Babuji's books?
K.C.N: If you read the Part 2 of the Autobiography of Rev. Babuji you will get to know more about the Master of his Master in the context of forming a new system of Yoga. This book is not published in its original form by SRCM (Charis’). It was published in 3 volumes by the family of Rev. Babuji and may be available with SRCM Shahjahanpur. I had a talk with Dr. Srivastav few days back and he is of the opinion that this may be reprinted soon.
Q: Thank you for your answer; I transmit to you the adress of this site if you want to have a look to these informations.
K.C.N: Brother Christian also sent me the address sited in this mail. I am busy with my work and do not like to spend time on these matters of historical interest. The transmission in the system has its origin in the Centre and that is not the access of the Master of the Grand Master. Discovery of the Central region is something that was totally new and none of the Sufi Orders had access upto that during their life time including the saints of the Naqshabandi order (and even saint Kabir).

Extraits du témoignage de K.C. Narayana, initialement paru en 2006 sur le blog de Christian (blog aujourd'hui disparu).

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- Narayana dit ce qu’il pense de Chari
- L’ISRC et KC Narayana et son père, KC Varadachari