Parthasarathi Rajagopalachari

Shri Parthasarathi Rajagopalachari is the current president of the spiritual movement Shri RAM Chandra Mission, the Master living of the Sahaj Marg and the spiritual representative of sound Gourou Babuji.

Biography

Shri Parthasarathi Rajagopalachari, affectionately called Chari or Chariji by its disciples, was born on July 24th, 1927 in Vayalur, close to Chennai, in the south of the India.

His/her mother died when it was 5 years old. His/her father, tallies of the Railroads, did not remarié himself and dealt only with his three sons, which it took along with him during many displacements due to his work. He is deceased on April 13rd, 1987.

After obtaining a scientific license at the Hindu University of Bénarès, Chariji started to work in Indian Plastics Ltd in chemical engineering. He studied the techniques of manufacture of the plastics during two years in Yugoslavia.

Shri Parthasarathi Rajagopalachari married in 1955 with Sulochana. She died on November 2nd, 1999. They had an only son in 1957, P.R. Krishna, and two grandchildren.

The year of its marriage, Chariji entered within group TTK & Co. with Bombay. He then became director of Indian Textile Paper Tube, subsidiary of the group, until his retirement in 1985.

Its work brought it to travelling much, in particular in Europe, with the the Middle East and in Africa. It also represented the India at the time of a Conference ISO in 1957 in Burgenstock in Suisse.

Spirituality

A conference on the Bhagavad Gita heard in 1945 brought Shri Parthasarathi Rajagopalachari to a thorough study of this book and it started to study the Religion, the Spiritualité, the Philosophie, the Psychologie and the Mysticisme. In 1957, it started to follow traditional teaching Vaishnava at Acharya (traditional Gourou of the Hindu religion).

Companion of Babuji

In 1964, its family practitioner, homeopath tutor of the Sahaj Marg, spoke to him about this system of Rajah Yoga. Thus Shri Parthasarathi Rajagopalachari had suddenly met Babuji whereas it was 36 years old. His/her father and joined both to him the Shri RAM Chandra Mission.

In 1970, Chariji became general secretary of the Mission. Between 1972 and 1982, it trained its Master in five international voyages to popularize its teaching near the Westerners. In April 1983 died its Master Babuji. The continuation is disputed…

According to the partisans of Chariji, Babuji saw the ideal human being like " a Western spirit and a heart oriental" , adding that it was the portrait of the person necessary to successfully guide the Mission in the future. It would thus have named Chariji like its spiritual representative and the president of the Mission.

According to the partisans of the son of Babuji, Sri Umeshchandra Saxena, the Chariji applicant was only one Indian smoker of cigarettes and strongly occidentalized, and Babuji would have added " just; a bachelor in sciences". It would have been dislocated of all its functions by Babuji about 1980 and the letter appointing it president of the Mission would be a forgery.

According to Sri K.C. Narayana, founder of ISRC and wire of the famous doctor of philosophy K.C. friendly large Varadachari of Babuji, it is the letter of nomination of Sri Umeshchandra Saxena which constituted a forgery. Babuji would have named Chariji well chair Mission in 1974. On the other hand, it would never have designated it as its spiritual representative.

Thus dice 1983, two tendencies clash and assert each one like the single heiress of teaching of Babuji. A great number of its disciples take their distances with the two movements in competition. In 1991, Sri K.C. Narayana gives up the current of Chariji and creates a third dissenting movement, ISRC.

Master of Sahaj Marg

Before returning the capacity to Sri Umeshchandra Saxena, S.P. Srivastava takes the head of the Shri RAM Chandra Mission of Shajahanpur, founded by Babuji in 1945 and whose statutes were deposited with Lucknow (Uttar Pradesh) in the north of the India.

Shri Parthasarathi Rajagopalachari thus will be pressed on the disciples of the south of the India and the Westerners to sit his own capacity, from where its multiple voyages in the whole world and the creation of another SRCM, company with nonlucrative goal recorded in California.

During second half of the Nineties, the two tendencies again will clash around the possession of sahajmarg.org domain name on the Web. What leads Chariji to deposit the marks Sahaj Marg ® and Shri RAM Chandra Mission ® on July 29th, 1997 near the Office of the marks of the Department Commercial of the the United States.

Thanks to its personal fortune and with the money of the Western followers and Indians expatriates, SRCM of Chariji develops much more considerably than that of Sri Umeshchandra Saxena and than ISRC of Sri K.C. joined together Narayana. In 1999, Chariji inaugurates enormous a Ashram near Chennai, Babuji Memorial Ashram, after two years of work at a cost estimated between 2 and 3 million dollars.

According to the various internal sources, Shri Parthasarathi Rajagopalachari would count today between 200 and 300.000 followers a little everywhere on planet. It created a Foundation (Sahaj Marg Spirituality Foundation), a school (Lalaji Memorial Omega School) and also deals with humanitarian (food and health care).

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