Ram Chandra (Babuji)

Ram Chandra of Shahjahanpur (1899-1983), also known as Babuji, was a yogi from Uttar Pradesh in northern India. He spent most of his life developing a method of Raja Yoga meditation called Sahaj Marg or Heartfulness Meditation. He founded a non-profit organization called Shri Ram Chandra Mission in 1945, dedicated and named after his Guru, who was also called Ram Chandra.[1]

Ram Chandra (Babuji)
TitleFounder, Shri Ram Chandra Mission
Personal
Born
Ram Chandra

(1899-04-30)30 April 1899
Shahjahanpur, Uttar Pradesh, India
Died(1983-04-19)19 April 1983
NationalityCitizen of India
SpouseBhagwati
InstituteShri Ram Chandra Mission
Founder ofShri Ram Chandra Mission (1945)
PhilosophySahaj Marg, Raja Yoga
Senior posting
SuccessorParthasarathi Rajagopalachari
WebsiteBabuji

Early life

Ram Chandra was born on 30 April 1899 in Shahjahanpur, UP, India.[2][3] He was born to a well-off family, his father Rai Bahadur Shri Badri Prasad held the position of Honorary Special Magistrate 1st Class. He was not a keen student in school where he studied only up to his matriculation (10 yrs of school). He worked in the local court for thirty-one years and retired as a record keeper.[4] From a very early age, he felt a thirst for Reality.[5] He met his Guru in June 1922 at the age of twenty-three. Incidentally, his guru's name was also Ram Chandra, who lived in Fatehgarh, UP. People fondly called him Lalaji.[2][1]

Spiritual Life and Contributions

Babuji learnt Raja Yoga meditation practice aided with Yogic transmission from his Guru, Ram Chandra of Fatehgarh, also known as Lalaji. He developed the method with the intention of making it more applicable in the contemporary world. He founded and registered a non-profit organization called Shri Ram Chandra Mission in 1945 to teach this new method, which he called Sahaj Marg (a name which was subsequently changed to "heartfulness meditation"), and he wrote a number of books about it.

Literary works
  • Reality at Dawn (1954)[6][7]
  • Efficacy of Raja Yoga in the Light of Sahaj Marg [8][9]
  • Commentary on the Ten Maxims of Sahaj Marg (1946) [10][11]
  • Towards Infinity (1957) [12]
  • Sahaj Marg Philosophy (1978) [13][14]
  • Voice Real - The First Selection (1970)
  • Voice Real - The Second Selection
  • Autobiography of Ram Chandra (Volume 1 and 2) (1974)[15]
  • Complete Works of RAM CHANDRA - The work of Babuji also compiled into a set of six volumes.

References
  1. Ranjan, Rishi (2020-04-29). "श्री रामचंद्र मिशन के संस्थापक श्री रामचन्द्र की जयंती (30 अप्रैल) पर विशेष". newstrack.com. Retrieved 2020-05-30.
  2. "Record number of 1,50,000 practitioners from 100 countries to virtually attend the 121st Birth Anniversary Celebrations of Second Guide of Heartfulness". apnnews.com. 2020-04-28. Retrieved 2020-05-30.
  3. "Over 1.5 lakh practitioners of Heartfulness to join Babuji's 121st birth anniversary celebrations". uniindia.com. 2020-04-29. Retrieved 2020-05-30.
  4. Chandra, Ram (1998). Complete Works of Ram Chandra Volume 3. Shri Ram Chandra Mission. p. 12. ISBN 81-85177-28-7.
  5. Chandra, Ram (1998). Complete Works of Ram Chandra Volume 3. Shri Ram Chandra Mission. p. 6. ISBN 81-85177-28-7.
  6. "Sahaj Marg Raja Yoga Meditation - Reality at Dawn".
  7. Chandra, Ram (2 June 1968). Reality at Dawn. The Heartfulness Store. ISBN 9789388095624 – via Google Books.
  8. "Sahaj Marg Raja Yoga Meditation - Efficacy of Raja Yoga".
  9. Chandra, Ram. Efficacy of Raja Yoga: In the light of Sahaj Marg. The Heartfulness Store. ISBN 9789388095594 – via Google Books.
  10. "Sahaj Marg Raja Yoga Meditation - Commentary on 10 Maxims".
  11. Chandra, Ram. Commentary on the Ten Maxims of Sahaj Marg. The Heartfulness Store. ISBN 9789388095617 – via Google Books.
  12. "Sahaj Marg Raja Yoga Meditation - Towards Infinity".
  13. "Sahaj Marg Raja Yoga Meditation - Sahaj Marg Philosophy".
  14. Chandra, Ram. Sahaj Marg Philosophy. The Heartfulness Store. ISBN 9789388095655 – via Google Books.
  15. "The Autobiography of Ram Chandra -PDF" (PDF).
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