Shri Ram Chandra Mission

Shri Ram Chandra Mission (SRCM) is a non-profit organization and a spiritual movement originating in India, which teaches the practice of "Sahaj Marg" or "Heartfulness Meditation". It was registered in 1945 by Ram Chandra of Shahjahanpur, Uttar Pradesh. It has its current headquarters at Kanha Shanti Vanam, Kanha village, Ranga Reddy District near Hyderabad, Telangana.[1][2][3][4]

Shri Ram Chandra Mission
Founded1945
FounderShri Ram Chandra of Shahjahanpur, UP, India
TypeNon-profit organization
FocusYoga, Spirituality
Area served
Worldwide
MethodSahaj Marg, Meditation
Key people
Kamlesh D. Patel
Websitewww.srcm.org

Purpose and practice

Shri Ram Chandra Mission teaches the "heart based" Raj Yoga meditation system known as Heartfulness Meditation.[5][1]

Organization

Shri Ram Chandra Mission was registered in India in the year 1945 by Shri Ram Chandra of Shahjahanpur, U.P. India, affectionately known as Babuji (1899–1983). The organization was named after the Adi Guru of the system Shri Ram Chandraji of Fatehgarh, U.P. India (aka "Lalaji"). Babuji was succeeded as president and spiritual Master of SRCM by Shri Parthasarathi Rajagopalachari, affectionately known as Chariji (1927–2014). Following the death of Chariji on 20 December 2014,[6] Shri Kamlesh D. Patel has become the third president of SRCM and the fourth spiritual Master of the Sahaj Marg system.[1] The organization was also registered as SRCM USA in California in 1997.

Shri Ram Chandra Mission is now present in over 150 countries on all continents.[1] Books published by SRCM have been translated to over twenty languages and read widely across the world.[7] The Spiritual Hierarchy Publication Trust (SHPT) was registered on 8 April 2009, with its headquarters at Kolkata, India. The SHPT undertakes all publication activities under license from the Shri Ram Chandra Mission (SRCM) and the Sahaj Marg Spirituality Foundation (SMSF).[8]

Shri Ram Chandra Mission is an NGO recognized by the United Nations Department of Public Information (UNDPI) as a "non-profit organization" in Denmark, the United States and India.[9]

Activities
Hon. President of India unveils the World's largest meditation hall at Kanha Shanti Vanam

In February 2020 Ram Nath Kovind, the President of India, visited Kanha Shanti Vanam, the global headquarters of Shri Ram Chandra Mission, and unveiled the meditation center, which the organization claims is the largest in the world.[10] In connection with the center there is a learning center for children between the ages of 3 and 13,[11] and a cricket stadium.[12]

SRCM in collaboration with the United Nations Information Centre for India and Bhutan hosts the "All India Essay Writing Event", an annual essay writing event for school and college students across India. Prizes are awarded for national and state level winners. In 2014, a total of 185,751 students from 11,857 schools and colleges across India took part in this annual contest.[13] In 2017, the event was hosted with participants writing essays in English, Hindi, Bengali, Gujarati, Kannada, Marathi, Malayalam, Oriya, Punjabi, Tamil and Telugu.

Shri Ram Chandra Mission, Kanha Shanti Vanam, was awarded the "Haritha Mitra" (Green Friend) Award by the Telangana government in 2016, in recognition of exemplary contribution to the greening movement undertaken by the Government of Telangana by Deputy Chief Minister Mahmood Ali of Telangana State, India.[14][15]

In December 2017, Ram Nath Kovind, the President of India, E.S.L. Narasimhan, Governor of Andhra Pradesh and Telangana, visited SRCM's Kanha Shanti Vanam Ashram and planted the 100,000th tree with Kamlesh Patel under the Green Kanha initiative.[16][17][18]

See also

References
  1. "Address by the President of India, Shri Ram Nath Kovid on the Occasion of Inaguration of the New Globlal Headquarters 'Kanha Shanti Vanam' of Shri Ram Chandra Mission". www.presidentofindia.gov.in. 2 February 2020. Retrieved 4 February 2020.
  2. "President inaugurates 1,400-acre HQ of Heartfulness Institute". The Hindu Business Line. 2 February 2020. Retrieved 9 February 2020.
  3. "Kovind visits ashram near Hyderabad, plants sapling".
  4. "Be calm by positioning in the centre".
  5. "Spirituality India's precious gift to world: Kovind". Telangana Today. 3 February 2020. Retrieved 9 February 2020.
  6. "21st December 2014". The Hindu. 22 December 2014. Retrieved 21 October 2018.
  7. "Sahaj Marg system of meditation". The Sunday Times. 3 August 2008. Retrieved 4 August 2010.
  8. Spiritual Hierarchy Publication Trust
  9. "Department of Public Information – Non-governmental organizations". United Nations. Retrieved 20 February 2018.
  10. "President inaugurates meditation centre". Deccan Chronicle. 3 February 2020. Retrieved 9 February 2020.
  11. "A Unique LEARNING CENTRE' inaugurated at Heartfulness Institute, Kanha Shanti Vanam, Hyderabad" (Press release). APN News. 30 April 2019. Retrieved 9 February 2020.
  12. "Rohit Sharma stresses on meditation for positivity". The Times of India. 3 January 2020. Retrieved 20 October 2020.
  13. "Srikakulam youth shines in essay contest". The Hindu. 26 January 2015. Retrieved 9 November 2018.
  14. "Award for green commitment". The Hindu. 17 August 2017. Retrieved 9 February 2020.
  15. Kanha Shanti Vanam's Green Initaitive
  16. "Kovind visits ashram near Hyderabad, plants sapling". Business Standard. IANS. 25 December 2017.
  17. "Telangana: Green drive –18 crore more saplings planted than before". Deccan Chronicle. 26 December 2017.
  18. "Observing International Day of Peace". Telangana Today. 26 September 2017.
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