Shri Ram Chandra Mission provides spiritual training in the heart based Raj Yoga meditation system, now known as Heartfulness Meditation to interested seekers from around the world. It offers a set of practices for self-development that helps a person find inner calm and stillness. Offered at no cost and without any dogma, it is the ancient art of yogic transmission or pranahuti. It also offers Heartfulness Yoga that integrates body, mind and soul in the true spirit of Ashtanga Yoga. It not only teaches classical yoga asanas but also the ultimate goal of Yoga, which is oneness through meditation.
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. The organization was named after the Adi Guru of the system Shri Ram Chandraji of Fatehgarh, U.P. India. Babuji was succeeded as president and spiritual Master of SRCM by Shri Parthasarathi Rajagopalachari, affectionately known as Chariji. Following the death of Chariji on 20 December 2014, Shri Kamlesh D. Patel has become the third president of SRCM and the fourth spiritual Master of the Sahaj Marg system. 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. Books published by SRCM have been translated to over twenty languages and read widely across the world. The Spiritual Hierarchy Publication Trust 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 and the Sahaj Marg Spirituality Foundation. Shri Ram Chandra Mission is an NGO recognized by the United Nations Department of Public Information as a "non-profit organization" in Denmark, the United States and India.
Activities
In February 2020Ram Nath Kovind, the President of India, visited Kanha Shanti Vanam, the global headquarters of Shri Ram Chandra Mission, and unveiled the world's largest meditation center. In April 2019 the Heartfulness Learning Center was launched in Kanha Shanti Vanam which aims to provide a blended learning environment to Pre-KG to Grade 8 children. 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. 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" 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. 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.
