Clark Powell Distances Himself from SRCM (California-1997)

Taken from Orkut community: Freedom From SRCM (Sahaj Marg) (Dec. 10/2009)

Clark Powell is an ex-preceptor of Chari's SRCM (California-1997) and the author of: The Sahaj Marg Companion, which has an intro by Chari. Clark has also authored many magazine articles promoting Sahaj Marg and Chari's faction, SRCM (California-1997), headquartered in Chennai, India, and which appeared on this new site but was removed: Sahaj Marg System (Literature) . The site still promotes Sahaj Marg and contains many in-accuracies, but it does not seem to promote the "Sahaj Marg (tm) of Chari or his "SRCM (California-1997) !!

Clark was also the Creator of a Website and Discussion Forum on Sahaj Marg called "Invertendo.com", that Chari had closed, after an on-going "on-line" discussion with the author and "webmaster" of the site, Clark.

For Clark's comments, see the "comments section" at the bottom of this article



Shashwat Said:


Our friend Clark has decided to de-link himself from Chari's Sahaj Marg, and for that unfortunately he has blamed Santosh Khanjee and not Chari, or Babuji for that matter.

Problem with Clark is, as with most of the victims of Sahaj Marg, they fail to recognize the root cause of the problem and get infatuated by the symptoms of the disease, we cannot assume that an individual who is at the center is (an) innocent victim of the situation created by himself, Sahaj Marg today is that what it has been made by Babuji and Chari combined, all the criminals who have become part of Sahaj Marg, would not have come there if these two people were honest in their approach, in my opinion, Babuji was not a criminal minded person, but a hallucinated mental patient, whereas Chari in my opinion is a criminal minded beast, for me, there is no difference between Osama bin laden and P. Rajagopalachari. (These are the opinions of Shashwat and not of the author of this blog)

Now coming back to Clark Powell, his writings about Sahaj Marg became a center point in advertisement of Sahaj Marg, (with which he is de-associating himself now) for as long as a decade, after his difference with Sahaj Marg and people running it, now he claims that people around Chari are not good and Chari himself is victim of those people, which is incorrect, Chari is not a child that he can be fooled by those whom he only has harbored in past and is continuing to do so...

Clark is equally responsible for destruction of numerous families, relations and individuals as Santosh Khanjee is, Chari is, A.P Durai is, or Uma Shanker bajpai or AK Bhatter is...

They all are part of the same criminal gang called Sahaj Marg, one cannot be pardoned just because s/he has decided to move out after causing un-speakable damage to the society by advocating a criminal concept.



Clark in a different post on Facebook, has spelled out (the) reasons for his departure from sahaj marg... below is what he has written on Facebook..


For more than a decade, this article appeared on the official Sahaj Marg and SRCM websites with some of my other published work. These re-appeared (without permission) in various websites and blogs not related to SRCM. I didn't care, as long as they were re-produced accurately and someone found them useful. At the request of Santosh Khanjee in representing the Mission, the rights to this were signed over to SRCM and in a subsequent, much more restrictive legal instrument, he apparently included anything I might write or produce in the future writings.

On 11/3/2009, I requested that my published writings be removed from the SRCM websites, and I am grateful that this request was immediately enacted. For five years, beginning with my return to active participation in February 2003, I began to see something that had not been so pronounced in 1997. The group of less than a half-dozen men that Chariji chose to run SRCM and surround himself had grown more and more powerful. From my own unique vantage point of outside-insider (and this personal relation with Chariji caused considerable jealousy and consternation with some of the insiders) I saw some of the private in-fighting within this group first-hand, and also the power plays and arrogance of certain people. of trying to point out the arrogance and insularity of the circle of powerful, wealthy individuals he had chosen to surround him, especially Santosh Khanjee of Austin,Texas, who reads every email addressed to Chariji before it is forwarded to him. Though I never saw the final version of the DVD set, I was present for most of the tapings, and I hear that some of my questions were included. I find it sad that Cahriji himself is aware of the politics and power=plays, and even spoke of it at his son's farm on the videos. But Chariji has told me on several occasions that even he is captive to the organization he has created.

"If I had my way, I would never leave Satkhol. I would let others run the Mission. But my master would not allow this." I felt I should add a personal clarification to my guru, the gist of which follows:

Sir: No explanation has been asked nor is one needed. Still, after all these years, etiquette seems to suggest some sort of explanation would be right. My esteem for my friends in Sahaj Marg, and to my great Freind, has not lessened. Nor will my gratitude - for everything, even that which was not best for me personally - ever go away. Just so, I remain grateful to professors and grade-school teachers and old friends who taught me things I need at the time - this gratitude will never go, even years later, when you may have moved on to other things. As you remember, on many occasions I did attempt to make these and other views known in private to those who make decisions. I meditated for months and now years over some things, and held my silence. But now I can no longer put off what must be done. I hope you will appreciated, even if you do not agree, that for me This is a matter personal truth, integrity, and responsibility - my own sva-dharma, [the truth of the heart, "one's own way/dharma."] It would be false and wrong to allow the use of my name and my writings to support and to promote SRCM to others when I see that these writings describe a different Sahaj Marg, a Sahaj Marg that no longer exists.
- cp


Shashwat Said:

Clarks testimonial can be found on facebook here:
http://www.facebook.com/note.php?note_id=196871267526

(Link does not work ... Must be a member of (or have an account on) Facebook)


This is no surprise that all of Clarks article which are removed from the official website of Chari's SRCM has found place in a new website run by one of his follower who belongs to a town near Shahjahanpur and is an active visitor of Shahjahanpur Ashram which was captured by Chari's goons some time back.
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