Comments to Chari's speech of June 10, 2010 at Chennai, India.
Comments by 4d-don are in "red italics".
From Wikipedia:
Revocation is the act of recall or annulment.
A resignation is the formal act of giving up or quitting one's office or position.
Should the Master of Sahaj Marg(tm) not have "character" before preaching "character" to others...Did Ajay resign,request a revocation of his appointment of President, or was he "revoked" by Chari?? Who initiated the revocation?
THE TRUTH PLEASE! ... we are "thinkers"... we are not "living dead", nor "brain dead", nor "zombies"!! That is why we are not "serfs" in Sahaj Marg(tm) nor missionaries of the "allegedly" stolen SRCM MISSION, re-registered in California, in 1997.
Give that Society and the registered and patented names back to their rightful owners ... The ones which the Board of Directors of SRCM(Shahjahanpur, 1945) founded by Babuji, CHOSE to believe and now for all to see. (see the letter of succession presented in 1983. Chari's letter ... notice the words: President in the Sahaj Marg system... Notice that it is dated "1974". This is not a very convincing letter to appoint a President of the Shri Ram Chandra Mission (SRCM-Shahjanpur-1945) not of the Sahaj Marg system. A "system" does not have a PRESIDENT, a "society" does ... remember the alleged "lost (stolen?) signed blank letterheads" that Babuji reported to the police. This amateurish letter of succession was rejected by the Board of Directors of the SRCM in 1983.
Now look at a typed copy of Umesh's letter of nomination dated April 16, 1982, signed by Babuji. (scan of Umesh's original letter and envelope is available here). Babuji died one year later, on April 19, 1983. Notice the style, form, and wording, specially the mention of Lalaji. Anyone who has read Babuji, knows that he would not do anything without crediting Lalaji with endorsing it. Babuji was a court clerk, he knew "legalese"... Chari was a CEO (manager of a mill, now retired), and an engineer in plastics, he knows the MATERIAL and not much legalese..
The SRCM California- was then registered at San Luis Obispo, California, in 1997.)
Hollywood is in California ... Sahaj Marg(tm) is like the movie industry or the TV REALITY shows ... all charisma, all style, and very little substance or REALITY!!
Give Your Full Attention To Character Formation
June 10, 2010, Chennai, India.
For some time now, I have been deeply thinking about the reason for the slow progress of abhyasis, and in some cases even about the lack of their progress — total lack of progress. (Maybe the system or the Master is not of "caliber". How about calling it a "SCAM"? Now it seems that it's not the ULTIMATE that the abhyasis are supposed to seek, but some "character". That "character" (and the "person-ality"), is tied to a material (carbon) body and it will not live on, as most true spiritual Masters claim, SPIRIT will. Is that not telling of what Sahaj Marg(tm) has become? A New Age "self-help" group to build "character" ... and with a "recreational flavour"... for those looking for the attractions of the physical ... for "cougars", and spiritualist MEDIUMS!) Of course, some are progressing well, but that too is perhaps more because of the personal attention that the Master gives them rather than by their own effort, and I am not referring especially to their spiritual practice but to their lifestyle. (lol lol... give your head a shake!)
You know, in Sahaj Marg we are always talking of the Master giving the inner spiritual condition, which for him is a matter of a second, (Chari is a little "egotistic" (or maybe even megalomaniac or psychopath ) whereas character formation is the responsibility of the abhyasi. I think, in general, abhyasis conveniently think that maybe the Master's role is ninety-nine percent, or more, and the abhyasi's role in personal character transformation or formation, is even less than one percent. (That was the claim of Sahaj Marg!! Now they realize that they can't deliver! Where is the guarantee "beyond the grave"?? Now they will focus on "character" or "personality"?? Not Spirit or the Ultimate?...)
I am forced to this, shall I say, conclusion, because that is how it appears to be, and people are not really serious about character formation or character transformation. ( The abhyasis, being "living dead" and/or clones of the Master, now have or attempt to develop the same character as the Master? ... look in the mirror) Why I say this is because, as I said before, spirituality is given by the Master and that cannot be doubted, you see. (lol...lol... What a crock... WE ARE ALL SPIRIT or none are spirit... Chari thinks that only "spirits" are SPIRIT. Spiritualism is not SPIRITUALITY! One is a SCAM and one is a REALITY, not something to achieve or to be "given" by another person! When do you realize: REALITY? When is your "Dawn"? ) But their outer behaviour, their outer lifestyle, the way they conduct themselves, their politeness or lack of it, and, as repeatedly pointed out to me by abhyasis from all over the world, especially the behaviour of those very close to me — what the outside world calls the inner circle. You know, I used to feel concerned, then I used to feel pained, now I really feel guilty. (How Masterly!! NOT) I feel guilty because the people close to me, my inner circle so-called, are, one and all, arrogant, proud, demanding, oppressive, authoritarian and lack politeness — one and all. (lol...lol... is that an admission that we (the bloggers, the journalists, the messengers) were not the "enemies of sprituality" after all, but that his own "inner circle" were (are) not very SPIRITUAL??... "one and all". Does that reflect on the "efficacy" of the Method or the caliber of the Master who "CHOSE THEM"? ) Of course, I keep telling them about this. Either they smile it off or they say, "Yes, yes, we will change now." But you know, recent affairs, especially when I was in Tiruppur immediately following dear brother Ajay Bhatter's revocation of his nomination to succeed me, it has shown the raw human nature at its worst. Gossiping, condemning, blaming — always others, forgetting the principle that when you point your finger at somebody (one finger), three fingers are pointing towards yourselves. (Could Chari remember that when he points at other "corrupt" religions or at others whom he calls "enemies of Spirituality", or the abhyasis on whom he attempts to use "temptation and fear" to control and manipulate! ... How religiously corrupt Sahaj Marg(tm) has become.
Was Ajay's Kumar Bhatter's leaving, a "resignation" or a "request for revocation" initiated by Ajay or by Chari? Can any one ever tell the truth in Sahaj Marg(tm)? Are they all in the sales "con game"?? Including the Master?
Chari himself now calls it a "revocation", as if Chari himself had revoked Ajay Kumar Bhatter or initiated his revocation!! A request for a revocation of an appointment is called a "resignation". When one requests that one's appointment be revoked, one is resigning from ones' appointment. Would you all become like HIM or like "them" and speak with "forked tongues"? Then "so be it"... AMEN ... MAKE IT SO!)
So what to do about this, you see. How to make abhyasis realize that the Master's responsibility or his, what shall we say, duty towards an abhyasi (if I should call it that), is hardly one percent — probably one thousandth or one millionth of a percent; whereas the abhyasi's role, responsibility in making himself, transforming himself, should be ninety-nine percent or more. It is exactly opposite. (How about Zero percent (0%)? As he nears the "other side", or the "great divide", Chari is beginning to realize that his "promises" about Sahaj Marg(tm) and the Master (himself) are not the REALITY and that he does not posess any "SPECIAL" powers, and that all must earn their own rewards, their own heavens, their own "liberation" or "salvation", in this CREATED Universe ... Remember Karma and samskaras etc ... That is not only for the "westerners"!! It is not only for those from the "CONQUERED" markets!
There is no apparent or obvious justice in the Material world ... so the pseudo-spiritual and the religious invent another realm so as to balance the equation in their weak attempt to be "rational" or "reasoned" ... But it is not a certainty that there is a "balance" ...
Motion is a REALITY, and for motion to exist, there may be many possibilities of "imbalance", and we little humans with our small brains, do not yet know the "certainty" of the created and infinitely in Motion, and eternally changing UNIVERSE ... WE (some) simply develop HOPE so as to not be forever depressed or "greedy" or egotist and thus adhere to the homo sapiens imperative of the survival of our species (procreation) ... and so as to have hope, we develop other virtues such as charity, and faith, or LOVE in all its various forms. Seek your Salvation on your own!! Some others, more gullible and more lazy, seek to be saved or liberated by Saviours and/or exotic charismatics who's pyramid of "chosen" close followers claim to be God-men!! )
Now, what are the consequences? People close to me think that because I keep them close to me, continue to keep them close to me, they are blameless, they are really blameless and I am only talking for fun or to show-off or something like that, you know, like chastising a pet. And people who are away from me, but who are close to me in an inner sense, they stay away. (You got that right... There is so much shit around you that only those with no noses or no "character" can stand it. The philosophers and the thinkers and/or those with "character", left a long time ago ... But remember, you attract around you what you are ... you were that way first and you eliminated all who were not like you, or who questioned you and your "egotism". You called them "enemies" and you divided Sahaj Marg and the SRCM and the families of those without "character" or integrity, who were lured by your spiritualist "fantasy" and your manipulation of the MATERIAL. You attract the MATERIAL and the materialists and the believers in fantasies. You reject the intellectual and the SPIRITUAL but favour the SPIRITUALISM of Mediums and their messages from the dead which you can manipulate. The corruption of the pyramid usually starts at the TOP or at the vertices but it spreads to the whole PYRAMID. When the corruption is seen at the base, then it is complete. And there is no easy way OUT of the pyramid. Leaving Sahaj Marg (tm) will be emotional. First, change the paradigm from a pyramid to a SPIRAL!)
I remember Babuji Maharaj had a dog, Honey; and he was not fond of dogs, but it was there and it remained there. It used to run around chasing the monkeys and he used to tell me with a twinkle in his eye that, "You know, Honey recognizes abhyasis, because when abhyasis come, he doesn't bark. He only barks at non-abhyasis." And, you know, I never understood the significance of Babuji praising this dog for this quality that it does not bark at abhyasis. A dog! And my people around me, they are all the time barking, shutting doors, putting away people, using my name for everything that they do. "He is ill." "He is resting." "He is asleep." "He told us no," so on and so forth. (it's a story, an anecdote ... it is not a fact to be used to prove anything... Can you not organize your society better than that? Does your system of meditation (Sahaj Marg(tm) not make people "more moral and ethical" than that? How about "SPIRITUAL"?? Is it truly a spiritual system or is it in reality a "spiritualist" system? Is it simply a materialist tool to invade other markets and to further the nationalist Tamil Diaspora dream?? Is it simply a tool to "conquer the world"?? Is it simpy a "corruption" of Spirituality and is it now fully a Sham? ... a SPIRITUALIST Scam? Could it be the un-intentional "curse of Lalaji's Sufism" at work? Now most who have come in contact with Sahaj Marg, know of Lalaji and his Sufism from his TRUE lineage, the Naqshbandiya Sufi Order. Chari has made Lalaji better known to the world, and has shown his Sufism to have some "integrity". We see that integrity and honesty in the current dean of his NaqshMuMRa lineage, the grandson of Lalaji, Dinaysh Kumar Saxena.
Then we see that integrity counterbalanced against SRCM (California-1997), surrounded by the snares of power, nationalism, opulent materialism and Spiritualism. It is not Natural in the Spiritual sense, but it is "easy"! The MacDonald of Spiritualism. As much as "fast food" will feed but will not make the body healthy, Sahaj Marg(tm) and their brand of nationalistic and materialistic Spiritualism, will feed their idea of SPIRITISM, but it will not add to SPIRIT, which does not need "feeding" ... but simply BEING ... and IT IS ...
I get letters from very, very close, devoted abhyasis who love me saying, "I cannot come, and I will not come so long as I am stopped." For them too, it is a need to transform themselves, because as Babuji once said, "Two lovers cannot remain separated because the circumstances are not favourable." (You yourself have divided the families of your followers ... for nothing... have some "character" at least!) You know the old saying in English: Love laughs at locksmiths. It doesn't mean it only laughs at locks. The locksmith is symbolic of every circumstance that can come between the lover and the beloved. (If you seperate the lovers in your group, they will in turn seperate from you!! Would you build your fortune (liberation) on the character of those who leave their "lovers" for a self-titled foreigner who promises fantasies? Then that is what you built your Sahaj Marg(tm) "system" on ... May you live with the "characterless character" of those who desert their own culture, family, nation, and may you reap the same rewards from them as we did ... desertion. Now we can both seek those with some family, national or cultural "character", which is not "for sale"! )
You remember the old story of the man who was so besotted with a girl that when she went out of town, he followed her. There was a river to cross, and the river was in flood. He did not know what to do and then he found something like a log of wood. He took that log of wood and went across the river; and then he found a light burning in the house on the first floor. He said, "That must be my beloved's room." And he saw to his surprise a thick rope hanging, and he said, "Oh, she loves me so much that she has left a rope for me," and he climbed up using it. And when he entered the room, the girl was stunned. She said, "How did you come?" He said "Oh, there was a boat, you know, there was a log of wood; I crossed the river. And you have left this rope for me." And to their horror, they found that the log of wood was a human corpse and the rope was a python!
Now, suppose that lover had been standing on the opposite side — I mean I am giving a deliberate twist in interpretation to this story. (making it up as he goes along) Suppose he had stood there waiting until the flood subsided? Then he found the water was muddy because it was a flooding river. He waited till the water was clear. Then he tested it to make sure that there was no contamination. Then he crossed it. What would have happened?
So for devoted, loving souls who use these excuses to not come near, I must emphasize that they are losing a great deal more than these ruffianly people who surround me and who keep people away. They too will not benefit. So what happens is that the dogs which bark at the visitors don't have anything, and the people who are turned away because the dogs are barking, they have no benefit. (You attracted them, you lured them, (numbers, numbers, numbers,) and you empowered them and now you "blame them" for your mistakes... My, My... How Masterly!! A poor carpenter blames his tools. A bad dog-owner blames his dogs. You grew your "Mission" on the humility of Babuji and the integrity of Lalaji. Train your dogs. And you claimed to be a Master of "humanity", while Babuji was a Master of Spirituality (you claimed)?? No dog kept anyone away from Babuji, and no "arrogant inner-circle" member keeps anyone away from you. People use "excuses" to go elsewhere so as to find what they seek: TRUTH maybe?? How about: "character"?)
So lack of correct appreciation of what character transformation means... You know, I get letters from wives about their husbands: He continues to drink, he continues to smoke, he continues to beat me. He is misbehaving with the children. I get letters from others you know, from a brother, an elder brother or a younger brother, that: My brother is still indulging in various fantasies. He watches porno movies, he indulges in self-titillation. (Tell them to speak nicely of their "imaginary" brothers and sisters, rather than spreading the rumours further this way. He (the imaginary brother) must do something "good". And beside, so do you, the pseudo-spiritual and the religious, you also self-titillate ... recall that "SPICES" are a titillation and are to be avoided in Rajistic diets. The upper caste or the "ELITE", living in wealth and opulence, has always used religion to control the masses and create positions of "titillating" power for themselves inside a materialist pyramid of their own making. Your egoistic orgies (birthday parties) and your nationalist fantasies of conquering the world are less honest than the "sensual" titillation of sex or scratching an "itch". Some of the porn industry is more honest about what they offer, and who they are, than many who use RELIGION or Spiritualism and Spirituality to hide behind, and point at others, and to evangelize (or conquer?) them. No sex please, we are Spiritual?? No scratching allowed, we are RELIGIOUS.
And we know that some religions even lie about their lineage and display a self-appointed and self-titled addiction to power and adulation, even to societal divisions, to conflicts and to war. We know that many of the adherents to religions are "overweight", and are arrogant (holier than thou), so their self-titillation is of the ego and of the stomach and of the mouth ... The religious "orally fixated" who preach (point) at others. The Sahaj Marg(tm) type of pseudo-Spirituality which is really "spiritualism", and which claims to UNITE does not do so in REALITY, so their product is a sham, and a fake. We have our divided families and our societies (schisms) as "evidence".
And we hear (from the Media and the courts) that many "religious" leaders, and preachers and other pointers-at-others, do have "sex"... for pleasure, not for pro-creation ... Do you? Why do you point and preach, at other's pleasure and not your own? Are you not supposed to be "SPIRITUAL"? All of nature has pleasure ... the flowers, the animals, and HOMO SAPIENS... and pleasure is addictive... even "conquering the world" or material power is addictive ... the STAR syndrome!! Look at your "opulent" magazines, where you have others attempt to make you "larger than life" ... How "humble"!! We are not amused, and we are not impressed. ) He is masochistic, and yet to the outside world he looks something different. He will not change himself. He says these are something natural; under pressure of inner psychic needs these things happen. Then there are others who say: My children are being ill-treated. The father beats them regularly. Of course, for me it is my destiny as a wife. (My... what a nice bunch of people to meditate with!! The "energy" must be very "ULTIMATE"!! One does not have to travel far to find such people... they are everywhere... one must seek ONE by one's self... in ISOLATION... Those who need excitement and the exotic will find what you have to offer... a meeting, a gathering of those who seek their narcissistic excitement or their BLISS in the company of MANY... Where is the "natural" part of Sahaj Marg?? Nature at the Mission is destroyed or "manicured" for the navel-gazing pleasure of the "torch-bearers" who must then go home and work at luring others to travel to INDIA ... But there is pristine NATURE everywhere that man and his "developments" has not reached ... go meditate there!!)
So you see, people must understand that sadhana does not begin and end with the morning meditation, with the evening cleaning and the night prayer. It is not the end. That is only the foundation of the practice. The superstructure of what has to be erected is a clean structure — well ventilated, that means behaviour transparent. The man is transparent. If he is a businessman, he must have stopped cheating the government by evading taxes. He must have stopped cheating by adulteration of his products. He must have stopped cheating by using or selling expired goods. He must have stopped cheating his partners, if he is a businessman. Are our people doing it? Or do they say, "Sahib, that cannot be done because there would be no profit." They must understand that profit is what legitimately comes by buying and selling honestly, sincerely and correctly. Anything else you get by evading taxes, by cheating partners is robbery. (Ahem!! What about the Teachings of Lalaji and the "Sufi" path?? Are you not "cheaters" and "robbers" of his name and not his METHOD? ... Why are you not a SUFI?
Look at the various questionable methods used by SRCM to generate, and then to carry money accross "national borders" so as to avoid paying duty and taxes (meal receipts stamped "donation", and books sold for "donations") ... I would not call SRCM a good "citizen" in our country ... "Methinks they doth protest too much!!"... Shakespeare)
I am sorry I have put it in such strong terms but our friends from the business community, our abhyasis, they often satisfy themselves by saying, "Yeh hoga nahin, saab, kabhi — this is not possible. Business cannot be done this way." I say, the whole world is doing business this way. Why you cannot do it? Then a man says, "No, no, Sir. My wife denies me everything. She won't give me proper food." He doesn't talk about sex, which is the main thing between a husband and wife in our society. If that is denied, marriage is a failure. Is there a proper way of conducting your marital life, whether it is social or sexual or in any way else, to be harmonious? Should a man not respect his wife's needs, her privacy, her health condition, her moods, or just insist on what we call in India in our legal language [as] ‘his marital rights' that she must be available any time of the day, twenty-four into seven into three hundred and sixty-six — day or night it doesn't matter. (Sounds like a televangelist... a fundamentalist televangelist... he is playing or preaching for the "women"!! How typical. Use one gender against the other! His gullible "torch-bearers"! The believers of fantasies, fiction and in any New Age therapies! )
I was horrified to hear a story from an abhyasi long ago that after her child was born, on the third day or fourth day her husband demanded sex. Third or fourth day! Now whether he is a husband or an animal or a brute, who is to say? He says, "It's my right." It's an interpretation solely to the purpose of a, shall we say, crazy fellow who has sufficient power to enforce his will upon another, to use the principles of marriage to his own purpose and ignoring completely that she may have just had a child. "It doesn't matter. So what? She is a woman, isn't she?" (How about the marriages you arrange and which end the "same day" or within the week ?? You claim that happens... is that not just a form of facilitating or "prostitution", favours for your "boys"? Is it all for "immigration"? What about the gays and lesbians you seperate? )
So those of you who are going to listen to this, I don't know how you will take all this. But, you know, I should have spoken about this years ago. But I was perhaps too optimistic or too foolish or perhaps even too afraid to put across these ideas to my abhyasis and tell them: Sisters and brothers, this is what is required of you. Always love. Love does not mean lust. Love means giving; (practice what you preach... Give back the society (SRCM) that you registered in California, USA, to the Family of Ram Chandra, who is allegedly your Master, and stop dividing your "fans" for the sake of your ego and your "legacy"... If you claim Lalaji as your "adi guru" then teach his METHOD, the Sufi Path or the Naqshbandiyya Order. ) love does not mean taking. Love means consideration for others; not a selfish concern for your own self and what you need and what you want. Love means, your income (legitimate), is yours; nothing more. (you were rejected as President of SRCM by the Board of Directors) Love means, in a partnership in business, if it is an equal partnership I cannot rob others. Suppose they rob me? Love means first and foremost putting yourself in the place of another before you speak and before you act. (look in the mirror or at your "disciples"... they have become like you... You are the one preaching at the world so as to grow your numbers... conquering the world! )
If these things are not followed and applied to your own life, dear brothers and sisters, whatever may be the spiritual input that our Master gives us, graces us with, blesses us with, will be lost. (too late... there is no SPIRITUALITY in spirit-UALISM ... only profiteers, mediums and spirits and made-up messages claiming to be from the "spirits of the dead"...give it all back and start over...) ... Because it is my samskara that I will carry with me into my next life, God forbid if there is a next life, and they are governed by what we do here, what we think here, which is how samskaras are born. (Venus is waiting .... Chari seems to think that Babuji will send him to Venus in his next life) So I say, beware, be alert, understand these principles properly, apply them to your own life, examine yourself. If necessary, in your diary be very frank and say, "I have stopped beating my wife." (Repeat after me: I am giving back the SRCM Society and the names of its METHOD and the Research Institute, to its rightful owners ... ) Truth, if it is the truth. "I have stopped telling lies to my partners. (Say it loud and repeat it until you feel it) I have stopped cheating. (yes...say that too) I have stopped adulterating. (like you adulterated Patanjali's Raja Yoga, by starting at step number seven and taking out all the "character-building" steps... the SPIRITUALITY. Adulterating Lalajis' and now Babuji's messages, making his method into SPIRITUALISM.) I have stopped self-titillating. (sitting on a throne to be adored by my fans, and gorging on feasts of non-rajistic food, ego, and rituals ... self praise!! EGO! ) I have stopped beating my children." (and speaking bad words at them (fear) and trying to make them believe fantasies, in the name of ONE (what you call a Male God). All these are relevant to your spiritual diary, if you want to be honest about it, so that anybody can read what you have written. Then only you will be aware. Because now, you know, we live in the secrecy of our inner self, nobody knows. So we have this question of personality problems. My personality is what I show to the outside world. My true self is inside, secret, safely buried, and I am blissfully thinking that by Master's grace I will evolve, I will go to the Brighter World, et cetera, et cetera, et cetera. (NOT)
The Master is magnanimous. He loves us, he wants to give us everything that he has, but his limitation is that unless the vessel is clean he cannot put anything else into it. We are in a situation where the Master gives us, let us say, a hundred gallon tank of milk, and two drops of poison which is our contribution, ruins it. (Do you hear yourself?) It is so potent — human will, human endeavour is so potent. As Babuji said, "You can train a lion to do what you want in six months. But it's impossible to train a human being over a whole lifetime unless he or she cooperates." What is the cooperation that I am now trying to emphasize that an abhyasi should offer to the Master? Full attention to character transformation, (not the ULTIMATE anymore?? How SPIRITUALIST and NEW AGE self-help!!) knowing that the spiritual part is being attended to by him, meticulously, every moment of our life, with total concern for our spiritual welfare and our future.
I exhort all of you who will listen to this to take it seriously; if necessary, read this again and again if it is available in written form, and apply it every moment of your life. Think ten times before you address your friend. Think twenty times before you refuse somebody entry into my place to meet me. Do not shout; imagine what it would be like if somebody shouted at you. Do not push people; you don't like to be pushed. Do not force yourself on your wife. (Chari wants to keep the women working so as to grow his Mission) And do not make negative comments all the time. (Re-read your NEGATIVE comments about others and their RELIGIONS and about others (westerners?). Where are the mirrors? ) "There is no salt in this, there is no sugar in this. You are ugly," you know
I don't want to see anything in you. Because, by force of circumstances, call it health, call it whatever it is, I really cannot see any of you now, beyond six feet, and my seeing your spiritual condition if I am able to do it, is of no use, because what is going to carry you into the next level of spiritual welfare, spiritual achievement, is you yourself. (Finally, something TRUE..)
I pray for all of you . (And I will pray that you and all your followers will LEARN! Or that your fans will see the REAL light and not be fooled by shamsters who guilt them anymore!)
Alexis said:
(Translated from Elodie's Blog in France: Pour Que Vive Le Sahaj Marg)
Ajay: Gossiping, condemning, blaminng.
More about Ajay...
“ (...) But you know, recent affairs, especially when I was in Tiruppur immediately following dear brother Ajay Bhatter's revocation of his nomination to succeed me, it has shown the raw human nature at its worst. Gossiping, condemning, blaming — always others, forgetting the principle that when you point your finger at somebody (one finger), three fingers are pointing towards yourselves (...)”
One more time, we were not in error by imagining that Ajay's departure would have some sad consequences. On the other hand, the form employed by Chari raises some questions about Ajay's resignation or his revocation by Chari.
Alexis...
