Sahaj Marg and Chari's Hypocrisy

Translation of an article by Élodie: "Le Sahaj Marg et l'hypocrisie de Chari", on her blog in Europe: Pour Que Vive Le Sahaj Marg.


January 31, 2014
 
Sahaj Marg and Chari's Hypocrisy

The meditation method of Sahaj Marg is not reserved for monks or hermits, it is adapted to the lifestyle of the modern world, tell us the masters of SRCM, in the family sphere as well as in the social sphere.
 
This is what Chari has restated in his New Year's message of 2014, a great and very improved method compared to those used by the sages of ancient times:

 “(…) I used to wonder when I heard or read of rishis [sages] in the past meditating for 20,000 years – some from one yuga [eon] to another. (...) That was how long it took in those excellent yugas full of peace, tranquillity, virtues, character, morality.

In those days it took so long – millennia, I repeat. And now in our life, in Kali Yuga, full of its corruption, immorality, lack of peace, violence, avarice, with all these negative qualities, our Masters have made it so easy that Babuji Maharaj could say with conviction that if we practise Sahaj Marg properly, every day systematically as prescribed, it is possible to achieve a goal even higher than what the rishis achieved, in this lifetime. 

You see how the practice of meditation has been modified age after age, even from Lalaji Maharaj's time to Babuji's time. Because, if you have all read the literature of the Mission properly, Lalaji Maharaj gave practice according to the person who sat before him. To some he prescribed mantras, to some he prescribed puja, things like that. But Babuji Maharaj refined it, until today we have just to sit like this for an hour (…) So is this not a wonder – a wonderful transformation in the yogic practice, which is one of the things for which India is famous, which is our birthright? From millennia of meditation to a mere twenty, thirty, forty, fifty years of meditation if properly done, we go to the goal. (…)”


This is the statement of a man who knows no other words than efficiency, profitability and productivity; an irrepressible will to accelerate the process of meditation, and to give an easily accessible spirituality goal.

The easily attainable goal of Sahaj Marg is the Central Region, the Brighter World.  Hypocrisy, contradictions and lies.On 22 July 2013, six months ago, he recalled the words of Babuji stating that very few people would access the Brighter World: only Babuji beside perhaps two or three other people.

"(...) I told him, "Babuji, I know from my little personal experience of Sahaj Marg ultimately I think you'll be the only person to enter the Brighter World "- of the four or five thousand abhyasis at that time.  He said : "Yes, this seems to be the case . Maybe there he will be two or three more." You know what he said? Himself and perhaps two or three more! 

 (...) And then nothing happens. Thus, gurus can come and go, India remains what it has remained, more and more corrupt every year. Just see the Indian scene of today, what it is, it stinks [it stinks].  So what do we do about it?  Let us at least see Sahaj Marg as a small society (of people) that would be, if only a little, encouraging, comforting, and which would allow one to say: "Well, there is this small group of humans trying seriously to get out of this mess, this stinking pool of humanity [this stinking pool of humanity], who want to move out.  Again , as Babuji said , 'One, or two, or three'. (...)" 

What is this fantastic improved method of meditation if only two or three people are accessing the Brighter World?  Hypocrisy, contradictions and lies.

The method of Sahaj Marg is neither faster nor more efficient than the proven methods of the ancient sages.

Why deny it? Why do we believe that the method has significantly improved since the olden days when so few people are likely to reach the goal that Babuji and Chari have set?  Why such lies? Why does no one notice the incessant contradictions?

It's all about the business of communication. While failing to be better than others, one attempts to have it (the lie)  believed.  It is claimed that Sahaj Marg is superior so as to convince the gullible, those who absolutely want to believe whatever happens, even if nothing happens. 

HYPOCRISY = a defect which comprises of disguising one's true nature; to pretend opinions, feelings and virtues one has not. 

Elodie

Sahaj Marg, the Multinational

Translation of an article by Alexis: La Multinationale du Sahaj Marg, on Élodie's blog in Europe: Pour Que Vive Le Sahaj Marg.

January 25, 2014 

The Sahaj Marg Multinational

Alexis updates his alternative website presentation of the Shri Ram Chandra Mission and Sahaj Marg. Below is an article published last week on the multiple structures of this multinational.

The Mission, a Sprawling Multinational Organization?

The Mission is at least one parent association and twenty satellite national associations, one research institute, five foundations, one a society and two trusts.

The parent association, Shahjahanpur SRCM (Shri Ram Chandra Mission), was created by Babuji in 1945. The Research Institute was established by Dr KC Varadachari in 1965 (SMRTI or Sahaj Marg Research and Training Institute). The first satellite association was founded by Donald Sabourin in Canada in 1974 (SRCM Canada).   

The first foundation was created by Ferdinand Wulliemier in Switzerland in 1994 (SMSF or Sahaj Marg Spirituality Foundation). The opening of the Omega school in 2005 was accompanied by the creation of a society (or LMES  Lalaji Memorial Educational Society) and a trust ( BVET or Baal Vatika Education Trust).  Chari finally created another trust for the editing of the publications of the Mission in 2009 (SHPT or Spiritual Hierarchy Publication Trust) ... 

Long time in the courts with the descendants of Babuji about the Presidency of the SRCM Shahjahanpur, Chari first used his satellite national associations, and especially the USA SRCM to safekeep his booty.  But since the creation of the two foundation, first in the USA in 1999, then in India in 2003, he has profoundly changed the material organization of his financial empire, beginning with integrating a research institute without statutes within the foundations.  As if that were not enough, Chari found the need to create the SHPT in 2009 to access the money raised by his publications. 

Prior to the end of the 90s, donations, membership fees and the sale of publications were in proportion roughly equivalent to the revenues of local associations of the Mission.  Since the creation of the SHPT, only the membership dues of the local members continue to provide for the operation of the local associations, the foundations garner donations and the SHPT develops sales. 

Donations feed the foundations, which have the theoretical role of providing good material conditions for the Abhyasis to meditate.  In practice, they subsidize parsimoniously the acquisition of new ashrams, once they have assessed the needs and found that the Abhyasis had provided a sufficiently substantial effort. 

Local organizations with their annual general meetings (AGM) are considered too democratic for Chari to abandon much power to them, although he used all the tricks in the book to remove the little  power they have. Conversely, foundations have a vague advisory status and very little control.

There remains the LMES and the BVET to control the Omega school since 2005 on which virtually nothing is known except for the sentence by Chari at its creation : "(...) there is no black money transaction - no trustees Following the money. I'm here to see to That."

And there is the more than likely collusion with some companies!  One example, the HTC Global Services Inc.  Madhava Reddy, CEO of this start-up founded in 1990 which employs more than 2,500 people, is a preceptor and a member of the Management Committee of the SRCM, USA, as far as internally audit.  He was the second most important contributor to the Indian SMSF between 2006 and 2012 with donations of no less than $ 6.5 million (more than 12 million between 1999 and 2011). Two of his directors in North America are donors and/or followers of Chari.  The former boss of Sahaj Marg, Australia and a very active member of SMRTI  was also director of HTC in the same country.  Present in the USA, India, Australia, Singapore and the United Arab Emirates, HTC has introduced its main manufacturing plant in Chennai where it employs many Abhyasis ... 

A Very Opaque Foundations 

Ferdinand Wulliemier created the first foundation in Switzerland in 1994 (SMSF or Sahaj Marg Spirituality Foundation), Santosh Khanjee did the same in Austin, Texas in 1999, then it was the turn of India in 2003, in Dubai 2004 and Hong Kong in 2012. 
No less than 5 foundations which Chari presents as a single foundation, a sister organization of the Mission, an outward window, his public face. He explains that like a bird, Sahaj Marg has two wings, the first is spiritual, which is the SRCM, the second is material, which is the SMSF. Translated: one side, the spiritual associations are penniless, on the other are the foundations that manage land, the real estate and the finances.

“So the Foundation will be ninety percent oriented to social and physical life; Shri Ram Chandra Mission will be oriented ninety-nine percent towards spirituality.”

According to the Mission itself, the Indian SMSF manages the training and retreat centers in India, the USA SMSF manages the SPURS retreat center, near Austin, Texas, the  Swiss SMSF manages the ashram and training center in Berlin (and possibly also,  the ashram and retreat center at Vrads, Denmark).  The SMSF, Dubai established in 2004 manages the ashram of this country and all the interests of the Mission in the Middle East and Africa.  They don't not tell us what is managed by the youngest-born, the Hong Kong SMSF, created in 2012, but presumably it is in charge of  its Asian interests.

According to them, the foundations should provide good material conditions for the Abhyasis to meditate: Meditation training places (ashrams and centers), but also a health clinic and free meals, etc..  In practice, they subsidize sparingly the acquisition of  new ashrams, once they have assessed the needs and found that Abhyasis had provided a sufficiently substantial effort.  They are also responsible for the conduct of programs in the areas of spiritual formation, education and research.

Faced with local associations considered too democratic, the foundations are better suited to Chari. They have a Board of Directors with vague advisory status, and very few controls. Thus, the Swiss foundation Stiftung Sahaj Marg Spiritualität Weinfelden whose statutes were filed Aug. 2, 1994, currently enrolled in the Commercial Register of the Canton of Thurgau, has a Board of 11 members chaired by Chari whose signature is enough to access their account and carry out any operation. Only three other members of the board also have the privilege, but only with the joint signatures of two of them.

In May 2008, when the Board meeting of the SRCM France at Vrads, Rajagopalachari doubled the amount of the French contribution.  But he also suggests creating a discreet international President's Fund based in Switzerland to collect small and large donations, the idea being that the master could draw at will in this pot for whatever he sees fit.  No written communication need be made, but only verbal notification to the centers to propose monthly donations.

Foreign donations made ​​to the Indian SMSF  over 7 years, between 2006 and 2012 represent more than $28 million (compared to  $3 million to the SRCM ), according to the FCRA Indian Ministry of Internal Affairs. Its cumulative revenue reached $38 million (donations + financial interests), while its expenses were capped at $6,000,000.

Not surprising since Chari's idea was to create through the donations, a "corpus fund" capable of generating alone, the interest to cover all the expenses of the organization.  That was chieved for the Indian SMSF since 2008 (2009 for the SRCM)! But the donations are still flowing in ... 
In March 2013, the capital of the Indian SMSF from abroad accounted for $39 million ( against $14 in the SRCM), including a "corpus fund"  of $34 million ( against $10 in the SRCM).

How much are Indian donations? What are the capital of the four other foundations? Mystery.

If the SMSF lives handsomely from its interests since 2007 and the donations are still pouring in, why does it not participate more generously in the acquisition of new meditation centers?  Why does it distribute its "coins" so parsimoniously? 

 Also read: [Foreign Donations]  

Very Undemocratic Associations 

Creating a local structure becomes essential when the number of Abhyasis increases and it is necessary to buy or rent property (ashrams and meditation centers) and open bank accounts to collect "voluntary contributions". Since the creation of the SRCM, Shahjahanpur by Babuji in 1945, two dozen local associations were formed. Half of them are located in Western Europe. 
But the democratic nature of the different types of organizations proposed by all the States of the planet really fit very poorly with the functioning of a totally un-democratic Spiritualist Mission such as Chari's SRCM.  

Reconciling the two is a work of craftsmanship (i.e. a "watch maker"?), whereby the establishment by the SRCM of a guide to create an ad hoc local structure. 

This 19-page internal memorandum summarizes the key questions to ask to determine the most appropriate type of organization and proposes models of pre-written articles. Indeed, the President must retain overall control of the organization, with the most limited responsibility possible and the least to incur legal risks. The organization must allow the transfer of surplus funds to other structures within and outside the country. Usually in a democracy, the general meeting is plenipotentiary.  The main objective of Chari (and of this document) is to deprive it of all its powers ... 

French example: the Master is the president of the national association created in 1986. It is he who appoints the members of the Administration and the Board of Directors, which he calls his Management Committee, among its most loyal allies, and for the majority, non-resident foreigners to France.  The General Assembly has no role other than to ratify decisions already taken, the management committee has no more weight, it is the Master who decides everything. 

However, the French association statutes do not as easily allow such a denial of democracy; then they refer to internal regulations (French).  Article 17 of the by-laws filed in 1986: "the president who is the real master of the Association shall exercise his powers through the application of  the interior regulations, which he can modify at will (...) ".

At general meetings, members who have paid their dues are obliged to endorse the decisions taken in high places, otherwise they displease the Master. But one  must still be able to participate, especially when the gatherings take place abroad (that of the French association was held at Vrads, in Denmark in 2008, the United States (meeting) was in Tiruppur India in 2009 , etc... ).  A habit that has become widespread since Chari does not travel much any more ... 

If they manage to attend the general meeting, the members still have access to the presentation of financial statements. This is still too much for Chari . Until the 90s, contributions, donations and sale of publications fueled the national treasury roughly equally.  With the creation of foundations which now collect the donations, and the SHPT that collects the sale of publications, it is two thirds of the budget which now escapes the associations. 

This is too much. The President must also be able to set a maximum limit of withdrawals from the bank account of the local structure for his expenses. So each year, the associatons prepare a provisional budget for Chari's approval.  Each quarter, they send him a progress report.  And any greater than or equal to $1,000 dollars in expenditure requires the prior agreement of Chari ... not to mention the land or real estate investment projects, of course. 

As for meditation centers, their budget is even more meager. At the General Meeting of SRCM France, held at Vrads in Denmark in 2008, Chari unilaterally doubled the amount of expected contributions. 

Previously set at € 75 per member, € 15 returned to the meditation center to which was attached the participant, the remaining € 60 went to the functioning of the national structure.  A rate of ten to thirty people on average, the center was left with an unfortunate annual budget of approximately € 300 to rent a room or pay for heating and electricity. 

I know only of the accounts of four local associations, the Swiss, the Canadian, the French SRCM, and the English.  They concern about 2,400 Abhyasis, 18 to 19% of the membership outside of India.  In contrast, the donations from nationals of these countries to the Indian SMSF account for just over 19% of the foreign donations recorded by the FCRA Indian Ministry of Internal Affairs between 2006 and 2012, if we do not count those of four of the largest donors (over $2 million each). 

According to the national accounts, the cumulative 7-year contributions and sale of other products of these four associations amount to a little over $5 million.  By extrapolation, if we reason according to the actual proportion or amount of donations to the SMSF, one obtains a cumulative product $27 to $28 million, roughly equivalent to donations to the Indian SMSF. 

The cumulative capital associations same $4 almost $5 million. According to the same rules of extrapolation, we reach $25-26,000,000 dollars of capital for all local associations outside India. Much less than the $39 million of the Indian SMSF ... 

Besides that, the Indian SRCM has accumulated $3 million in donations from abroad over the same period and has a capital of $14 million as of March 31, 2013. 

See also:- [Guide to create an organization]- [French Rules of Procedure]

SHPT, a Capitalist Trust to Sell Publications and Collectibles
  
Initially, the publication sector of SRCM was created to disseminate the speeches of Babuji in the greatest number and at the lowest cost. For her part, Kasturi continued in this direction. From Chari's side, he has favoured quality and cost inflation, not to mention the scissors of censorship (see testimony of Michael, Part 3 (in English).

Beyond the books and speeches, one has seen emerge collections of pictures (including a life-size photo of the master) and badges for preceptors and/or abhyasi , etc... The publishing industry wanted to profit and it actually did, allowing associations to increase their funding.

All the speeches of Chari, his slightest words are transcribed, reviewed and corrected, compiled and published . Each event is immortalized by a duly accredited photographer and is the subject of a scrapbook. And from the book and the album, we went to the CD and DVD printing ... The SRCM has turned into a large multimedia company, sending its marketing products around the world. 
To finance the investment necessary for this evolution, SRCM has gathered a treasury by offering cash subscriptions for life, first for its various print publications and also for its audiovisual publications, averaging:  € 1,000.

In 2005, Chari has given a new impetus to the sector. It was no longer "buy a book", but make a prior donation of  € 300.  It was already a way of transferring money from the publication of local associations to the transnational "Foundations sector".  Two years later was no different! To help celebrate Chari's 80th anniversary in Tiruppur and receive his gift, a donation of $1,200 dollars was requested ...

The donation finally ended up by shocking some. A wave of unprecedented protests gripped the abhyasis who were made aware that the Mission operates at two speeds: the rich and that of others.  It was the straw that broke the camel's back.

Facing the winds of protest Chari has backtracked. Participation in the festivities is free.  Donations are for regional foundations of the SMSF to develop the Mission and its activities.

It was later learned that the €300 of  2005 allowed the Abhyasis to get the book: "Whispers from the Brighter World", as the proceeds were used by Chari to finance his international school LMOIS project, and also, were the proceeds from the auctions held amid the satsangs at Vrads Sande, Denmark and Lignano in Italy.  As well, the requested blind-donation of $1,200 were for a box of 18 DVDs.

Back to square one: they still have to finance Tiruppur (party). So we surf on the wave of collectibles and their derivatives: sale of exclusive special, unique, birthday photo book, or a T-shirt and a special edition commemorating his 80th anniversary, or an unedited collection of photographs and texts of Chari from between 1983 and 2007 ...

Today, every new project is accompanied by its derivatives responsible for funding all or part of the costs.

The publication sector of the Shri Ram Chandra Mission has evolved.  Donations were not enough so they made ​​gifts to donors to encourage them to give more. Mercantilism has gradually eroded the  publications sector, but it is really become professionalized since 2005.

Mechanisms are invariant: offer a gift to the donors who give before a fixed date, and then postpone the date despite claims to the contrary from the beginning. What changes, however, is the proliferation of derivatives and the spiraling price inflation for photos, scrapbooks, badges, T- shirts, etc. .

April 1, 2009, Chari creates a new organization responsible only for the publications of SRCM.  And the SMSF and SRCM have stopped all publishing activity.  It is now the SHPT (Spiritual Hierarchy Publication Trust, a very funny name ) who took over.  Finally we have a broadcast sector entrusted to a private company ! Obviously, Abhyasis do not have access to any of its accounts ...

See also:- 

[Whispers first and foremost, a commercial adventure ... (French)]- 

[ Testimony of Michael censorship (Part 3 - The Publishing Committee)  (English)] 

Alexis

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Sahaj Marg: Chari's Message for the New Year

Translation of an article by Élodie: Sahaj Marg; Le Message de Chari Pour la Nouvelle Année, on her blog in Europe: Pour Que Vive Le Sahaj Marg.

Comments and insertions by 4d-Don are in "red italics".

Chari says: 

"I hope really meditating, because if we sit for an hour and not meditate, it's of no use. You have to meditate, which means, imagine divine light in the heart and stay fixed on it for the duration of that meditation."

If one becomes what one meditates on, then if one meditates successfully on "light" which is the equivalent of matter, according to Einstein, then one should  achieve or BECOME "light" or its equivalence: matter, and certainly not Divinity ... How arrogant!!  Meditate on light, and become God??   lol lol   The Divine is not light nor is IT matter, but most religious traditions call IT SPIRIT or IT is at least a NEW or different  state of energy/matter ... not LIGHT (not electromagnetism)!!   See the matter surrounding Chari!! There is not more "light" or even "elevated" thoughts around Sahaj Marg  than around any other "corporation"  ...  There is a fixation on the rush to acquire more MATERIAL ...  That is what Sahaj Marg now is, what it has become: Materialism, Spiritualism, and Idolatry!  Sahaj Marg is not Spirituality!! Follow the Materialists, the Corporatists, the Spiritualists to get to denser matter  ... not to more subtlety!!  

Chari falsely claims that Lalaji (the first Hindu Master of the NaqshBandiya Sufi Brotherhood, who's lineage reaches to Mohamed, the Prophet of Islam, and still exists today) is the founder of Sahaj Marg and Babuji even claimed that the "Mohamadan systems have all breathe their last" (Lalaji's "systems"??).   Read Lalaji and his still-breathing method  "Santmat" and see for yourself.   They lie, they lie, they lie!  All in the name of a "spirituality" which is in truthful reality: "spiritualism".  Their prayed-for "favourable egregore" is not telling the truth!!  They have not prayed hard enough?      


January 19, 2014


Sahaj Marg : Chari's  Message for the New Year  


One line is enough : 'Don't waste time' - three words. What more is necessary? 

Chari's New Year's message grabbed me from the very first words, and continuing my reading, all my thoughts were confirmed.  It hit me like a slap, a sudden slap, abrupt, violent. 

Do I therefore have a heightened sensitivity?

How to express the feelings that assailed me, the emotions that have driven me?

Like a flash, it is an image that came to me, a clear image, becoming more clear and more obvious throughout my reading, the portrait of a man, an image stripped of all artifact; without makeup, naked.

Sahaj Marg will soon be seventy years old and it's been fifty years since Chari first arrived on the scene in 1964, and now remains there full-time. Some sages of ancient times sat meditating for thousands of years, in a context  which was much more favorable than our own, without ever achieving the goal.  Today, despite the corruption, the immorality, the violence and the greed, the masters of Sahaj Marg have allegedly made the practice of meditation so simple and easy that anyone can achieve a higher goal than that reached by the ancient sages.  The technique has even been improved between the time of Lalaji and Babuji, Chari adds.

The sages of ancient times were really gentle, they meditate all the time, without achieving the goal or worrying about the passing of time.  Fortunately for us, according to Chari, Lalaji and Babuji have now intervened, they have greatly improved the efficiency of the process of meditation - efficiency, profitability and productivity. So much so that today anyone can now achieve the goal before one's death, despite a much more unfavorable environment.

Babuji has (allegedly?) improved the method already improved by Lalaji (the method of the Naqshbandiya Sufi Brotherhood?).  One can only wonder about the improvements made by Chari.  After the industrialization of the Indian textile sector at the time of Gandhi, now is the the time of the spiritual industrialization by Chari.

This image, this so clear image that caught my eye portrays a captain of industry, the entrepreneur he was at the TTK Group.  This image is that of a driven man with an irrepressible desire to expedite the meditative process, a man who knows no other words than efficiency, profitability and productivity. 

There is no need anymore to change this world which he claims to abhor, the society of which he so perfectly integrated the most negative of values, although the "method" is allegedly still effective enough to achieve the goal. 

This image which has imposed itself as a sudden, abrupt and violent slap, is that of a man perfectly suited to our contemporary world, an archetype of the uniquely Western thought, liberal, capitalistic and materialistic. 

Do I have a "thin-skinned" sensitivity when it comes to Chari? 

This speech draws not the portrait of an Eastern spiritual master who speaks to his disciples, but to that of a captain of industry pressed for time to achieve his ends.

Maybe I should show a little more compassion and benevolence towards the old man at the edge of his life? So let us be indulgent, his current situation can excuse his need to use wisely every passing minute and not put anything off until tomorrow.  But one more time, this is a more materialistic attitude, in total opposition to Eastern philosophies and their conception of time.  As far as imposing it on us, that's another story.

'Don't waste time' - three words. 

Efficiency, profitability and productivity: 3 words.   

Am I alone in experiencing such feelings? 

So, do the opposite of what he asks for a moment. Give a little time to Time. Take this time for yourself and read the message.  There, now: and take your time.

It's here

That's it ? Have you reread it?

Am I really biased?  I'm not asking you to answer ME, answer it FOR YOURSELF,  in good conscience and live with the consequences.  For yourself, only for yourself. 


Elodie

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Who Owns the SRCM (Shri Ram Chandra Mission)?

Taken and translated from an article by Alexis: "A Qui Appartient la SRCM?", on Élodie's blog in Europe: Pour Que Vive Le Sahaj Marg.


Jan. 14, 2014

Foreign Donation ... Let's Talk Money

An update article by Alexis Jan. 12, 2014

In 1976, so as to control NGO (Non-Government Organizations) funds coming from abroad, the Indian government put in place the "Foreign Contribution Regulation Act" (FCRA) to avoid the excessive "... influence of the foreign hand" on the policy and the public projects of India.  Each year, the Department of Indian Affairs publishes a list of the NGOs in the country. For those who exceed ten million rupees in revenue from abroad, it also publishes the names of donors and the amount of their "foreign contribution", as well as the total amount of expenditures made by the NGO (see http://mha.nic.in/fcra.htm ).

To see List of Foreign Donors (with dates and amounts): 

*Click on FCRA link.  
*Under: "Foreigner's Division" (Yellow tab on left),  scroll down and click on: "Associations that received over one crore rupees in a financial year".  
*Select year, and then Select State and click on "Get Records":  (The Foundation (SMSF) is in Tamil Nadu, and the Society (SRCM) is in Uttar Pradesh).
*Click on the society (SRCM) or the Foundations (SMSF, LMES, BVET, etc...) to see the lists of donors.
* Click on  "Find" (Look under "Edit" in your browser) to find the info on a donor inside the document.  Enter the "search words" in the box which opens up at the bottom of the page.

 
Regarding Chari's Sahaj Marg(tm), the Indian SMSF, SRCM, LMES (Lalaji Memorial Education Society), and  BVET (Chari Foundation: Baal Vatika Education Trust)  are duly recorded  (RCN respective Registration Numbers: TN 075900957R, UP 136700005R, TN 075901050R and TN 075901033R). The SMSF and the SRCM blithely exceed the threshold, and their accounts are available for the years 2006 to 2011.  The LMES appears in 2006, 2008 and 2009. The BVET does not reach this threshold during this period ...
 
Let us recall and understand that Chari's school  (Lalaji Memorial Omega International School or LMOIS) is controlled and funded by two societies: LMES (Lalaji Memorial Educational Society) and the BVET. (Chari's Baal Vatika Educational Trust).  (Baal = Master or Lord ?, Vatika = Hermitage (note "Vatican" roots) 

Foreign Contributions

According to the FCRA, donations from abroad (Foreign contributions, from all countries excluding India) SRCM and the Indian SMSF together, accumulated over 7 years ( 04/01/2006 to 31/03/2013 ), totalled more than 31 million. The amount of foreign capital of these two organizations has increased by a multiple of almost 3, from nearly 19 million to more than $53 million over the same period. The amount of accumulated vested interests exceeds 18 million, or 58% of the amount of donations and 34 % of the current capital. Cumulative expenditures are less than 16 million. 

The "corpus fund" Mission established by Chari has far exceeded its goal. If donations stopped abruptly tomorrow, capital would continue to grow without Chari having to cut corners. The financial autonomy of the Mission of Chari and his successors is already reached!  This does not stop Chari from encouraging more donations from his members to the foundations of Sahaj Marg ...


Who funds the Mission? 

Chari's financial appetite is limitless.  And this calls into question the independence of the Mission already reached.  Indeed, four donors are responsible for more than half of the 7-year cumulative donations, nearly $17 million.  Each of them gave more than $ 2 million to the Mission in 7 years, while the fifth most important donor donated less than $300 thousand.
  
Their potential influence is huge! Chari used "kid gloves" with them. It is therefore not surprising that one of them is his designated successor, another has his own cottage (just like Chari) in the womb of  Babuji Memorial ashram ... 

If we put aside the 4 larger donors, of the $15 million remaining, 38% comes from North America, 23% from Western Europe and 8% from Asia (excluding India). The most important donor countries are the USA 36%, France for a little more than 8 %, Switzerland for almost 8% and 3% for the United Arab Emirates.

The top 50 largest donors (excluding the four largest) has contributed more than $ 2.5 million, 35 of them are Indian, 25 are of Indo-American origin. Most are at the head of start-ups in computer hardware or software, or in the production of generic drugs. 


But Then, Who Therefore Owns the Mission? 
Do you want the answer ? 

Number 1: Ilya Mikhailovich Kazmaly paid $10.3 million in 7 years, 33% of foreign donations made to the Mission and its SMSF foundation under the FCRA, in his own name or that of his wife and an offshore company called Mentor Financial Ltd. 

Gagauz of  Russian origin, born April 7, 1962, Kazmaly worked as an officer of the Soviet intelligence services before co-founding the Sheriff group in 1993, the first company in Moldova. Elected to the Supreme Soviet of the country in 2005, he has long been a principal supporter of President Smirnov. To learn more, read [ Sahaj Marg's Gift of $10 million dollars  or  Sahaj Marg(tm), Let's Talk Money] . 

Number 2: Madhava Reddy supports U.S. Republicans but even more the SRCM. Personally, through the Lachimi Foundation or through its start-up HTC Global Services, has paid $ 6.5 million in 7 years according to the FCRA , 21 % of foreign donations made to the Mission and its foundation SMSF . 

This accountant is the founding CEO in 1992 Hi Tech Consultant Global Services Inc in Troy, Michigan (www.htcinc.com). According to The Hindu Business Line, dated March 8, 2012, the computer technology and solutions company employs 4,000 people and exudes an income of about $160 million. It is also present in India (at Chennai and Hyderabad), Australia, Canada, Malaysia, Singapore and the United Kingdom. Also, two of its vice- presidents both paid 3 million rupees to the Mission and its foundation for the same period.  Incidentally, Reddy is also a member of the Board of Caraco Pharmaceutical Laboratories Ltd. (www.caraco.com), a subsidiary of the Sunpharma group. 

In 1999, Madhava Reddy created the Lachimi Foundation to implement the bulk of his donations to the Mission without having to pay taxes.  Between 1999 and 2011, the accounts of the Lachimi Foundation shows payments totaling more than $12 million. 

Chari has long resided in the cottage of this preceptor of Sahaj Marg and a member of the Board of Directors of the SRCM in the U.S., according to Echoes of India, November 2012.

Number 3: Madhusudanarao Kothapalli donated $2.5 million for the same period in the Mission and its foundation under the FCRA, or 8% of all foreign donations, personally or through his foundation. Originally from Hyderabad in Andrah Pradesh, the Indo-US emigrant co-founded the CorePharma LLC in 1998 in New Jersey (www.corepharma.com).  In 2005, he sold his shares in the company to RoundTable Healthcare Partners LLP, created the Aravind Foundation and paid $5 million through the foundation: 1 million to the SRCM and another to Baal Vatika Educational Society (the future LMES) in 2005, $3 million to the SMSF in 2006 ... and again $28,000 to the SRCM in 2009.

In 2011, Madhu Kothapalli founded another company's R & D generic drugs at his home in Hyderabad (www.Leiutis.com) . Chari is in the habit of inviting himself into the residence of this preceptor when staying in Hyderabad.

Number 4: Kamlesh Patel Desaibhai, vice president and designated successor of Chari, paid $2.1 million under the FCRA personally or through his family and network of pharmacies, or more than 7% of all foreign donations. Two of his colleagues and friends pharmacists from New York also paid them more than 5 million rupees, but I did not find any evidence that they work for him ... 

To learn more, read (in French... translate with "Google Translate")  [The Brooklyn Pharmacist]. 

The Money of the Mission

According to the FCRA numbers of 2006 and 2012, taking into account only the money from abroad, the Mission and its Indian Foundation therefore shared an average annual turnover of more than $7 million and a capital more than $53 million.

What about the money from the sale of publications and membership fees, when you know that a few years ago, the donations did not represent more than one third of the resources of the Mission? 

What about the additional Indian share, when we know that the bulk of the strength of the Mission is Indian? 

What about other foundations in Switzerland, the United States, Dubai or Hong Kong? 

What about the other national SRCM associations? 

Alexis 

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