Rev. #BABUJI #MAHARAJ (Shri Ram Chandra) IN 1971 in #SHAHJAHANPUR #UP #SRCM #Sahaj #Marg

Rev. #BABUJI #MAHARAJ (Shri Ram Chandra) IN 1971 in #SHAHJAHANPUR #UTTER #PRADESH #UP #SRCM #Sahaj #Marg #Shri #Ram #Chandra #Mission This film was made in India when the first group of abhyasis from Denmark visited Shri Ram Chandra (Rev. Babuji) in Shahjahanpur 1971. Interview by Sis. Vibe Erstad. Photography & Sound by Br. Thomas Mogensen & Ole Larsen. Babuji Maharaj is the Master and Founder President of Shri Ram Chandra Mission (SRCM). Revered Babuji Maharaj (1899 -1983) began his spiritual education on his own, experimenting with the forms of devotion available in the Hindu religion and with certain yogic practices such as pranayama (the control of the breath). In June of 1922, at the comparatively young age of twenty-two, he met his spiritual Master, a man with the same name as himself who lived in the town of Fatehgarh, not far from Shahjahanpur. Ram Chandra of Fatehgarh, affectionately known as Lalaji, was considered a saint of the highest calibre. He recognized Babuji as the man who had appeared to him in a dream years before, the one who was destined to succeed him as the leader of the great spiritual renaissance which he, Lalaji, had already initiated. Rev. Babuji believed that spirituality is the birthright of all and that it should be offered freely to sincere seekers everywhere. He defined the ultimate goal of human life as a condition of complete oneness with the Divine, insisting that this is attainable in a single lifetime for any sincere seeker, given an effective practice and the help of a capable living Master. He believed that a true Master is the ultimate servant, and he lived his life serving all, irrespective of cast, creed, religion, gender or nationality. He taught that material and spiritual life should go hand in hand, like the two wings of a bird, and that the normal life of a householder is the best environment in which to learn the twin virtues of love and sacrifice. Accordingly he simplified and perfected the spiritual system of raja yoga so that ordinary people could practice it and reach the spiritual goal. Rev. Babuji devoted his life to the spiritual upliftment of humanity with unremitting faith and devotion. The thought of his Master remained constant in his mind and heart from their first meeting until Babuji passed away in April of 1983 at the age of eighty-three. “The end of religion is the beginning of spirituality,” he wrote. “The end of spirituality is the beginning of reality, and the end of reality is real Bliss. When that too is gone, we have reached the destination.”