The Shri Ram Chandra Mission is privileged to offer to the general public the first volume of the Complete Works of Ram Chandra, this being the first time that my Master's works are being offered in collected form.

Spiritual aspirants all over the world have been familiar with the work of Shri Ram Chandra of Shahjahanpur, founder-President of the Shri Ram Chandra Mission in India, with its headquarters in Shahjahanpur, in the state of Uttar Pradesh. The parent Mission in India has more than 150 centres all over India, and numbers spiritual aspirants who practice the system of Sahaj Marg in thousands. The teaching of the Master is made available to aspirants by trained preceptors, who are able to offer the Master's service to persons virtually at their own location.

Shri Ram Chandra of Shahjahanpur commenced his spiritual voyage under his Master, coincidentally bearing the same name, at the comparatively young age of 22 years. The founder of the system, Shri Ram Chandra of Fatehgarh, also in Uttar Pradesh, lived in a small town called Fatehgarh, not far from my Master's birth-place, Shahjahanpur. He rediscovered the ancient and long-forgotten spiritual technique of yogic transmission, refined it, and offered it as a sure and simple way to achieve the goal of human life ¾ human perfection up to the highest level, also called divinisation. This ancient technique utilises the divine energy for the transformation of human beings, and is called "transmission" in this system. It is unique in the history of spirituality, and its efficacy in making possible the attainment of the highest ideal of human perfection, or divinisation, in one life, and that too to all and sundry who care to practise it, is something to be wondered at, for the spiritual practice, in India, was hitherto exclusively the privilege of ascetics who were able to renounce the world. Lalaji, as he was popularly known, and affectionately addressed, the founder of Sahaj Marg, made the system available even to ordinary house-holders, and assured them that a devoted aspirant, assiduously practising the system under the instructions of the Master, could aspire to that goal which had till then been the preserve of ascetics and sannyasis .

My Master completed his own spiritual evolution under Lalaji, and subsequently become his spiritual representative and successor. To honour the holy name of his own Master, he founded the Shri Ram Chandra Mission in India, with its headquarters in Shahjahanpur. From a humble beginning in 1945 when the Mission was established, the Mission has spread far and wide, and has now centres in many countries of the world.

His teachings, part of which are to be found in this volume, are well known, as thousands of spiritual aspirants have benefited from his teaching, and benefited from Sahaj Marg yogic practice. This volume contains the core works of my Master.

Future volumes of the Complete Works will appear in due course, and complete the course of the Master's teachings. There are a large number of spiritual training centres of the Mission, with hundreds of trained preceptors serving the spiritual interest of aspirants world-wide. It is hoped that people will welcome this edition of my Master's works with the same love and enthusiasm as they have had for him during his life-time.

P. Rajagopalachari
Madras, India