Gautam Adani Visits Shrimad Rajchandra Mission Dharampur

The Adani Group Chairman met Gurudevshri Rakeshji, founder of Shrimad Rajchandra Mission Dharampur, and attended his discourse at the international headquarters of the Mission in Gujarat's Valsad district on Sunday

Dharampur (Gujarat): Adani Group Chairman Gautam Adani visited the international headquarters of Shrimad Rajchandra Mission Dharampur (SRMD) on Sunday with his wife Dr. Priti Adani, where the couple met the Mission's founder, spiritual leader Gurudevshri Rakeshji.

The Adanis were taken by Gurudevshri Rakeshji to Raj Darbar, the open-air amphitheatre where a 34-foot statue of Shrimad Rajchandraji, India's tallest man, was located, after the meeting. Mahatma Gandhi is considered the spiritual guide of the Mission, having been named after Shrimad Rajchandraji, a 19th-century Jain philosopher.

Discourse at Raj Sabhagruh

The visit then moved to Raj Sabhagruh, the Mission's 12-storey satsang and meditation complex. President of the Mission Abhay Jasani and Vice President Atmarpit Nemiji felicitated Gautam Adani, who then attended a discourse by Gurudevshri Rakeshji and received his blessings.

Dr. Priti Adani offered prayers at Shri Dharampur Tirth. She also visited Shrimad Rajchandra Hospital, the Mission's charitable hospital that serves families from more than 500 villages, and the Shrimad Rajchandra Sarvamangal Centre of Excellence for Women, where rural and tribal women are trained and employed under the Raj Uphaar brand.

A Mission with a global footprint

At the international headquarters, which covers 355 acres and is home to President Droupadi Murmu, Union Home Minister Amit Shah, who performed the Mahamastakabhishek of the Shrimad Rajchandraji statue, and Defence Minister Rajnath Singh,who inaugurated the women's centre.

Last month, at 'Aho Gurudev', the celebration of Gurudevshri Rakeshji's 60th birthday at Mumbai's Jio World Convention Centre, Infosys founder N.R. Narayana Murthy, Tata Sons Chairman N. Chandrasekaran and Hinduja Group Chairman Ashok P. Hinduja were among those present. Murthy told the gathering that "the true measure of any spiritual tradition lies not in teachings alone, but in the compassion it inspires in action."

Born in Mumbai in 1966, Gurudevshri Rakeshji earned an M.A. in Philosophy with a gold medal and a doctorate from the University of Mumbai. He founded SRMD in 1994 and established its international headquarters in Dharampur in 2001. He has given more than 16,000 hours of discourses on over 30 scriptures from different faiths and has travelled to 98 countries. The Mission today has centres across six continents.

Its humanitarian arm, Shrimad Rajchandra Love and Care, holds Special Consultative Status with the United Nations Economic and Social Council. Its work spreads across the world, including 16 countries in Africa. The Shrimad Rajchandra Hospital Network has grown to 2000 beds and has treated more than 1.6 crore patients till date, the Shrimad Rajchandra Vidyapeeth is the first science college across 238 villages, and Shrimad Rajchandra Sarvamangal Centre of Excellence for Women is working towards empowering tribal women with the skills to earn a livelihood. .

To mark Gurudevshri Rakeshji's 60th year, the Mission has unveiled 60 projects, 30 for spiritual growth and 30 for societal upliftment, and pledged that its medical camps, anaemia and vision care programmes will together reach 60 million lives.

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