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Kamlesh Desaibhai Patel (Gujarati: કમલેશ દેસાઈભાઈ પટેલ; born 28 September 1956), is the current spiritual guide and president of Shri Ram Chandra Mission in the Sahaj Marg system.

He has shown interest in spirituality and meditation from an early age. At the age of 19, while still a student of pharmacy, he took up the spiritual practice under the guidance of Ram Chandra of Shahjahanpur(Babuji) and later continued the practice under the direction of Babuji's successor, Parthasarathi Rajagopalachari(Chariji).

Following a successful career in pharmacy and business in New York, USA, Kamlesh was asked to succeed by his guide Chariji in 2011. Kamlesh became the president after Chariji's death in Dec 2014.

Personal life
Kamlesh Desaibhai Patel was born in a small village in Gujarat on 28 September 1956. His father was a farmer with a keen interest in Ayurveda.

Kamlesh studied in and around his birthplace till the eighth grade and later went to Arya Samaj.

Accompanying his father to the temple was a regular practice. He became interested spiritually from a young age and was deeply moved by teachings of Swami Vivekananda and Ramakrishna Paramahamsa. He would start crying reading their works and crave for the spiritual awakening.

As an adult he led a normal life: went to the USA for higher studies in 1981, started a career in business, married and raised two children, while his spiritual practice continued under the system of Sahaj Marg.