LETA Public Notice
Concerning the removal of delegated authority from the Council
2nd February 2025
The removal of delegated authority from, and the termination of, the terms of the National Coordinator, all Councillors on the Australia National Sahaja Yoga Council and the State Councils
This notice is given by Life Eternal Properties Australia Pty Limited as trustee for Life Eternal Trust (Australia) (the Trustee). The Trustee is responsible for the administration of Sahaja Yoga in Australia including responsibility for the assets and funds of Sahaja Yoga in Australia held by or on behalf of Life Eternal Trust (Australia) (LETA) and with respect to all matters over which LETA exercises authority. These arrangements appointing LETA to this role were made by HH Shri Mataji for Sahaja Yoga and have been in place since 1987.
The Trustee repeatedly advised the Australian National Sahaja Yoga Council and the State Councils not to proceed to form a separate organisational company, Vishwa Nirmala Dharma (VND). This advice to the board of VND was based on the instructions from HH Shri Mataji to her Australian representatives and two instances were cited when HH Shri Mataji disbanded previous entities set up like the new VND company. Despite this advice the Australian Council supported by the State Councils proceeded to create VND, its own separate entity for the administration of its operations involving Sahaja Yoga.
As a consequence, the Trustee has removed all delegated authority previously granted through LETA to each of the Councillors of the Australian Council and the State Councils and these persons are now referred to as the former Councillors. As a result of their actions in forming VND, the Councils effectively repudiated the basis on which they were formed and took on powers that they do not legitimately have with respect to the administration of Sahaja Yoga in Australia through LETA. The Australian Council members’ terms and the terms of the State Council members are now ended as those terms have been formally terminated by the Trustee in recognition of these acts of repudiation by the Councils.
This means the now former Councillors can no longer act with respect to all matters over which the Trustee exercises authority for and on behalf of Sahaja Yoga.
Any future communications shared by the former Councillors via WhatsApp with respect to matters over which LETA has oversight must be assumed not to be authorised by the Trustee in any way.
The removal of delegated authority from the date of this notice means the former Councillors are no longer authorised to organise events, programs, pujas or any activity taking place on a LETA property or hosted at a venue booked by LETA or Life Eternal Properties Australia Pty Limited or utilising their public liability insurance without the approval of the Trustee. The Trustee under its powers and objects in the LETA trust deed to administer and advance Sahaja Yoga in Australia, is assuming day to day responsibility for functions previously conducted by the Councils. The Trustee will continue to oversee those activities which it was already directly managing. Applications for public liability insurance for public programs will continue to be managed by the Trustee. The Trustee will work with the state-based puja groups to host the weekly in-person and online programs. The former Councillors are of course welcome and are encouraged to attend and participate as Sahaja Yoga collective members in all Sahaja Yoga events, pujas, programs and activities organised at properties owned, hired or managed by LETA or Life Eternal Properties Australia Pty Limited.
For the avoidance of doubt, the delegated authority granted by LETA to the former national coordinator, by notice dated 23rd of November 2024 has already been removed and he is no longer a Councillor.
In making this announcement, the Trustee makes no adverse comment about the standing and good character of the now former Councillors and makes no adverse implications, real or implied, with respect to those now former Council members who remain in the Sahaja Yoga collective.
Sincerely
For and on behalf of Life Eternal Properties Australia Pty Limited as trustee for Life Eternal Trust (Australia)