Sri Bhagavan

Kalki Bhagawan (born 7 March 1949 as Vijay Kumar Naidu), also known as Sri Bhagavan, is a spiritual teacher from India. He is the founder of a spiritual organization called Oneness.

Early life Bhagavan (front row center) with his son NKV Krishna (back row left) and wife Padmavathi (back row center). Circa 1990

Bhagavan was born as Vijay Kumar Naidu on 7 March 1949 in Natham village, Vellore district in Tamil Nadu, to Vaidarbhi Amma and Sri Varadarajulu. After completing college, he worked as an office clerk for Life Insurance Corporation of India (LIC). Padmavathi, also known as "Amma" by the followers, participated in building the Oneness spiritual organization. In 2000, he subsequently founded the Oneness organization with the stated mission to create "lasting spiritual transformation" and to alleviate human suffering “at its roots by awakening humanity into Oneness and transforming the world into a better place”.

During the early stages of the movement, Bhagavan was regarded by his followers as Kalki, the tenth incarnation of Vishnu and his work was locally referred to as the "Kalki movement".

Bhagavan believes that when a critical mass of people have received the "Oneness Blessing", it would affect the "collective DNA" of humanity, resulting as an "Age of Enlightenment", which will take few decades to fully take effect. On 21 December 2012, worldwide events were conducted by the Oneness organization. is a music label producing titles ranging from traditional, spiritual and fusion tracks. "Sacred Chants" containing traditional Vedic hymns is one of its successful brands.

In 2017, the Oneness organization along with his business interests were handed over to Bhagavan's son, NKV Krishna and daughter-in-law Preetha Krishna. The organization was renamed to Ekam.

There are no required set of texts or doctrines in the Oneness movement.

In 2019, the Income Tax department officials seized cash and gold from properties owned by Bhagavan's son with total estimated value worth Rs 93 crore.

Criticisms

Freddy Nielsen, his associate from Sweden, left him in 2005 after directing criticism against the Oneness movement.

Publications

Books