Life Eternal Trust Australia (‘LETA’) was established in 1986 by HH Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi to administer and promote Sahaja Yoga and its meditation, which has been practiced and taught by volunteers as a community service throughout Australia since 1981.  Sahaja Yoga is a worldwide community service, operating independently in each country.  Sahaja Yoga Australia also runs autonomously and is completely self-funded.

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HH Shri Mataji's appointment of Trustee-Directors

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Selecting Yogis as Trustees HH Shri Mataji enquired about a Yogis professional background, capabilities and the skills needed for financial oversight and administration.     

 

HH Shri Mataji asked about their time in Sahaja Yoga and their standing and respect within the Collective and their willingness to do what they could to support Sahaja Yoga and help do all they could to promote Her work. 

 

To preserve and expand the properties so they could be handed on to future generations to  provide a permanent platform for Sahaja Yoga into the future and to help maintain Sahaja Yoga as HH Shri Mataji had created it.

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HH Shri Mataji's asked that Collective properties be purchased

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In 1987 LETA purchased No 10 Clarence Clarence Street in Burwood NSW.   Trusts could not own properties in Australia and at the time the Title for No 10  was issued in the name of the then individual Trustees of LETA of 1987 by the Land Titles Department.

 

Upon legal advice of Life Eternal Properties (LEPA) was setup as a property holding company for the Trust LEPA appointed as a corporate Trustee of the Trust in time for the next property purchase of Balmoral.  

 

Since 1997 the Titles of all Sahaja properties purchased on behalf of the collective are held by a company, Life Eternal Properties (LEPA) as corporate Trustee on behalf of the Collective by Life Eternal Trust Australia.

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Enhancements to the Trust Deed

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The Trustees arranged for a not for profit expert legal firm to provide enhancements to Trust so the OSR could approve of  transfer the titles of No 10 and Scullin from individual names to LEPA. OSR charged no Stamp Duty for the transfer saving the Collective $170,000 in stamp duty. This also secured the Title for No 10 Clarence St from any possible future legal claims.

 

The enhancements to the Trust was key to meeting the Government requirements for the manner with which not for profit entities own and manage properties. 

 

LEPA is the sole Corporate Trustee of Life Eternal Trust.  A windup clause was added to LETA  to ensure that if its assets were ever disposed they would be transferred to a like body being  LET Western Australia and not under the direction of the Trustee-Directors.

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LEPA

 

As The Trust is not allowed to own property LEPA (Life Eternal Properties Australia) was created as a stand alone company within LETA to provide maximum protection to our properties for the Australian Collective and to distance them from any individuals. LEPA exists within the Trust and is a registered company with ASIC and operates in full compliance with Australian government legislation.

 

Mission Statement

 

LETA's aim is to provide individuals and communities in Australia and around the world with free access to the unique non-commercial Sahaja Yoga Meditation method. This meditation method has an integrated yet simple approach for the practitioner to attain physical, mental, emotional and spiritual well-being and which crosses cultural, racial, age, socio economic status and location barriers by providing face-to-face classes or online services.

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Trustee-Directors

 

LETA has been set up for the purpose of operating as an administrative organisation to manage the affairs of Sahaja Yoga meditation on a national basis. Its operations are managed and overseen by the Trustee-Directors.

The Trustee-Directors take responsibility for the operations of LETA, the management of its finances and the management of the affairs of Sahaja Yoga meditation on a national basis.

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Sahaja Yoga Meditation

 

Sahaja Yoga meditation was developed by Nobel Peace Prize nominee Her Holiness Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi in 1970. It is a proven and unique approach to attaining mental, physical, emotional and spiritual well-being.

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HH Shri Mataji dedicated Her life to helping humanity realise its innate spiritual nature through an experience known as Self-Realisation. In recognition of Her lifetime’s tremendous work of transforming humanity through collective en-masse Self-Realisation, HH Shri Mataji has been publicly acclaimed and awarded honours by the Governments and leaders of many nations.

 

Her core teaching is that within us all, lies a transformative potential which can be awakened using Her Self-Realisation method. By doing so, we can bring peace and well-being to ourselves, our families, our social institutions, our nations and our world.

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Funding

 

Funded only by voluntary donations from regular practitioners, and functioning as a non-profit community service, Sahaja Yoga has no paid positions and is conducted entirely by volunteers in their free time. This is in keeping with HH Shri Mataji’s principles who never charged for Her work and insisted that Her teachings and techniques should be available to all, at no cost.

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Charitable Status

 

LETA is registered with the Australian Charities and Not-for-Profits Commission (ACNC) in the ACT, NSW, NT, QLD, SA, TAS, VIC and WA.  As a registered charity we must comply with the ACNC’s  financial recording keeping, reporting obligations and governance requirements which include having and adhering to our policies.

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Additional Notes

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HH Shri Mataji’s Deed had no tenure for Trustees and since that time there have been 12 changes to the Trustees positions. Fulfilling the Trustees role is not permanent. Sahaja Yoga Australia has taken the spirit of the LETA Trust Deed which Shri Mataji provided as the founding principles for the organisation of Sahaja Yoga to take us into the future.

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Shri Mataji created one of the first Sahaja Yoga Council's in 2005 replacing the previous role of  National Leader with Collective leadership for Sahaja Yoga culture in Australia. Shri Mataji’s letter of 3rd of January 2010 announcing that the principle of a fixed terms of 3 to 5 years for Sahaja Committees and Councils is a good one and should be implemented throughout the Sahaja world.

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Along with the various policies as shared on this site the Trustees-Directors are also responsible for the professional management of the seven National collective Sahaja Yoga properties which have been secured for the use of the practitioners of Sahaja Yoga now into the future so no individuals can ever make a claim on them.

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Our official website can be found at: leta.org.au