The current Heartfulness guide is Kamlesh Patel, known to many as Daaji. Born in Gujarat, India, in 1956, his own journey with Heartfulness started in 1976, while he was still a pharmacy student in Ahmedabad. After migrating to the USA, he raised a family and started a successful pharmacy business in New York City. In 2011, he was announced as the fourth in the century-old lineage of Heartfulness gurus—a role he inherited in 2014.