[1] He has been the president of Shri Ram Chandra Mission, a non-profit organization founded in 1945 and associated with the United Nations Department of Public Information, since 2014.

[2] He regularly conducts workshops and has written four books on the topics of meditation and spirituality.

He trained as a pharmacist in Ahmedabad, and as a pharmacy student he started practising the Sahaj Marg system of Raja Yoga meditation in 1976 under the guidance of Ram Chandra of Shahjahanpur.

Kamlesh Patel started practising Sahaj Marg meditation in 1976, when he was a pharmacology student, under the guidance of a trainer.

His fourth book, Spiritual Anatomy: Meditation, Chakras, and the Journey to the Center, was released in US and Canada in October 2023.