9.6.11


He's a yoga guru, who fashions himself after a 'yoddha sannyasi' or warrior monk. Born as Ramkrishna Yadav in Ali Saiyadpur village in Mahendragarh district of Haryana in 1965, Ramdev's earliest influences, apart from yoga, were revolutionary writings on the lives of Ram Prasad Bismil and Subhas Chandra Bose.


He learnt the value of pranayam when it cured him of the disabling effects of a paralytic stroke he got as a child. His faith in curative nature of yoga enhanced, Ramdev defined 'swasthya swavalamban' — self-reliance in health  as the centrepiece of his worldview. He says only a healthy body with a healthy mind can lead to a healthy society and nation. 


But what is Ramdev's politics? Does he have an economic vision? He is a swadeshi zealot — calling him a votary would be gross understatement. An uber social conservative, he harangues foreign medicine and culture, froths at liberal views on homosexuality. At one of his congregations in Haridwar some time back, he invited a scrum of journalists to speak to a largely rural audience of around a couple of thousands in Hindi. He insists on spelling yoga as 'yog' because that's how it is pronounced.

The baba eats fruit and vegetables, drinks a lot of juice, and is lean, without a sliver of fat on his body. An

engaging conversationalist, he sizes up his interlocutor with something approximating intuition. And he has a good memory.

Ramdev, unlike politicians, appears to the folk as someone strongly attached to what he feels and thinks: A man of convictions, a contrast with politicians. His ochre robe — saffron is worshipped in the heartland — make it difficult for politicians to spit at him and run, usually a safe political tactic.


But the baba, who owns a Scottish island at Cumbrae thanks to his NRI bhakta couple Sam and Sunita Poddar who bought it for two million pounds, has a savvy business side to him. While he recently said the turnover of his enterprises is around Rs 1,100 crore, sources close to him placed the worth of his entire business empire at Rs 15,000 crore.

Ramdev is the face of a multi-crore healing business in Haridwar which includes a 300-bed multi-speciality hospital, a Yoga Research Centre known as Patanjali Yogpeeth, a university, and an ayurvedic pharmacy. He is also associated with a food park known as Padarth and Yog Gram. Ramdev recently began another massive project known as Patanjali .

1 comments:

  1. ''Vinaashakaale vipareethabudhi'. This Sanskrit saying means that at a period of (self)destruction one's intelligence will work in the wrong direction. Baba Ramdev is beyond doubt a man of wisdom. But, due to reasons known only to him the control of mind which is the product of yoga he has been preaching and practicing through all these years, seems eluded him. He seems to have forgotten the lesions of patience and Raga-Dweshas. Now he is led by personal vendetta and hunger for fame. These all are quite contrary to the basics of the ancient science namely Pathanjali Marg he has been conveying to us. Out of sheer anger people lose their common sense. What an erratic idea is that to form an army of his own to fight against the national evils! This is what the Naxalites and other extremists do. Babaji's army will not withstand the troops a few minutes. The ultimate result will be blood-shed and catastrophe, and thereby the focus of the world's attention will get shifted away from the real agonies the nation faces in the form of corruption, black money, terrorism, black marketing, illiteracy, misgoverning, and what not. So, Babaji should make a rethinking so that he can stop the present one man show, and join the move led by Anna Hasare for saving the hapless millions of poor people of India.

    ReplyDelete

please leave your opinion about his blog ,
this will help us to give some more quality information.

Write 4 namesake-expert

Thank you for your interest in being part of the namesake-expert writing community.
namesake-expert publishes original news content, opinion pieces, trending topics and breaking stories in the area of technology, entertainment, business, politics, lifestyle, videos,sports, lifestyle and women’s issues. Articles must be written in English, published first on namesake-expert and will be reviewed by the “seasoned” namesake-expert Team.
If you are interested revert back to proud2_besingle@yahoo.co.in

side l

Texts

images in posts are not related to the content .
it pasted to relate the content or to describe the message of post.
if any photo of any person in post hurting any sentiment it can be removed busted. pls complain it to this Email -->
proud2_besingle@yahoo.co.in

Followers