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CONTENTS
Year : 6 Issue : 7 March 2009
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The Religion Of Yoga 34
Cultural Understanding 38
Personal And National Thoughts 45
Daily Eulogy 52
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;L;ka iwosZ HkwrÑr ½"k;ks xk mnku`pq%AlIr l=ks.k os/lks ;Ksu rilk lgAAThe tradition of sages has continued in our mother-
land. Our forefathers had been great sages, great ascet-
ics and scholars. Our ancestors lived a simple and re-
strained life enhanced with penance. They lead a life of
sacrifice and welfare, developing good people. With pen-
ance and the feeling of sacrifice, they continuously strived
for excellence and their words of advice have continued
to guide the people of the nation. In this way, they made
their life a ‘sapta hota’ yagna.
With such a life, enriched with these great qualities,
the sages worked for the nation. In our nation, the tradi-
tion of these great sages is still continuing in the same
way even now. Even today we have sages with great
qualities living in our nation.
Ram, Krishna, Buddha, Swami Ramkrishna
Paranhansa, Swami Dayanand and Swami Vivekanand
have aroused the sleeping spiritual powers in Indian
people. Respected Swami Ramdevji has not only lit the
lamp of spirituality and philosophy in Indian souls, but
also shown mankind a beautiful path, leaving aside sor-
row and pain, by joining yoga with spirituality and medi-
cal treatment. Approximately crores of people across the
world have been shown the path of gaining spirituality
through yoga and pranayam and vice versa, of gaining
spirituality through the medium of yoga. For this, people
have entrusted their faith on Swamiji and he has become
the symbol of manhood as defined in Indian culture.
Today there is no politician, actor or any such saint
who have as much public support as Swami Ramdevji
Maharaj.
Every section of society is benefiting from yoga. To
ensure that even the last man gets benefits from yoga,
‘yoga teachers’ trained by ‘Patanajali Yogpeeth’ are spread-
ing awareness on yoga and nationalism to serve the moth-
erland and sorrow-inflicted mankind. It is the etiquette of
the yoga teachers to live a life with the feeling of friend-
ship towards all, kindness towards the poor and sick,
respect towards all religions and communities, and to in-
spire fellow countrymen to lead a life of purity.
I am an Indian; humanity is my community; my reli-
gion is humanity and my responsibility towards the na-
tion. It is to develop this feeling and develop national char-
acter that continuous work is going on.
Respected Swami Ramdevji believes that ‘Glorious past
is my self-respect’. The nation that does not take pride in
its past, or about which the present generation is not aware,
will never be able to build a golden future. A poet has also
written – ‘Jise nij gaurav tatha nij desh ka abhimaan na
ho, who nar nahi, nira pashu aur mritak saman he’. One
who does not take pride in his and his country’s glory is
not a man but is equivalent to a mere animal or a dead
person.
‘The honour of the nation is my honour and self-re-
spect, and if the image of the nation, the self-respect of
the country, is hurt at any point then it is my insult. I will
awaken the nation’s self-respect. I will dedicate my en-
tire life for the good of the nation.’ Filled with this feel-
ing, Swami Ramdevji established the ‘Bharat Swabhiman
Trust’ and started the important work of awakening
India’s self-respect across the globe.
With his sacrifice, penance, labour and hard work,
Swamiji is constantly trying to re-establish the almost lost
tradition of sages. Renouncing his own happiness for the
good of others, he has lit the world with the light of Vedic
knowledge and brought about welfare of mankind. The
work of removing ignorance, superstition and evils is
constantly going on. Today, Swamiji Maharaj has become
the carrier of Vedic tradition.
Today our nation is independent but there is still the
large problem of protecting this independence. Protect-
ing the independence of the nation is much harder than
the trials and ordeals of gaining independence. A lot has
been said about one’s nation in the Vedas. At various places
in the four Vedas, there is discussion about nation. The
protection of the nation is not possible by a single person
and that is why it is the duty of all the citizens of the
nation. It is necessary to instill the feelings of oneness
and love in all people of the nation and obtain their sup-
port.
It is to light this lamp of national feeling in each and
everyone that Swami Ramdevji Maharaj has gifted us
‘Jeevan Darshan’. It gives us directions on our duties
and responsibilities for the self and the nation. Please help
in the accomplishment of national responsibilities by dis-
tributing ‘Jeevan Darshan’ to the maximum extent you
can.
In this way, freeing people from maladies, Swami
Ramdevji Maharaj is intent on establishing India once again
on the throne of ‘Global Guru’ by removing the various
widespread inconsistencies and faults and instilling the
feeling of national honour and pride in people.
- Acharya Balkrishan
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Our Life is God’s greatest boon. Being born as a human being is God’s greatest gift to us.
Life is priceless and living life to fulfill petty goals is an insult to it. To spend your energy in
trivial pursuits, and to waste invaluable time in fulfilling material desires and obtaining luxuries
is akin to looking down on life. Life is endless, our strengths are also endless and our potential
is also vast. We are able to utilize only about 5 per cent of our physical, mental, social and
spiritual strengths. Majority of our powers are lying unconscious. If we use our internal
strengths fully, we turn from man into superman, from human to super-powerful humans.
Our human consciousness gradually falls down to a licentious consciousness and the world
out of delusion starts worshipping human beings as Gods. All the divine qualities that were
present in Sri Krishna, Sri Ram, Mahayogi Shiva, Mahavir Swami, Nirvana-attaining Buddha,
Guru Nanakdev and Guru Govind Singh are also inherent in us. A yogi should never consider
himself poor, helpless or powerless. At every moment tell yourself, I am vast. I am a repre-
sentative of God. I was born on this earth with a great purpose. I have within myself the
patience of the earth, the energy of fire, the speed of wind, the calmness of water and the
vastness of the sky.
My brain has the energy, intellect, wisdom and brilliance of the Brahmin. My arms have
the courage, strength, power and dignity of the Kshatriya. Within my stomach I have the
business strategies of the Vaishya and I consider it my honour to be able to serve like the
Sudra. I am not an individual but a culture. I am a messenger of eternal traditions. India is in
me. I am the beloved child of mother India. I am not land, mansion, position or youth. I am
not the mortal body but I am the immortal, brilliant, rootless, eternal soul.
Love, kindness, peace and affection is my identity and religion. My work is my
religion. I am not merely a worshipper of stone idols but of those living idols that my
Lord has created Himself and in whose souls He resides himself. I am the worshipper
of the chaitanya murta Brahma. Storms cannot make me bend, obstacles cannot
hinder my life path and insults cannot distract my patience. I will make my life blessed
by surrendering totally to obey the instructions of my guru and the scriptures. I will not
allow any hindrance to the flow of virtue in my life. At each moment, I will lead a life full
of love, kindness, courage, bravery, power, self-confidence. At every moment, my
external and internal life will remain pure and free from fault. In my life, the good of
the nation will be above everything else and this will be my motto. I am first of all the
child of Mother India and only after that I am an ascetic, householder, politician,
actor, worker, officer or businessman. How could I have existed if my country did not
exist? My country is everything for me. This life is for the nation. This life is for God.
This is the aim of my life. Duty towards my nation comes before my political duties or
ascetic duties. The nation’s glory is my glory and any insult to my nation is an insult
towards me. I will not allow my country’s glory, pride and honour to be tarnished.
Even if I have to sacrifice everything, I will do so in order to make India the super-
power of the world. I will bring back the lost glory of my country.
Come! Come forward and be ready to sacrifice everything in fulfilling this pure
and holy resolution.
Come! Let us all unite to build a new India together.
- Swami Ramdev
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I AND MY PERSONALITY
1. I am not an individual; I am the manifestation of theentire nation. I am not narrow or small; I am vast. Iam the image of the Lord. I am the representativeof truth, non-violence and good conduct. In my body,my nation resides. I am the fate and the reflectionof India. I am the one who decides the fate of my-self and my nation.
2. I am always in my Lord; my Lord is always in me.Everything that I see around me is nothing but im-ages of the Lord. Everything I do is a worship ofthe Lord. Everything that I have is a gift from theLord. I am a child of God. He, the ruler of the world,the creator of the universe, is my Father. The bless-ings of the most superior and divine power are al-ways with me.
3. I am extremely fortunate to have taken birth on thesoil of this holy and pure country, which has alsobeen the birthplace of divine personalities such asShri Krishna, Buddha, Mahavir, Guru Nanakdev andGuru Govind Singh, brave heroes such as MaharanaPratap, Chattrapati Shivaji, Chandrashekhar Azad,Subhash Chandra Bose, Ram Prasad Bismil, BhagatSingh, Raj Guru and Ashfaq, and holy souls such asMaharshi Dayanand and Swami Vivekanand. I prayto Mother India while offering the flower of mylife.
4. As my inheritance, my Lord has given me the pa-tience of earth, the energy of fire, the speed of wind,the calmness of water, and the vastness of the sky.
5. Let me be known by my mother, my father, myteacher, or my ancestors. This is not my glory be-cause I did not contribute anything. My parents gavebirth to me, my teachers gave me knowledge. Myancestors are my pride. With my knowledge, workand life, I will create my identity, and in doing so Iwill increase the honour of my parents, my teach-ers and my country.
6. I am not a believer in fate, material enjoyment orterrorism. I am a believer in humanity, patriotism,
humanitarian values, and spirituality. Free from theboundaries of region, language, religion, andbehavioural debates, I am the war-call for national-ism.
7. I am not merely an individual but the manifestationof the gentility and culture of the entire nation.Hence, the entire country is affected by everythingI do, good or bad. Till the time blood flows throughmy veins and life exists in my body, I will not betraymy country. This is my ‘Bhisma pratigya’ (unshakenvow).
8. The purity and fearlessness of childhood, the vigourof youth, the good sense of old age, and the dedica-tion of ascetics the ideals of my life. Children andsaints are not tied by the threads of illusion.
9. Work is my only religion. Work is my worship. Workis the truth of life and the world. Working withoutany desire does not indicate lack of work, it indi-cates the lack of arrogance.
10. Valour, nationalism, expertise, farsightedness, spiri-tuality, humanitarianism, and humility are the idealsof my working style.
11. Nation-religion is the biggest religion; Nation-god isthe greatest God; and love for the nation is the high-est form of love. The good of the nation is aboveeverything else. The nation is everything for me.bna jk"Vªk; bnUu eeA . My body-mind-wealth will allremain dedicated to the nation. The seven principlesof nationalism, the seven duties of spirituality andidealism are the ideals of my personal national life.
12. When I am alone, it is not loneliness; in the silenceI am permeated by many currents of divine knowl-edge and divine inspiration and I find an eternal lampalways shining on me.
13. When my internal awakening took place, I foundmyself in the shade of the Sangbodi tree, my thirstquenched.
14. At birth itself, man experiences pain and suffering.Hence, throughout life there will be thorns to walkupon. Amongst these thorns, you will have to blos-som the flowers of your life like tender rose petals.
15. God wants to choose you for great work. You haveto just open up and let the vastness enter you com-pletely. When through meditation and prayer you be-come the messenger of the Lord’s powers, then thedivine powers are at work with you as the medium.
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16. When you long greedily for fame in the externalworld, it means you have not yet attained innerwealth or peace. The day you gain the inner king-dom or happiness, you will Yourself proclaim, ¶izkIraizki.kh;a {kh.kk% {ksrO;k% Dys'kk% fNUu% f'y"ViokZHkolaØe% ;L;kfoPNsnkTtk;rs tfuRok p fez;rsA¸(Maharshi Vyas-yogsutra 1.16)
17. Take care not to repeat mistakes. Repetition of mis-takes leads to hindrance in progress and your innerstrength decreases.
18. Knowledge does not simply mean knowing; itmeans becoming that knowledge.¶l ,oa Hkofr ;,oa osnA¸
19. Be determined but not obstinate. Be brave but notimpulsive. Be kind but not weak. Be silent but notarrogant. Be clever but not cunning. Be patient butnot irresponsible. Show respect but do not be a cow-ard. There should be sweetness but not flattery.There should be justice but not a feeling of revenge.
20. A prayer for forgiveness or penance is somethingthat is done just once; it loses it’s meaning it re-peated again and again.
21. My head has the intellect of a Brahmin, my armshave the valour, strength and the heroic energy of aKshatriya, my belly has the business and manage-ment skills of a Vaishya, and in my feet I have theability to serve like a Sudra. This is my caste vow.
22. I am Agni; I am knowledge, light, speed, the chiefand the commander. ¶vfXujfLe tUeuk tkrosn%¸(Rig Veda 3.26.7). The fire of resolution is alwaysburning within me. The path of my life is alwayslighted.
PARENTS – GODS ON EARTH
23. Always keep happiness and a smile on your face.Give respect to others; you will get respect. Givehappiness to others; you will get happiness. Serveyour parents; in old age your children will serve you.
24. A mother keeps her child for nine months in thewomb with love, kindness, affection and maternalfeelings. After this, she keeps her child on her lapfor nine months, and till she dies, a mother keepsher child in her heart. The four worlds can be foundat your parents’ feet. Parents are the God of thisworld. Children are the only desire of parents. Neverinsult such parents. Do not leave them in old agehomes otherwise in the next life God will give ananimal’s birth to you where your father will oftennot be known and mother will leave you in child-hood. Howsoever you sow, so shall you reap. Hence,awaken! Once again adopt the culture of ¶ekr`nsoksHko] fir`nsoks Hko] vkpk;Znsoks Hko] vfrfFknsoks Hko¸. My mother is my god, my father is my god, myteacher is my god, and my guest is my god.
25. You should never forget your past. The knowledgeof the past saves us from mistakes and in the per-son who reaches the top, the remembrance of thepast prevents arrogance. It is only because of for-getting the past that people forget their parents. Ifthe memories of childhood and the mother’s womb
are remembered, then you will never disregard yourparents. Even after touching the sky, rememberingthe past keeps a person’s feet on the ground.
26. It is God himself who give birth to us in the form ofour parents. In this way, experiencing the divinerelationship in every relationship is yoga.
INSULT TO WOMAN IS INSULT TO MOTHER
The real beauty of a woman is not her body but hercharacter. Woman is not a commodity to be sold inthe market. She is Sita, Savitri, Jagadamba, Durga,Taravati, Gargi, Madalasha, Mahalaksmi, Meera andLaksmibai. Woman is the affection of a mother, re-
gard of a wife and love of a daughter. Do not makewomen a saleable commodity and do not joke aboutthe character of a woman. This is an insult to mother.The way electronic media keeps placing a questionmark over the character of the aware mothers, sis-ters and daughters of the nation, it should be op-
posed with full strength. These carnivores of themarket with rotten minds should be made to under-stand that the women of India are not character-less – they are the highest degree of purity.
CONTINUOUS FLOW OF THOUGHT
27. In my inner and outer life, pure qualities such as
non-violence, truth, love, kindness, affection, valour,
courage, strength, might, and self-respect, etc. should
always be found. To keep this flow unobstructed,
one should determinedly immerge yourself in self-
study, and utmost devotion unto God and worship
of gods. teacher’s nearness, his life, teachings and
conduct gives us strength from within, and keeps
the holy flow of our life continuous.
28. If you smile, the world smiles along with you, and
when you feel sad, depressed, defeated and help-
less, the world will seem extremely sad to you.
29. Happiness does not come from outside, but from
within. Happiness appears when you are in a com-
pletely silent, unconscious and peaceful state. Live
a life that is always full of inner enthusiasm, energy
and self-confidence. God has created and chosen
you for a great purpose.
30. You doubt yourself and the Lord at times. How-
ever, it is strange that people never doubt untruth or
hatred.
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Wake Up! Always be Positive!Always be a collector of nectar, be curious!
At every moment experience God’s contact!The Lord always gives us more than what wedeserve, more than our abilities and our labour.
31. pjSosfr&pjSosfr] pju~ oS eèkq foUnfr. If there is a restduring work then this rest is a sin. Do not let ob-stacles stop you, do not let trouble and temptationover power you, do not let insults divert you. Keepmarching forward till you reach your goal.
32. The sound of a single deed is louder than a thou-sand words – it is very powerful. Let us believe inthe culture of showing by example and not merelyin making speeches.
33. It is only our thoughts and culture that can bewealthy or great. Similarly, it is only our thoughtsand culture that can be poor, destitute or infamous.
34. A person lost in a crowd can be found but a personwho is lost in the crowd of thoughts will spend hisentire life in darkness. A person trapped in the webof thoughts will end his life in the same way as aspider ends its life by tying itself in his web it spuns.
35. Old age is not how many years you have lived; it isthe outcome of your thoughts. If there is energy,power, valour, courage and self-respect then evenwith increasing age, a person will remain young. Acountry will only become great with the knowledgeof the elderly and the courage, valour and self-re-spect of the youth. A very big difference betweenthe elderly and the young is – the young are notfearful of the outcome while the elderly remain con-stantly fearful of personal outcomes, and hence,cannot take decisions quickly.
36. If the flow of my opinions is not able to change thecorrupt people, corrupt governments and corruptsystems, then I will be helpless and will be forcedto protect my motherland from injustice, poverty,hunger, lack of education, social irregularities, ha-tred, crime, misconduct, ill intentions, anger and re-venge, and will have to undertake a wide-spreadrevolution to remove the wide-spread injustice,crime, exploitation and hatred.
37. Thought is the biggest strength and wealth. Thought
is the greatest power in the world. Thoughts have
unlimited strength and energy. Thoughts are evi-
dence, sacrifice, might, valour, courage and self-
respect. Thoughts can rage like the fire and storm,
and be calm like peace and contentment.
38. Pure thought-flow is life. In other words, breaking
up the thought-flow is death.
39. The great vows of non-violence and truth are noth-
ing but the purity of thought.
40. Morality, spirituality and humanitarianism are noth-
ing but purity of thought.41. Jealousy, crime, cruelty, exploitation, injustice,
irreligion, and corruption are nothing but the out-come of impure thoughts.
42. Pure thought is the basis of a person’s pure food,pure behaviour, pure conduct and pure life.
43. Ethics is nothing but the purity of thoughts.44. A resolute thought is the bridge of success.45. Purity of thoughts builds up social capability.46. Thoughts are the gateway to happiness.47. Good thought is the root of good conduct.48. Our entire life is the outcome of our thoughts.
Thought is the seed of this tree of life.49. With unrelenting good resolution and thought, even
a wicked man can become great.50. Thought is human, while lack of thought is animal.51. Pure thought is the voice behind sweet and effec-
tive words.52. Purity of thought is the solution to all our problems.
Pure thought is the foundation of a healthy, pros-perous and strong nation.
53. I am confident that the same pure thoughts that mademe rise high, that increased my self-confidence andtook me ahead on my mission will also awaken ev-ery individual of the nation, will awaken the self-respect of the nation and when everyone performshis own duties with entire strength, then certainlymy country will become great and it will lead theworld.
54. My biggest strength is my thoughts. My purethoughts have protected me from sin; my thoughtsgave me the courage to fight against obstacles andadversities. It is because of my thoughts that I havebeen able to turn my defeat into my victory, and itonly because of them that I have come out all themore powerful after going through the worst of theworst disasters.
55. When impure thoughts of jealousy, antipathy, angerand revenge can make a person hateful and crimi-nal, then why can’t pure thoughts make a personpatriotic, spiritual, humanitarian and progressive?
56. When with impure thought a person can be madecharacterless, when a person can sell his or herbody, religion and humanity, why can’t pure thoughtcreate a person of character?
57. If the seeds of hatred and dislike can be sown withina person with the help of bad thoughts, why can’tthe flowers of love, kindness and affection bloomwith the help of pure thoughts?
58. When impure thought can be used to instigate aperson into crime and lawlessness to break down asociety, why can’t pure thought be used to awakenthe inner soul of a person to unite society?
59. Just as food is the basis for our physical growth,
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similarly thought is the basis for the growth of ourmind, wisdom, intellect and all other feelings.
60. Just as a person becomes malnourished with theuse of adulterated or imbalanced food, in the sameway, people become susceptible to illusions withpolluted, impure and imbalanced thoughts; and it isthis illusion of thoughts that is the root cause of cor-ruption, hatred, crime and restlessness.
61. Our sorrow and happiness do not depend on othersbut rather on our own thought.
62. Impure thoughts are the root cause of all problemssuch as hatred, tension, crime, murder and suicide.Impure thoughts are the reason for all kinds of de-terioration such as wickedness, obstinacy and arro-gance.
63. Poverty of thought is the cause for sorrow, defi-ciency and retrogression in the nation. Resolute andfirm thought is the backbone of happiness, prosper-ity and progress.
64. It is important to take care of historical inheritances.However, the rope that Mahatma Gandhi used totie his goat with is exhibited in museums but therope that was used to hang immortal martyrs suchas Bhagat Singh, Rajguru, Sukhdev, Ashfaq UllahKhan, and Ramprasad Bismil is not seen in anymuseum, it is the misfortune of the nation. Becauseby remembering the sacrifice of the martyrs theself-respect of the people will awaken, and corrupt,cunning and criminal people won’t be able to robthe nation any longer.
LIFE
65. Each morning of life is a new birth for me and eachday is like one life for me. I will do today all thosethings for which God has sent me to this world.
66. My life as well as my death – both should behonourable.dhfrZ;ZL; l thofr. Live life not withtimidity and weakness but with self-respect and self-knowledge. God has created you for great work.
67. Life is a celebration. Life is God’s greatest gift. Thisbody is the house of God, the residence of Shiva.This body is the temple of God. This body is not tobe fought against. The soul is immortal, everyoung,constant, indestructible, light, energetic, peaceful andcontented.
68. As long as there is life, a person should not becomelifeless. Keep moving towards your goal with de-termination showing friendship to the happy, kind-ness to the sad, love to the good and contempt tothe wicked. You will definitely get success one dayand will always remain happy in life.
DO NOT GIVE UP THE EFFORT
69. Often, the more developed a civilization is; themore developed a civilization, person, society and
nation is, the lazier that civilization, person, society or
nation becomes, and this becomes the cause of itsruin. Hence, along with exaltation, the effort should
not slow down.SERVICE
70. Without service, the intellect is not purified and with-out purification of the intellect, the divine Lord can-not be experienced. Hence, you should always beon the lookout for opportunities for service.
SOCIAL WELFARE
71. Man remains more alert to others than about one-self; if we have the same alertness towards our-selves and become aware of our mind, thoughts,feelings, behaviour and work then it will lead to ourwelfare. Hence, before trying to improve the world,improve yourself. First, become a good person thenyou will automatically improve the world. Just asshadow is the outcome of the tree; only if the treeis there, we will get the shadow. Bring about yourwelfare, and the welfare of the world will happenon its own.
72. How will one who hasn’t quenched his own thirstquench the thirst of others? How can a sleepingperson awaken others? How can a hungry individualsatisfy the hunger of others? Hence, before thewelfare of the world, first accomplish self-welfare.First wake up yourself! Then awaken others!!WORSHIP CHARACTER, NOT THE IMAGE
73. Worship character, not the image. Worship person-ality, not the person. Let us not live life by merelyworshipping stone idols. Let us become worship-pers of consciousness and awaken the flood of yogaand patriotism in stone hearts.
WORK
74. Work is religion. Work is worship. Rest is a sin andrest only occurs at the end of work. Your own workis your own religion. Total dedication towards yourown work is the worship of God.
WHY CAN’T THIS HAPPEN?75. When, for a paltry sum of money, people of our
own nation can become treacherous, can’t thepeople of our country be made upright and honestin order to protect the magnificence of our nation?A handful of people are ready to sell the countryfor a handful of money, betray the nation. But thereare thousands and millions of people who would diefor their nation rather than sell themselves. We haveto unite such patriotic people.
FROM ‘I’ TO ‘LOVE’76. Where ‘me’ and ‘mine’ unites, there love, kindness,
affection and surrender is born, there service and
goodwill evolves by itself. In worldly relationships
where ‘I’ and ‘mine’ are joined, we would always
be ready to sacrifice for our close relatives. When
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‘I’ and ‘mine’ gets unitedwith the country, the feel-ing arises that this coun-try is mine and what I amtoday is solely because ofthe country. It is then thata person will becomeready to sacrifice his ev-erything for the nation.The life that is within meis because of the treesthat grow on the soil ofthis nation. This country
has given birth to me and the food and water of thisnation’s land has kept me alive. The nation has givenme wealth, power, property and respect. The tearsof the mothers, sisters, daughters, children and hu-man of this nation are my sorrow, and the well-being of the nation is my happiness. Even if oneperson in the country is helpless, destitute, poor, hun-gry or sick, then this pain of Mother India is mysorrow, my pain. It is my duty or obligation, it is mynational responsibility, it is my service ethics to makesure that not even one individual of my nation diesof hunger or sickness.
WE MUST THINK LIKE THIS?77. There is no permission for “No”.78. I will follow the advice and orders of my teachers
and scriptures to my utmost capacity. This is mywork-culture.
79. Always set your frequency to positive mode be-cause there is a constant flow of energy waves,both positive and negative, from the universe. Wehave to accept only the positive vibrations from theuniverse.
80. Instead of thinking “What can I do by myself?”,think “What can I not do by myself!” Nothing isimpossible in this world, everything is possible.
81. When corrupt, treacherous, criminal, and irrespon-sible people can together rob the nation, why can’tpatriotic, honest, responsible and awakened individu-als get together to protect the nation?
SHED APPREHENSIONS, BE POSITIVE!82. You sometimes have doubts about truth, love, self
and God, but how strange that a person never doubtsuntruth or hatred. Always be positive! Always beopen to new ideas! Feel the connection with Godevery moment! The Lord always gives us more thanwhat we can do, what we deserve and what wedo.
BE SENSITIVE
83. Emotion diminishes a person’s intellect and sensi-tivity enriches humanity. Hence, be sensitive, not
emotional. Sensitivity makes us aware of our re-sponsibility and keeps us involved in self-duties andnational duties.
SELF-QUALITIES
84. Just as cold, heat, hunger and thirst are the qualitiesof the body, honour-insult, happiness-sorrow andprofit-loss are the qualities of the mind. Similarly,love, kindness, affection, respect, devotion, surren-der, peace and joy are the qualities of the soul. Thequalities of the soul are your self-qualities. Wor-shipping the Lord by doing your own work, whilekeeping your self-qualities intact, will take you toSamadhi and fulfillment. LodeZ.kk reH;P;Z flf¼afoUnfr ekuo% (Gita 18.46).
LOVE
85. Love is not desire, it is worship. Excess of desirekills love. Love is the highest degree of surrenderand belief. Love is the cooling shadow of purity,affection and maternal feelings and an honour toeffort, courage, valour and self-respect. True loveis the one that parents have towards their children,a teacher has towards his student and a patriot hastowards his nation. Others are just attraction, illu-sion and false quenching of the body’s thirst.
GURU
86. Saints, guru and acharyas advise us while they areliving at a very high state of the intellect or are as-cended on divine knowledge in a state that is freefrom life. If we too connect ourselves with that stateof life consciousness then we will also say what thesaints are saying and our lives too will become com-pletely transformed like the saints’.
87. Guru is one who awakens, connects you with theeternal, tells you the direction, gives you what youhave lost, teaches you to call, introduces you to yoursoul, shows you the way and finally, makes you likehim. However, remember that guru will just showyou the way; you will have to do the walking your-self.
88. Someone asked a Sufi saint for his introduction –What do you eat? What do you wear? Where doyou stay? The saint replied – I eat death, I wearshrouds, and I stay in the grave.
FIND YOUR GURU
89. You truly see your guru when you become one withthe mind, wisdom, speech, behaviour and will of guruor a saint, and live your life with divine conscious-ness like him. This is why it is said, ¶lkèkwuka n'kZuaiq.;a] rhFkZHkwrk fg lkèko%A¸ Perceiving this body offlesh and bones is not the complete vision. See thesoul inside the body.
CONVERSATION WITH GURU
90. Obtaining intelligence directly or indirectly throughstudy of books of the guru is a direct conversation
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with the guru. Each divine sound of the words inthe scriptures or written by the guru will ech in youand you will feel that his life is speaking to youthrough the scriptures or his words. Such self-studytransforms our life and makes us images of our guru.
RELIGION
91. Omnipresent and scientific truth is omnipresent re-ligion. That which does not measure up to the stan-dards of omnipresent and scientific truths is not re-ligion; it is illusion. I am religious, not blinded byreligion. I will not make religion a business nor willI make work dirty.
92. Religion is another name for superior conduct. Re-ligion is not merely symbolic, it affects your con-duct. The principal root of religious symbols suchas the Sikha (top-knot) and Sutra (thread) is alsoconduct. Symbolic religion without observing theestablished rule of conduct is nothing but illusionand irreligion. Hence, become religious, not blindedby religion.
93. I do not believe in conversion of religion. Religion isnothing but good qualities which includes non-vio-lence, truth, affection, service, control, and goodbehaviour. All these qualities are present in all reli-gions. Hence, there is no such thing as conversionin religion. Religion is nothing but premium ideals ofa worthy life.
94. I do not think it is necessary to try and convert peopleby establishing schools and hospitals because evenI have changed the lives of crores of people fromvarious classes and religions. I have given themhealth, have given life to people who were very neardeath but I haven’t changed the religion of even asingle person.
FOOD
95. Just as poisonous food causes frightening harm toour body, similarly harmful thoughts too cause fright-ening tension, sorrow, restlessness and incurablediseases after entering our mind. Hence, if you wantto attain a superior personality, then be alert towardsyour food and thoughts at every moment. Theamount of cruelty a person does on his body is prob-ably not done by him on anyone else.
96. This body is the house of God, the residence ofShiva. This body is the temple of God. Do not makeit a bar by drinking alcohol, a hospital by the intakeof tobacco, etc. or a graveyard or cremation groundby eating meat, etc. Be conscientious about rituals,frugality and wellbeing. Have pure, balanced andcomplete food in time and make your body healthy.
WHY ONLY VEGETARIANISM?97. Just as we have to live in this world, similarly other
living beings too have the right to live here without
fear. If we cannot create any living being, then whogave us the right to kill them? And we kill any ani-mal for the reason that they do not look like us.However, all animals have heart, brain and eyes.They have sorrow and deep pain but we kill thembecause they do not have any weapons for theirsecurity or because in this new era of the demo-cratic drama, they do not have the voting rights.Only if they could also speak like us! Maybe thenthey could have made us realize their pain and sor-row. But what to do, these animals do not knowhow to speak in human language and we celebrateour joy by cruelly killing these mute animals who donot desire anything and have not committed any sin,and feel glorified in carnivorously tearing apart fleshand eating it like dogs and wolves. There can be nogreater sin or crime than this. If you can lead avegetarian life without killing innocent animals, thenwhy are you continuing to kill them? Man is veg-etarian by nature. The organization of the humanbody is that of a vegetarian being – this is a scien-tific truth.
ABILITY
98. You have, within yourself, unlimited capability, abil-ity and energy to make the impossible possible. Youtoo can obtain the glory of standing with the frontline people of the world. You can write a new his-tory of your power, courage and valour on the fore-head of time.
TIME AND LIFE MANAGEMENT
99. Time is wealth. He who does not honour time orwalk with time is never forgiven by time.
100. By keeping six hours for sleep, one hour for yoga,one hour for daily tasks, two hours for members ofthe family, you should dedicate the remaining 14hours to hard work. This is the best time-manage-ment in life. This is life management or life philoso-phy.
BEHAVIOUR – SEE EVERYTHING EQUALLY
101. Always keep your feelings and vision at equilib-
rium. However, it is not always possible to always
behave in the same manner. Everyone is the image
of my Lord. Everyone is my image. I am in every-
one, everyone is in me. This world is nothing but an
expansion of my ‘I’ – this is a feeling of equilib-
rium. One should behave with a teacher as a teacher.
With mother, daughter and wife, there are worldly
and behavioural differences. Even God does not
behave in the same way with everyone; he pun-
ishes the wicked and protects the good. He is kind
and also metes out justice. Feeling occurs at the
level of the soul, while behaviour occurs at the level
of the body or the world.
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1. There is no greater religion than duty towards the nation. There is no God greaterthan the nation. National interest is above everything. I will not betray the nationfor my personal, political, economic and family welfare. I will contribute my body,mind, wealth, life and vote for national interest.
POLITICAL AUTHORITY
2. To leave the authority of the nation in the hands of corrupt, dishonest, criminal,cowardly, weak, and foolish people is an insult to the country. Hence, come! Takea resolution of 100% voting and stop corrupt and dishonest people from reachingthe pinnacle of administration.
3. The political leaders of the nation have shown false dreams of progress and thereligious leaders have given false consolations, thus exploiting the Indian peoplesince ages. Now the time has come to move away from dreams, consolations andimaginations and see the present reality of the nation and religion. We have to adopta healthy and ideal political religion along with transparency, scientific, religiousand spiritual thought and should come forward to stop the erosion of our aspira-tions.
INDEPENDENCE
4. Independence without any direction makes a person, society and nation unre-strained and thoughtless bondage makes a person frustrated. Hence, the eyes ofthe mind should always be kept open in nature independence and administration.The search for truth is only in independence.
NATIONAL LEADERSHIP
5. If the leadership of a country lacks valour, humility, transparency and farsighted-ness, then the nation will never be secure. Today, unfortunately, cowardliness andweakness have replaced valour, hypocrisy has replaced transparency, and mo-mentary selfish gain and motive has replaced farsightedness. We have to changethis misfortune into good fortune. Similarly, if a person, family, society or organi-zation does not have valour, humility, skill and farsightedness then that person,family, society or organization will also never become successful.
LANGUAGE
6. It is excellent to have knowledge of foreign languages because this is essential forcommunication, business, contact and culture. However, using the language ofanother country as our national language is a tremendous insult and something tobe ashamed of. No civilized country in the world imparts education to its citizensin a foreign language. We will make the national language, Hindi, and other Indianlanguages such as Gujarati, Tamil, Telugu, Kannada, Marathi, Punjabi, Bengali,Assamese, etc. the language of administration. We will impart science, technologyand management education in Indian languages and thus give right to the childrenof the poor, labourers and farmers to also become doctors, IAS, IPS and scien-tists.
VIEWPOINT
7. The society or country in which good people are not respected and honoured, andthe wicked are not insulted or punished is sure to be ruined.viwT;k ;=k iwT;Urs iwT;kuka p foekuukA=khf.k r=k izorZUrs nqfHkZ{ka ej.ka Hk;e~AA
(Panchatantra 3.192)Hence, good people, truthful people and patriots should be given communal honourwhile the wicked people and traitors should be rebuked in public or communalplaces. It is only then that good people will increase in society and corrupt peoplewill decrease.
8. How can law-breakers be law-makers? When tainted people cannot even become
Unfortunately, even
after 60 years of
independence, we
cannot identify our
country with one
name, one language
and one culture.
Now let this country
of sages, Aryavarta,
remain Bharat. Do
not feel glorified by
calling it by the
symbol of slavery,
India.
NATIONAL INTEREST IS ABOVEALL
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small clerks and officers, how can they becomeMLAs, MPs, ministers or the prime minister?
9. Never give a final judgment on anyone. Never com-pare two people or great men. Never expect or waitfor something. Wish never gets fulfilled. Unfulfilleddesires lead to sorrow and give birth to the feelingsof anger and revenge.
10. If you do not oppose injustice or crime then pleaseunderstand that you are a supporter of injustice andcrime. You are as big a criminal as the person whocommits injustice, irreligion and crime.
11. I am not a person who will admit defeat or commitsuicide because of the corrupt systems and laws ofsociety. I am a warrior who will struggle to establishtruth, justice and dignity with my last breath and gainvictory. People who accept defeat are weak, cow-ardly and timid.
FOUR SUPERPOWERS
12. Wealth power, people power, ruling power and soulpower are four superpowers. We want to increasethe soul power with the help of yoga and unite peoplepower and stop the exploitation of the nation’s wealth.We want to make the country economically strong.At the same time, we want to keep a check on theruling power and want to encourage good conduct,dignity and traditions. This is because unrestrainedruling power leads to wickedness in people powerand with misuse of wealth power, hatred, cruelty,restlessness and anarchy spreads in society.
TWO FORMS OF POWER
13. When people-power and wealth-power increases onthe side of corrupt, dishonest and criminal people,then there is hatred, crime, fear, terrorism, injustice,exploitation and finally destruction of the nation orworld. When people-power and wealth power in-creases in the side of good people, then service, goodwill, brotherhood and love will increase, nationalism,spiritualism and humanitarianism will get strength andthe nation will prosper and progress. Whenever asurasgot administrative control, property and power, therewas destruction, and demigods always used admin-istrative control, property and power for th good ofmankind.
14. The glorious past of the nation is my pride. The na-tion that does not take pride in its past and that is notaware of it’s present problems, cannot create a goldenfuture.
15. I have as much love for my motherland as I do formy mother, sister, daughter or teacher. My nation iseverything for me. If my nation did not exist, I wouldnot exist. My head is the Himalayas, my right arm isPurbanchal or the lands of the east, my left armPaschimanchal or the lands of the west, and towardsmy feet is the Indian Ocean. India is in me. I amfrom India. I am India. I will make India the world’ssuperpower an India that leads the world in spiritual,social, economic and political ways I will make. Thisis my vow.
16. The nation’s honouris my honour andpride, and if thecountry’s image orthe nation’s pride isblemished in any way,then it is my insult. Iwill awaken thenation’s self-pride andwill dedicate my life tothe good of the nation.¶vk s3s3s3s3s3e~ jk"Vªk; LokgkAbna jk"Vªk; bnUu eeA¸This life is for the na-tion. This is my holy vow and I will remove all tracesof those who betray my nation. If people ask mewhy I talk about the nation, then I tell them that thiscountry is my own country and I express the sorrowof my heart with my entire strength so that the self-respect of the entire nation awakens. There are peoplewho do not speak for the nation, that is, even if thereis injustice and betrayal going on in the nation, theyremain silent. Such people do not respect the nationand do not work for the nation. To such people, Iwould like to say very clearly that if you do not lovethis country, you have no right to live in this country.
17. Our culture, our values, ideals, social systems andtraditions are not so weak that we have to take helpfrom the philosophy of foreign thinkers such as Lenin,Marx or Mao. Our Vedic socialism and spiritualism isa balanced, all-encompassing and scientifically com-plete philosophy. Indian philosophy emphasizes moreon others’ good rather than one’s own happiness.Hence, we do not need any imported social, religious,spiritual or political thinking. This is not arrogancebut self-pride. I am not against knowledge but, at thesame time, I am also not a supporter of ignorance.This is a truth accepted by all that India’s Vedic phi-losophy is the supreme philosophy of the world.
18. The rules, laws and democratic systems of the countryare being used less to punish the bad and criminalelements and more to torture the good folks and pa-triots. If this is not an insult to democracy and free-dom then what is it?
FROM YOGA DUTY TO NATIONAL DUTY
19. I want to asspcoate everyone with the religion of yogain order to kindle in them the religion of the nation. Iwant to fill each one with the feeling of patriotism.After self-development with the help of yoga eachmorning, I want to fill myself with energy so as tohelp the nation’s development. After self-awakeningwith the help of yoga, I want to take ahead the holymission of national awakening. The question arisesin a number of people’s minds about the relationshipbetween yoga and the nation’s progress. So, I wantto make it clear that without self-progress, the nation’sprogress is impossible. Hence, by self-developmentwith the help of yoga each morning, we will be dedi-
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cated to the progress and prosperity of the nation theentire day. Yoga and nationalism are not two differentphilosophies but are two sides of the same coin!
20. THE CONDUCT OF CITIZENS AND LEADERS
THE SEVEN PRINCIPLES OF NATIONALISM
The seven principles of nationalism, valour, trans-parency, farsightedness, humanitarianism, spiritual-ism, and humility are the seven pillars or ideals of ourpersonal and national lives. These seven principlesare the main ideals to be followed for our self-duties,national duties and work processes. The seven prin-ciples form the benchmark for our citizens and lead-ers. The person who follows these seven principlesis a true citizen of the nation. Only a person wholives according to these seven principles can provideleadership to the nation. It is with these seven prin-ciples that we want to bring in a new revolution anda new freedom to our personal life and national life,and make India a world leader again by establishingan ideal system in the country. We want to make In-dia a superpower by following these seven principles.India will lead the world socially, spiritually and mor-ally and usher in a new age of happiness, prosperityand peace in the entire world. Each nationalist-mindedcitizen and public-service providing leader should fol-low these seven principles –
I. Nationalism: He, who always keeps the nation inthe utmost position, is a nationalist. He, who consid-ers the first religion among all religions to be that ofthe nation, and only after that comes personal reli-gion – Hindu, Muslim, Sikh, Christian, etc., is a na-tionalist. He, who considers his nation to be the fore-
most among all gods, is a nationalist. He, who con-siders the of the nation to be above his personal,family and economic interest, is a nationalist.
Amongst the different kinds of love,foremost is love of the nation; even in
life and the world, love only thosewho love their nation. Do not
love the person who does notlove his nation. In worship anddevotion, first comes the wor-
ship and devotion of the nation,after that comes devotion toGod, devotion to mother and de-votion to teacher, etc. In prayer,first comes prayer to the nation;in meditation, first comes medi-tation of the nation; in thoughtsand thinking, first comes the
thought of the nation; in work,first comes the work of the na-tion; in pride, he who keeps thepride of the nation foremost isa nationalist. In relations, thefirst relationship or connec-tion is with the nation. Even
if the person who does not love the nation is a rela-tion or family member, do not keep any relationshipwith him. In cleanliness and health too, first comesthe cleanliness and health of the nation; in prosperity,first comes the prosperity of the nation; and even inprogress, he who first makes an effort for theprogress of the nation is a nationalist. In education,he who considers national education to be the best isa nationalist. In languages, he who keeps the languageof the nation foremost in his life, conduct andbehaviour, is a nationalist. He, who loves his ownnation’s education, habits, culture, yoga, religion,philosophy and spirituality, is a nationalist. He, whois dedicated to building a clean, healthy, prosperousand cultural India, to building a self-dependent coun-try, a country that is free from hunger, poverty andunemployment and has a 100 per cent compulsoryvote bank, with the help of a controlled population, isa nationalist. He, who is resolute on the completeprogress and research on Indian treatment methods– Yoga, Ayurveda, Yunani and Siddh, etc., is a nation-alist. He, who loves the Vedic Indian knowledge, In-dian food habits, Indian dress habits, India farmingand Indian traditions inherited from the sages derivedfrom Indian knowledge, that is, Veda, Philosophy andUpanishad, etc., is a nationalist. He who loves Indiansports, Indian arts and culture and India’s ancientlanguage, Sanskrit, all Indian languages and the na-tional language, and considers the national languageto be above everything, is a nationalist. Even in enter-tainment, he who believes in Indian entertainmentbased on values, morals and traditions, is a national-ist. By nationalism, national duties and national laws,we denote all the systems, rules and laws, ideals andvalues and traditions, following which the nation at-tains happiness, prosperity and well-being, and thenation moves continuously in the direction ofprogress. Our ideals of nationalism and national dutyare – Shri Ram, Shri Krishna, Chandragupta,Vikramaditya, Emperor Ashok, Tilak, Gokhale,Gandhiji, Netaji Subhash, Chattrapati Shivaji, Iron manSardar Patel, and Lal Bahadur Shastri, etc.He, who does not use foreign products made withzero-technology, is a nationalist.
II. Valour: He, who does not take even a moment totake a decision for the welfare of the nation, and doesnot fear anyone in taking or carrying out decisionsfor the welfare of the nation, who does not get trappedby superstition and lives his life with work, labour,bravery, courage, enthusiasm, and self-respect, hasvalour. When a person does not take the work relatedto the good of the nation lightly and does it aggres-sively, who takes rests only after every pure missionthat he takes upon himself has reached success with-out being diverted by struggle, obstacles and insultsor being influenced by propaganda, such a personhas valour. He believes in doing today whatever has
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to be done tomorrow, he feels that if a task has to bedone tomorrow why can’t it be done today, and ifsomething hasn’t been done today, how can we thinkthat it will be done tomorrow? He believes in thephilosophy of ‘If not now, never’, who never tires,never stops, and believes in rest only after work,and¶vdekZ nL;q%¸ (Ved) and¶dqoZUusosg dekZf.k ftthfo"ksPNr§ lek%A,oa Rof; ukU;Fksrks¿fLr u deZ fyI;rs ujsAA
( Yajurveda 40.2)Live up to 100 years while working, that is the oneclear path of life. Work is worship. Work is the truthof life and this world. This entire creation is only an
outcome of work. ¶LodeZ.kk reH;P;Z flf¼a foUnfrekuo%¸ (xhrk 18-46), Shri Krishna says, worship God
with your work. He, who considers‘Karmanyevdhikaraste Ma Phuleshu Kadachana’ tobe his motto, has valour.
III. Transparency: He, whose life is spotless, unstainedand pure, whose personal, family, business and so-cial life is based on the benchmark of the seven prin-ciples, who does not lead a double life and stays alertabout living a sinless life, such a person is skillful.He, who does not have any difference between hisinternal and outer lives, and has complete purity istransparent.
IV. Farsightedness: He, who is farsighted, raises abovethe caste, region, zone, religion, opinion, party, com-munity, language, etc., and respects all communities,talks of the progress of his area or region, respectsall religions and Indian languages, and while doing allthis, does not forget the national well-being, respectsall Indian languages and foreign languages too forcontact and communication but while doing all thiskeeps the national language above everything else.He who keeps the interest of the nation above every-thing else is farsighted. A person who gives rise tomadness of regionalism, religion, regional languagesand spreads hatred amongst the countrymen, andburns the nation for the interest of the region, is not afarsighted person. Unfortunately, majority of our poli-ticians today go from street to street asking for votesin Indian languages and rule from the parliament inEnglish. Let us become farsighted and, leaving asideour petty political selfishness, keep the national inter-est above everything else for which the coming gen-erations will remember us with pride as their idealand as national figures.
V. Humanitarianism: We are humans before being Hin-dus, Muslims, Sikhs, Christians, etc. and our fatheris the same, no matter by what name we call him.God has sent us to this world as a human being.Hence, our first and main religion is humanitarian re-ligion. We all have, naturally, within our hearts theGod-given qualities of love, kindness, affection, truth,non-violence, etc. Hence, humanitarianism, truth andnon-violence are our main religious tenets. Ensuring
that external religions, etc. do not become a threat tohumanity is humanitarianism. Keeping faith in thesehuman values is humanitarianism.
VI. Spiritualism: He, who considers universal and sci-entific values, ideals and traditions to be his religion,who might or might not be religious but is never afanatic, who sees God in all humanity and every otherliving being including plants, and who dedicates hisentire life to the service of all creatures and the worldand diminishes the sorrow of the world, is spiritual.He rises above narrow thinking and loves mankindand looks upon the whole world as his family. He,who always keeps the feeling of ‘VasudevahKutumbakam’ in his heart, is spiritual. Spiritualismand nationalism are not two opposing opinions spo-ken in two different languages. On the other hand,these two are necessary in equal respect for the com-plete independence and self-security of every coun-try and its citizens, According to worldly and nationalorganization, we are the citizens of an independentcountry and the protection of its freedom, unity andintegrity is our moral duty. This is our national duty,and along with this, if we look at things from theangle of global brotherhood, global peace and socialcoexistence then we are all one and are the sons ofone God. Hence, we are all brothers and sisters fromthe point of view of being god’s children. This is ourspiritual philosophy and spiritualism.
VII. Humility: He, who is humble, serves others in anextremely humble manner even after reaching the pin-nacle of power, property, luxury and knowledge, andwho always keeps the faith that this life and the en-tire world is the gift of the Lord. He is of the viewthat the master of this life and the world is one invis-ible power, God, who is performing all my actionsHimself keeping me as a medium. This body-mind-wealth-life belongs to God – one who lives with thisfeeling is never arrogant of his work position or prop-erty and such a person is humble. We have to live ourlife like this and this is the truth of our life and world.
21. SPIRITUALISM
(Universal and scientific truths of spirituality,religion and culture)
A person who is completely dedicated towards thelife values and ideals demonstrated by the sages suchas the eight yoga principles of yam, niyam, asanas,pranayam, restraint of the sense organs (Pratyahar),resolution, meditation and Samadhi, and the entireIndian religious, philosophical, spiritual and culturaltraditions, is spiritual, is religious. The five yams ofnon-violence, truth, asteya (not stealing the propertyof others), celibacy and asceticism demonstrated bysage Patanjali and the five practices of purification,contentment, penance, self-learning and deep devo-tion into God have been accepted by me in the formof the universal, scientific and global religion, spiritu-ality and culture and I am completely dedicated to the
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observance of ‘mansa, vacha and karmana’.Oppositeof yam and niyam such as hatred, untruth and steal-ing, etc. can be considered a sin and a crime. India isa country of extensive cultural traditions. Hence,whatever is universal and scientific in all the variousreligious, spiritual, cultural and communal traditions,we consider as religion. However, I am not a fol-lower of whatever is superstition, pretence, wicked,inhuman and unscientific. I do not believe in suchtraditions and hence I am religious, not irreligious.Instead of being the worshipper, publicist and ac-cepter of the symbolic aspect of religion, I considerreligion to be the superiority of conduct. I considerthe life values of non-violence, truth, love, kindness,service, patience, forgiveness, purity, contentment,etc., to be religion. I consider the tenets of non-vio-lence and truth in all the holy texts such as the Vedicscriptures, Quran, Bible and Gururgranth Sahib, etc.,to be religion. No matter whatever religion, opinion,group, community, etc., our personal hopes mightbe based on, as a united nation, instead of being di-vided by worshipping various gods, we should be-lieve in the worship of the one Supreme power or theLord. The Lord has various names in various lan-guages such as Hindi, Sanskrit, Punjabi, Arabic andEnglish, etc. Amongst all these names, I address Godby the name of ‘Om’ because this is the foremostand most ancient sound of creation. This sound isuniversal and scientific. There are many other formsof ‘Om’ found in Indian philosophy and culture ofother countries, such as Amen, Omen, etc. Intensivestudy and research on the scientific influences of ‘Om’reveals that Om is a pure, scientific and medical word.This is not a representative of any image, idol or reli-gious tradition. In short, I believe in a lifestyle basedon nationalism, spiritualism, and idealism. I am not asupporter of division on the basis of religion and re-gion. I am a supporter of nationalism, humanitarian-ism and spiritualism.
22. SEVEN RULES OF IDEALISM FOR
YOGA TEACHERS
Following are seven principles for the conduct of theyogi brothers and sisters dedicated to nationalism:
1. Vegetarian2. No personal agenda3. Healthy4. Capable5. Dedicated6. Non-political lifestyle7. Commitment to spend at least 1-2 hours each
day for yoga and national interest.The above-mentioned are mainly connected to ourpersonal life and conduct. If we do not give priorityto purity, and national thought in our personal life,and if we ourselves are not healthy, capable, dedi-cated and devoid of the obstinacy of politics, thenhow can we fulfill the resolution of building a nation
that is free from corruption, crime and exploitation.Our head yoga teachers, deputy yoga teachers, co-yoga teachers, workers and yoga practitioners willstay within the framework of these seven modes ofconduct and will first bring purity, modesty, and ex-pertise into their personal lives and will then takeahead the mission of national character building. Firstself-development and then we will offer everythingfor development of the nation. First self-interest andthen the interest of the nation and the world – this isour motto.Non-political lifestyle means that a person connectedstrongly with our mission of building a new Indiawill not represent any political party and will not giveany special support to any group either directly orindirectly. Our political philosophy is – all party or noparty. That is, support the people that have charac-ter, transparency, expertise and nationalism, belong-ing to all parties. Remember, do not give direct sup-port even to honest politicians. Just as we give moralsupport in a collective way through Yogpeeth to na-tionalist and honest people, in the same way moralsupport should be given to ideal persons, nationalistpoliticians with character. ‘All party’ or ‘no party’means that we do not represent any particular partybut we morally or emotionally support all the peoplewho are good in all parties. Hence, we are ‘all party’,itmeans we have no connection with the corrupt peoplein all the parties and that is why we are also ‘no party’.Our opposition is not any party or person, but it istheoretical and this is how it should remain. Any per-son who is directly connected to any political partycannot do complete justice to this mission. I am not arepresentative or publicist of any political party. I ama representative and publicist of national duty. Weshould always remember that our complete person-ality, our words, food habits and conduct is entirelyaccording to the tradition of the sages and for thehonour of this mission.
NATION-GOD
23. ekrk Hkwfe% iq=kks¿ga i`fFkO;k% (Atharva Ved 12.1.12)
Earth is our mother and we are her children. Nation-
god is the greatest god. Religion of the nation means
our duty towards the nation, our responsibilities. Ful-
filling them is our biggest religion. Just as irreligion
and injustice are sinful, it is equally sinful to bear up
with atrocity. Every individual should have gratitude,
respect and pride towards the nation.
24. It is unfortunate that even after 60 years of indepen-
dence we have not been able to identify our nation
with one name, one language and one culture. Now,
let this country of sages, Aryavartta, remain Bharat.
Now let us not feel proud by calling it by the name of
India, the identity of slavery.
25. Those who do not love the soil, culture, civilization,
and the people of the nation have no right to stay in
this country.
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of self-confusion, and awaken India’s sleeping self-
respect by building national character.
OUR ORGANIZATION BUILDING
AND WORK PROCESS
3. By observing the aforementioned five vows, we will
build an India that is healthy, clean, prosperous, self-
dependent, corruption-free, unemployment and pov-
erty-free – this is our firm resolution. To fulfil this
resolution, 1. Divya Yog Mandir (Trust), 2. Patanjali
Yogpeeth (Trust) India and International, 3. Bharat
Swabhiman International (NRI organization), 4.
Patanjali Treatment Centre, 5. Patanjali Yoga Samiti
and 6. Mahila Patanjali Yog Samiti – these six main
organizations and the people of the nation are being
involved through the medium of 15 different groups
in this yoga revolution and national awareness mis-
sion. These 15 groups are:
1. Youth group
2. Doctor group
3. Teacher group
4. Financial service group
5. Legal group comprising advocates and ex-judges
6. Ex-servicemen group
7. Farmer group
8. Industrialist and businessmen group
9. Worker group
10. Officer group
11. Labour group
12. Science and technology group
13. Art and culture group
14. Media group
15. Senior citizen group
That is, a total of 15 groups will work. To estab-
lish these 15 groups in each district, the responsibility
of the selection of the members as well as the coordi-
nator will rest with the aforementioned six main orga-
nizations of Bharat Swabhiman and 15 supporting
groups, a total of 21 constituents of our complete or-
ganization. These 21 groups, in the 21st century, will
awaken ‘swadeshi’ in the entire nation by running a
revolution of complete social, spiritual, moral rise and
bring about a new freedom and a new system in the
OUR FIVE MAIN GOALS
1. Creating an India that is healthy, prosperous and tra-
ditional with 100% voting, 100% nationalist thought,
100% boycott of foreign companies, adoption of
‘swadeshi’, uniting the people of the nation 100%,
and building an India that is100% yoga-oriented – This
is the ‘Bharat Swabhiman’ mission. With this the na-
tion will get a new freedom and new system, and In-
dia will become great and the country’s greatest prob-
lem – corruption – will get solved.
OUR FIVE VOWS
2. In the special training camps for yoga teachers,
our participating brothers and sisters are asked to
take five vows in order to bring about the knowledge
of self-qualities through yoga, to make their mind and
body healthy, and to build national character by devel-
oping own character. You too can take these vows
and at the same time also request each teacher, devo-
tee, distinguished member, colleague, general mem-
bers and every citizen in your district to take these
vows and embark on the mission of building a healthy,
prosperous and traditional India –
1. We will only vote for patriotic, honest, valiant, far-
sighted, and skillful people. We ourselves will vote
100% and also make others vote.
2. We will unite all patriotic, sincere, aware, sensitive,
intelligent and honest people together 100% and unit-
ing the powers of the nation will bring about a new
freedom, new system and new change. We will make
India the biggest superpower in the world.
3. We will 100% boycott foreign goods made with
zero technology and adopt indigenous goods.
4. We will adopt nationalist thought 100%, and while
in our personal lives we observe Hindu, Islam, Chris-
tian, Sikh, Buddhist, Jain, etc. religious traditions, in
our public lives we will live like a true Indian – a true
Hindustani.
5. We will make the entire country 100% yoga-ori-
ented and make the citizens inward-focused by mak-
ing them healthy and arouse the feeling of self-pride
in each one by removing the cheating, corruption,
hopelessness, disbelief and self-languor arising because
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country.
Including 1100 to 2100 yoga teachers from each dis-
trict, we will prepare 2100 to 5000 special members
of Bharat Swabhiman and the special members shall
select 5,000 to 11,000 working members and these
will prepare 5-11 lakh ordinary members of Bharat
Swabhiman (Trust).
To join in this national revolution through the medium
of Bharat Swabhiman, contact the local Patanjali Yog
Samiti/ Patanjali Treatment centre to join any one of
the above-mentioned 15 groups and come forward to
become our teacher/member!
A BIG QUESTION MARK ON DEMOCRACY AND
THE CONSTITUTION
4. Legislature, Executive, Judiciary and Media are
the four pillars of this democracy. In a democracy, the
voters are not helpless, destitute or slaves and the rulers
are not masters; on the other hand, the rulers are public
servants to whom people have given power and author-
ity. Those MLAs and MPs have been elected by us to
protect our well-being. We have not made them our rep-
resentative to dictate instead of rule or to do injustice to
us under the cover of the law. We do not give rights to
the people’s representative so that they take away our
right to live. The rulers are our employees and in return
for their services, we give the MLA/MP, ministers, chief
minister and prime minister their salaries, houses, entire
expenses, travel and petrol expenses, car, etc. through
our taxes. The rulers do not give free service, instead, in
return for this service, we give heavy salaries and entire
expenses to each representative and we give him author-
ity for the welfare of the society, town, region, and na-
tion; and if he misuses this authority we have all the right
to take him out of power. In the present time, the country
is so terrorized by the misdeeds of the corrupt rulers and
corrupt authorities that the common man feels himself to
be helpless, destitute, lonely and tired, and even while
living in independent India, is desperate because of con-
stant fear of the governance and is again and again made
a victim of exploitation. Now awaken! Do not bear ex-
ploitation instead of governance any longer! Live with
complete self-respect, self-rule, and freedom! This coun-
try is yours; you are not a slave but a citizen of free India.
Just like the legislature of the country, the entire adminis-
trative executives and judiciary too, that is all the demo-
cratic processes, administrative officers, police organi-
zation, and the judicial system, have all been instituted so
that the people of the nation can live with security, justice
and self-respect. However, if some government officer,
employee or police officer is doing injustice to you or
behaving in an unconstitutional manner, then you have
the right to raise a voice against that corrupt system and
getting that corrupt officer punished, getting him removed
from office, because all the government elements are there
for our security and to give us justice, and in return for
their work, we give them heavy salaries. Do not be afraid
of them. Definitely show them respectful behaviour but
keep in mind that they are not your masters and they are
there to serve you. In a democracy, every Indian is the
master and he has moral and constitutional rights. Every
citizen has the right to live with complete freedom, com-
plete governance, and self-respect. Hence, wake up! And
do not quietly accept exploitation, injustice and corrup-
tion in the name of governance. Whosoever is a corrupt
ruler, throw him out of power with the help of your vot-
ing right; and vote 100% to bring into power those patri-
otic, brave, skillful and farsighted people who are honest,
who feel for the nation in their heart and sincerely want
the progress of the nation! And save the nation! We will
take a resolution that neither will we rob the nation and
nor will we allow corrupt, cunning and criminal minded
people rob the nation. This country is mine. I will not
allow it to be ruined. When majority of the leaders who
sit in the Parliament and legislative assemblies themselves
make a joke of democracy and when those who take
oaths on the Constitution themselves kill the Constitu-
tion, then we cannot keep silent. I will build the India that
the martyrs dreamt of, bring a new independence to the
nation, and will remove the exploitation and corruption
that is going on in the name of governance in the nation
today.
WHAT DEMOCRACY IS THIS?5. In this democracy, votes are seeked in Hindi and
other Indian languages while governance is done in En-
glish. Can’t the nation be ruled with the national language?
Can’t the judgment of the High Courts and Supreme Court
of India be given in Hindi or other regional languages?
Even after 60 years of Independence, the people of our
country don’t get justice in their own language—what
kind of injustice is this?
BREAK YOUR SILENCE!6. A country is harmed more by the despondency
of the good people of the country than by the misdeeds
of the bad people. Hence, now break your silence! Awaken
yourself! And awaken the nation!! And come forward to
defeat the demonic forces of the nation!
THE INDIA OF MY DREAMS
7. In order to build a healthy, prosperous and re-
fined India, I have five main goals – Healthy India, Clean
India, Independent India, India free from hunger, unem-
ployment and poverty with population control, and India
free from political corruption with 100% voting.
1. HEALTHY INDIA
I want to build such an India in which each citizen,
poor or rich, is healthy physically, in thoughts, and in
feelings. Unfortunately, despite spending or wasting al-
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most Rs 6,00,000 crore in health services, only 35 per
cent of people are being able to control their illness with
the help of modern treatment methods and allopathy, while
the rest of 65 per cent are not even capable of availing
allopathic treatment.
We want to give mankind total health by the use of
yoga, Ayurveda, acupressure, natural and balanced meth-
ods and traditional Indian remedies, because it is certain
that only healthy citizens can build a prosperous, mag-
nificent, and refined India.
2. CLEAN INDIA
The country’s land, food, water, rivers, air and sky
have all become polluted, and the main cause of 50% of
the diseases in India is non-cleanliness. Because of pollu-
tion in food, thought, mind and behaviour, disease, fear,
corruption, crime and anarchy is spreading in the entire
country. Even sage Patanjali had pronounced cleanliness
to be the first rule for a yogi. The universe is purified by
sacrificial fires, air is purified through planting of trees,
the body is purified by water, mind if purified by truth,
wealth is purified by donation, wisdom is purified by
knowledge, and the soul is purified by study and pen-
ance. We want to build a clean and strong India by puri-
fying politics by 100% voting and purifying the nation by
the identity cards of each citizen. To make the air, food
and water pollution-free, it is important to have nation-
wide movements.
3. INDEPENDENT INDIA THROUGH INDIAN
LIFESTYLE
No country in the world can become great without
indigenous industries, indigenous education, indigenous
treatment, indigenous technology, indigenous knowledge,
indigenous languages, indigenous costumes, and self-re-
spect of the motherland.
I want to make India and each Indian stand on its
own feet and be independent and want to place India at
the highest position in the world.
I want to awaken self-respect in every individual of
the nation, and inculcate Indian languages, culture, re-
finement, Vedic knowledge in the entire system of educa-
tion and medical treatment, and carve a unique identity
for India in the world. In 1611 in Machli Pattnam (Andhra
Pradesh) and in 1613 in Surat (Gujarat), the Mughal em-
peror had given permission to a foreign company to trade.
Gradually, by exploiting the nation, this company made
its roots strong, and in 1757, by gaining victory in the
Battle of Plassey in Bengal, started invoking taxes. In the
unprecedented famine of Bengal in 1769-70, far from
helping the victims, the company exploited them all the
more. Despite the presence of famine in the country, this
foreign company made a lot of profit. Taking the help of
its ‘Regulatory Act’, it started its rule in India from 1773
with the Bengal province. In other words, a foreign trad-
ing company became the ruler before our eyes. Be-
ginning with the first agent of the East India Company in
1615, Thomas Roe to the first Governor General Warren
Hastings to the last Governor General Mountbatten, a
foreign company robbed property and wealth worth Rs
278 lakh crore for 350 years. The first foreign company,
East India Company, not only robbed the wealth and glory
of India but also made it a slave country for 200 years,
and now the 5000+ foreign companies producing flour,
salt, water, cold drinks, juice, chips, soap, oil, cream,
powder, shoes, sandals and garments, etc., with zero
technology (these are the goods in which no special tech-
nique or science is used) are taking away lakhs and crores
of rupees from the country. This is a big obstacle to the
country’s economic progress. Even if one rupee from
the country is deposited in foreign banks then it is harm-
ful and dangerous for the economic condition of the na-
tion. The economic condition of the country is the nation’s
biggest strength or backbone. We will make our country
strong, and will not make it weak by buying products of
foreign companies. Foreigners have robbed us tremen-
dously, hence, for the empowerment of the economic
condition of the nation, it is essential to bring in foreign
currency through trade and jobs, to increase exports by
trading with foreign nations, to create demand for our
goods in foreign markets. However, if money is being
credited to the account books of foreign companies be-
cause of you, then you are betraying the country. We
should not cheat the nation and rather we should become
responsible and trustworthy citizens and businessmen of
the nation.
We take the vow that we will no longer use in our life
th daily-use products made by foreign companies using
zero technology such as Lux, Lifebuoy, Liril, Rexona,
Pears, Colgate, Pepsodent, Ponds, Lakme, Dettol, Dalda,
etc., We will also never use products by Amway and
poisonous cold drinks of Pepsi and Coca-Cola, as well as
drinking water sold under the brand names of Aquafina
and Kinley. Even if some foreign companies are only dis-
tributing fruit juice, water, soap and other good quality
products, we will not buy those products because these
products while not harming our health are very harmful
to India’s economic state, prosperity and the indigenous
Indian industries. Nowadays even Indian industries are
producing quality essential-use products with purity
checks. Hence, by adopting an Indian lifestyle, we will
save the country from economic bondage and make the
country free from poverty, unemployment and hunger
by increasing indigenous industries.
When the history of India’s progress is written, then
our name, at the very least, should not appear in the list
of individuals who weakened the nation and should ap-
pear in the list of people who gave strength to the nation.
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Then our name won’t be
written among the trai-
tors of the nation and
will be among the patri-
ots who used Indian
products.
4. INDIA FREE
FROM HUNGER,UNEMPLOYMENT AND
POVERTY WITH
POPULATION CON-TROL
Poverty, hunger and
unemployment are na-
tion-wide problems, and all these three problems are an
insult ot any country and a sign of failure of social and
political systems. Today, the daily income of 25 crore
people in India is Rs 5 and, on the other hand, only 25
people in the same country are daily earning the sum of
Rs 5 crore. There are two meanings of this is – First, our
economic policies are based on feudalism and second,
our population is increasing in an extremely fast rate each
day. If we do not take any effective step while there is
still time then the state of the nation will become ex-
tremely dangerous and uncontrolled. While there will defi-
nitely be an unbalance of health, wealth and education in
a society devastated with hunger, unemployment and pov-
erty, there will also be the beginning of an age of hatred,
crime and communal violence that will burn the entire
nation. This will prove very unfortunate and dangerous
for the country.
Instead of feudalism, Marxism, Leninism, and unso-
cial systems, we should adopt Indian socialism which is
based on valour and a balanced and progressive philoso-
phy. It is necessary to establish the socialism that was
prevalent in our villages before Independence in which
each village, individual, society and nation is self-depen-
dent, capable, independent and happy. Even if we distrib-
ute equally the wealth and property of the nation amongst
all its citizens according to communist ideology, within a
few days there will again be hunger, unemployment, ill-
health and poverty because the root cause of these prob-
lems is uncontrolled population rise, the solution to which
is population control.
It is only with population control that we can build an
India that is free from hunger, fear, unemployment, ill
health and hatred, and is civilized, healthy, happy and
glorious. Just as there is no production with demand,
similar is the case in context of human beings.
We do not even have resources or employment for
people who are already born, and despite this we are
continuously producing unnecessary babies. In such a
state, no one can stop the misfortune of the nation. There
are only two solutions for this: either the people of the
nation use their own intellect and produce fewer children
or in case this is not done, then India too should take
strong steps like China against those who produce more
children. Only then can we build a prosperous and pow-
erful nation and remove hunger, unemployment and pov-
erty.
5. INDIA FREE FROM POLITICAL CORRUPTION
WITH 100% VOTING
We have gained freedom from foreign slavery but even
in free India, we see high levels of exploitation, injustice,
torture and corruption going on in the name of gover-
nance, and there is an environment of insecurity and disbe-
lief in the entire country. In such a situation the country
needs a pure, nationalist thought with which we can re-
move most of the corrupt, dishonest and criminal people
sitting at the helm of power and bring in a new freedom,
handing over the power to patriotic, brave, farsighted,
skillful, humanitarian, spiritual, humble and honest people
and building a powerful and democratic India.
The people representatives, e.g. MLAs and MPs, are
selected by us to occupy the highest position in the coun-
try or the parliament, that parliament which is the highest
centre of power and wealth in the nation. The country’s
parliament is the main centre of all the systems in the
nation. It is from here that the political administrators
determine what the education system should be like and
what children should learn. The medical system, eco-
nomic system, law and security are all liabilities of the
political administrators. It is the liability of the political
administrators to improve the agricultural sector which
in turn will ensure that the problems of hunger and food
do not arise. The political administrators are also liable
for utilizing the labour capital of the nation properly which
will remove unemployment, poverty, hunger and non-
education and take the nation to progress. If the politics
of the nation are functioning well then all the systems will
run well. By politics, nationalism and national duties, my
indication is towards those systems, laws, ideals, values
and traditions which will bring happiness, prosperity and
glory to the nation and it will continuously move towards
progress. Unfortunately, as the character of majority of
the leaders who lead the systems of the nation is not
correct, there is corruption in the nation and because of
corruption ther is unemployment and it is unemployment
that gives birth to hunger, poverty and crime.
If corruption is removed from politics then every
year, more than Rs 10 lakh crore will be spent in the
development of the nation, crores of youth will get
new avenues of employment, there will be industrial
progress and there will be all-round development in
the nation. The country will become strong, prosper-
ous and free from crime.
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Our political, administrative and democratic ideals are
– Lord Ram, Shri Krishna, Chandragupta, Vikramaditya,
Emperor Ashoka, Chattrapati Shivaji, Netaji Subhash
Chandra Bose, Tilak, Gokhale, Gandhi, Iron man Sardar
Patel and Lal Bahadur Shastri, etc. However, the main
positions in today’s cheap politics, democracy and ad-
ministration are occupied mostly by corrupt, dishonest,
immoral and criminal people and if any patriotic, honest
person with character speaks of cleanliness in politics
and lights the lamp of nationalism in place of immoral
politics, and wants to build a new nation by bringing a
new revolution and new systems, wants to bring in hap-
piness, prosperity and equality by removing corruption,
hatred, crime and intolerance, then these aforementioned
corrupt, dishonest and criminal people do not like it and
say that honest, educated, patriotic and truthful people
should stay away from politics, whereupon these dis-
honest corrupt people can run the country according to
their whims and rob and destroy it. We should remove
from power the corrupt and dishonest people who have
ruined the nation and punish them for their sins. If we
think that we can sit silent and peacefully and some in-
carnation of God will come and change our country then
this is our illusion. To achieve something, we have to
fight or take a stand ourselves. There is no victory with-
out struggle. Do not live with insults any more. Recog-
nize your strengths and unite to defeat these demonic
powers and pull out corrupt people from the helm of
power and replace them with superior people and there is
only on way to do this – 100% voting.
Hence, with 100% voting, we have to replace the
corrupt political system of the nation with an excel-
lent one, and just as more than 30 countries includ-
ing Australia, Italy, France and Germany have done,
we too should have a rule for 100% compulsory vot-
ing in India. Only then the exploitation, injustice,
torture and corruption that is going on in the nation
in the name of governance will end and the wide-
spread feeling of disbelief and insecurity too will end
and India will become a powerful democratic nation
in true sense. Otherwise, 25-30% people vote and form
the government and 70-80% people become victims of
exploitation, injustice and torture in silence, and these
corrupt people do not even look after the well-being of
the 25-30% people who vote for them and instead of
working for the interest of the nation, give false assur-
ances and show false dreams of progress, and mislead
and rob the nation.
I consider not voting to be an insult to democracy and
the freedom of the nation. If we do not vote, the nation’s
freedom falls into danger. The freedom that we got as a
result of sacrifice of martyrs will change into slavery. If
we do not vote, we are insulting martyrs and their sacri-
fice. Martyrs and bravehearts had not sacrifice their lives
so that cowardly, weak, corrupt, dishonest and criminal
people rule over free India. We Indians are all equally to
blame for the sorry plight of India.
Hence, let us take a vow that we won’t sit silently
during the elections; we will ourselves vote 100% and
make others also do so and together we will make India a
powerful democracy and bring in true freedom to the
country and make India free from political slavery. It is
only because we do not vote that the administration of
the nation goes into the hands of corrupt people and the
country gets ruined.
8. SEVEN NATIONAL DANGERS
1. Self-confusion, because of self-confusion 2. cor-
ruption, 3. downfall of personal and national character,
4. insensitivity, 5. disbelief, 6. hopelessness, 7. self-lan-
guor
The question arises in the heart of each patriotic In-
dian as to why does corruption, the reason for unem-
ployment, poverty and hunger, the nation’s biggest prob-
lem, exist? After research, study and experience of the
physical science, psychology and the entire emotional set-
up of a person, we have come to this conclusion that
when a person moves away from his centre, then within
him arises dishonesty, bribery, hatred, dislike, self-lan-
guor, insensitivity, work confusion and all kind of irre-
sponsible thought, character and behaviour. Self-confu-
sion is the main reason for personal and national
downfall…as a result, anarchy is spread throughout the
nation. Corruption, hatred and crime run wild. From self-
confusion arise insensitivity and from insensitivity, dis-
belief and hopelessness penetrate deeply among the com-
mon people and as an outcome of all this, self-languor
seeps in the minds and thoughts of crores of people in
the nation. However, there is a solution to all these na-
tional dangers – yoga. When a person becomes self-fo-
cussed with yoga, that is when he is joined with his cen-
tre, consciousness and soul, then he is not able to do
anything that goes against his soul. The soul is, by na-
ture, pure. The soul is full of love, kindness, light, en-
ergy, peace, joy and is always content.
A person who is spiritual sees the nation in his body.
He gets the scent of the soil of his motherland from each
particle of his body, in its cells and his blood. This is
because he feels that his body is made from the food, air
and water of the soil of this nation. Each cell of my body
has been directly built by the soil of this land. This land
has given me life. This land is my mother who gave birth
to me. My country resides in my body. This is not merely
imagination, wishful feeling or emotional thought, and
when a person lives with such kind of feeling, then he
will never be able to cheat his nation. He will consider
betraying his country equivalent to betraying himself.
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When he sees India in the form of his mother, then in
each citizen he will see his mother’s love. How then will
he become a traitor to the nation? He will love hi nation
and its people. This is the solution to the national prob-
lems.
Hence, it is certainly my firm belief that yoga and spiri-
tuality can save the falling personal and national charac-
ter. With yoga, self-focus will replace self-confusion,
honesty will replace corruption and dishonesty, rise of
personal and national character will replace the downfall
in personal and national character, sensitivity will replace
insensitivity, faith will replace disbelief, hope will replace
hopelessness, and the feeling of self-glory of the nation
will replace self-languor. And India will regain its lost glory
and become a superpower in the world.
9. THE BIGGEST PROBLEM OF THE NATION –CORRUPTION – AND ITS SOLUTION
It is only because all the honest and patriotic people
don’t vote and most of the corrupt, wicked and criminal
kind of people reach the top most political positions and
steal, the hard-earned money that we give in the form of
taxes for the development of the country. The total bud-
get of the local authorities, state government and central
government for the development of the nation is approxi-
mately Rupees 20 lakh crore. In the year 2008-09, the
total budget of all the state governments were Rs
909444.75 crore and the central government budget was
Rs 801600.00 crore. If the budget of the local authori-
ties, municipal corporations and the development authori-
ties are also added to this, then the total amount comes to
approximately Rs 20 lakh crore.
Of this, at least Rs 10 lakh crore gets sacrificed at the
altar of corruption every year, and in one term of the
central government, that is 5 years, corrupt and criminal
type of people loot approximately Rs 50 lakh crore from
the country. If Rs 10 lakh crore were distributed without
any bias amongst the 600 districts of the country, then
each district would directly or indirectly get Rs 4.5 crore
everyday, and approximately Rs 1666 crore would be
spent on development directly or indirectly in each dis-
trict in a year. If Rs 1666 crore was spent in a district in
a year then no one would remain unemployed in that dis-
trict, and if there is no unemployment then there would
be no problem of poverty or hunger in the country, and if
there is no poverty and hunger then everyone would be
happy, and if everyone is happy then hatred, robbery and
other crimes in the country would be almost zero. In
short, corruption is the reason for unemployment
and the misery of the country. If the money that is
robbed by corrupt people is used for the development of
the nation then new avenues for employment would have
come about. When there would be no unemployment in
the country, then the problem of hunger and poverty
would disappear by itself.
Hence, come! Let us all united take a vow that in the
elections this time, we will participate 100% and will not
allow the country to be robbed at the hands of the cor-
rupt people. We will remove the corrupt, wicked and
criminal people from power and hand it over to patriotic
and honest people. When we vote for patriotic and hon-
est people, then corrupt and criminal people will get re-
moved from power and only when power comes in the
hands of honest and patriotic people, corruption can be
erased. The country’s problem of unemployment, hun-
ger and poverty would be removed. India will stand
amongst the developed nations of the world. India will
stand out as the biggest economic, social, spiritual and
political power in the world. India will gain the respect of
the entire world and with our nation’s honour, the honour
and respect of each Indian too would increase in the world.
We will be able to re-establish the lost glory of India.
When corrupt, dishonest and criminal people can get to-
gether and rob the country with corruption, why can’t
god, gentle, patriotic and honest people save the country
from being robbed?
The money that is being robbed from the nation by
corruption is our hard-earned money that we give to the
nation in the form of 64 kinds of taxes including land tax
by farmers and house tax, water tax, road tax, sewerage,
service tax, VAT, income tax, sales tax, etc. by the com-
mon man. This money has been given by us for the de-
velopment of the nation, and corrupt and criminal people
steal this very money with the aid of dishonest paper-
work or corruption.
Come! Let us all take a resolution that we will not
allow corrupt people to steal our hard-earned money. We
will spend this money in the development of the nation
and make the nation strong.
10. DESTRUCTION OF THE NATION
WITH CORRUPTION
I. The main reason of unemployment: It is only be-
cause of corruption that unemployment is prevalent
in the country. Corruption is the main reason for
unemployment, poverty, hunger, fear, want, robbery,
hatred, kidnappings and crime. If there would be no
corruption in my country, there would be no unem-
ployment.
II. Reason for obstruction in progress: When the nation’s
wealth gets accumulated with some corrupt, dishon-
est and criminal kind of politicians and officers be-
cause of corruption. The money/property that is
robbed from the nation is spent for their dogs, cats,
cows, etc or else accumulated cash gets rotten in
their rooms, while the common man does not get
two square meals a day. This is not all—to hide their
crime, the money is stored in foreign banks as in
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Swiss bank accounts, which stop the progress of
the nation.
III. Reason for the humiliation of patriotic and honest
people: It is because of the increase of corruption
that patriotic, honest and hardworking people have
to live with insults. Many-a-times, the price of hon-
esty has to be paid with your life.
IV. Reason for death of Indian industries: When the
wealth of the nation gets accumulated in the hands
of a few corrupt people, then investment of foreign
companies have to be invited for industrial develop-
ment in the nation. First, our nation’s wealth gets
accumulated in the wrong hands because of corrup-
tion and then these corrupt people declare to the world
that India is a poor nation. With such declaration,
they get India into debt and all the more embarrass-
ing position because of loans by the World Bank and
other prosperous nations. The truth, on the other
hand, is that there is no other country in the world
as prosperous and beautiful as India. If India’s natu-
ral resources and tax money is used properly then in
just a few years we can become the biggest power
in the world. A few corrupt politicians and a few
corrupt officers have got together and are making
the country poor. On top of that, foreign companies
too start taking their share of our wealth. If there is
no corruption in the nation then there would be double
the rate of progress. In the absence of corruption,
firstly the wealth of the nation would be used for the
good of the nation and along with this the country
would not be in the need for foreign investment. The
country will see industrial, academic and other
planned growths with the nation’s own wealth, the
country will prosper, and the foreign companies
which take away a huge chunk of our country’s
money each year won’t be able to lay any claims to
our wealth. The country will become much stron-
ger from the economic point of view. Our exports
will increase and imports will decrease, that is, mil-
lions of people will get employment from indigenous
industries. However, because of selfish motives and
corruption, politicians place their own known cor-
rupt, dishonest, unconstitutional and good-for-noth-
ing officers in charge of government industries and
slow them down in the business race. First, these
corrupt people rob the nation – they tear up Mother
India and eat her up, and after that these dishonest
politicians in collaboration with foreign companies
hand over the nation to foreign companies. This is
like saying whatever we could rob, we have and now
it’s your turn. Loot whatever you can and then to-
gether let us sell it off to a multinational company
through a conspiracy. Many-a-times, indigenous in-
dustries and factories have become victims of such
conspiracies.
V. The reason for four roads and communication sys-
tems: When there would be no corruption involved
in communication systems and the wealth of the
nation would be utilized in making good roads, over-
bridges, etc., then our communication system would
become very beautiful and there will be three main
benefits of this – first, the 1 lakh deaths approxi-
mately caused each year due to road accidents will
almost become negligible. Second, good roads will
mean the valuable time of the people won’t be
wasted. Third, vehicles will no longer waste almost
50% of their fuel as they do now while waiting at
traffic jams. Because of good roads, the country will
save around Rs 2.5 lakh crore in petrol and other oil
expenses, and the lesser amount of fuel burnt means
lesser pollution in the nation. The people of the na-
tion will also be able to avoid illnesses that are caused
by increase in pollution such as cancer, T.B., allergy,
asthma, etc.
VI. Reason for fatal diseases: When the pollution is re-
moved from the Pollution department then the people
of the nation will get god air, good water and clean
land. Unfortunately, today the air, water and soil has
become so polluted that unless we take care of it in
time then we will be leaving behind a poison-filled
country for the coming generations and our children
will become victims of fatal diseases such as can-
cer, T.B and AIDS and will die untimely deaths. Un-
less the immoral and naked dances being served
through cable television and the Internet is not stopped
in time, then our youth will remain in the grasp of
intoxicants and sexual desires. The lives of our chil-
dren which are yet to come will be in trouble and
they will rebuke us and say what a nation our fore-
fathers have left behind for us.
VII. Reason for social injustice: No other civilized na-
tion of the world educates their citizens in a foreign
language. Unfortunately, the 5% English educated
people of our nation considers the rest 95% people
to be illiterate fools and only their children can study
and become doctors, engineers, scientists, IAS or
IPS officers. This is the reason why the medium of
instruction in the higher education institutes of sci-
ence, technology and management is English. This
is also a big corruption and an injustice to crores of
people in the country because if science, technology
and management education was given in Indian lan-
guages such as Gujarati, Marathi, Tamil, Telugu,
Kannada, Oriya, Bengali and Assamese or in the na-
tional language Hindi, then the child of a poor
labourer or a farmer could also become a doctor,
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engineer or scientist; he too could become an IAS or
IPS officer. However, the useless and corrupt rulers
of the nation do not want this to happen. This con-
spiracy was started from the first day of Indepen-
dence and has continued till today since then.
VIII. Cause of deaths of the poor: When there is cor-
ruption in education the poor or common man of the
country can never move ahead. On top of this, be-
cause of corruption in the medical sector, we have
adulterated medicine, unnecessary medicine, unnec-
essary operations, and terrorizing in the name of treat-
ment. The poor thus struggle and die untimely deaths.
IX. Reason for exploitation in place of governance: It
is only because of corruption that injustice is done
with people with bribery, hawala business, exploita-
tion instead of governance by police and administra-
tion and misuse of law. The law is used to torture
poor, truthful and honest people.
X. Reason for lack of sanitation: It is only because of
political corruption that there is filthiness in the na-
tion. There is poor sanitation in the county only be-
cause of our unconstitutional ways and because of a
lack of strong will power. If we practice waste man-
agement with determination and honesty, and behave
sternly with people who spread filth, then the coun-
try can definitely be made clean. The workers who
have to clean the towns are made to clean the houses
of corrupt officials. Because of poor sanitation, to-
day the world sees India as a dirty country. This
sentence is common amongst NRIs and foreigners:
Culturally, India is the best but as far as cleanliness
is concerned, India is a very dirty country. We have
to erase this image and we have to increase the glory
of the nation all over the world. Education, aware-
ness and a corruption-free strong punishment sys-
tem needs to be set up to make the nation clean.
XI. Reason for insecurity in the nation: It is only be-
cause of political corruption that our politicians in-
dulge in dirty and cheap politics of votes and nation-
breaking hatred. It is only because of this that there
is controlled population growth in the country and
the government is taking no strong steps against it.
Poor education and unconstitutional governance are
the main reasons for this limitless, uncontrolled popu-
lation growth. If the government thinks about the
welfare of the nation then it could control the popu-
lation size like China. Instead of controlling the popu-
lation of our nation, we are also sheltering over 4
crore illegal migrants from neighbouring Bangladesh.
This can put our nation’s security at risk and have
also taken away avenues of income and work from
us, increasing the problems of unemployment and
hunger. It is only because of corruption that anyone
can get a ration card, voter ID card or identity card
made in our country by only paying Rs 500-Rs 1000.
Any terrorist, drug dealer or traitor can enter India
through Bangladesh or Pakistan and a handful of
people in our county, for the greed of a little money,
put the lives of all citizens at risk. Even today, for a
mere Rs 50-100, transport papers are stamped to let
loaded trucks pass without any checks, which is a
high risk to our nation.
XII. Reason for extortion and robbery: Apart from cor-
ruption, the people involved with industrial develop-
ment and planned growth are also tortured in an un-
constitutional manner and business persons are ex-
torted by corrupt officials and politicians. Sometimes
this extortion is in the name of party donation and
sometimes in the name of election funds. First, there
is a robbery in the name of elections and once the
elections are won, it is as if they have got a permit to
rob. There is a fixed price for everything – before
elections in the name of donations and afterwards in
the form of corruption and extortion! Is this democ-
racy? Is this freedom? The laws that are formulated
in the highest temple of justice in the nation are mostly
not used to correct the various systems of the na-
tion and instead are misused for looting, extortion
and corruption. In a democracy, the centre of power
and property is with the administration. With the
control of administration moving more and more into
hands of corrupt people, the country has started
moving towards disaster instead of progress.
XIII. License Raj: Everything is in the hands of govern-
ment officials – from a person’s birth certificate to
his death certificate, from the registration of a mo-
tor cycle to a car, from the building of a small house,
shop, factory or school, etc. to the running of it,
from land registration to making of ration card and
identity cards. When most of the leaders who lead
the system themselves become corrupt, then this
corruption spreads from the PM to the Peon and the
people of the nation are robbed without mercy. This
is what we see in India today. In some states, where
corruption is less, the government and government
officials do not interfere in people’s lives without
any reason.
XIV. Reason for the plight of agriculture and farmers:
Because of irresponsible politics, there is lack of
proper water control which leads to floods, fam-
ines, hunger and suicides by farmers every year. The
total agricultural land in India is 17.5 crore hectare,
of which 10 crore hectare can be used for agricul-
tural purposes. If water management is done prop-
erly, then this 10 crore hectares can be completely
utilized and the problems of food and hunger can be
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removed and India can be made self-sufficient in
food grains and edible oils. The rural economy of
the nation can be improved, bringing happiness into
the lives of crores of farmers and agricultural work-
ers.
XV. Reason for inflation: Because values are not prop-
erly fixed, the prices of commodities required by the
common man such as iron and cement reach the
sky, and the farmer does not get full price for his
crop. As a result, the gap between the rich and poor
becomes very huge. And this oceanic gap becomes
the reason for social inequality and injustice.
XVI. Merciless exploitation of natural resources: It is
the result of our corrupt political system that today
even though India has plenty of natural resources
available in the form of iron, gold, diamonds and
pearls, mineral products, gas and petrol, the country
is being made weaker day by day due to misuse of
these resources by government officials, in a kind
of conspiracy. The iron, coal, gold and mineral mines
are knowingly handed over to mafia gangs by some
corrupt, dishonest and criminal people for their self-
ish gains. If the natural resources are mined judi-
ciously, managed well and skillfully handled then even
today India can be a wealthy country.
XVII. Reason for the insult of intellectual talent: Indi-
ans have a lot of intellectual ability and talent. Indi-
ans are running many important organizations in
many countries. However, here, intellectual talent is
intentionally insulted and such people are not allowed
to progress so that some uneducated, idiotic, illiter-
ate and immoral people can destroy the country mer-
cilessly.
XVIII. Reason for good-for-nothing, unconstitutional
and irresponsible conduct: When the politicians that
lead the system themselves show irresponsible
behaviour and do not have any liability towards their
duties, then the organizations of the entire country
and the people running those organizations become
unconstitutional, good-for-nothing and irresponsible.
This is the reason that in most of the government
schools and colleges, we have teachers but no edu-
cation. In government hospitals, we have doctors
but the philosophy of treatment is not there. Despite
the existence of police administration, criminals and
corrupt people do not get punished. Victims have to
go from pillar to post to get justice while criminals
move about freely.
XIX. The reason for wrong intention and wrong poli-
cies: Because of our wrong intentions, wrong poli-
cies are made and because of these wrong policies,
every village has a brewery. As a result, the poor,
hard-working farmers and underage children get
ruined because of in-
toxication. The lives of
women and children at
home get destroyed.
We are not able to mete
justice to the country
and its people in the
administration of the
education policy, medi-
cal policy, agricultural
policy, security policy
and foreign policy and
the country keeps
moving towards ruin. Just to provide benefits to
certain people and because of cheap mentality, we
give subsidy to slaughter houses that kill such ben-
eficial animals such as cows and buffalos, and be-
cause of this, a negative energy is created in the coun-
try by the cries of lakhs of innocent animals every-
day. Society and homes are affected with restless-
ness, insecurity and adversity. India is an agricul-
tural country and even today, in many states, carts
are pulled by bullocks, buffalos and camels, the land
is tilled with the help of bullocks or camels, which
saves millions of rupees in petrol and diesel costs.
When all these beneficial animals are killed by the
slaughter houses and agriculture gets mechanized,
then on one hand many lakhs of rupees would be
spent on petrol and diesel and on the other pollution
too would increase manifold. Remember that what-
ever amount of money is spent in petrol and diesel is
going to the gulf countries, and if money goes out of
the country in any form then it is not good for the
economic state of the nation and the country be-
comes weak.
XX. Reason for the loss of millions of rupees of the
common man in the stock market: Because of col-
laboration between some corrupt, dishonest, uncon-
stitutional and good-for-nothing officials and some
greedy, corrupt businessmen and wrong policies of
some irresponsible politicians as well as short-sighted,
loose rules and laws, millions of hard-earned money
of the nation have gone down the drainpipe of the
stock market recently. This painful episode is not
just connected to the highly dishonest Harshad Mehta
or to Raju, the owner of Satyam Company. If the
thousands of companies in the stock market are
judged without any bias, then who knows how many
companies will be found to be walking in ‘Asatyam’
(untruthful) paths and cheating the nation. Even
though certain companies are not making profit, they
are shown to be profit-making companies on paper
and their shares which are actually worth peanuts
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are being sold for crores of rupees. All this is hap-
pening under the eyes of the government because of
its wrong policies. The common man has to bear
the loss of millions of rupees in the stock market.
The victims of such cheating, corruption and rob-
bery are invariably the innocent people. Some of them
get affected by depression; the families of some oth-
ers become homeless; in yet other families, marriages
get cancelled while a few even commit suicide.
11. FEAR GOOD PEOPLE AND
DESTROY THE BAD!Even if people with good souls are in a weak, poor
and pitiable condition, fear them and never do them any
harm because giving that pure soul trouble will turn all
your joys into sorrow. However, no matter how much
power, strength, position or property a corrupt, dishon-
est or criminal kind of person might have, never fear
them because the soul of corrupt and dishonest people is
dead and it is only to destroy them that the Lord has
given birth to us in this world and country. This is the
very advice that Shri Krishna gives in Gita:
ifj=kk.kk; lkèkwuka fouk'kk; p nq"Ñrke~ AèkeZlaLFkkiukFkkZ; lEHkokfe ;qxs ;qxs AA
(Gita)
Come! Let us all get together to destroy the demonic
forces; let us take away the strength and property of
corrupt, dishonest and criminal people and give power to
patriotic, honest and truthful people. Come! Let us all
take a vow together, a pledge together, a resolution that
we will remove this stain of corruption from the fore-
head of Mother India. Come! We will together arouse the
lost dignity of India and build a new powerful India. We
will not hand over a corrupt India to our coming genera-
tions and instead will present an ideal and powerful India
to them – A India that they can be proud of.
12. CAN CORRUPTION END IN OUR NATION?Till the time the people who lead the system do
not mend their character, corruption will not be removed
from the nation. It is the biggest challenge to mobilise
patriotic people with character to develop leaders with
character.
It is a truth that there is no drought of patriotic, hon-
est, sensitive, valiant, farsighted and learned people. The
problem is not shortage of people with character. What is
necessary is voting for these people and placing them in
authority. The goal of Bharat Swabhiman is to develop a
very large vote bank in the nation of patriotic people and
people with character, and to use our vote for patriotic
people. People say that often the honest, educated and
patriotic people do not vote during elections after seeing
the crowd of mostly corrupt politicians. In my opinion,
when I can tell people about the benefits of Kapal-bhati
and Anulom-Bilom and make crores of people practice
pranayam 365 days in a year, then by telling people about
the benefits of removal of corruption, can’t I motivate
the honest and patriotic people, for just 1 day in 5 years,
to vote?...My answer is we will be 100% successful in
bringing people out from their homes and very soon, the
highest positions of authority in the nation will be occu-
pied by patriotic, valiant, farsighted, humanitarian, spiri-
tual, learned, sensitive, hard working and humble people
and a new freedom, new system and new change will
come and India will once again shine in the world with
the glory of her golden days.
13. BENEFITS OF THE NON-EXISTENCE OF
CORRUPTION
1. If there is no corruption – directly, 10 lakh ru-
pees and indirectly 10 lakh rupees will be spent on the
nation’s development. When this 20 lakh is spent annu-
ally on the nation’s development, each district will be able
to get development work of more than 10-12 crore ru-
pees done each day. When so much wealth will be spent
in development work in each district, then there will be
no unemployment. When there is no corruption, there
will be no unemployment, and there will be no poverty,
hunger, hatred or inequality arising because of unemploy-
ment. When there is no corruption, everyone will get equal
opportunity of justice and development.
2. If there is no corruption – the adulteration that is
going on in food and thought will disappear. Along with
Vanaspati oil, ghee, drinking water, fruits and vegetables
being pure, even the character of every person and that
of the nation will be pure.
Excellent services and treatment will be available to
you. The country will remain clean and each citizen will
get clean drinking water. When the standards of cleanli-
ness and purity are intensified, then there will be control
over adulteration in food and drink products and over the
almost 50% diseases that occur because of non-cleanli-
ness and adulteration of food and water. There will be no
torture in the name of remedy. Corrupt people will no
longer will able to adulterate medicine and food products,
and we will get pure milk, ghee, edible oils, and spices
such as turmeric.
3. If there is no corruption – your children will get
good education and habits in schools, colleges and uni-
versities. Correcting the tempering that has been done
with Indian culture and history, the glorious work done
by martyrs and bravehearts of the nation will again be
included in the curriculum. Also, your children will be
able to get science, technology and management educa-
tion in the national language, Hindi and other regional lan-
guages such as Tamil, Telugu, Kannada, Oriya, Gujarati,
Marathi, Bengali, Assamese, etc. and even the children of
poor labourer or farmer can become doctor, engineer,
scientist, IAS, IPS, etc, and people will be saved from
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the extortion that is going on in the name of tuition. Citi-
zens of the nation will be saved from the social injustice
that is going on in the name of education.
4. If there is no corruption – you will not be a vic-
tim to exploitation in the name of administration. You will
not need to give bribe/price in return for work done in
government offices. Corrupt government workers, of-
ficers, bureaucrats, and corrupt dishonest and criminal
politicians will sop asking for donations and bribes.
5. If there is no corruption – we can make India the
largest producer of food grains. The lives of 80 crore
people in our nation is directly or indirectly dependent on
agriculture. These farmers and agricultural labourers will
get equal participation in development. By developing the
10 crore hectares of agriculture-capable land in the na-
tion again, we will be become self-sufficient in food grains,
edible oils, fruits and vegetables, and in the field of tex-
tiles and garments by cultivation of cotton, etc. By bring-
ing in progress and self-dependency in the agricultural
sector, we will be able to bring about a dynamic rise in
the national economic GDP and make villages self-de-
pendent.
6. If there is no corruption – citizens of the nation
won’t need to go without food, clothes or shelter, essen-
tial commodities and won’t have any electricity, water
and road problems. Each citizen will be able to live with
complete self-respect, complete freedom and self-gover-
nance.
7. If there is no corruption – indigenous, home in-
dustries will get more opportunities and the indigenous
economy of the nation will get a profit of lakhs and crores
of rupees.
8. If there is no corruption – natural resources will
be used correctly for the good of the nation and the dia-
mond, iron, coal, gold and aluminum mines that are worth
billions will not be sold for pittance. On the other hand,
this national wealth will be used to improve the life of the
impoverished people of the nation.
14. WHY DO I FEEL MY NATION’S PAIN?You must have often heard people saying that why
does only Baba feel the pain of the nation’s corruption?
When Baba does not have any attraction for authority,
wealth and power, why does he travel day and night for
the nation’s troubles? So I want to reveal to you the true
feeling in my heart with complete honesty and truthful-
ness – I call and feel India is my mother and that is why
I look at the conspiracy of corrupt politicians against
mother India and the failing democracy, sensitive values
and ideals from the view of political misconduct and infi-
delity. I am not a cowardly, weak, timid, helpless, des-
perate and slave child of Mother India that in front of my
eyes her glory can be continuously robbed with corrup-
tion, that irresponsible people and traitors with criminal
character can continuously betray my nation, and I will
remain silent.
I consider national duty and responsibility to be as
pure as any religious person considers religious tradition,
worship of gods and goddesses, rites and rituals and say-
ing prayers in church, temple, etc. to be pure.
I will not sit silent now! I have now committed my-
self to open revolution against the corrupt politicians of
the nation! And all of us will take rest only after we re-
move corruption from the nation! I will not stop, nor will
I bow down! Now I will not stop before I make India
free from unemployment, poverty, fear and hunger. My
belief is that there are crores of people like me who wor-
ship India like a mother, who also cry for the victory of
Mother India, and all those who love India and the people
of India will stand by me in this biggest non-violent revo-
lution of the 21st century and we will all wint he battle.
15. THE HONOUR OF FIVE MOTHERS
ARE AT RISK –1. MOTHER, 2. MOTHER INDIA, 3. VEDA
MOTHER, 4. MOTHER COW, 5. MOTHER GANGA
The mother who has given birth to us is joked about
publicly today. Girls, daughters, sisters, and daughter-in-
laws are all forms of mother. In the hunger of pleasure,
women, that is mother, is being considered only as an
object of pleasure, as a saleable commodity in advertise-
ments or in the market with the argument that nudity
sells. That is why we show it, distribute it and sell it.
Society harasses woman, commits adultery or misbe-
haves with her in order to satisfy physical hunger and
uses condoms simply to prevent the spread of AIDS –
such an attitude is an insult to motherhood, mother and
woman. The ideals or glory of mother is made a joke in
pubs, restaurants or dance bars – this is a dirty and ugly
trick played with Indian culture. I want to ask humbly
whether even a prostitute would want her daughter to fall
into the ditch that she herself has fallen into? Would any
true parents want their young daughter to drink alcohol
and smoke in pubs with strange men or indulge in inap-
propriate beahviour in an intoxicated state with charac-
terless, wild and reckless men? Will any father with busi-
ness interests in cigarette or alcohol, etc. intoxicating
substances want his innocent child to be trapped in the
evil circle of intoxication and spoil her life or youth? Even
a person trapped in intoxication does not want his child
to be a thief, dishonest or characterless. We have to pro-
tect the respect of mother and human values from the
characterless. The way values of personal character and
national character are falling in this race of progress, we
have to protect both of these with firm determination.
Along with staining the character of mother, the char-
acter of Mother India has also been stained by corrup-
tion, poverty, unemployment, hatred, crime, terrorism,
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hunger, social injustice,
wickedness or exploitation
in the name of governance.
I will free Mother India
from corrupt, dishonest,
criminal and characterless
politicians. In the beginning
of creation, our forefa-
thers used to pray to the
giver of knowledge and
science, Veda mother, by
saying “Stuta Maya Varda
Vedamata Prachodayanta
Pavmani Divjanam”. The
protect of the Veda that is the oldest text in creation, of
the Veda mother, is our cultural, spiritual and national duty.
By doing research and study on Vedas, I am resolved to
protect Veda and Vedic tradition.
The Mother Cow that is the home of 36 crore gods
and goddesses, the Mother Cow which our ancestors
used to worship because the kindness, love and affection
in her is for the good of the nation, that Mother Cow is
being killed in slaughter houses daily in lakhs. This is the
main reason for the unbalanced increase in disastrous
natural calamities such as floods, earthquakes, droughts,
hatred, and wickedness. A negative energy is born in the
entire country from the scream and shrieks of the merci-
less, heartless killing of cows, buffaloes and other inno-
cent lives who are killed mercilessly and heartlessly in
slaughter houses. Cow slaughter is the reason for disas-
ter and sorrow. I consider the killing of cows, buffaloes
and any other innocent life to be immoral. In this cre-
ation, every living creature has equal and complete right
to live with freedom and enjoy life. India is the land of
great saints and great souls such as Lord Mahabir, Ma-
hatma Gandhi, Swami Vivekanand and Maharshi Dayanand
Saraswati. India is a nation that believes in truth, non-
violence, and values of good conduct. We, the citizens of
such a pure nation, should remove the stain of cow slaugh-
ter from the head of Mother India.
Mother Ganga is the symbol of our devotion, faith
and belief. Corrupt politicians and governments are the
biggest obstacle to Mother Ganga’s purity and continu-
ity. Corruption is deeply immerged in its purity and con-
tinuity. As a result, after Naroda-Bulandseher, after the
monsoons, only 2% of the Ganga water remains. 98% is
dirty water comprised of sewage from toilets and waste
water from factories. The Ganga that makes each of us
pure, is herself getting dirty. I see purity of water more
connected with human good than religion. It is my belief
that only if the water, land and air of the country is pure
and clean, the nation will be safe. I am resolved in my
vow to clean ad purify all the rivers in the entire country
along with Ganga.
16. FIVE NATIONAL MYTHS AND THE REALITY
1. India is a poor country, 2. Only about 5% people
pay tax in the nation, 3. All people are dishonest, 4.
Corruption cannot be removed, only corruption will
govern the nation, 5. The nation’s progress and em-
ployment is not possible without foreign investment.
The Fact
It is a conspiracy run by some corrupt, dishonest and
cunning people to spread these lies and false rumours. It
is a conspiracy to develop self-languor amongst people
that these lies and false figures have been circulated. On
the basis of reality, true figures and theories, we present
the facts in front of the citizens so that patriotic people
may get together and unmask the corrupt people, and
come forward to change the country and the country’s
fate.
1. India is a poor nation!....White Lie!
Fact: India is the most powerful and richest na-
tion in the world.
This is a very big truth that people of most of the
developed countries are weak but their leadership or law
is very strong. Here, the people of the nation are strong
but the leadership is cowardly, timid and corrupt and the
law is weak. The total budget of local authorities, state
governments and central government of India is Rs 20
lakh crore. And this Rs 20 lakh crore budget is there
when corruption is in its peak everywhere in the nation.
If corruption did not exist, the total budget of India could
be Rs 35-40 lakh crore. You think, you decide, can the
budget of a poor nation be so huge? The corrupt and
dishonest people of the nation are intentionally portraying
the nation poor. If the corruption, then not even one per-
son in the country will remain unemployed or poor. People
are kept unemployed, poor and illiterate as a conspiracy.
This enables the corrupt administrators rule over the poor,
unemployed, illiterate and insecure people according to
their whims and run an autocracy in the name of democ-
racy.
2. Only about 5% of India’s people pay tax! …White
Lie!
Fact: Almost 100% people pay tax in India!
Every Indian who puts on two garments to cover his
body and uses 1-2 bars of soap in the year or wears
shoes or sandals or goes to shops or the market and buys
daily essential goods such as flour, salt, toothpaste, oil,
spices, paper, pen, iron, cement, etc., pays duty in the
form of VAT or excise on all these items. Even a common
man definitely pays tax in one way or the other such as
stamp duty, water tax, house tax, sewage tax, road tax,
service tax, sale tax, etc. Thus, isn’t this a white lie that
only 5% people pay tax! This myths and false rumours
are spread in a conspiracy so that if some corrupt an
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dishonest people rob the nation, then no voice is raised,
so that when someone asks for an account of the tax
money paid by these corrupt people, they are able to say,
‘You do not even pay tax. Who are you to ask?’ This
myth has been so deeply embedded in the hearts of the
common people that they feel they do not have any con-
tribution at all in the nation’s progress. While the truth is
that each Indian has the right to ask the various systems
of the nation, the authority of the nation, about the col-
lected by the government through various taxes, money
of the money that they have contributed for the progress
of the nation. They have the right to ask, ‘What has hap-
pened to that money?’
3. All people are dishonest!...The biggest conspiracy.
Fact: In India, 99% of the common people are
honest, or they want to live with honesty.
This kind of lie that everyone is dishonest is spread
because the illusion that everyone is dishonest becomes
deeply engraved in the mind of a patriotic, honest person
with character. Whereas the reality is that 99% of com-
mon Indians are honest or want to live with honesty while
99% of the representatives of the nation, that is almost
99% of the politicians, MPs, MLAs were dishonest. In
order to hide their own dishonesty, these 99% corrupt
and dishonest people have carried out this very big con-
spiracy by calling the 99% honest citizens of the nation
dishonest and liars. The day these 99% sensitive, aware,
patriotic and honest people unite together, these 1% dis-
honest people will be destroyed. And India will be called a
nation of honest people, not dishonest people.
4. Corruption can never be removed, only corrup-
tion will rule the nation!...Deep conspiracy!
Resolution: Only honest, patriotic people will gov-
ern the nation
Only corrupt people will govern the nation. Even this
lie is being told like a conspiracy with which honest, pa-
triotic people are never able to come into authority and
one corrupt person after the other sit in authority and
mercilessly loot the nation. There are also honest, patri-
otic, educated and responsible people with character who
are capable of excellently governing the nation without
corruption. A simple question arises in everyone’s minds
– is it possible for good people with character to get to-
gether? Can patriots be given votes keeping patriotism
above everything else? Can’t honest people become MPS,
MLAs? The direct, complete and simple answer to this is
there are patriotic people with character who are capable
of leading the nation but the patriotic, honest people who
would vote for them and bring them into power are not
organized.
The aim of Bharat Swabhiman is – to organize these
patriotic people and by organizing them to bring patriotic,
honest, sensitive, sincere people with character to the
seat of authority. By organizing patriotic people, I will
unveil the truth behind the myth that only corrupt people
can rule over the nation. My resolution is that henceforth
only patriotic people will govern the nation.
5. The nation’s progress and employment is not pos-
sible without foreign investment!...Utter falsehood.
fact: If resources are 100% utilized then our na-
tion will progress and there will not be any unem-
ployment.
This is also a projected lie in order to rob the nation
and a conspiracy that without foreign investment our
country will not progress. The truth is if the wealth of
the nation is not destroyed by corruption is big enough to
ensure that not even one person of the nation need not be
hungry, poor or unemployed. If the wealth is not depos-
ited in the hands of the dishonest people, and is invested
in solid business and progress then there will be so much
wealth coming into the nation that we will reach the sta-
tus of being able to loan out money to other nations with
interest. India will then be able to stand with pride as the
biggest economic power in the world.
Today the reality is that about Rs 70 lakh crores,
money that has been stolen by some corrupt people, are
deposited in foreign banks. And the corruption by the
corrupt people continues. Reality is not that this country
won’t be able to progress without foreign direct invest-
ment (FDI); truth is the day we bring back our stolen
money from foreign banks, that day the world will not
run. The world is running by our money stolen by cor-
rupt, dishonest people. At the very least, the economic
source of powerful nations like Switzerland comes from
the corruption in our country.
17. OUR FIVE FORTHCOMING NATIONAL-SOCIAL
REVOLUTIONS –1. Corruption removal, 2. Making all services
available to the last person in the country, 3.
Cleanliness revolution, 4. Establishment of na-
tional and Indian languages in the nation, 5. Free
education for the poor and compulsory inclusion of
yoga education in the curriculum.
1. Removal of corruption: By uniting the people of
the nation through the medium of yoga, I will run a na-
tionwide revolution and remove the stain of corruption
from Mother India.
2. Availability of all services to everyone: In each
of the 6,38,365 villages of the country, a yoga teacher
would be established and free yoga education would be
imparted through the medium of the yoga teachers. We
will give the last person in India the dignity of leading a
healthy life through the medium of yoga, Ayurveda and
nature, and teach them the art of living a healthy and
independent life.
3. Nationwide Cleanliness Mission: By running a
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mission by making a work policy, we will remove filth
from the nation and portray a clean image of India in
front of the world.
4. Unity of languages in the nation: Along with the
national language Hindi, we will give necessary respect
to other Indian languages such as Gujarati, Tamil,Telugu,
Kannada, Marathi, Punjabi, Bengali, Assamese, etc. How-
ever, using the language of another country as national
language is a big insult and matter of embarrassment. No
civilized nation in the country gives education to its citi-
zens in the language of another nation.
Because technical, medical and management, etc. edu-
cation does not take place in national language Hindi and
other Indian languages, the dreams of many children to
become scientists, doctors and managers, etc. remain
unfulfilled. Many children of labourers, farmers and the
poor, despite being good in other subjects, are not able to
pass to the matric examination because of not being pro-
ficient in English language or failing in it, and hence are
kept from becoming doctors, IAS, and scientists. We
will provide our children with equal opportunities in our
language. We will provide vocational education to them
in mother tongues – Malyalam, Gujarati, Tamil, Telugu,
Kannada, Marathi, Punjabi, Bengali, Assamese, Oriya, etc.
along with national language, Hindi.
5. Free education for the poor and compulsory
yoga education included in the curriculum:
We will provide free education to the children of the
poor, labourers, farmers, villagers, forest dwellers and
tribals in government and non-government schools in the
morning and afternoons, in non-school hours, and give
them the right to live with self-respect and independence,
and increase the participation of the poor in progress. I
will communicate with the governments to make yoga
education compulsory for classes 1-12. If governments
do not agree then with the help of student organizations
and teacher organizations of various schools and colleges
and common people, a revolution will be started demand-
ing for yoga education, not sex education!
18.IN WHOSE HANDS SHOULD WE HANDOVER
THE REINS OF THE NATION?Shall we give the reins of the nation into the hands of
cowardly, corrupt, dishonest, timid, weak people?
Shall we make administrators from amongst those
people who cannot administer themselves! For whom
national duty is not above everything, money is every-
thing and for money they sell their nation, can betray
their nation and for wealth can become a traitor to the
nation?
Shall we handover the reins of the nation in the hands
of such people who are hypocrites and whose children
too are ashamed to grow up in their names? Shall we
stand behind such people behind whom even their chil-
dren are not prepared to stand? This is a matter of utter
shame and insult that we give them the charge of secu-
rity of the nation who themselves are not secure.
Shall we make them sit on the highest throne of the
nation, a throne on which some day in the past was oc-
cupied by such people of character as Lord Ram, Shri
Krishna, Emperor Ashoka, Vikramaditya, iron man Sardar
Patel, Sarvapalli Radhakrishnan, Lal Bahadur Shastri and
Guljari Lal Nanda?
Shall we hand over the nation to such people who are
themselves handcuffed in prison? They who themselves
do not have a good conduct, how will they conduct the
affairs of the nation properly?
He who himself falters, how will he make the nation
stand? An aged father hands over his business to his young
children, remains secure and advices his children as nec-
essary. Will our politicians, like a father, for the good of
the nation, be ready for the majority participation of youth
in authority?
Shall we hand over the authority of this nation to those
people who have made no special contribution at the per-
sonal level for the progress, building, prosperity and ser-
vice of the nation? You decide – Nehruji, Sardar Patel and
Babu Rajendra Prasad, etc. fought for the nation’s inde-
pendence, and gave their entire youth and life for the
freedom of the nation. Today if you look at the lives of
the people who are in authority or wish to be in authority,
you will find that leave alone providing service or progress
of the naion, they have directly or indirectly robbed the
nation in a big way. Apart form looting the nation in the
form of tax money and corruption, they have also sold
the priceless land of the nation for peanuts. Shall we hand
over the nations to these robbers?
19. MY FIVE EXPECTATIONS FROM THE CITIZENS
– 1. Give voice to my voice, 2. Complete coop-
eration and assent to national issues without fear
and greed, 3. Have courage to oppose wrong deeds,
4. Give votes or notes for the nation, 5. Resolve to
live like a true Indian
I do not want authority, nor do I want wealth, nor do
I have any greed for the throne. I do not want any of
these five things – authority, wealth, throne, vote or note.
I want you to give your full cooperation and assent on
national issues without fear and without attachment. Give
voice to my voice, give votes and notes for the nation,
have courage to oppose wrong deeds and take the reso-
lution of living life like a true and good Hindustani. For
my personal life, I have never had any need of authority,
wealth, throne, vote or note in the past, nor do I have any
need today and nor will I have in the future. At the same
time, my resolution is to see that the authority and wealth
of the nation is in the hands of the patriotic, good, honest
people with character. Corrupt, honest and criminal people
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get power with notes and authority with votes and they
use this authority and power not for progress but have
always used it for destruction and selfish needs. Hence,
do not give notes or votes to the wicked!
I want you to add your voice to my voice which I am
using for building up national and personal character. Make
this yagna or revolution of ‘Bharat Swabhimaan’ suc-
cessful by offering your mind, body, wealth and life. Give
votes to patriotic, learned, valiant, farsighted and skillful
people with character, which can make the nation free
from hunger, corruption, unemployment and poverty. We
can be Hindu, Muslim, Christian, Sikh, Buddhist, Jain,
etc. at home or in our personal life but in social and na-
tional context, we are an ideal and true Indian and will
work to make India the most powerful nation in the world.
Along with yourself, think of your neighbour, also think
of your society and nation. If the streets near you are
dirty then take up the task of removing the filth and bringing
about cleanliness. If a cleanliness drive is organized, come
forward and participate. Come forward to provide lead-
ership in such tasks. If children are not being given good
education in government schools in your neighborhood
or nearby villages, if patients are not being given proper
treatment in your nearby government hospitals, if the
forces created for your security, independence and re-
spect such as police, administration, representatives of
the people such as board member, MLA, MP, minister,
etc. are not doing their social, democratic, constitutional
and national duties properly, then raise your voice against
them! Oppose them! Come forward to make them sin-
cere in their work!
We are Indians first of all. Our thought is nationalism.
We should think of solutions to each problem by keeping
nationalism above everything. We should not give rise to
unnecessary arguments and debates on issues of progress,
even if there is personal disadvantage in it. Many-a-times
the progressive works around us, including building of
roads, over bridges, schools, universities and other so-
cial and national development work may directly cause
loss to us, but if it is for the good of the nation and soci-
ety then we should not raise an unnecessary debate or
oppose it.
Never talk of hopelessness, self-languor, disbelief.
When the nation can be freed from 700 years of slavery
or when iron man Sardar Patel could unite 565 princely
states and kingdoms that were ruled from many genera-
tions by royal families with his positive thinking, firm
will, farsightedness and valour and build one India, and
even in Free India, if one brave, valiant and revolutionary
woman Prime Minister could declare in 1968 that the
property of kings and erstwhile rulers to be national prop-
erty, and if our neighbouring country China could control
its population increase with firm measures, can run the
country without rulers by the people for the good of the
nation, can move forward and stand with self-respect in
the world, then why can’t we remove corruption from
our nation and bring about a new freedom, new system
and new change in the nation, or make India the biggest
superpower in the world.
The history of the entire world is witness that when-
ever the population of any country stand in revolution
together then systems, authorities and history changes
and the impossible becomes possible.
20. QUESTIONS ABOUL THE DETAILS OF THE
WEALTH OF POLITICIANS IN ELECTION COMMIS-SION
When a corrupt politician gives the details of valua-
tion of his house and land, etc. in the election commis-
sion, then the value of his house is Rs 5 lakh and the land
is valued at Rs 50 lakh. But when that politician goes to
take a loan from the bank, then that very house is shown
to be worth Rs 5 crore and the land to be Rs 50 crore.
For the good of the nation, a law should be estab-
lished that the property of politicians should be evaluated
at the market rate and if it does not match then the gov-
ernment should give 1 ½ of times whatever amount is
mentioned in the election papers and keep the property
with itself, or else the property should be auctioned and
whatever amount has been declared by the politician on
his papers, money or land of that value should be left
with him and the rest should be declared national prop-
erty.
21. DEALERS OF INTOXICANTS ARE GUILTY OF
THE DEATH OF THOUSANDS OF INNOCENT LIVES
Encouraging alcohol consumption is not conservation
of human rights or democracy. This is because after con-
sumption of alcohol, a person loses his intellect and only
someone who has the power of remembrance or intellect
can be called a human. Alcohol makes a person sense-
less, stupid and animal-like. Hence, to encourage and con-
serve the culture of alcoholism, to indulge in alcoholism
and to make alcohol available – these three fall under the
category of social and moral crime on the basis of work
theory, argument, ground reality and human values.
Will any parents want their young daughter to behave
licentiously, immorally and disgracefully with character-
less, wild and reckless boys in pubs, deeply intoxicated
with alcohol and cigarettes? Will any father dealing in the
business of intoxicants such as cigarettes or alcohol want
his innocent children to get trapped in this destructive
cycle and destroy their life and youth? Even a person
who is himself intoxicated will want to save his children
from it. Even thieves, and people with bad conduct and
bad habits would not want their children to be thieves,
characterless or have bad habits.
Intoxicants and alcohol is the root of crime and de-
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struction. Alcohol, tobacco, etc. are the main cause of
wickedness, bad conduct, unchastity, misconduct with
women, bad culture, hatred, crime, family ruin, liver dis-
eases including cirrhosis of liver and liver cancer, kidney
diseases, heart diseases and TB, etc. fatal diseases. Be-
cause of the use of alcohol, cigarette and other intoxicat-
ing substances, 5 lakh people die every year in India from
liver cirrhosis, kidney failure and cancer, etc. diseases.
The responsibility of the lakhs of such innocent people
falls on the people with direct or indirect interest in the
business of alcohol, cigarettes, etc. When the dealers of
intoxicating substances can be fined a sum of 5000 crore
for the people who are ill because of consumption of
alcohol, cigarettes, etc., and when Saddam could be
hanged for the death of 148 people then action should
definitely be taken against the intoxicant dealers, alcohol
mafia responsible for the death of thousands of citizens
and directly or indirectly responsible for the destruction
of the homes, lives, families and children of crores of
people, and they should be taken behind bars or hanged.
22.VOTING IN AN IN EBRIATED STATE
IS A CRIME
It is a crime in India and the world to drive any ve-
hicle such as a car, scooter, etc in an intoxicated state
because driving a car in that condition is dangerous to
oneself and to others. Similarly, keeping this view in mind,
it is clear that election is the time for handing over the
reins of authority of the nation into the hands of a person
with full consciousness and intellect. If during this time,
we are intoxicated and we vote in a state of unconscious-
ness, then the authority of the nation can go into the wrong
hands. Hence, voting in an intoxicated state can be the
cause of a very big disaster and downfall of democracy
and constitutional values.
In India, there is open business of alcohol during elec-
tions. To attract voters towards oneself, laws, regula-
tions, democracy and constitutional values are mocked
at openly. If while voting in an intoxicated state, a crimi-
nal, rogue, thug, corrupt, dishonest and characterless
person becomes MLA or MP, then is this right for a clean
democracy and constitutional values? Unfortunately, it is
matter of deep shame that alcohol is openly sold and riv-
ers of alcohol flow during democratic elections. The elec-
tion commission should urgently declare voting in an in-
toxicated state to be illegal and protect our constitutional
values. Such a law should be passed that if any person
comes in after consuming alcohol to vote then a test
should be carried out in the voting booth itself and the
election officer from that zone should immediately stop
that person from casting his vote. This is very necessary
for national good. Voting in an intoxicated state is an in-
sult to democracy and constitutional values, it is an insult
to the nation.
MY POLITICAL VIEWPOINT
23. I will not rob the nation, nor will I become weak,
nor will I tear it apart. At the same time, I will not allow
the nation to be robbed, nor will I let it become weak,
now will I let it to be torn apart.
24. I will not break democratic or constitutional sys-
tems but at the same time, I will not live like a destitute,
slave or in a pitiable condition. I will also not allow cor-
rupt, dishonest and criminal people to break any demo-
cratic or constitutional systems. The things that are hap-
pening in the temple of democracy are not written any-
where in the Constitution of India. The people who are
taking pledges on the Constitution in the temple of de-
mocracy are themselves killing democracy, and are eat-
ing India alive with corruption and dishonesty. I will not
quietly bear this sorry plight of the Mother India.
25. I will not govern but I will not bear exploitation in
the name of governance.
26. I will not indulge in politics but I will not allow
corrupt, dishonest and criminal people do their cheap
politics by socially exiling them.
27. We will not sit on thrones but at the same time we
also have the resolution that each and every citizen gets
awakened with yoga and a healthy, prosperous and tradi-
tional India is built. We will developed our personal char-
acter and run social revolutions across the country to
develop national character. We will unite patriotic indi-
viduals so that corrupt, dishonest and criminal people are
not able to sit on thrones.
POLITICAL THOUGHTS
28. My political thought is – ‘All party’ and ‘No party’.
People with good and pure character in all parties are my
own. That is why I am ‘all party’. Corrupt, dishonest
and criminal people from all parties have no connection
with me. That is why I am ‘no party’.
IMPORTANCE OF ORGANIZATION
29. There is power in organization. When stones get
together, they become a mansion. When organs get to-
gether, they become a body. When teachers come to-
gether and teach, a school, college or university is formed.
When soldiers get together, they form a powerful army.
When pearls come together, they become a necklace.
When states come together, they become a powerful na-
tion. When threads get together, they become a garment
and the threads that were themselves naked when alone,
are now used in covering up another’s body. When labour
gets together, the nation’s industries stand to attention.
30. Give yourself as an offering in the continuous yagna
of person and nation development. It is not always nec-
essary to start a new organization. The goal is not reached
by floating in different directions. Hence, Come! Let all
of us nationalists unite! This is also the advice of the
Vedas.
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vks3e~ lekuks eU=k% lfefr% lekuh] lekua eu% lg&fpÙkes"kke~Alekua eU=efHkeU=;s o% lekusu oks gfo"kk tqgksfeAvks3e~ lekuh o vkdwfr% lekuk ân;kfu o%AlekueLrq oks euks ;Fkk o% lq lgklfrAA
(Rig Veda 10.191.3-4)
31. When corrupt people are together then why don’t
good people unite and remove wickedness with bravery?
There is limitless power in organization. It is only be-
cause the feelings of honesty and integrity, humanitarian-
ism, nationalism and spiritualism are not united that there
is fear, corruption, crime, poverty, unemployment, anar-
chy, restlessness, and insecurity in this world. The day
good people will become one, there will be peace and
happiness on this world and wickedness will end. We
will join hands and all good people will also join in and
collect strength. This is the advice of the Vedas - ^laxPNèoalaonèoa la oks eukafl tkurke~** (Rig Veda 10.191.2)
32. There are two main powers in any organization –
people-power and wealth power. The success or failure
of any organization depends on these two. I invite you to
make the revolution of India’s self-respect successful.
Join this organization yourself first and unite other patri-
otic people to join this huge mission and make it success-
ful, and help by giving monetary help too because only
money can make any such huge mission successful. It is
only because of lack of wealth that most work losses
happen. At the same time, also keep in mind that wealth
accumulated in an irreligious or immoral manner or
method also leads to misfortune. Hence, it is only by ac-
cumulating wealth earned in a pure and religious manner
that we have to attain the goal of India’s self-respect.
losZ"kkeso 'kkSpkukeFkZ'kkSpa ija Le`re~ (Manusmriti 5.106)
After an organization is established and known, lakhs
of people join in with their mind, body and wealth. You,
however, join this mission of nation building as a founda-
tion stone. Those who rule over what is already estab-
lished are ordinary people. Brave men are those who labour
to build new traditions and new kingdoms.
33. Hence, Come! Let us all unite and build a new
India. Let us bring in a new freedom and new system and
unite patriotic and gentle people, unmask corrupt people
and build a powerful and prosperous India with tradi-
tional values.
34. The meaning of organization is – contact, com-
munication, mutual respect, support and putting in com-
munal labour and struggling hard till we do not get suc-
cess. With mutual contact and communication between
patriotic, honest, gentle, pure and good people, we have
to unite the nationalist, brave-hearted, skillful, farsighted,
humanitarian, spiritual and humble people of the nation
and awaken the self-respect of India.
NATION’S IS DEVEL-OPMENT IS NOT POS-SIBLE WITHOUT SELF
DEVELOPMENT
35. Only a yogi can pro-
tect himself from the
worldly attractions of
wealth, position, status,
form and beauty. Hence the
first and essential requisite
in this nation-awakening
mission of India’s self-re-
spect is that each yoga
teacher, worker, and member must be a yogi. This is
because if we do not practice yoga or are not yogis, self-
indifference arises. And this dishonesty, corruption, ha-
tred, crime, insensitivity, idleness, unawareness, materi-
alism and impurity are nothing but a result of this self-
indifference.BECOME A YOGI
36. By starting yoga duties along with national dutiesand joining the religion of yoga with the religion of thenation, we have not done any opposing work and ratherhave accepted yoga in a vast form. There is no doubt,confusion, illusion or hesitation in my mind regarding theduties of yoga and the nation. My intention and rules arevery clear and my intention is to bring unity and mo-rality to divided India. Yoga means – to unite. I want tounite the entire world with yoga as a medium. I want tofirst make each person in the nation a yogi. When eachperson in India is a yogi then he will be a youth of char-acter; he will be a patriotic teacher or doctor; he will bean aware farmer; he will be a thoughtful chartered ac-countant; he will be a hardworking lawyer; he will be asoldier, security person or policeman with tradition; hewill be a dutiful supervisor, worker or labourer; he will bean energetic businessman; he will be a patriotic artist orjournalist; he will be a scientist dedicated to the good ofthe nation; he will be a healthy, active and sensitive seniorcitizen; he will be an intelligent and sensitive judge andadvocate because it is my clear opinion that there can beno development of the nation without self development.By doing and helping others do yoga, I will turn eachperson into a good person. I will make a mother an idealmother. I will build such a foundation of tradition andculture and prepare ideal mothers and ideal fathers throughyoga, so that children like Lord Ram and Shri Krishna areagain born here. When, with the help of yoga, a self-realized person sees the society, nation, entire universe inhimself, he will not cheat anyone, he won’t hate anyonebecause he will feel that cheating or lying to another ischeating or lying to himself. It is because of self-confu-sion that there is corruption, dishonesty, immorality, an-archy, and insensitivity. With this yoga revolution, wewill establish the age-old tradition of the sages across theglobe and re-establish a kingdom of happiness, prosper-ity, joy and peace.
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1. Yoga Samadhi (Yogsutra—Vyas Bhasya 1.1) Yoga is Samadhi. Yoga is the spiri-
tual philosophy of self-realization, or self-knowledge. Yoga is life philosophy. Yoga
is self-discipline. Yoga is not merely physical exercise but a complete lifestyle.
Yoga is the spiritual knowledge of making the soul pure and seedless. Yoga is a
complete medical science. Yoga is the science of life. Yoga is the solution to all the
problems of individuals, societies, countries and the world.
2. ^^leRoa ;ksx mP;rs** (Gita 2.48) You have the power within you to turn darkness
to light, sorrow to happiness, defeat to victory, unfavourable to favourable. You
have the fuel within you to make a sick body healthy. Illness, sorrow, danger and
struggles are nothing, you have the enthusiasm, valour and self-respect required
to check death. Simply go ahead continuously in life without getting diverted. On
e day you will definitely be successful – this is yoga.
3. If you want to be free from Vishad-yoga (sorrow) and enter the 18 yogas men-
tioned in the Gita including Sankhya, Karma and Gyan-yoga, then practise Pranyoga.
Pranyoga is the union of all yogas.
ASHTANG YOGA
(THE EIGHT YOGA PRACTICES)4. The eight yoga practices are Yam, Niyam, Asana, Pranayam, Pratyahar (restrain-
ing the sense organs), Dharna (firmness), Dhyan (meditation), and Samadhi. No
one can become a yogi without the implementation of ashtang yoga.
YAM
5. Non-violence, truth, abstinence from stealing, celibacy and
asceticism are the five yams.
NIYAM
6. Cleanliness, contentment, penance, self-learning and
utmost devotion to God are the five niyams.
KARMA YOGA
7. Penance, continuous and regular study of
the self and utmost devotion to God are karma
yoga. ri% Lokè;k;s'ojizf.kèkkukfufØ;k;ksx%(Yog sutra 2.1). One should not get diverted
even during penance, struggle and devotion.
Penance is nothing but continuously moving
towards the goal fighting against obstacles,
storms and emotions. There is a success be-
hind every failure. Visualizing honour behind
insults, never sitting down hopeless, defeated
or sorrowful. Only he who continuously
struggles or does penance reaches the peak of
spirituality or sorcery.
8. The meaning of continuous study of the
self is to constantly study the self. The ‘self’ should
be aware of itself—live an aware life, be alert, and
should be always in touch with his soul. Light, energy,
happiness, formless and truth are part of the nature of the soul.
Soul is bright, immortal, everlasting, imperishable and pure consciousness. Not
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Yoga is Samadhi,
yoga is the spiritual
philosophy of self-
realization, and self-
knowledge. Yoga is
life philosophy. Yoga
is life management.
Yoga is self-control.
Yoga is not merely
physical exercise but
a complete lifestyle.
Yoga is the spiritual
knowledge of mak-
ing the soul pure
and seedless.
AN INTRODUCTION TO YOGA
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to lose memories of this image of the soul is self-
study. To live every moment in awareness of your
soul is self-knowledge.
9. Utmost devotion to god means complete surrender
to the divine father, the Lord. We have got this body,
mind, wealth, position, power, form, youth, this en-
tire world and life only by the grace of God. Living
life with this in mind is a devotion to God.
10. While doing work, always keep in mind that you are
just a small speck and the strength, understanding,
capability, energy and speed is being given to you
indirectly by God. To do your work in this way, keep-
ing yourself free from arrogance, is a devotion to
God. To live very moment with penance, self-learn-
ing and devotion to God is karma yoga. Karma yoga
does not mean avoidance of work; it means working
without arrogance in your work, working with com-
plete surrender in God. Observing work as worship
and doing work keeping in mind that you are nothing
but a small speck, is karma yoga.
11. Constant practice of penance, self-learning and de-
votion to God makes it easy to gain freedom from
the five sins of false knowledge, false memory, an-
ger, hatred and attachment.
ACHIEVEMENT OF FULFILLMENT
12. Fulfillment is obtained by some great souls from birth,
some through medicine, some through mantras, some
yogis get it through penance, and some get it through
Samadhi. ^ ^tUe k S " k è ke U =ri% lek f è ktk %fl¼;%**(Yogsutra 4.1)
FIVE STATES OF THE MIND
13. Evidence (Praman), hostility (Viparya), variation
(Vikalpa), sleep (Nidra) and memory (Smriti) are the
five states. Controlling them with practice and as-
ceticism is nothing but Yoga.
KEY TO LIBERATION
14. The four main keys required for liberation are: Intel-
lect, asceticism, six properties (tranquility, punish-
ment, respect, solution, disinterestedness and endur-
ance) and mumuksha or the desire to attain salvation.
GREAT MEN OR INCARNATIONS
15. When a human being gets blessed with godly quali-
ties through yoga, then he becomes a demigod, great
soul, an architect of an age or a great man. The power,
knowledge and light of Gods arts becoming visible in
him. Such great men with godly qualities are then
worshipped by the people of the world as incarna-
tions of God, such as Ram, Krishna, Buddha, Mahavir,
etc. There is only one Supreme Lord but there may
be many children of that Supreme Lord in the form
of incarnations, great men or demigods. All god-like
incarnated men too worshiped and worship just one
Supreme Omkar. Hence, no matter how superior a
man might be, he can never become the Supreme
Lord.
THE GOAL OF YOGA
16. I want to establish a healthy, prosperous and tradi-
tion-bound nation through Yoga. This is the thought
of my life.
17. I want to awaken patriotism in each and every one
with the help of Yoga. I want to connect each one
with their national duties with the help of Yoga. I want
to take forward the holy mission of self-awakening
through yoga awakening. Developing my self with
yoga, I want to dedicate my entire being to the pure
mission of bringing about nation development.
18. I want to build a progressive, cultured and prosper-
ous society and nation by making the sick healthy,
making health useful and transforming pleasure seek-
ers into yogis and increasing the health, awareness
and qualities of the people of the nation.
19. The primary aim of Yoga is Samadhi. At the same
time, if the diagnosis of incurable illnesses can also
be done with scientific data, it is not of small impor-
tance. Yoga is very vast. Keeping a narrow view on
yoga is an insult to yoga.
20. A person who is in the grasp of ignorance, obstinacy,
selfishness and arrogance cannot be acquainted with
truth. These are also four reasons behind the opposi-
tion to yoga. As knowledge about yoga increases in
people, all obstinacy will go away and the subtle truth
or salvation will take the place of selfishness and ar-
rogance will be replaced by Omkar.
THE OUTCOME OF WORLDLY PLEASURES
21. Illness, fear, sorrow, restlessness, insecurity, intoler-
ance, impatience, ignorance, hatred, old age and death
are the outcomes of worldly experiences.
22. To get happiness, contentment and peace by experi-
encing worldly pleasures is just as futile as trying to
pacify fire by pouring clarified butter in it. Content-
ment and peace does not come from worldly plea-
sures but from intellect and knowledge.
THE OUTCOME OF YOGA
23. Health, fearlessness, happiness, peace, security, tol-
erance, love, kindness, patience, intelligence, energy,
virility, immortality are the outcomes of yoga.
24. We get strength with yoga, salvation with knowledge,
devotion with love and nourishment with service.
Getting nourishment with service means when we
serve, then the entire society or nation stands by us
in order to fulfill our pure resolutions.
YOGA – A SCIENCE
25. When knowledge comes forward after passing
through the experimental stage, then it becomes sci-
ence. When scientific experiments are done on yoga,
Ayurveda, and Vedic knowledge, then the outcome
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we get is called proof. Today these are scientific as
well as proven.
26. Do not reproach knowledge, salute it. It is not wise
to unnecessarily oppose Yoga and Ayurveda because
of obstinacy, selfishness, ignorance or arrogance.
27. Good health is the basic right of human beings. Good
health is the birthright of mankind. Become self-de-
pendent in matters of health with the help of yoga
and pranayam. Vaid, doctors, medicines, teachers and
scriptures will all combine to make you weak. Hence,
become aware and move ahead in life with valour.
Your vaid, doctor or teacher is seated inside you. You
have all kinds of medicine inside you, all Vedas and
scriptures are also there inside you. Hence, become
self-dependent and self-respecting.
28. Every teacher, saint and scripture says that truth, God
and all solutions are within us. However, they often
do not show us the path to the inside world. Be aware!
Breath or Pranayam is the way to reach the inside
world, that is from known to unknown, from tan-
gible to intangible.
29. I want to break the narrow confines of community,
region, religion or regionalism and unite the entire
nation and mankind with Yoga.
YOGA – MEDICAL TREATMENT METHOD
30. Treatment of sick people is above everything. The
day this statement is accepted in the arena of health,
that day the struggle amongst various medical treat-
ment methods will cease and there will be mutual
discussion instead of arguments.
31. Yoga and Ayurveda are systemic remedies while All-
opathy is a symptomatic treatment method. This is
the main difference between ancient and modern
medical science.
32. My ambition is not to compare yoga and allopathy
and place a question mark against any treatment
method. However, by placing various treatment meth-
ods in front of the patient, I want to give him the
opportunity of being able to choose the best treat-
ment method.
33. A person can invite death by buying poison from the
market. Tobacco and alcohol are responsible for
deadly diseases such as cancer and these can be
bought from anywhere. However, a person very close
to death because of ill health does not have the free-
dom to choose the treatment method he would want
to use to get his health back. By sacrificing the
wellbeing of patients, some powerful medicine com-
panies are busy looking after their own wellbeing and
torturing patients instead of solving problems.
Wrongly criticizing the traditional, faultless treatment
methods and opposing the inexpensive, simple, sci-
entific and proven treatment methods such as Yoga,
Ayurveda, Unani, Acupuncture, Homeopathy, etc. is
an insult and betrayal of medical science.
YOGA IS THE SOLUTION
34. Experiencing worldly pleasures ignites the volcano
of desire, just as pouring clarified butter on fire can
never calm it down. Hence, yoga is the solution. Do
not burn yourself in the fire of worldly experiences!
Now heat yourself with the fire of yoga and gain
victory over disease, old age and death!!
35. The road to retirement from crime and ambitions –
Instead of asking for position, power, luxury from
god, you should ask for his mercy. If a person’s
thoughts are constantly the same as they are on a
cremation ground, in good company, when sick or in
trouble, then crime will automatically cease to exist.
DO NOT BLINDLY INDULGE IN
VICES, BECOME A YOGI!36. Nature is there to give happiness from sacrifice re-
lated worldly experiences. Worldly pleasures without
yoga will give disease, old age and death.
37. It is not necessary to go anywhere to reach God.
When the unknown will disappear from the person’s
mind with the help of service, chanting, penance and
yoga, and hence will become pure, then he will find
God within himself.
38. lq=kek.ka i`fFkoha |keusgla lq'kekZ.kefnfra lqiz.khfre~AnSoha ukoa Lofj=keukxleÏoUrhe~ vk#gsek LoLr;sAA(½Xosn 93-10).
This body is a beautifully crafted boat to help us
cross the ocean of existence. Self-realized people
and yogis sit on it and cross the sea of existence,
and undiscriminating people and those who indulge
in worldly experiences get trapped in whirlpools.
CELIBACY AND CHASTITY (BRAHMACHARYA)39. To save life and mind from being torn apart in this
world full of subjects, Brahmacharya is the only me-
dium.
MIND
40. The states of the mind must be removed. When the
mind ceases to exist, there will be a new birth; you
will get a new vision and you will find a beautiful
world around you and then you will become aware
of the happiness of life. We ourselves are the reason
for our happiness and sorrow. The day we realize
this truth, that day our sorrows will disappear.
41. Social and moral values, truth, non-violence, humani-
tarianism, sensitivity, purity of character and toler-
ance will bring about global wellbeing and the world
will become happy. Also, do not forget that if you do
not cultivate these values and stand by them then you
will never be happy in your personal life as well.
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BODY
42. ^^v'ek Hkorq uLruw%** (Rig Veda 6.75.12). Our body
should be as alert and powerful as lightening. To live
with illness and disease is a sin and a crime.
43. There are four bodies – large, tiny, root and the fourth.
There are three forms of bodies: 1. the body that is
visible or the large body, 2. The body that is not vis-
ible or the tiny body, and 3. The root natural form is
the root body. The five large elements make up the
large body. The five breaths, five sense organs, five
small elements (panchtanmatraye), mind and wisdom
– these 17 elements make up the tiny body. When the
living being is in ecstasy on union with God in the
condition of Samadhi, this is the fourth body
MEDITATION
44. Meditation is not an escape from the world. This is
not a process of separating yourself from everything
or closing yourself from all directions. This is under-
standing of the truth of the world. What can this world
give us apart from status, power, property, honour,
residence, food, garments and endless sorrows con-
nected with all of these? The meaning of meditation
is going beyond this world where mounted on su-
preme knowledge, you are able to see yourself and
the world with the eyes of the intellect as a neutral,
unchanging witness. Then you will not want what
you do not have or remain discontent with what you
have. You will then see the beauty of the Lord in this
entire world.
45. The meaning of active meditation is – constant alert-
ness, constant awareness, always natural and intelli-
gent. When we remain aware, intelligent and natural
then we automatically move from bad towards good.
46. Till a person does not know himself through medita-
tion, he does not obtain self-respect, internal happi-
ness, self-contentment, internal peace, internal wealth
and high bloody struggle for power, property, honour
and status in the world will not end.
47. Meditation is not stupor or ignorance. It means be-
coming totally conscious with the highest nectar of
the supreme knowledge, where stupor and ignorance
is completely removed and finally the devotee’s intel-
lect becomes seedless. In this seedless mind, desires
do not sprout just as roasted chana (Bengal gram)
loses its ability to sprout. Desires do not sprout in the
intellect of a devotee who has attained awakening.
48. Asceticism is not another name for running away but
it is the name for the highest degree of intellect and
knowledge. The main ambition of asceticism is to
become constantly progressive, dedicated and
hardworking in a disinterested state after attaining
complete vision. The meaning of asceticism is to go
beyond limits into the limitless, endless infinity. Cre-
ation and removal of doubt occurs only by stepping
into zero. It is through
meditation that one can
enter the zero state.
49. It is only by entering the
unknown that the
doors to the known are
opened. It is only by
reaching the state of
thoughtlessness that di-
vine thought is attained.
When qualities are born,
the person is no longer
attracted by external at-
tractions and the person becomes free from the bonds
of life.
50. Fights and wars are taking place in this world be-
cause of honour, wealthy, position, power and arro-
gance. When a person attains self-knowledge through
meditation and devotion, he also attains internal
wealth, kingdom and unlimited power and there is an
end to arguments and wars.
51. Pure and divine thought take birth in an intellect that
has become thoughtless and passionless with the help
of meditation and pranayam.
52. Hearing, reflection, remembering again and again and
self-interview – this is called Shravan Chatustay or
quadrangle.BLISS OF THE MIND
53. To show friendship towards the happy, kindness to-wards the sad, delightfulness towards the virtuousperson and hope towards the wicked keeps the intel-lect happy.
BREATH IS MEDICINE
54. izk.kL;sna o'ks loZ± f=fnos ;Rizfrf"Bre~ (Prashnopanishad2.13). Breath is medicine. Breath is parents and mas-ter. Breath is Vasu, Rudra and Aditya. Breath is theSupreme lord Himself.
55. ^^;ksxf'pÙkofÙkfujksèk%** (Yogsutra 1.2). The mind findsit intriguing to remain in falsehood, imagination ordreams. The mind either remains lost in the pains ofthe past; in the agony, in the memories of the past orin the worries about the future. The meaning of yogais to live in the present, where there are no troublesor worries. In present there is creation. It is thepresent that creates the past and it is the present thatlays the foundation for the future. Past and future iswithout existence. Only the present exists. To live inthe present is to celebrate life. It is only when onegoes beyond the mind that the reality of the conscioussoul acquires a shape. Hence, the meaning of yoga isto connect with one’s consciousness, centre or real-ity; to recognize oneself and to recognize the SupremeLord existing within oneself; to see yourself in theuniverse and the universe inside you. To expand one’sidentity from the confines of narrowness in all direc-tions. I am in everything and everything is in me.This expansion of ‘I’ is yoga.
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CULTURE
1. We have a glorious past that is 1,96,08,53,109 years
old. ^lk izFkek laLÑfrfoZ'ookjk*(Yajurveda 4.14). We
are the carriers of the oldest culture in the world.
Our magnificent history goes back to approximately
200 crore years. With our hard work and devotion,
we will free Mother India from the troubles of the
present and made a powerful, golden India that will
lead the world.
2. Indian culture comprising restraint, good conduct,
good feelings, joint families and the glorious tradition
of sixteen cultures is the best, omnipresent, scien-
tific culture in the world.
3. The forefathers and culture, civilization and philoso-
phy of the people of India, Pakistan, Afghanistan,
Nepal, Myanmar, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka and the other
Asian countries were the same. India was the su-
preme kingdom of the world. In the middle ages, there
came about geographical and cultural divisions and
people got divided into various religions. Hence, de-
spite observing the different religions like Hinduism,
Islam, Buddhism, Jainism and Sikhism, our forefa-
thers were the same and even
today the blood that runs through
us is the same. Cultural differ-
ences and civilizations cannot
divide us. This is our cultural and
geographical past and present.
4. Often it is seen that the
more developed a culture and the
more developed a person or so-
ciety becomes, lazy and this be-
comes the cause of its downfall.
Hence, with exaltation the effort
should not end.
5. Indian religion, phi-
losophy, spirituality, political sci-
ence, ethics, Vedic mathematics,
astrology and Vedic knowledge
is universal and scientific. As we
have a vast and magnificent cul-
tural background, we do not
need imported religion, philoso-
phy, western culture and foreign
morals. The interest of the na-
tion lies in the culture and civili-
zation of our own nation.
THE STRUGGLE OF CULTURES
6. Only when there is no research on the knowledge of
languages, struggle and differences arises in cultures,
civilizations and races of the world. The opposition
to Veda, Yoga, Ayurveda and Indian culture is also
because of the lack of research on Sanskrit or Vedic
knowledge. In the same way, addressing religion or
calling God by various names in the various languages
of Hindi, Sanskrit, English, Arabic, Persian, Urdu,
Punjabi, etc. leads to illusion. ^,da ln~ foçk cgqèkkonfUr* (Rig Veda 1.164.46). There are many names
of one truth and if the illusion of names disappears,
we can move towards world peace. Our aim is olqèkSodqVqEcde~ (Panchtantra 5.38).
ASCETICISM
7. Asceticism is not another name for running away.
Asceticism is the highest level of intellect. The com-
plete aim of asceticism is to be constantly progres-
sive, hard working and putting in effort in a detached
manner after attaining supreme vision.
RENUNCIATION
8. My sanyas or renunciation is not cultural escapism.
Asceticism is nothing but intellectual climax. Hence,
do not run and at the same time do not lose yourself
in worldly experiences. Just wake up and awaken
others – this is our spirituality. No running away from
life, no sorrow for death. We have to always remain
the same – this is yoga. Renunciation is nothing but
doing your work in a detached manner without any
desires or expectations about the outcome.
COMPLETENESS OF PRAYER
9. Knowledge, work and devotion complete prayer or
mediation. Only knowledge will bring about a feeling
of arrogance, and a person who lives his life only on
knowledge will be like a desert and build dryness,
false arrogance and an artificial or imaginary person-
ality in his life. Hence, knowledge is incomplete with-
out work; work without devotional knowledge is
bondage, and becomes a vanity. Hence, we can get
salvation only by work in which our intellect is used.
With knowledge, we get complete vision, and this
vision should be definitely be used in work and devo-
tion. God does not give beggars but to those who
deserve it. Always worship character, not the image.
10. Independence does not mean indiscipline. Indepen-
dence is the name of self-governance. While living
an independent, self-dependent life, help others also
to become self-dependent. First become devotee and
then you yourself become a reformer.^^ekrk Hkwfe%
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iq=ks¿ga i`fFkO;k%** . Earth is our mother, we are her
children. Nation is the biggest God and religion means
the duties towards the nation. Our responsibilities are
the biggest religion.
11. It is an equal sin to bear exploitation as it is to actually
do injustice and wickedness. Every individual should
have gratefulness, respect and pride towards his na-
tion.
12. When the internal eyes are opened or divine vision is
obtained with yogic devotion, company of spiritual
teachers and philosophy, self-study of Upanishads and
other ancient texts, detached work and service, then
the Supreme Lord is seen in everything. In all rela-
tionships, divine relationship is felt. This is the com-
pleteness of devotion, worship or prayer.
THE PRAYER OF A DEVOTEE
13. Instead of asking wealth and its by-products from
god, ask God for God. Ask the Lord for support or
his devotion. Asking for his wealth and luxury are
petty demands.
14. Do not pray for position, authority, wealth or mate-
rial luxuries from God because he is a kind father and
always gives us more than we are worthy or capable
of. Just pray to God – O Lord! Let me be able to
carry out my work as if it is my religion and O Lord!
Let me not forget you even for a moment. Just give
me this boon.
GREAT ADVICE
15. Prajapati has three great advices. His advice for demi-
gods was suppression or self-control. For the asuras
or demons, His advice was that praying for compas-
sion should be their religion. Hatred, anger and re-
venge are the reasons for global restlessness. For
human beings, He advised sharing. The religious text
is this – share and eat, do not store, read the book of
distribution. (Brihadaranyak Upanishad).
SIXTEEN RITES
16. The foundation of building a human life is “sixteen
rites”. Hence, I will make my and my nation’s life
better with the following sixteen rites: Garvadhan or
conception, Punsavan (ceremony that is performed
in the third month after conception), Simantonayan
(Vedic rite that is performed in the fourth, sixth or
eighth month after conception), Jatkarma (ceremony
performed on birth), Namakaran (name giving cer-
emony), Annaprasanna (ceremony in which food is
first given to a child), Churakarma (tonsure cer-
emony), Karnavedh (ear piecing ceremony),
Upanayan (investiture with sacred thread), Vedarambh
(the start of education of the Vedas), Samavartan (cer-
emony performed on return of student from gurukul),
Grihastha or householder, Vanaprastha or retirement,
Sanyas or renunciation and Antyesti or last rites.
RELIGIOUS SACRIFICE
17. All holy work, starting from the ceremony in which
offerings are made to the consecrated fire, are called
religious sacrifices or yagna.
18. Brahmayagna (worship of God), Devyagna (ceremony
in which offerings are made to the sacrificial fire),
Pitriyagna (service to parents), Baliveswadev yagna
(eating after offering food to others or keeping a por-
tion aside for others), and Atithi yagna (Travellers
who are scholarly, helps others, has control over the
senses, religious, truthful, and without craftiness are
called guests and one should always serve them).
These five great yagnas are our ancient culture.
SATSANG
19. That, on the doing of which one gets away from
untruth or falsehood and acquires the truth, is known
as Satsang. That which leads us to entanglement with
sin is called bad company.
RESPECT
20. Respect is mother and belief is father. Respect is the
consecrated fire of the purifying yagna of life. Re-
spect is the perception of divine knowledge. Respect
is the acquisition of the highest knowledge and the
staircase to eternal peace. In our religious life, re-
spect is the holy water that is sprinkled during wor-
ship.
THE WAY TO FREEDOM FROM BONDAGE
21. If a person’s thoughts and wisdom always remain
still as when he is in good company, undergoing self-
reflection, in cremation ground or in times of trouble,
then the person becomes free from the bonds of at-
tachment and illusion.HEAVEN AND HELL
22. Achieving special happiness on the personal, familial,social, economic and spiritual fronts is heaven; andachieving circumstances of extraordinary sorrow ishell.
SALVATION
23. To become free from sorrow and the causes of sor-row such as disease, fear, sadness, five afflictions,birth and death, etc. is salvation.
DEATH
24. Death is not the solution because birth is certain afterdeath. Hence, accepting death in weariness of get-ting scared of life or being hurt by the troubles orbetrayal of near and dear ones is foolishness.
25. It is the mind or ‘mana’ that should be killed or de-stroyed. On destruction of the mind there will be anew birth. You will gain a new vision and find a beauti-ful world around you. And then you will feel the joyof life. Life will become a celebration. The day weunderstand life, that day life’s sadness will end.
THE EIGHT BENCHMARKS OF THE
TOUCHSTONE OF TRUTH
26. The eight evidences include that which is perceived,
inferred, compared, heard, traditional, reasoned, pos-
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sible and absent, and it is
through these that we get
the knowledge of truth and
untruth. These are the
benchmarks of research
and truth. These eight evi-
dences are the touchstone
of the highest knowledge.
CREATION’S OLDEST
BOOK – VEDA
27. According to Indian
belief, Veda is the pure
knowledge that evolved
from the pure souls of the
four sages Agni, Vayu, Aditya and Angira in the be-
ginning of creation. The oldest text of Indian culture
and tradition, Veda is not merely a book on methods
of worship or work. It is the first text that encom-
passes everything from complete teachings of knowl-
edge and science to universal and scientific truths.
28. Veda is the divine and universal truth that emerged
from pure souls of the four sages, Agni, Vayu, Aditya
and Angira in the beginning of creation and got trans-
formed into Rig, Yaju, Sam and Atharva on knowl-
edge, science, religion, work principles, etc.
VEDIC TEXTS
29. Texts written by our ancient sages are called Vedic
texts. They contain the highest truth without any bias.
Man, being affected by ignorance, prejudice, selfish-
ness and obstinacy, may also write something wrong.
Hence, the texts written by sages that come in the
category of self-realization include six philosophies,
eleven Upanishads, Gita, Mahabharat, Balmiki
Ramayan, etc. and the book of divine knowledge,
Veda. If the writing of some scholar follows the Vedas,
truth, science and is supported by evidence, then even
these can be studied. If a writer writes unnecessary
and unscientific things then you should not waste
your valuable time and money.
UPVEDA
30. The science of age is called Ayurveda, the knowl-
edge of weaponry and their use is called Dhanurveda,
the science of vocal modulation and music is called
Gandharvaveda and the knwoeldge of art is called
Shilpashastra. These are the four Upvedas or the sci-
ences deduced from the Vedas.
VEDANGA
31. Education, Kalp, Grammer, Nirukt, Verse and Astrol-
ogy are the universal knowledge of the Vedic texts.
These are called Vedanga or the six subordinate
branches of the Vedas
UPANISHAD
32. There are eleven Upanishads. The hidden knowledge
of the sages on spiritual truth is presented in the form
of messages and conversations in the Upanishads.
PHILOSOPHY
33. The six texts composed by the sages Gemini, Kanad,
Gautam, Patanjali, Kapil and Vyas – Mimansha,
Vaisheshik, Nyay, Yoga, Sakhya and Vedanta – are
called philosophies or Upang.
34. RELIGIOUS TEXTS
Ramayan: Composed by the great Sage Balmiki in
Sanskrit language, Ramayana is the first epic that
describes the pure character of Lord Ram. In this
there is a conspectus of the various relations, broader
view of rules such as ideal parental devotion, devo-
tion towards the mother, beneficial political duties,
etc. From this text, we get to know the values of an
ideal and disciplined life; the character of an ideal
woman, her purity and devotion towards her hus-
band; ideal love of a brother; the high standards of
socially beneficial nationalism. This epic has been
translated into many languages.
Gita: This world famous text is a part of
Mahabharata, composed by great sage Vyas. In its
18th chapter, 18 kinds of yoga have been described
by Yogesheswar Sri Krishna. In this, Arjun, who is
saddened by the prospect of war, is given the knowl-
edge of kshatriya duties. Narrating the importance of
yoga through the medium of leRoa ;ksx mP;rs, the
great messages of Karma yoga such as
deZ.;sokfèkdkjLrs ek iQys"kq dnkpu and ifj=k.kk;lkèkwuka fouk'kk; p nq"Ñrke~ are found in Gita, which,
even today, inspires and motivates people who feel
low, defeated and sad to start doing good work.
Bible: The Christian text, Bible, gives messages of
humanity, love, service, etc to mankind. Special im-
portance has been given to the fact that every good
deed that we do makes God happy and every sin we
commit saddens God. God is always with us.
Quran: In this religious text of the Muslims, there is
the advice of giving all human beings safety, peace,
social goodwill and good of mankind. Here impor-
tance has been given to Takva, meaning penance, sac-
rifice, patience and strength. Roza has been consid-
ered a duty in devotion to God so that we to can
understand the hunger and thirst of the poor and also
can keep our bodies fit.
Guru Granth Sahib: For the welfare of mankind
and to awaken strength, devotion and valour, Guru
Nanakji, Guru Angad Devji, Guru Amardas ji, Guru
Ramdas ji, Guru Arjundevji, Guru Hargovindji, Guru
Har Raiji, Guru Harkrishnaji, Guru Teghbahadurji, and
Guru Govind Singhji has advised in this holy book,
“Ek Nur te sab upajya, Kaun bhale kaun mande”,
meaning there is one divine light and the entire world
is lit by it.
Shad-Darshan or the six schools of Indian Phi-
losophy: The main subject of schools of Indian Phi-
losophy is – philosophy of the soul, complete phi-
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losophy of the world and nature and communication
with the Divine Lord. Indian philosophy has been di-
vided into two segments – Astik and Nastik. Charvak,
Buddhist and Jain philosophies are considered Nastik
while Nyay, Vaisheshik, Sakhya, Yoga, Eastern
Mimansa and Vedanta (Northern Mimansa) are six
Astik philosophies. In philosophies, the combination
of two completes each other; for example, the com-
binations of Sakhya and Yoga, Nyay and Vaisheshik,
and eastern Mimansa and Vedanta.
The eleven Upanishads: The Upanisads is the sim-
plified spiritual description of the Vedas, Upavedas,
Brahman texts (the theological part of the Vedas, dif-
ferent from the mantras), and Aranyaks. In other
words, it tells us how to work in a detached manner
with penance, surrender and knowledge for 100 years,
getting the necessary knowledge of God, living be-
ings, nature, and obtaining salvation or freedom.
Jain texts: The philosophy of the great ascetic saint
Mahavir on non-violence, truth, self-realization and
renunciation is found in Jain scriptures.
Buddhist texts: Teachings of renunciation of illu-
sion and obstinacy, eight-fold path and freedom from
sorrow and eternal peace in the form of Nirvana are
found in the Buddhist texts.
GOD
35. God, life and nature – these are three existences with-
out beginning.
36. We are all children of God. That God is the image of
Sacchidananda, formless, all-powerful, just, kind,
without birth, eternal, unequalled, basis of everything,
Lord of all, omnipresent, all-knowing, ever young,
immortal, fearless, constant, pure and the creator.
Everything should worship this one God. He is the
mother and father of all.
37. With the help of prayer to the Lord, we obtain de-
tachment from the world and endless love from God.
We become free from pride and get godly qualities
with devotion and prayer.
38. When we accept God, it is also a divine truth that we
ourselves have first been accepted by God.
39. The great sage Patanjali considers Him to be God,
who is free from affliction (five afflictions including
ignorance), work (good-bad), change of state (birth-
death) and hopes (desire), and is all-knowing, omni-
present, all-powerful, just and kind.
LIVING BEING
40. Living beings are the immortal children of God. Indi-
vidual souls can never become the supreme soul. In-
dividual souls can never become all-knowing, omni-
present or all-powerful. This is the difference between
living beings and God. A life is a drop of water while
God is the river. Life in the form of a drop joins the
river and becomes part of it! Superficially we may
say that the drop becomes the river but the truth is
that the drop, even after becoming one with the river,
still remains a drop and the river remains the river.
The drop becomes a part of the river.
41. The individual soul is free to do whatever it wants
but it is always submissive to God in getting the just
fruit for its deeds according to the divine system.
KARMA AND FATE
42. Whatever a living being does with his mind, speech
and body is called ‘Karma’. There are three stages of
karma – Kriyaman (present performance of work),
Sanchit (that which is collected) and Prarabdh or fate.
That which is done in the present is Kriyaman Karma.
The influence that the Kriyaman has on the intellect
is Sanchit Karma, while the experiencing of the fruit
of work that we have done in this life and our previ-
ous births is Fate.
43. Strength, valour, attraction, inspiration, speed,
speech, judgement, activity, enthusiasm, memory,
determination, will, love, hatred, connection, division,
convener, divider, devotion, touch, vision, tasting,
smelling and knowledge – these 24 capabilities make
a living being of worthy authority.
NATURE
44. The association of truth, sin and ignorance is called
root nature. From nature comes wisdom; from wis-
dom come arrogance; from arrogance comes mind,
five sense organs, five work organs, five Tanmatraye
(subtle form of matter); From tanmattraye comes the
five elements including earth – These are the 24 ele-
ment and the 25th is living being, that is man, and
God. This is the entire world.
45. Nature is our mother. We should protect it. Trees are
like our father who protects us. The amount of oxy-
gen that you have taken in this life, the same amount
of oxygen should be returned to nature by planting
trees otherwise the Lord will tell you, ‘Son! You
haven’t returned the oxygen you have breathed by
planting trees. Hence, now go and balance your ac-
count books! Now become a tree and return the
amount of oxygen you have taken from nature!’
PILGRIMAGE
46. That with which man crosses the ocean of sorrow is
called pilgrimage. The service and company of par-
ents, teacher, scholarly and worthy people, religious
undertaking and holy work is pilgrimage.
CAUSE OF SORROW
47. What you have with you is what you share with oth-
ers and what you give to others is what you get in
return. If you have love, kindness, affection, happi-
ness and joy then you will also share this with others
and you will get these in return to from others. And if
you are filled with anger and hatred then whatever
you share, you will get. Whatsoever you sow, that
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will you reap. We sow the seeds of acacia trees and
in return, instead of thorns we want flowers which
we do not get. This is the reason for our sorrow.
END OF SORROW
48. We ourselves are the cause for our sorrow and hap-
piness. The day we understand this truth that day
our sorrow will end. If you smile then the world smiles
at you and if you feel depressed, sad, hopeless, and
defeated then the world seems sad to you.
49. Happiness comes from within, not from outside.
When you are in the state of complete silence or con-
centration then happiness emerges. It comes down
from within. We build up obstinacy towards every-
thing – religion, truth, saints, life, work, duty, non-
duty, body and the entire universe on the basis of the
sanchit, what we hear, what we see, and inferred
knowledge.
50. Only He who does not have any obstinacy reaches
the pinnacle of life. We have to break our obstinacy.
Obstinacy build arrogance and false illusion, it makes
us wicked and narrow. When obstinacy is broken,
the doors of truth open. Only knowledge will bring
about arrogance. Only knowledge will, like a desert,
bring about dryness, false pride and hypocritical or
imaginary personality. Hence, knowledge is incom-
plete without work. Without work, with only knowl-
edge, devotion becomes bondage; and without knowl-
edge, devotion becomes just a show. Hence, only by
doing intelligent work we can obtain Samadhi or sal-
vation.
51. Complete vision is gained with knowledge; this vi-
sion should definitely be used in work and devotion
after it is obtained. Each time, each moment, live a
life filled with enthusiasm, energy and self-confidence.
52. God has created you for great work. Social and moral
values, truth, non-violence, humanitarianism, sensi-
tivity, purity of character, and tolerance will bring
about global good, the world will become happier.
Before this, do not also forget that if you do not be-
lieve or have faith on these moral values then your
personal life can never remain happy.
INDUSTRIES
53. Industries are the temples of progress of Mother In-
dia where priests in the form of workers worship
Mother India with their work and make the country
prosperous and powerful. If we want to make India
magnificent and a superpower of the world, then we
have to respect industries, factories and workshops
like temples. Just as there are never any strikes in a
temple and its doors open everyday, similarly there
shouldn’t be any strike in the industry and factory
temples. We should look upon strikes in factories as
a crime akin to betrayal of the nation.
MAN
54. A man is someone who does his work thoughtfully.
^^euqHkZo tu;k nSO;a tue~** (Atharva Veda 8.1.6)
GIFT
55. The love, thought, feeling and strength that is given
is much more important than the object given as a
gift.
ARROGANCE AND LAZINESS
56. There is no greater enemy than arrogance and there
is no greater crime than laziness. Crime is not merely
absence sin. Not doing any good also falls in the cat-
egory of sin. A lazy person committing crime because
he is not doing any good work. Not opposing sin,
injustice or irreligion is also a crime. In this way, if
you are not part of the solution, then you yourself are
a problem.
DOUBT
57. You should never misuse power, disrespect knowl-
edge and doubt belief. In life, doubt is like a com-
puter virus. “Sanchayatma Vinasyati” (Gita).
TRUE HERITAGE
58. It is not important how much property you leave your
children; what is important are the values you give
them as inheritance, because it is with the seed of
values they will build the mansion of life or establish
the kingdom of the world.
MEANING OF PROGRESS
59. Progress does not mean how much or the great
amount of wealth acquired by a wealthy person. The
true meaning of progress should be how much edu-
cation, medical treatment, social justice and honour
we are being able to give to the last common man in
the nation and in the world.
IMPORTANCE OF THE PRESENT
60. The complete effort in doing one’s own duties or
work with complete knowledge, strength, energy,
valour and self-respect is known as hard work. Hard
work is stronger than fate because it is hard work
that creates destiny. The hard work of this moment
decides the fate of the next moment. It is the truth
that life only exists in the present; the past has al-
ready occurred. It has lost its reality and has lost its
authority. That which has not come as yet is the fu-
ture. Future never comes. That is why it is called
unknown. That which has come has become the
present. Hence, authority is only there with the present
and present is the creator of the past and future. Liv-
ing in the present is yoga.
FOUR ASHRAMS
61. The gradual steps in life are the four ashrams or reli-
gious orders of Brahmacharya (student), Grihastha
(householder), Vanaprastha (retirement) and Sanyas
(renunciation).
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STATES
62. Awakened, dream and unconsciousness are the three
states.
63. When the mind is doing work through the organs, it
is in awakened state. When the mind is doing work
even when the organs are not working, during sleep,
it is dream state. When the entire organ and mind
completely stop working and only breathing occurs,
it is unconscious state.
BALANCE
64. Wealth is not everything but it is also true that only
wealth brings about fruitfulness. Without wealth, ev-
erything becomes meaningless or wasted. More wealth
than required also brings about downfall. Hence, bal-
ance is the eternal principle of life and the world.
65. Balance is health. It is physical and emotional imbal-
ance, non-control, irregularity and disproportion that
bring about ill-health.
ADMINISTRATOR
66. He who himself lives with control can become a true
instructor, teacher, administrator or leader.
67. Only he whose behaviour is softer than a flower, whose
discipline is tougher then thunderbolt and who has a
determined nature can become true instructors, ad-
ministrators and leaders.
YOGA EDUCATION, NOT SEX EDUCATION
68. Character building of youth and students will take
place with yoga education, not with sex education.
Unfortunately, some characterless politicians do not
want the character of the people of the nation to be
developed with yoga. Their fear is that if the nation
acquires character then characterless people will lode
heir authority. Hence, by advocating sex education
they are taking their country into a pit.
CULTURAL KNOWLEDGE
69. Physical body or receptacle of food (Annamay kosh),
receptacle of life or vital air (Pran kosh), psycho-
emotional body (Mannomay kosh), Intellectual body
(Vigyanmay kosh), and receptacle of bliss (Anandmay
kosh) – these are the Panchkosh or the five bodies
(receptacles) within the body according to the Vedic
system.
70. Complete vision with the five basic elements, seven
humours and three doshas is the physical body.
71. Pran (breath), Apan (emission of wind backwards),
Saman (air used in digestion), Udan (air which raises
up the throat) and Vyan (the vital air that circulates
the whole body) are the five vital airs, and Naga,
Koorma, krinkal, Devadutta and Dhananjaya are the
five upaprans or sub-types. This is the receptacle of
vital air.
72. Mind, Ego and the five work organs of speech, hands,
feet, kidney and urinary organs – these seven ele-
ments form the psycho-emotional body.
73. Wisdom, intellect and five
sense organs (ears, eyes,
skin, tongue and nose) –
these seven elements
form the intellectual body.
74. That in which the light,
energy, peace and happi-
ness of the soul is experi-
enced in true nature is the
receptacle of bliss.
75. Ancient texts such as
Atreya, Satpath-Brahman
are books written by
sages. These are called Puranas, history, Kalpa, Gatha
and Narasanshi.
DEVOTEE AND TROUBLE
76. This is also an eternal truth that the kind and loving
Lord throws his devotee very far away from Him
into the forests of danger, trouble, poverty, want and
misfortune so that he feels the hunger of despera-
tion, restlessness and the separation, and gradually,
step by step, comes near the Lord, learning the mys-
tery of each factor and drink the nectar of His love.
THE WAY OF SUCCESS
77. There is no greater enemy than arrogance and there
is no greater crime than laziness.
vkRekua jfFkua fof¼ 'kjhja jFkeso rqAcqf¼a rq lkjfFka fof¼ eu% izxzgeso pAbfUnz;kf.k g;kukgqfoZ"k;kaLrs"kq xkspjku~AvkResfUnz; euks;qDra HkksDrsR;kgqeZuhf"k.k%AA (Kathopanishad)
Soul is the rider of this body chariot. Wisdom is the
charioteer and mind is the reins. The sense organs
are the horses that run on the roads of experiences.
The soul is experiencing with the help of the senses
and mind. One who has divine knowledge and holds
the reins-like mind firmly and steers the chariot away
from the roads of worldly pleasure and desires, and
drives on the roads of truth, restraint and good con-
duct, he will reach his destination.
78. Gain victory over desires and tastes with prayer. He
whose words are always true and has control over
his actions cannot be defeated by any power on earth.
79. Big thoughts, hard work and firm determination –
these are the three mottos of success.
HAPPY LIFE
80. The aim of life is not worldly pleasures, gambling,
alcohol, meat, travel, leisure and entertainment. Life
is being able to give satisfaction, happiness, content-
ment to others with service and obtaining content-
ment, happiness and complete satisfaction with de-
votion.
81. Everyone is able to get six feet of land to live, two
garments to cover the body, and two rotis to satisfy
hunger. The thirst of people are never quenched.
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Hence, Veda Bhagavat says – rsu R;äsu Hkq´thFkk%(Yajurveda 40.1). Go through worldly experiences
with a sacrificial attitude and live for a 100 years do-
ing hard work in a disinterested manner. ^^dqoZUusosgdekZf.k ftthfo"ksPNra lek%** (Yajurveda 40.2)
82. m|kua rs iq#"k uko;kue~ (Atharvavaeda 8.1.6) – O
Man! God ahs created you to rise high, not to fall
low.
POPULARITY
83. A person will reach the pinnacle of popularity by show-
ing love towards the younger, respect towards the
elders, giving the credit of success to everyone, al-
ways remaining happy and positive thought.
VIRTUE
84. Doing good towards oneself and others is virtue and
doing harm is vice.
SACRIFICE
85. The meaning of sacrifice is – leaving aside bound-
aries and entering into the limitless and immeasurable
eternity. Sacrifice does not mean letting go but mak-
ing the vastness known to oneself. Only by entering
zero does birth and solution take place. It is only by
meditation that you can enter a zero-like state.
86. It is only by entering the unknown that the doors of
the known will be opened. It is only by reaching the
stage of thoughtlessness that you will attain divine
thought.
87. When each birth of qualities has occurred then the
attractions fail to attract the person any more and he
becomes free from life.
88. To make a change it is not time but determination
that is required. The wickedest of wicked people can
change with just one moment of pure resolution or
thought and become good.
SUCCESS
89. No person is great by birth, nor is anyone high or
low by birth. Even in Indian culture, the caste sys-
tem is not based on birth but on work. Deeds make a
man great. One who dedicates his life in performing
his duties with constant effort, courage, patience,
bravery, hard work and valour definitely reaches the
pinnacle of success in life. Truth and continuous work
is success. The constant flow of work is success.
EVIDENCE
90. That which is known through the sense organs and
the mind is perceiving; knowledge of fire after seeing
smoke, etc. is assumption; those which have similar
forms is comparison, such as comparing a cow with
a Nilgai; and the true advice of completely reliable
and God, that is godlike great men, is called ‘word’
evidence. The history that is based on such ‘word’
evidence and a path free from untruth is called tradi-
tional theory. If by saying one thing, the second thing
is understood without being said, it is called Arthapatti.
The thing that has evidence, reasoning and order of
creation is called possible. The knowledge that is based
on absence is called absence. Just as someone told
another to bring water. The person who is bringing
the water sees that water is not here but should be
got from where it is. This knowledge is called ‘ab-
sence’ evidence.
THEISM
91. Belief and faith in existence is belief in existence of
god or theism. See the unseen in the seen, the large in
the small, and the tree in the seed. The dwarf is also
the giant.
FATE
92. Just as a sculptor makes stone idols, we too scupt
our own destinies.
A CALL
93. mfÙk"Br tkxzr izkI; ojku~ fucksèkr (Kathopanishad
3.14). arise! Wake up! Move towards your goal with
courage, valour, intellect, bravery and hard work. Your
destination is calling you, go and acquire it.
94. Do now, get now. Do yourself, get yourself. If not
now, then never. ^^dk;± ok lkèk;s;a nsga ok ikr;s;a**.Do or die. Can cut, but cannot move away. Ved
Bhagavat advises.
u efj";fr u efj";fr ek fcHks%Au oS r=k e`;Urs uks ;UèUre%AAloksZ oS r=k thofr xkSj'o% iq#"k% i'kq%AA;=ksna czã fØ;rs ifjfèkthZouk;de~AA
(Atharvaved 8.2.24-25).
You will not die, fear not. He who fears dies. He
who does not fear does not die. Make the strength
of the Supreme Lord your security shield. No power
on earth can defeat you.
SURRENDER
95. The abandonment of the Ego is surrender. Jealousy,hatred, intolerance, wickedness, thirst, anger are alldivergences of arrogance. Hence, always live life asa witness.
96. Never consider yourself to be master. We are all trust-ees of the trust of God. The complete end of afflic-tions is reaching God.
THE RESOLUTION OF A DISCIPLE
97. u"Vks eksg% Le`fryZCèkk RoRizlknkUe;kP;qrAfLFkrks¿fLe xrlUnsg% dfj";s opua roAA
(Gita 18.73)O Teacher! My attachment has gone away with yourpure proximity. I am now available to my soul. Withyour grace, all my ignorance, attachment, and illu-sions are gone and I know that I am the ever-young,immortal, constant, indestructible, unchangeable,light, energy, peaceful soul. Now I am established inmy form and in my form I see your image. O Teacher!O yogeshar! I will now follow your words completelywithout any doubt.
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1. LEAVE DOUBLE STANDARDS, MAKE PERSONAL
AND PUBLIC LIFE PURE!Character and self-respect falling victims to
selfishness
Double standards of people are the biggest hurdle to
the rise and progress of any society. A lot of contrast is
seen between our personal and social life today. Accord-
ing to the Indian Vedic tradition of “Yadantar Tad Bahya
Yad Bahya Tadantaram”, our internal and external lives
used to be the same. Unfortunately, today,
the people mounted at the crest of religion
and politics have started singing a new
tune: Look at our social lives and do not
try to peep into our personal lives. Iron man
Sardar Vallabh Bhai Patel, Lal Bahadur
Shastri, Maharshi Swami Dayanand
Saraswati and Yogi shri Arobinda, etc were
such great men whose internal and exter-
nal lives were pure and without any stain.
Unfortunately, the religious and political
leaders today have turned traditions and
principles upside down. Earlier, political
leaders used to do Shirsasana, and hence the coun-
try used to run well. Nowadays, leaders have
stopped doing Shirsasana, thus the country is turn-
ing upside down and doing it. This is why in the
education sector, sex education is being advocated
instead of yoga education.
At present, approximately 4500 companies across
the country are selling products made with zero tech-
nology to the people and every year approximately 90,000
crore rupees are being sent out of the country in the form
of profits of these companies. Even in the neighbouring
country of China, multinational companies run according
to the Chinese government. There, major portion of the
profits have to be spent by the MNCs in local develop-
ment and they have to take the permission of the govern-
ment to take the profit out of the country. There is no
such provision in India. We say ‘Bande Mataram’ but do
not mean it. This is harmful for the nation. National char-
acter and self-respect is disappearing today. Entangled in
selfishness and narrowness, society has forgotten its val-
ues and I do not know where it wants to end up. Every
person is acting. It is true that it is very nice to see acting,
but it is also an eternal truth that a person needs to live in
reality. Acting out the emotions of love, patriotism, power,
knowledge, capability, meditation, devotion, form, grace,
purity and skill, people are moving quite far away from
the truth. This is dangerous for culture of mankind. No
good can come out of this for any nation or society.
A truthful person is not very good at acting. It is also
equally true that acting cannot be considered as the real-
ity. Our soul is always aware of acting and truth. Hence,
we have to leave this pageantry, drama and superstition
and move towards the truth. Only then will our internal
and external personalities would be one.
2. GIVE SUCH A FORM TO RELIGION THAT EVERY
PERSON ON EARTH COULD ACCEPT IT
Some questions connected with religion, God and the
Constitution force us to think. Religion, God and the laws
and rules of a nation, in a way, play an im-
portant role in increasing friendship,
kindness, love, goodwill, happiness,
peace and prosperity in a nation. Un-
fortunately, some representatives of
different communities are spreading
illusion in the name of religion for
cheap publicity. They know
very well that religion never
permits the breaking of
hearts and spreading of ha-
tred.
Even then, because of
narrowness, they misuse re-
ligion. Such a person is very
harmful to a nation and so-
ciety. One should never
doubt the proofs given by
sages and great men. However,
it is possible that maybe it is not
religion that religious leaders, pandits, granthis, mullah-
maulavis or fathers are doing, may be it is just an illusion
or betrayal in the name of religion. The selfishness, obsti-
nacy, ignorance or arrogance of these religious leaders
won’t let you get introduced to the truth. Or else, if you
too hunt for religion, truth and goodness with the light of
obstinacy, selfishness, arrogance or ignorance, then you
too won’t be able to get introduced to the truth. Hence,
hunt for religion, truth and goodness with the light of
science, knowledge and self-knowledge, leaving aside
obstinacy. Our learned sages have saidthat , Become you
are your own guru. Search for knowledge, truth and god
from within.
At the time of India’s independence, some scholars
studied the Constitutions of many counties. The laws made
by the British who abided by the primary law of “Put
your foot down and rule”, the laws that were made by
them to rule over us were included as it is in the Indian
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Constitution. In the present circumstances, it is impor-
tant to take another look at the laws regarding religion
and the Constitution and it is necessary to have a discus-
sion with a positive view on some aspects of these. It
must be kept in mind that the religious feelings and faith
of people are not hurt.
A solution should be found to prevent division in the
name of casteism, fanaticism and religion. At this time, it
is important to solve many burning issues and questions.
In ancient times, when there was no religious text, was
there a kingdom of irreligion? Thousands of years ago,
there was no temple, mosque, gurudwara or church on
earth. Everyone used to pray to the Lord under the open
skies. The question is were people of those days happy
or are they happier now while praying in temples
and mosques?
The definition and language of sci-
ence is same across the world. Reli-
gion is also a science of life. Why
can’t its description and language
also be the same? Some organi-
zations established in the name
of religion are spreading illu-
sions. To maintain unity, moral-
ity, administration and justice in
society, a Constitution and law
and order are required. In the
same way, to maintain happi-
ness, peace and joy in our inter-
nal lives, religion is necessary. We
humans before we are Hindus,
Muslims or Christians, then why
can’t the Constitution and religion of
the entire world be one? Why can’t
learned men decide an equal constitution
for world peace?
Why shouldn’t all women get equal rights? One
should also notice the reservation going on in the nation
on the basis of caste and religion. Actually the time has
come now to move away from the shelter of the temple,
mosque, church, parliament and assemblies and move
under the open skies where every good and learned per-
son talks about religion and the Constitution. Religion and
Constitution should be defined on the basis of human
values and emotions leaving aside selfishness, narrow-
ness and obstinacy. Religion and Constitution should be
given such a form that every individual and every nation
can adopt it. Religion is for uniting, for peace and non-
violence. It is not a weapon for breaking or for spreading
restlessness and hatred.
3. THE JOY OF GOD’S AUTHORITY IN SAMADHI
THE ROAD TO FULFILLMENT OF LIFE AND SALVA-TION IS HIDDEN IN HIGHEST PEAK OF KNOWLEDGE
Meditating upon the Lord, who is the very image of
happiness, light and peace, a person becomes so absorbed
in Omkar, the Supreme Lord, that he forgets himself. He
just experiences the divine joy of God – this is nothing-
ness. Maharshi Dayanandji used to say the person who
meditates, the mind with which he meditates and the thing
on which he meditates, exists. However, in Samadhi, the
soul is absorbed only to attain the Lord’s form of joy,
peace and light, and in the light. Just as a person upon
diving into water remains under water for some time,
similarly man emerges himself in the joy of the Supreme
Lord to get joy in Samadhi. This thing is said by the sage
in another way. Just as an iron rod placed in fire acquires
the form of fire, similarly in the light of the divine knowl-
edge of god, the soul too becomes enlightened and for-
getting the body, etc. becomes ecstatic with the
Lord’s light and knowledge. This is Samadhi.
Shri Bhoj Maharaj gives the meaning of
Samadhi in this way:^^lE;xk/h;rs ,dkxzhfØ;rs fo{ksiku~ ifjâR; euks ;=k l lekf/%**A (Bhojvriti Vibhutipad 3.3)
That in which the mind is re-
moved from perplexity and is con-
centrated, is called Samadhi. The
first words described in Yogdarshan
are “Savitark Samapti”. In medita-
tion, differences remain between
word, meaning and knowledge and
when there is and of all reasoning
(Nirvitak Samapti), it should be un-
derstood as the state of Samadhi. In
this state of ecstasy of Sampragya
Samadhi, the devotee gets the blessing
of god in the form of divine knowledge.
After this there are various stages of
Samadhi –Nirbeej (seedless) Samadhi. There
is a layer of past experiences in the worldly in-
tellect of experiences, pleasures and desires. When
these experiences and their influences are removed along
with the seed then all afflictions get completely cured.
Then the possibility of attachment and bondage also dis-
appears. This is called Nirbeej Samadhi. This is the ful-
fillment of yoga and life. Asceticism is the highest peak
of knowledge. Reaching this pinnacle through yoga is
Moksh, on attaining which the yogi feels that he has at-
tained everything that has to be attained and all afflictions
(false knowledge, false memory, anger, hatred and at-
tachment) that had to be removed have been destroyed;
as if the cycle of obtaining one body from another has
been torn apart.
4. SPIRITUALISM IS THE SOLUTION TO ALL PROBLEMS
A person who attains self-knowledge remains
far from corruption, religious fanaticism and crime
Maharshi Patanjali’s yoga begins after going beyond
the mind. Only when we go above the mind, our person-
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ality attains divinity, equilibrium and comprehensiveness.
The mind contains obstinacy; the mind has the reality-
less past and innumerable fantasies of the future. We want
to live in the known and are scared of the unknown. That
is why we are not able to gather courage to do something
new – because the unknown is hidden, mysterious and
unsaid. It is true that only those people have given some-
thing new to the world and only those people can do
something new, who have gathered courage and dived
into the unknown. There mysteries will be revealed, so-
lutions will be found and illusion, fear and delusion will
end. There is obstinacy and narrowness in the mind, there
are boundaries and bondages in the mind. To obtain the
vast, limitless eternity, you have to enter the conscious
mode.
We have made our life’s centre outside. “I” means
land, mansion, money, wealth, authority, status, youth
and the wish to gather external wealth. This is where the
journey of life’s destruction begins because a person con-
siders his identity and personality to be outside. Thus,
even his prayers of becoming great or happy in life are
also built outside. Earlier, a person used to be considered
great because of his wide vision, sacrifice, restraint,
struggle and life values. Today, the standards of great-
ness are external pomp. Hence, a person gathers wealth
and considers the progress of his wealth to be the ulti-
mate truth of life and in the final hours regrets that what-
ever he had obtained in his life, that waste is getting re-
moved from him. The wealth, status and authority, which
hasbeen obtained after losing our night’s sleep and day’s
peace, would from us at the time of death.
The sorrow is not of death but of losing everything
and of where will I go after the unknown or death. The
main point of the thoughts and philosophy of the sages of
India is life and death. Today we just think while placing
life at the centre. All the theories of progress and science
are centered only on life. People are scared of death and
they are thus not even prepared to think about it. I have
never opposed materialism, science and progress. How-
ever, it is also true that I have always kept self-knowl-
edge as the primary goal in life. Without the equilibrium
of materialism and spiritualism, the hope of a healthy,
prosperous and happy world will remain a dream.
A completely spiritual person remains far from cor-
ruption, crime, casteism and religious fanaticism. He who
has identified the real “I’ beyond the body and the mind
and has himself seen the diffusion of the “I” will not
betray others in this manner. He cannot be a traitor to his
nation; he cannot be an accomplice in bribery, theft,
dacoity, murder and crime. Spiritualism is the answer to
the burning problems of people and the nation.
5. RELIGION IS BEING DEFINED ON THE BASIS OF
SELFISHNESS
Leave aside thoughts of salvation and heaven,
do your work!
There is a need for positive change in the present po-
litical and religious thought. Politicians pride themselves
in saying that they are indifferent towards religion. How-
ever, they forget that no one can live without religion.
Religion is not merely another name for going to the
temple, mosque, gurudwara or chapel. Religion is the name
of those values, rules and limits, following which will
bring joy, peace and prosperity to the person, family, na-
tion and world. Religion is the carrying out of duties and
responsibilities with sincerity. Religious indifference does
not mean insulting people who have many different reli-
gious and spiritual faiths or unrestrained war on some-
one; it is also not about abusing the majority society and
declaring yourself to be the well wisher and supporter of
a minority community. In fact, from the point of view of
linguistic science, the word religious indifference is mean-
ingless because every person, thing or substance is influ-
enced by religion, and is not indifferent to it.
It is unfortunate that today we have declared external
rituals of worship as religion and across the entire world
today, we mostly see illusion, wickedness, hatred and
religious conversions going on in the name of religion. If
we look at history, we will know that 2000 years ago,
there was no monastery, temple, mosque or church on
earth. Approximately before 2000 years, there was no
knowledge of Puranas, Quran or the Bible. Before 5000
years, there was no knowledge of the Gita and before 9
lakh years, even the Ramayana wasn’t there. So, didn’t
religion exist before this? The cultural history of India is
many lakhs of years old, and at that time, the great sages
of India considered life values to be religion.
The great sage Manu declared patience, forgiveness,
restraint, purity, control of senses, learning, truth and the
absence of anger as the religion. By forgetting non-vio-
lence, truth, equality, contentment and global friendship,
we are considering our external life to be religion. Just as
the word religious indifference is meaningless, the word
religious conversion is also meaningless because when
truth, non-violence, sacrifice, love, tolerance, sensitivity,
service and good to others is religion then what is the
meaning of religion conversion? If by religious conver-
sion our life’s values do not change, then what is the
need for religion conversion? Religion inspires us to leave
aside our selfishness and take up universal feelings so
why is there the selfishness of reservation in the name of
religion and feeling of difference? Conspiracy in the name
of religion is a hurdle in the way of the country’s progress.
Hence, the people representing the various religious or-
ganizations also should not define religion according to
their own needs. Dividing the nation on the basis of reli-
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gion and caste is dangerous for national unity and integ-
rity. Unfortunately, the system given in the Constitution
in the name of religion, caste and sub-caste has been
misused by politicians to divide the nation. We have to
rise above our own needs and should not identify our-
selves on the basis of caste, religion or community. We
should not doubt the theories of great learned men and
sages. However, it is possible that religion is not what is
being preached by religious leaders, pandits, granthis,
mulla-maulvi or fathers. It may be an illusion and betrayal
in the name of religion. These aforementioned religious
leaders do not let you know the truth because of their
own selfish needs, obstinacy, ignorance and arrogance.
And if you yourself start defining religion being over-
come by obstinacy, selfishness, arrogance or ignorance
then you too won’t get to know the truth. Hence, search
for religion, truth and goodness with the light of science,
knowledge and self-knowledge, leaving aside obstinacy.
The teachers and external guides may misguide you.
Hence, our great sages have said, ‘become your own
guru’. Search for religion, truth and the Supreme Lord
from within. Indianess is our identity, humanitarianism is
our religion and mankind is our caste. Living with this
feeling, we will consider our work to be our worship.
6. REAL GLOBAL PEACE WILL BE ESTABLISHED
ONLY BY EIGHT-FOLD YOGA
This has stood the test of the life processes of
religion, humanity and science
Every person on earth wants peace and happiness.
All the nations of the world agree on the point that peace
should be established on earth. Each year, for this reason
only, one person gets honoured with the Nobel Prize for
peace.
Everyone, according to his or her intellect, thinks about
this but a solution that is acceptable by all has not come
about. Someone says that on a day when certain religion
is the only religion on earth there will be peace. Someone
else says that if everyone surrenders to a certain God
(great man, incarnation or guru), there will be global peace
and happiness. In India, there is an overflow of commu-
nities, religious thoughts and gurus and each one makes
the claim that waling on the path shown by them will lead
to global peace and happiness. There is no such clarity,
spread or completeness in all these routes that they would
be accepted by entire mankind. Each has its own limita-
tions.
There has been autocratic establishment and bloody
battles for the aforementioned religions but there has been
no outcome. Restlessness is on the increase. This means
that the issues that the people of the world have been
thinking about are meaningful but lack completeness,
wideness and totality. On accepting these popular sects,
communities and aforementioned religions, a person gets
a little peace on one side and on the other, he gets trapped
by some superstitions, bad behaviour and false obstina-
cies associated with the communities, which are very
difficult to get rid of. Can there be such rules and regula-
tions or limits on which each person of the world can
walk? That which will not compromise the unity and in-
tegrity of any country or person; that which can be ac-
cepted by each individual and life’s complete peace, hap-
piness and joy can be found? One such path on which
each person on earth can walk with complete indepen-
dence fearlessly and complete happiness, peace and joy
of life can be obtained is the eight-fold yoga established
by the sage Patanjali. This is not any sect, religion or
community but a complete way of life. If the people of
the world are serious about establishing world peace then
this is the only solution – practice of eight-fold yoga. It is
only through eight-fold yoga that personal and social equal-
ity, physical health, mental peace and spiritual joy can be
experienced.
Astang yoga or eight-fold yoga stands the test of reli-
gion, spirituality, humanitarianism and science. If the
bloody battles on earth can be stopped by any method
then it is this – Astang yoga. Astang yoga has the unique
co-existence of the highest level of spirituality from gen-
eral behaviour to meditation to Samadhi.
7. NON-VEGETARIAN FOOD HARMS HUMAN SENSI-TIVITY –
Meat eating destroys kindness, pity, love and other
good qualities
Maharshi Charak had a very beautiful view on food.
Once Maharshi Charak asked his disciple, ‘Who is not
sick, that is who is healthy?” Maharshi’s learned student
Bhagbhatt replied, “One who eats beneficial food, in the
right quantity and eats food suitable to the season.” Un-
derstand your nature (Vat, Pitta and Kapaha) and take
food according to that. Food decides a person’s nature
and behaviour. Vegetarianism cools temperament. Meat
eating builds up anger in a person. If your nature is Vata
or wind, then you should leave wind-building substances
such as rice and sour things and keep using choti pippali,
dry ginger, ginger, etc. People with pitta nature should
not eat hot, fried stuff and meals with raw cucumber
however gourds, etc are beneficial. Kapha people should
not eat lot of cold substances such as rice, curd, butter-
milk, etc. Eating food according to what is available in
the season keeps diseases away. Meals taken at odd times
lead to indigestion and ill health.
In the morning, between 8-9am, it is good to take a
light drink or fruits. The less use of cooked food in the
morning is better. People who are above 50 years of age
should not eat cooked food in the morning. It is best to
take the midday meal between 11-12’o clock in the after-
noon. It is okay to have your food between 12-1pm in
the afternoon but after that it is not advisable. For the
evening meal, 7-8 pm is the best time, 8-9 pm is okay but
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as far as possible should not be taken after 9pm. Talking
during meals lead to poor chewing and you also end up
eating more. Chew well while eating. One mouthful should
be chewed 32 times or at least 20 times. Eating food
while chewing also removes feeling of hatred. There is a
shlok in Sanskrit which means – ‘He who drinks water
after getting up in the morning, drinks milk after his
evening meal and buttermilk after his midday meal, such
a person does need the Vedas.” Do not use meat, eggs,
etc. in your food. God has made us vegetarian. We can
all survive eating rotis which does not involve violence,
then why do we have to kill living beings, end their be-
loved lives in order to live? It is better to die than to live
like this. Meat eating ends human qualities such as pity,
kindness, sympathy, love, feeling of oneness, respect and
devotion. Men become demons. The stomach of meat-
eaters is like a graveyard.
8. BELIEVE IN YOURSELF AND IN GOD!Auspicious and inauspicious is within us
What is auspicious? This question arises
again and again in front of us and wants
a solution because every person is
afraid of the inauspicious. We have
heard from our childhood to avoid
inauspicious work and to protect
oneself from the inauspicious. We
do rituals to protect ourselves from
the inauspicious and before em-
barking on any task or journey we
calculate the auspicious time, po-
sition of stars, etc. Days are di-
vided into auspicious and inauspi-
cious, we hunt for auspicious and
inauspicious in planets and even
in directions we establish auspi-
cious and inauspicious. Be it for
any purification ritual such as
name-giving ceremony, sacred
thread ceremony, etc. we are al-
ways alert about auspicious-inaus-
picious, and we move out in search
of those people who are said to be
learned or else read our horoscopes, plan-
etary positions or faults in directions.
When man gets turned down by everyone and he gets
betrayed even after trying everything, then he sits down
in a hopeless state dependent on fate and finally becomes
an atheist. But have you ever gathered the courage to
think what is auspicious? Instead of asking others, have
you asked yourself? What is auspicious? Let us ask our-
selves this question and become silent for a moment. The
solution will come on its own, from within. Others might
cheat you but you will never be able to cheat yourself.
Are there the same standards of auspicious-inauspicious
in all the other nations as in India? I will say that we have
unnecessarily harboured an illusion. A cat crossing the
road is inauspicious, sneezing is inauspicious! What is
wrong if you sneeze? This is a common phenomenon of
the body. What is inauspicious in it?
It is understandable that when a wild animal moves in
front of you, you let it go. You wait for a while because
they have the first right to walk on the path, but what is
this superstition of it being inauspicious for them to cross
your path? Do we think before eating whether eating meat,
alcohol, etc. is auspicious or inauspicious for us or not?
Before you are about to do something, just be silent for a
moment and ask your conscious soul, and listen atten-
tively to whatever reply comes to you from within and
do as directed. You will never be cheated. Whenever you
are about to do some good work and there is a feeling of
joy, energy and enthusiasm within you, you should un-
derstand that your guru, astrologer, scriptures and God
is motivating you to do that task. Whenever you
are about to do something wrong and there is
a fear within you and you are in doubt,
and there is a feeling of shame and dis-
like then you should understand that this
is inauspicious for you. All directions,
days, time and moments are made by
God. These are all auspicious. Instead
of depending on others, believe in
yourself and in God! Everything will
be auspicious.
9. SHORTAGE OF SELF-CONFI-DENCE,
NOT OF SKILLS
Defeat western and cosmo-
politan culture with nationalism
and spiritualism
I am proud that I have been born
in India and I feel self-confident of
the fact that I am an inheritor of the
world’s oldest and wealthiest culture,
civilization and traditions. All the cultures
of the world revolve around 2000-3000
years while in India, we see in the resolu-
tions that we take in our various religions the
glorious, golden history that has been continuously
flowing since the beginning of the creation.
In the holy moments of the beginning of the new vic-
torious, golden year, let us think about our past, present
and future. Taking pride in our past, let us work towards
a hopeful and bright future with a mission, by being alert,
awake, intelligent and hard working in the present. The
nation that has no pride and self-confidence in its past,
no hard work in the present or no hope towards the fu-
ture, that nation will be ruined. This is what the English
did to us. Indians who sing the praise of the motherland
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have been taught and are still being taught that we are the
children of monkeys and not of mother earth or mother
India. This false evolution theory of Darwin is now being
disregarded even by western scientists and we still go by
this theory that erases our self-respect and identity. We
are the children of not monkeys but of sages such as
Ram, Krishna, Gautam, Kapil, Kanad, Gemini, Brahma,
Panini, Patanjali, etc. Even today history books give us
lessons that continue to enslave us.
We do have any respect towards our ancestors and
only enjoy the songs of praise of foreigners. When talk
arises of the early scientists, we remember Einstein and
Newton but forget great scientists such as Vishwamitra
and Bhascaracharya. Before the time people even listened
to talk of aircraft as if in a story, Maharshi Bharadwaj
wrote his text on aircraft and also knew how to build
aircraft. When we discuss mathematicians, we read about
foreign names such as Pythagoras in book but tend to
forget great Indian mathematicians such as Aryabhatta
and Shridhar. It is a mockery that when a child joins the
MBBS course to become a doctor or the MD to special-
ize, there is not even a single mention of the first fathers
of Ayurveda, Maharshi Charak and the father of surgery,
Susrut.
No other country in the world has as much potential
as India. Even today, in the global level, great doctors,
engineers, scientists, economists, thinkers, poets, writ-
ers, etc. are the glorious children of India. Even in the
business sector, people such as Laksmi Mittal have dis-
turbed the sleep of multinational corporations. There is
no lack of talent in our country. There has been a decline
in our self-confidence and self-respect. In the new year,
let us unite and move ahead on all sectors with full confi-
dence and self-respect and increase the honour of mother
India.
10. ONLY THE COMPLETE REMOVAL OF DOUBTS
AND AFFLICTIONS CAN HELP US OBTAIN GOD
The union of knowledge, work and devotion is
the completeness of yoga
Maharishi Patanjali inspires us to leave our clutches
and become self-dependent. Scriptures, guru, tradition,
beads, markings on the forehead, temple, mosque, mon-
astery, gurudwara, church – these are all supports,
clutches. Maharishi Patanjali makes us truly religious and
‘astik’. But he does not do any acting. He says, you your-
self are the centres of religion. He does not divide religion
into symbols. He motivates you to walk towards your
goal on your own. He asks us to remain constant in sor-
row and joy, praise and insult, cold and hot, action and
reaction, victory and defeat! Do penance! Practise self-
thinking! Move ahead on the road to self-knowledge with
penance, struggle, hard work and sincerity. Along with
this, totally surrender unto god! This entire process will
wash away the dirt from your mind! Your afflictions will
wash away.
Maharshi Patanjali did not consider the vision of any
idol or image to be meditation. He says – the complete
end of afflictions is obtaining God. Maharshi says – the
aim of kriyayog is Samadhi, Sanbodhi, Swarupolabdhi,
and complete end of afflictions. He advices eight-fold
yoga to clean the impurities of the intellect. Describing
the eight-fold yoga of yam, niyam, asana, pranayam,
pratyahar, dharana, dhyan and Samadhi, he says that with-
out observing these eight, it is impossible to obtain per-
sonal or global peace. Behind all the processes and reac-
tions of yoga of Maharishi Patanjali, there is one goal and
that is removal of darkness and impurity. Doubts, illu-
sion, obstinacy should break. After this you do not have
to go anywhere, all solutions will come to you. He talks
of obtaining fulfillment through restraint with the help of
concentration of dharana, meditation and Samadhi, He
speaks of the knowledge of the past and eternity with the
help of restraint and explains the way to concentrate in-
ward. He also teaches about akashman and parkaya en-
try. He also explains how to obtain fulfillments such as
Anima, Laghima, Garima, etc. Maharshi Patanjali also
unveils the mysteries of physical science and universal
science.
Maharshi Patanjali introduces us to the smallest mys-
teries of nature. He discusses doubtful, doubtless,
thoughtful, thoughtless Samadhi. He had a totally scien-
tific viewpoint. His path is one of truth, love, surrender
and complete joy. He enables us to feel the accuracy,
destructibility and sorrow absorbing capacity of nature.
He describes yoga as a science. He also tells of a definite
result for each yoga process. He considers the union of
gyanyog (knowledge), bhaktiyog (devotion) and karmyog
(work) to yoga. He is not one-sided. He does not hold
any obstinacy. He travels through the spiritual with the
viewpoint of science. He does not chase you away, he
awakens you. He keeps you steady between battle and
escape. I admire Patanjali because I find complete truth
in whatever he advices. No one has inspired me more
than Maharshi Patanjali, As the level of our conscious-
ness will rise with yoga, the doors of the mysteries of
yoga too will open for us. We should just move ahead on
the road of devotion, and God himself will help us. I am
myself a devotee and can see that truth is gradually get-
ting uncovered. The goal of all of us is obtaining com-
plete truth, knowledge of self and search for reality.
11. INDIAN CULTURE IS NOT AGAINST SCIENCE
According to Yajurveda, invention of science is
also necessary for a happy life
What are the reasons for greatness of cultures earlier
to western culture, or Indian culture? This question arises
again and again in the minds of the youth of the nation.
Some grown people in our nation ignores our tradition of
science and technology and considers only religion, spiri-
tuality, chanting, penance, fasting and rituals to be an
Indian culture. When a youth does not go to the temple
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and apply tilak, the elders of the house say in a very hope-
less and weary voice, ‘What to do, generation has changed
– children have forgotten culture, customs, traditions and
only blindly follow western ways.’
On the other hand, some learned people take pride in
deriding Indian religion, spiritual culture and sanatan tra-
dition as superstition, fraud and hypocrisy, and think they
have become developed, and they joke about religious
people as ignorant, foolish, etc. In the 40th chapter of
Yajurveda, it is written that the people for whom science
and technological progress is the only goal in life live in
utter darkness; but in deeper darkness than them are those
who live life only engrossed in devotion, rituals and spiri-
tuality, ignoring everything else.
It is further described in Yajurveda that to live happily
in this world scientific inventions are also necessary and
for happiness and peace of the soul, spirituality in the
form of devotion, worship, meditation and Samadhi are
also very necessary. That is in Indian culture, material-
ism and spiritualism are believed to complement each
other. In the absence of study, understanding and thought,
Indian culture is today only concentrated on temples and
holy places. This is not proper. Equal importance is given
to knowledge, science and worship in the Vedas. Indian
culture is not one-sided, it is multifaceted.
Our ancestral sages were experts in geology, astrol-
ogy, surgery and philosophy. Our forefathers were fa-
miliar with all knowledges including aircraft science, tele-
phone, television, education and health, etc. Unfortunately,
after Mahabharat the downfall of Indian culture began.
With the passage of time, the description of religion and
culture was limited to the fulfillment of selfish whims
and we limit our scientific religion to only external rituals.
Today, it has again become necessary to rise above
obstinacy and selfishness and look at Indian tradition and
culture with the light of science, and this is the eternal
truth that India and Indians were never against science
and our culture is totally for science.
The study and research of Vedic socialism, class sys-
tems, Vedic education system, knowledge of ancient
Ayurvedic tradition, Vedic agricultural tradition, Vedic
mathematics, Vedic astrology and vastu shastra, etc. is
necessary. It is only by understanding and experiencing
the complete foundation of ancient Indian culture and
civilization that we will be able to say with pride that
Indian culture is better than western culture!
12. EARTH IS BECOMING BARREN WITH DANGER-OUS CHEMICALS
If the profit gained in the name of fertilizers is
given to farmers then there won’t be any shortage
of food grains in the country
In the Sanskrit language, the word ‘kshetra’ is used
equally to denote both the body as well as agricultural
field. In Hindi literature, the word ‘Khet’ or field is used
instead. There is a deep connection between the bodily
field and the agricultural field. This is because whatever
is sown in the fields ultimately comes into the human
field, that is, it comes into the stomach. The human body
is nourished by food grains and milk from animals that is
again formed from the grass they chew. The green revo-
lution has had some bad effects on both the fields – agri-
cultural as well as the body. With the bad effects of dan-
gerous chemicals, the fields are either barren or are in the
process of becoming barren. With the entry of chemical
products inside the stomach, there has been an onslaught
of terrible diseases such as cancer, diabetes, heart dis-
eases, high blood pressure, obesity, thyroid, kidney and
liver diseases, etc. With the heavy use of chemical fertil-
izers, the land has decreased its fertility and at the same
time, with the sexual prowess and fertilizers of men, in-
fertility is increasing in women. If we take a look at the
total use of fertilizers in 2003-2004, the heart beats rap-
idly as 16 thousand million 80 crore kg of chemicals had
been offered to mother earth in just one year.
If we divide this amount by India’s population, which
we consider to be 112 crore, then an average of 15 kgs
have been used per person. Approximately 1.25 kg of
poison comes into a family every month, and affects ev-
eryone from babies to old people. The illusionary rumour
that crop production is increasing because of urea and
chemical fertilizers is being spread all over the nation pri-
marily to satisfy selfish needs. The reality, on the other
hand, is that the naturally produced insects in the soil are
being destroyed because of excessive use of urea. Crop
production increases because of the fertilizer that is pro-
duced on their death and not because of urea. Urea on
mixing with animal dung produces a chemical reaction
that increases crop production. Try and use only urea
without any animal dung or leaves, and you will see that
even the crop burns out. Another shocking element be-
hind these chemical fertilizers is that the manufacturers
get Rs 12 lakh to 622 crore each year in the form of
subsidy from the government.
The government gives this subsidy to companies that
manufacture urea and other chemical fertilizers because
it is expensive to make such fertilizers and the companies
sell them at low costs to the farmers. That is, the govern-
ment makes good the loss of these companies. If the
profit attained from fertilizers is given directly to farmers
then the necessary crop can be achieved with animal dung
fertilizers and organic fertilizers. This won’t lead to any
shortage of food grains and the fields of mother earth
and the stomachs of human beings will also be safe. At
the same time, the crores of animal wealth being cut don
each year will also be safe. If this happens then we will
also be free from the sin of cow slaughter and the fields
too will be safe from becoming barren. If only! If the
minds and hearts of the policy makers of our nation were
a little more positive then every field in the nation would
have prospered. (Compilation of writings published in
2005).
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1- VEDIC NATIONAL SONG
vks3e~&vk czãu~ czkã.kks czãopZlh tk;rkekjk"VsªjktU;% 'kwj¿b"kO;ks¿frO;kèkh egkjFkks tk;rka nksX/zhèksuqoksZ<k¿uM~okuk'kq% lfIr% iqjfU/;ksZ"kk ft".kw jFks"Bk%lHks;ks ;qokL; ;tekuL; ohjks tk;rke~A fudkesfudkes u% itZU;ks o"kZrq iQyoR;ks u vkS"kè;% iP;Urka;ksx{kseks u% dYirke~AA
Lord! Let there be in my nation twice-born Kshtriya
warriors with spiritual energy, who can destroy the
enemy’s army. Let there be milk-producing cows, ani-
mals and swift horses. Let the foundation of the nation
be always on the basis of auspicious women. Let there
be strong youth and worthy sons. Give us whatever life-
span we wish for to do penance for others. Let there be
an overflow of fruits and flowers, medicinal and produc-
tivity. Let our freedom come through yoga.
2- PRAYER TO MAHARSHI PATANJALI
;ksxsu fpÙkL; insu okpka eya 'kjhjL; p oS|dsuA;ks¿ikdjksÙka çoja equhuka ir´tfya çk´tfyjkurks¿fLeAA
3- THE HOLY MONOSYLLABLE (OM)Take a deep breath and make the sound of ‘OM’
three times
4- GAYATRI MAHAMANTRA
vks3e~&HkwHkqZo% Lo%A rRlforqoZjs.;a HkxksZ nsoL; /khefgAf/k;ks ;ks u% izpksn;kr~AA (;tq 0&36@3)]
(½ 0&3@62@90)Meaning – Being created from the ‘aa’ accent (vast,
fire, world, etc.), ‘oo’ accent (Brahma, wind, energy,
etc.) and ‘ma’ accent (God, Aditya, divine knowledge,
etc.), the word ‘Om’ occupies the highest position
amongst all names of the Lord. The meanings of all names
come into it. The Lord who is more beloved than even
life and who is the basis of the world is also known as
‘Bhuh’. He who removes all sorrow from those who are
desirous of salvation, that kindhearted Lord is ‘Bhuvah’.
He who is omnipresent and keeps a control over the en-
tire world and Brahma is the place of residence for ev-
eryone, that Supreme Lord’s name is ‘Swaha’.
He who creates the world and is the father and master
of everyone, He who is the best and is worthy of choos-
ing, He who is without chaos, sinless, virtueless, pure,
free from all faults, mature, salvation, science, He who
lights and give joy to the entire world – we worship that
Supreme Lord. For what use? Only by acquiring him we
will be nourished, determined and happy with strengths
such as science, etc. for this reason and also the Lord
who motivates our wisdom for auspicious works.
5- MAHAMRITYUNJAY MANTRA
vks3e~&=;Ecda ;tkegs lqxfU/ka iqf"Vo/kZue~AmokZ#dfeo cU/kukUe`R;kseqZ{kh; ek¿e`rkr~AA
Meaning: We constantly pray to the Rudra-like Lord
who increases the strength of the pure body, soul and
society. Just like the muskmelon flowers ripen get de-
tached from the creeper and becomes equivalent to nec-
tar, similarly we too will get detached from the body and
life and will never be separated from the bliss of salvation
6- SWADHYAY MANTRA
vks3e~ lg ukoorqA lg ukS HkquDrqA lg oh;± djokogSArstfLouko/khreLrqA ek fof}"kkogSAA
vks s3e~ 'kkfUr% 'kkfUr% 'kkfUr%A
O Lord, protector of all! Protect both of us, master
and pupil. Give us the taste of joy. Impregnate us both
with strength. Let our knowledge burn bright for national
good. Let us never fight with each other, oppose each
other and learn and teach with extreme love. Let us ob-
tain the three kinds of peace – Adhyatmik (spiritual),
Adhibhoutik (material), and Adhidaivik (from pain brought
about by evil spirits or fate).
7- PRAYER MANTRA
vkss3e~ vlrks ek ln~xe;A relks ek T;ksfrxZe;]e`R;ksekZ¿e`ra xe;A
vkss3e~ 'kkfUr% 'kkfUr% 'kkfUr%ALord! Take us from falsehood to truth, from dark-
ness to light. Free me, O Lord, from the cycle of life and
death. Fill me with blissful nectar, O Lord!
8- MORNING MANTRA
vks3e~ izkrjfXua izkRkfjUnza gokegs izkrfeZ=ko#.kk izkrjf'oukAizkrHkZxa iw"k.ka czã.kLifra izkrLlkseeqr #nza gqoseAA1AA
vks3e~ izkrftZra Hkxeqxza gqose o;a iq=kefnrs;ksZ fo/krkZAvk/kzf'p|a eU;ekuLrqjf'pnzktk fp|a Hkxa Hk{khR;kgAA2AA
vks3e~ Hkx iz.ksrHkZx lR;jk/kks Hkxseka f/k;eqnok nnUu%AHkx iz.kks tu; xksfHkj'oSHkZx iz u`fHkuZoUr% L;keAA3AA
vks3e~ mrsnkuha HkxoUr% L;keksr izfiRo mr e/;s vÞuke~Amrksfnrk e?koURlw;ZL; o;a nsokuka lqerkS L;keAA4AA
vks3e~ Hkx ,o Hkxok¡ vLrq nsokLrsu o;a HkxoUr% L;keAra Rok Hkx loZ bTtksgohfr l uks Hkx iqj ,rk HkosgA5A
9- EVENING SHIVSANKALPA MANTRA
vks3e~ ;TTkkxzrks nwjeqnSfr nSoa rnq lqIrL; rFkSoSfrAnwjÂea T;ksfr"kka T;ksfrjsda rUes eu% f'koladYieLrqA1A
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vks3e~ ;su dekZ.;ilks euhf"k.kks ;Ks d.ofUr fonFks"kq /khjk%A;niwo± ;{keUr% iztkuka rUes eu% f'koladYieLrqA2A
vks3e~ ;r~ izKkueqr psrks /k`fr'p ;TT;ksfrjUrje`ra iztklqA;LekUu ½rs fdapu deZ fØ;rs rUes eu% f'koladYieLrqA3A
vks3e~ ;susna Hkwra Hkqoua Hkfo";r~ ifjxghreersu loZe~A;su ;KLrk;rs lIrgksrk rUes eu% f'koladyieLrqA4A
vks3e~ ;fLeUup% lke;twaf"k ;fLeu~ izfrf"Brk jFkukHkkfookjk%A;fLe¡f'pÙka loZeksra iztkuka rUes eu% f'koladYieLrqA5A
vks3e~ lq"kkjfFkj'okfuo ;Ueuq";kUusuh;rs¿Hkh 'kqfHkokZftu boAâRizfr"Ba ;nftja tfo"Ba rUes eu% f'koladYieLrqA6A
10- MANTRA TO BE SAID AT MEALTIMES
vks33333e~ vUuirs¿UuL; uks nsáuehoL; 'kqf"e.k%Aiz iznkrkja rkfj"k Åt± uks /ksfg f}ins prq"insA
11- SANGATHAN SOOKT
vks3e~ la lfe|qols o`"kUuXus fo'okU;;Z vkAbGLins lfeè;ls l uks olwU;kHkj AA9AA
O Lord! You are powerful, you build creation.Everyone
sings the Vedas to you, shower wealth on us.
vks33333e~ la xPNèoa la on/oa la oks eukafl tkurke~Ansok Hkkxa ;Fkk iwosZ latkukuk miklrs AA2AA
Walk with love, everyone become wise You too, like
your forefathers, carry out your duty well
vks33333e~ lekuks eU=k% lfefr% lekuh lekua eu% lg fpÙkes"kke~Alekua eU=kefHkeU=k;s o% lekusu oks gfo"kk tqgksfe AA3AA
Let everyone’s thoughts be the same, let the intellect
and mind be the same. I give knowledge constantly, let
everyone become good.
vks33333e~ lekuh o vkdwfr% lekuk ân;kfu o%AlekueLrq oks euks ;Fkk o% lqlgklfr AA4AA
Let everyone’s heart and resolution always be
tranquil.Let minds be filled with love, which in turn in-
creases happiness
12- SANKALPA MANTRA
This life of mine is for the nation. I take the resolution
that I will offer my body, mind, wealth and life in the
yagna of the nation to bring back the lost glory and fame
of Mother India. Acquiring self-power and patriotism with
the help of yoga, I take the resolution that this life of mine
is now for the nation. I take the resolution that by awak-
ening my self-quality and national responsibilities, I will
make India once again the world leader. l
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` YOG SANDESH-ENGLISH ` 54
GIVING VOICE TO
RESPECTED SWAMI RAMDEVJI’S
REVOLUTIONARY THOUGHTS AND
THE RESOLUTION OF
BHARAT SWABHIMAN (TRUST)
tkx mBk gS vkt ns'k dk fiQj lks;k vfHkeku!
tkx mBk gS vkt ns'k dk fiQj lks;k vfHkekuAizkph dh papy fdj.kksa ij] vk;k Lo.kZ fogku&2AA
c<+rs vR;kpkj ;qxksa ls LokfHkeku fiQj tkxkAnwj gqvk vKku lHkh dk tu&x.k&eu gS tkxkA;ksx½f"k us vkt lquk;k] laLÑfr dk t;xku&2AA
tkx mBk gS vkt ns'k dk fiQj lks;k vfHkeku----Åij fge ls <dh [kM+h gS] os ioZr ekyk;saAlqyx jgh gS Hkhrj&Hkhrj] izy;adj Tokyk;saAmu yiVksa esa nh[k jgk gS] Hkkjr dk mRFkku&2AAtkx mBk gS vkt ns'k dk fiQj lks;k vfHkeku------
[kqyk 'kEHkq dk us=k vkt fiQj] og izy;adj tkxkArkaMo dh og yiVsa tkxs] og f'ko 'kadj tkxkArky&rky ij gksrk tkrk] ikiksa dk volku&2AA
tkx mBk gS vkt ns'k dk fiQj lks;k vfHkeku----tkx mBh gS okuj lsuk] tkx mBk ouoklhApyk fo'o dks ;ksx&lw=k esa] cka/us ,d lU;klhA'ka[k ukn dj jgk vkt fiQj] ^^Hkkjr&LokfHkeku**&2AAtkx mBk gS vkt ns'k dk fiQj lks;k vfHkeku------
'kklu ds gSa uke is 'kks"k.k] iQSyk vfo'oklAHkz"Vkpkj vU;k; c<+ jgk] iQSyk gS vijk/Atkx mBk Hkkjr dk ukStoka] tkxk fgUnqLrku&2AA
tkx mBk gS vkt ns'k dk fiQj lks;k vfHkeku------
REVOLUTIONARY SONG
vkt rks xwatsxh ;s /kjrh LokfHkeku ds ukjksa lsVdjk;saxh ;s vkoktsa ns'k ds igjsnkjksa ls
oans ekrje~-------------------4AAfo'o xq: Hkkjr dks cukus] pys gSa eLr fnokus jslsok] lerk vkSj esgur ds] xkrs gq, rjkus jsHkkjr u;k cukus dks ge] LoxZ /jk ij yk;sa jsg¡lrs&xkrs xqtj tk;asxs] dk¡Vks ls vaxkjksa lsAVdjk;saxh ;s vkoktsa ns'k ds igjsnkjksa lsAA
oans ekrje~-------------------4AA100 izfr'kr ernku djsaxs] Hkz"Vkpkj feVkus dksvc xk¡oksa dh vksj c<+saxs] ns'k dks LoLFk cukus dksjk"Vªokn Lohdkj djasxs] ns'k dks ,d cukus dksHkkjr ek¡ dks eqDr djsaxs] Hkkjr ds xn~nkjksa lsAVdjk;saxh ;s vkoktsa ns'k ds igjsnkjksa lsAA
oans ekrje~-------------------4AAugha tqMs+ gSa tks Hkh gels] vHkh oDr gS vkvks jsHkz"Vkpkj feVkus dks vc] lkFk [kM+s gks tkvks jsubZ vktknh ubZ O;oLFkk] u;k ifjorZu ykvks jsxwats iwjk ns'k gekjk] Lons'kh ds ukjksa lsAVdjk;saxh ;s vkoktsa ns'k ds igjsnkjksa lsA
oans ekrje~-------------------4AAvuq'kklu dk ikB i<+k gS] ;ksx&/eZ viuk;k gSHkz"Vkpkj] vU;k;] dq'kklu] ftlus gesa lrk;k gSHkkjr dk LokfHkeku txk gS] fot; dk fcxqy ctk;k gSeqDr djsaxs Hkkjr ek¡ dks] ikiksa vR;kpkjksa lsAVdjk;saxh ;s vkoktsa ns'k ds igjsnkjksa lsAA
oans ekrje~-------------------4AA
(The nation’s slumber self-respect has again awak-ened today; With the rays of the east has come a goldenchariot. Self-respect has once again awakened due toincreasing atrocity for generations; Ignorance has goneaway and everyone has awakened. Yogarshi has sungtoday the victory song of culture.
Lovered with the snow this garland of mountains;simmering inside are volcanoes of destruction. In theseflames can be seen the rise of India.
Today again, Lord Shiva has awakened, with eachrhythm of his dance, sins get vanquished. The mon-key army has awakened, the forest dwellers have awak-ened. An ascetic has moved forward to write the worldwith yoga. Today, once again Bharat Swabhiman isblowing the conch shell.
In the name of governance is spread exploitationand disbelief; corruption and dishonesty is increasing,crime is on the rise; the youth of India has awakened,Hindustan is awake.)
EARTH WILL ECHO TODAY WITH THE
SLOGANS OF SELF-RESPECT
(Today the earth will resound with the slogans of
self-respect; these sounds will clash with the guards
of the nation…Bande Mataram
We move forward to make India a world leader; to
make a new India, to bring paradise to earth. Laughing
and singing we will cross over embers and thorns.
We will do 100% voting, make India healthy; ac-
cept nationalism, make India one. We will free Mother
India from traitors.
If you haven’t yet joined with us, there is still time,
come and join; stand with us to fight corruption; bring
new freedom, new change, new systems.
We have read the texts of discipline, adopted yoga;
Corruption, injustice and bad governance, whatever
has tortured us; India’s self-respect has awakened, the
victory bugle has sounded; We will free India from the
atrocities and sins.)
` YOG SANDESH-ENGLISH ` 55
gks tkvks rS;kj lkfFk;ksa gks tkvks rS;kjAvxj ns'k ds dke u vk;s rks thou csdkjAA
gks tkvks rS;kj---------AAvfiZr dj nks ru&eu&/u] ek¡x jgk cfynku oruAmBs gq, ekFks ds lEeq[k Bgj uk ikrh gkjAA
gks tkvks rS;kj---------AAdk¡i mBs /kjrh vEcj vkSj mBk yks Å¡pk LojAdksfV&dksfV d.Bksa ls xw¡ts ns'k dh t;&t;dkjAA
gks tkvks rS;kj---------AA
esjk gks eu Lons'kh] esjk gks ru Lons'khA
ej tkma rks Hkh esjk] gksos diQu Lons'khAA
pêku VwV tk;s rwiQk¡u ?kqeM+ ds vk;sA
xj ekSr Hkh iqdkjs] rks Hkh y{; gks Lons'khAA
esjk gks eu Lons'kh] esjk gks ru Lons'kh------
tks xk¡o esa cuk gks] vkSj xk¡o esa [kik gksA
tks xk¡o dks clk;s] og dke gS Lons'khAA
esjk gks eu Lons'kh] esjk gks ru Lons'kh------
tks gkFk ls cuk gks] ;k xjhc ls fy;k gksA
ftlesa Lusg Hkjk gks] og phT+k gS Lons'khAA
esjk gks eu Lons'kh] esjk gks ru Lons'kh------
ekuo dk /eZ D;k gS] ekuo dk nnZ tkusA
tks djs euq";rk dh] j{kk ogh Lons'khAA
esjk gks eu Lons'kh] esjk gks ru Lons'kh------
djsa 'kfDr dk foHkktu] feVs iw¡th dk ;s 'kkluA
cus xk¡o LokoyEch] og uhfr gS Lons'khAA
esjk gks eu Lons'kh] esjk gks ru Lons'kh------
ru esa clu Lons'kh] eu esa yxu Lons'khA
fiQj gks Hkou&Hkou esa] foLrkj gks Lons'khAA
esjk gks eu Lons'kh] esjk gks ru Lons'kh------
lc gksa Lotu Lons'kh] gksos pyu Lons'khA
ejrs le; diQu Hkh] njdkj gks Lons'khAA
esjk gks eu Lons'kh] esjk gks ru Lons'kh------
LIVE FOR HINDUSTAN, NOT FOR HIN-
DUS OR MUSLIMS
fgUnw ds fy;s u eqlyeku ds fy;sAthuk gS rks th;ks fgUnqLrku ds fy;sAAvkilh erHksn geas thus ugha nsaxsAns'k u jgk rks ge dSls jgsaxsAlkspuk gS gesa bUlku ds fy;sAthuk gS rks th;ks fgUnqLrku ds fy;sAAtkfr iaFk dk vkvks Hksn ge feVk;saA,d gSa ge ,d ;gka cuds fn[kk;saA,d gS ygw dk jax igpku ds fy;sAthuk gS rks th;ks fgUnqLrku ds fy;sAA;ksx dk nhi vkvks fey ds tyk;saAns'k vkSj lekt dks LoLFk (lqUnj) cuk;saAxhrk ds fy;s u dqjku ds fy;sAthuk gS rks th;ks fgUnqLrku ds fy;s-------
(Not for Hindus, not for Muslims; if you have to
live, live for Hindustan
Differences will not let live together survive, how
will we survive if the nation does not? We have to
think for human beings.
Let us remove the differences in caste and creed;
We are one and let us show that. The colour of blood
is the same for identification. Let us together light the
lamp of yoga; Let us make the country and society
healthy (beautiful). Not for Gita or Quran, if you have
to live, live for Hindustan.)
GET READY, COMRADES
(Get ready comrades; if you are not of use to the
nation, your life is wasted. Offer your body, mind,
wealth; your nation is asking for a sacrifice. Defeat
cannot remain in front of heads that are raised. The
earth and skies are trembling, and raise your voice.
The victory song of the nation echoes from billions
of throats)
LET MY MIND BE SWADESHI
(Let my mind be indigenous, my body be indig-
enous. Even if I die, my shroud be indigenous.
Mountains may break, storms may come; even if
death calls, even then let my aim be indigenous.
Whatever is made and sown in the villages; in
which love pervades, that product is indigenous. What
is human religion, only human pain knows. Who ever
protects humanity, he is indigenous.
Work together, remove this governance of wealth,
villages become self-dependent, that policy is indig-
enous. The garments on my body are indigenous,
the will in my mind is indigenous; once again swadeshi
will spread in every house. Everyone will be indig-
enous, culture will become indigenous, at the time of
death, even my shroud needs to be indigenous.)
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tkxus dk oDr vk x;k&3AA[kwu gS Lons'k ds fy;s] vku gS Lons'k ds fy;sAvkc: dk ;s loky gS] tku gS Lons'k ds fy;sAAxjtrk rwiQku vkt bu fnyksa esa mB x;kAtks >d>ksj dj txk x;k&txk x;kAA
tkxus dk oDr vk x;k------ekSr dh pquksfr;ksa dks lqu] ftanxh dHkh ugha #dhAdky dh djky 'kfDr ls] ftanxh dHkh ugha >qdhAAtks toku ns'k ds fy;s 'kghn gks x;kAekSr dks ogh >qdk x;k&>qdk x;kAA
tkxus dk oDr vk x;k------ljgnksa dh oks igkfM+;k¡] >kad dj gesa fugkjrhaAyks lquks ogk¡ dh ?kkfV;k¡] xwatrh gesa iqdkjrhaAAbap&bap Hkwfe ge Lons'k dh cpk;saxsAdiQu cka/ iz.k ;s dj fy;k&dj fy;kAA
tkxus dk oDr vk x;k------
,s ohj /jk ds tkx tjkAfprdkj dgk¡ ls vkrh gSAAbl ns'k dh vku is feVus dks]Hkkjr ek¡ rq>s cqykrh gSAAHkkjr dh /jrh LoxZ Hkwfe gS]ver bldk ikuh gSAcPpk&cPpk gS Hkxr flag]cgusa >k¡lh okyh jkuh gSaaAfiQj vkt fons'kh ywV jgs];g ns[k //drh Nkrh gSAA,s ohj /jk ds tkx tjk------vkt xqykeh dh csM+h esa]ns'k tdM+rk tkrk gSAvc rd ftls ltks;k Fkk]oks fur&fur yqVrk tkrk gSAfiQj uk'k djsa ml nq'eu dk];g lkap gesa g"kkZrh gSAA,s ohj /jk ds tkx tjk------bl ns'k esa uk daxkyh gksxh]uk gh gksxh csdkjhAns'k dk iSlk jgs ns'k esa]ywVaas u vR;kpkjhAvc ^^Hkkjr LokfHkeku** tkxk]vkokt xxu ls vkrh gSAA,s ohj /jk ds tkx tjk------
ns'k ds fy, th;sa lekt ds fy, th;saA;s /M+dusa] ;s 'okl gksa]ekr`Hkwfe ds fy,AAxoZ ls lHkh dgsa] ,d gSa ge ,d gSaAtkfr iaFk fHkUurk esa Lusg lw=k ,d gSaAAlw[kZ jax dh NVk lIrjax gS fy,A;s /M+dusa] ;s 'okl gksa]ekr`Hkwfe ds fy,Ans'k ds fy, th;as lekt ds fy;s th;saAAdksfV&dksfV daB ls jk"Vª/eZ xtZukAfuR; fl¼ 'kfDr ls ekr`Hkwfe dh vpZukAA;ksx 'kfDr dy;qxs lq/k gS /eZ ds fy,A;s /M+dusa] ;s 'okl gksa]ekr`Hkwfe ds fy,AAns'k ds fy, th;sa lekt ds fy;s th;asAAO;fDr&O;fDr esa txs jk"Vª HkfDr&HkkoukAO;fDr dks lekt ls tksM+us dh lk/ukAAnk¡o ij lHkh yxs tUe Hkwfe ds fy,A;s /M+duas] ;s 'okl gkas]ekr`Hkwfe ds fy;sAns'k ds fy, th;sa lekt ds fy, ft;saAA,d fnO; T;ksfr ls vla[; nhi ty jgsAdkSu ykS cq>k lds] vk¡f/;ksa esa tks tysAArst iq¡t ge c<a+s leLr frfej phjrs gq,Ans'k ds fy, th;as lekt ds fy, th;saA;s /M+duas] ;s 'okl gksa]ekr`Hkwfe ds fy,AA
le; dh ekj lg ysukAugha #duk esjs lkFkhALons'kh jkx gh xkukAugha >qduk esjs lkFkhAA;s dkys lkai iSjksa ls]fyiVrs gSa fyiVus nksA;s dkys n`'; vk¡[kksa esa]fleVrs gSa fleVus nksAtgu esa vkx dh yiVsa]mBk ysuk esjs lkFkhAALons'kh jkx gh xkuk]ugha >qduk esjs lkFkhAHk¡oj esa gS Hkys d'rh]fNM+h gS tax jkrksa lsAgesa rks ck¡/uk gS
THE TIME HAS COME TO WAKE UP
(The time has come to wake up; This blood is for
the nation, dignity is for the nation; this life is for the
nation. Today thundering storm has arisen in these
hearts, which has awakened everyone with its roar.
Listen to the challenge of death, life has never
stopped. Life has never bowed down to the power of
time. The youth that have become martyrs for the na-
tion, have made death bow down, bow down.
The mountains in the horizon are looking at us; lis-
ten to the valleys there, they are calling out to us. We
will save every inch of our land, this is our vow.)
O’ BRAVEHEART OF THE LAND,
WAKE UP!O brave soul of the land, wakeup; where is the call comingfrom? Mother India is callingyou to lay your life for her dig-nity. The land of India is para-dise, its water is nectar; eachchild is Bhagat singh, sisters areJhansi ki rani.Again foreigners are robbingus, see how the hearts are beat-ing. Today the country is get-ting tangled in the nets of sla-very; That which we have deco-rated is being robbed con-stantly; let us again destroy thatenemy. There will be no povertyin this nation, nor will there beunemployment; let the money ofthe nation remain here, let notthe torturers take it away. NowIndia’s self-respect has awak-ened, the voice is coming fromthe skies, O brave soul of theland, wake up…
LET OUR HEARTBEATS, OUR BREATH
BE FOR THE MOTHERLAND
(Live for the nation,live for the society; letthese heartbeats andour breath be for thenation.
Everyone says withpride, we are one;castes and creeds aredifferent but love is thesame; From billions ofthroats, national dutiessound; with yourstrength daily worshipmotherland; Yoga isthe religion of this darkage.
In each person, na-tional devotion beawakened; and join theindividual with the so-ciety.
Countless lampsare lit with a divinelamp; Who can blow itout, which burns evenin storms? With bright-ness, we move aheadtearing apart darkness.Live for the nation, livefor the society; letthese heartbeats andour breath be for thenation.)
(Bear the blow of time, do not stop my friend; sing onlyindigenous tunes, do not bow down, my friend. This blacksnake has encircled the feet, let it be there; these dark gazespenetrate your eyes, let it penetrate. Pick up bales of fire onthis land, my friend.
Even if your boat is in the whirlpool, battles have beganin the night. We have to stop the force of the flood withthese very hands.
This difficulties are for only four days, we have to singthe song of victory; What if we still have to raise mountainswith our hands now. Burn with torches, do not stop, myfriend; sing only indigenous tunes, do not bow down, myfriend.)
Tokj dk Toj bUgha gkFkksa lsAtgk¡ ij l[r gks feêðh]ogha mxuk esjs lkFkhAALons'kh jkx gh xkuk]ugha >qduk esjs lkFkhA;s eqf'dy pkj fnu dh gs]fot; ds xhr xkus gSaAHkys viuh gFksyh ij]vHkh ioZr mBkus gSaAtys jguk e'kkyksa ls]ugha #duk esjs lkFkhAALons'kh jkx gh xkuk]ugha >qduk esjs lkFkhAle; dh ekj lg ysukAugha #duk esjs lkFkhAA
BEAR THE BLOW OF TIME!
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Rose sherbet, Badam sherbet
(Patanjali), Milk Lassi, but-
termilk, juice, lemonade, co-
conut water, shake, thandai,
jal jeera. Rooh Afza, Rasna,
Frooti, Godrej Jumpin, etc.
Tea – Divya Pey (Patanjali),
Tata, Brahmaputra, Assam,
Girnar. Coffee – Indian
coffee, MR.
Honey, dal water, boiled rice,
fruit juice. Amul, Indana,
Sagar, Tapan, Milk Care, etc.
Home-made ice cream, Kulfi,
amul, Vadilal’s, milk food,
etc.
Akur Salt, Sandhya Namak
(Patanjali), Low sodium and
iron – 45 Ankur, Tata, surya,
Taza, Tara
Bikano savouries, Haldiram,
Home-made chips, Bikaji,
etc.
Fruti jam, apple jam, mixed
jan (Patanjali), Home-made
sauce. Indana, Priya, Rasna,
etc.
Jaggery and peanuts, almondsare more healthy. Amlacandy, Bel candy, Biscuit,candy (Patanjali). Brittania,Parle, Bakeman’s, Creamica,Sagrila, Indana, Amul,Ravalgaon, etc.
Home-boiled water, Yes,
Ganga, Himalaya, Catch,
Rail-neer, Bisleri, etc.
Badam Pak, Chawanprash,
amrit Rasayan (Patanjali),
Nutramul, Maltova
Param ghee, Amul ghee,
Deshi cow ghee, mustard oil
(Patanjali)
Coca Cola (Coke, Fanta,
Sprite, Thums Up, Gold
Spot, Limca), Pepsi
(Lehar, 7Up, Mirinda,
Slice), Teem, Citra,
Crush, McDowell
Lipton (tiger, Green La-bel, Yellow Label,Cheers), Brooke Bond(Red Label, Taj Mahal),Geoffrey Phillips,Polson, Goodricke, Sun-rise. Coffee – Nestle,
Nescafe, Richbru
Nestle (Lactogen,
Cerelac, Nestum, LPF,
Milkmaid, Nespray,
Everyday), Glaxo
(Farex), etc.
In most icecreams, there
is a layer of animal en-
trails. Walls, Kwality,
Dollops, Cadbury, etc.
Annapurna, Captain
Cook (Hindustan Lever),
Kissan (BrookeBond),
Pilsbury, etc.
Uncle, Pepsi (Raffles,
Laher, Kurkure), Fun
munch, etc.
Nestle, Brooke Bond
(Kissan), Brown and
Polson, etc.
Most chocolates have
arsenic salt poison.
Cadbury (Bournvita, 5
Star), Lipton, Horlicks,
Nutrene, Eclairs, etc.
Aquafina, Kinley, Bailey,
Pure Life, Evian, Perrier,
etc.
Boost, Polson, Bournvita,
Horlicks, Complan, Spurt,
Protinex
Nestle ghee, all brands
of ITC or Hindustan
Lever
Cold
Drinks
Tea and
coffee
Infant
food and
m i l k
powder
Ice cream
Salt
Potato
chips and
savouries
Tomato
Sauce,
Fruit jam
Biscuit,
Chocolate
Water
Tonic
Clarified
butter and
edible oil
Product Foreign Indigenous
Note: 1. Please inform us of any new products that you come across apart from the one listed above so that necessary correction can be madein the next edition.2. Wherever you stay, a number of daily use essential items are made in nearby villages and small-scale industries. You use those products ona priority and make the village self-dependent.
List of indigenous products for daily useBoycott foreign products
Adopt indigenous goods.
Toothpaste/
tooth
powder
Toothbrush
Bath Soap
Shampoo
Clothes
and utensil
washing
soaps,
powders
and indigo
Shaving
Cream
Shaving
Blade
Cream,
powder and
cosmetics
Readymade
garments
Watches
Pens and
pencils
Most toothpastes are madefrom bone powder. Colgate,Hindustan Lever (Close Up,Pepsodent, Cibaka), Aquafresh,Amway, (Forhans), Oral B,
Quantam, etc.
Colgate, Close Up,
Pepsodent, Aquafresh,
Cibaka, etc.
Hindustan Lever (Lux,
Liril, Lifebouy, Denim,
Camay, Dove, Revlon,
Pears, Rexona, Breeze,
Hamam, OK), Ponds,
Dettol, Clearsil, Palmolive,
Amway, Johnson Baby, etc.
Colgate Palmolive (Halo,
Palmolive), Hindustan
Lever (Lux, Clinic, Sun Silk,
Revlon, Lakme), Procter
and Gamble (Pantene, Medi-
care), Ponds, Old Spice,
Shower to Shower, Head and
Shoulders, Johnson Baby, etc.
Hindustan Lever (Surf, Rin,
Sunlight, Wheel, OK,
Vim), Ariel, Check, Henko,
Revel, Amway, Quantam,
For woolen clothes –
Woolwash, Easy. Indigo –
Robin Blue, Tinapol, Sky-
lark, etc.
Old Spice, Palmolive,
Ponds, gilette, Erasmik,
Denim, Yardley, etc.
Gilette (7’o Clock),
Erasmik), Wilman, etc.
Hindustan Lever (Fair and
Lovely, Lakme, Liril,
Denim, Revlon), Procter
and Gamble (Oil of Olay,
Clearsil, Cleartone),
Charmis, Ponds, Old Spice,
Dettol, Nycil, Charlie,
Johnson Baby, etc.
Wrangler, Nike, Duke,
Adidas, Newport, Puma, etc.
Rado, Rolex, Swissco, Sico,
etc.
Parker, Nicholson,
Rotomac, Swissair, Adgel,
Rider, Mitsubishi, Player,
Unibal, Pilot, Rollgold, etc.
Danth Kanti, Dant Manjn(Patanjali), Powder – MDH,Vicco Vajradanti, Baidyanath,Gurukul Pharmacy, Chais,Neem, Anchor, Miswak,Babul, Promise, etc.
Promise, Ajay, Ajanta,
Monet, Royal, Classic, Dr.
Stock, etc.
Kayakanti Aloevera (Patanjali),
Nirma, Medimix, Neem, Nima,
Jasmine, Mysore Sandal, Kutir,
Sahara, Himani Glycerine,
Godrej (Cinthol, Fairglow,
Shikakai, Ganga), wipro,
Santoor, etc.
KeshKanti (Patanjali),
Wipro, Park Avenue,
Swatik, Ayur Herbal, Kesh
Nikhar, Hair and Care,
Nycil, Arnica, Velvette,
Dabur, Vatika, Bajaj, Nyle,
Lavender, Godrej, etc.
Tata Sudh, Nima, Modi
Care, Sahara, Swastik,
Vimal, Hipolene, Fena,
Sasha, T-series, Dr. Date,
Gadhi. For woolen clothese
– Gentil. Indigo – Ujala,
Ranipal, Nirma, chamko,
Dip, etc.
Park Avenue, Premium, Vi-
sion, Emami, Balsara,
Godrej, Nivea, etc.
Topaz, Gallant, Supermax,
Lazer, Esquire, Premium, etc.
Kayakanti Aloevera, Kayakanti
Neem, Kantilep (Pantanjali),
Borosil, Ayur, Emami, Vicco,
Boroplus, Borolin, Himani Gold,
Nyle, Lavender, Hair and Care,
Nivea, Heaven’s, Cinthol Glory,
Velvete (baby), etc.
Cambridge, Park Avenue,Oxemberg, Bombay Dyeing,
Ruff and Tuff, Trigger Jeans, etc.Titan, HMT, Maxima,
Prestige, Ajanta
Camel, Kingson, sharp,Cello, Wilson, Today,Natraj, Ambassador, Link,Montex, Stic, Sangeeta,
Luxor, Apsara, etc.
Product Foreign Indigenous
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Correspondence headquarters: Patanjali Yogpeeth, Maharshi Dayanand Gram, Bahadrabad, Haridwar - 249 402 Telephone: 01334-244107, 240008, 246737 FAX: 01334-244805, 240664
OathI have studied the seven principles, seven ideals, five resolutions, five vows and the concise aims, philosophy and principles highlighted in Jeevan
Darshan. I agree with them and I take the oath that I will completely follow the purpose and rules of Bharat Swabhimaan (Trust)
(Signature of applicant)
Special: To be noted1. Apart from being healthy, dedicated, financially stable and educated, the applicant must follow the seven principles, seven ideals and five vows. 2. Youcan submit this form to the district office of the local Patanjali Yog Samiti or Patanjali Yogpeeth, Haridwar headquarters. 4. To become a special member,the two-yearly registration fee has been fixed at Rs 1100/- The draft should be made in the name of “Bharat Swabhimaan (Trust)” payable at Haridwar.Please write your name, address and phone number behind the draft. 5. The registration fee for becoming a working member is only Rs 51/-, the receiptof which can be got from the office or office bearers of the District-level Yog Samiti.
Concise list of rules for the members of Bharat Swabhimaan (Trust)The aim of Bharat Swabhimaan is to bring the knowledge of self-qualities through Yoga, to make their body, mind and thought healthy, and
to build national character by purifying personal character – Our determined resolution is to build an India that is healthy, clean, prosperous, self-dependent,and free from corruption, unemployment and poverty
Services provided to Special Members of Bharat Swabhimaan (Trust)1. Free 7-day residential training will be provided under the direction of Param Pujya Swami Ramdevji Maharaj on national responsibilities throughYoga. Special members will be given priority over working members and ordinary members. 2. All members of Bharat Swabhimaan (Trust) will be givenfree daily or weekly Yoga training by yoga teachers trained at Patanjali Yogpeeth. 3. Under the scheme of ‘One family-One gift’, each family joined withBharat Swabhimaan will get an annual gift in the form yog Prasad. 4. By joining with Bharat Swabhimaan, you will get the opportunity to participateto a large extent in all activities of an international organization, Patanjali Yogpeeth. 5. Special members will be given preference while nominatingcandidates by Bharat Swabhimaan for its associated organizations.Services given to working members of Bharat Swabhimaan (Trust)1. Free 7-day residential training on national responsibilities through yoga will be given under the direction of Param Pujya Swami Ramdevji Maharajin Haridwar. For this, working members will be given priority over ordinary members. 2. All members of the Bharat Swabhimaan family will be givendaily or weekly yoga training by yoga teachers trained by Patanjali Yogpeeth. 3. By joining with Bharat Swabhimaan, you get the opportunity toparticipate in a large way in all the activities of an international organization, Patanjali Yogpeeth.Compulsory rules in short for applicants:1. To become a member of the Bharat Swabhimaan (Trust), you should believe and follow the seven principles directed by Patanjali Yogpeeth, that isnationalism, valour, expertise, farsightedness, humanitarianism, spiritualism, humility and vegetarianism, and should be healthy, financially stable,without any personal agenda, dedicated, lead a non-political life and spend 1-2 hours per day for national well being Also should be able and ready tocontribute financially to national wellbeing according to your capacity. 2. Our special members and working members should practise yoga for 1 houreveryday for their self-confidence. However, it is compulsory to attend the weekly yoga classes and monthly meetings. 3. Each special and working memberof Bharat Swabhimaan will observe all five vows including 100% voting, and will observe the concise aims, philosophy and principles, and will alsomotivate others to follow these vows for national wellbeing. 4. Registration fee for special members: To become special members, a bi-annual registrationfee of Rs 1100/- has been decided. Draft should be in the name of “Bharat Swabhimaan (Trust)” payable at Haridwar. The name, address and phonenumber should be written behind the draft. 5. To become working members, the registration fee is only Rs 51/-, the receipt of which can be collected fromthe office or office-bearers of the district-level office of Patanjali Yog Samiti. The discount for teachers will only be available for two years, i.e. tillDecember 2010.
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