Jivan Darshan - By Swami Ramdev

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Year : 6

Issue : 7

March 2009

Editor Acharya Balkrishan Sub-Editor Dr. Rajendra Vidyalankar Jayshankar Mishra

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Editorial

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Foreword

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Jeevan Darshan

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National Religion

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‘Bharat Swabhiman’ Aim Philosophy And Principles

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The Religion Of Yoga

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Cultural Understanding

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Personal And National Thoughts

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Daily Eulogy

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;L;ka iwosZ HkwrÑr ½"k;ks xk mnku`pq%A lIr l=ks.k os/lks ;Ksu rilk lgAA The tradition of sages has continued in our motherland. Our forefathers had been great sages, great ascetics and scholars. Our ancestors lived a simple and restrained life enhanced with penance. They lead a life of sacrifice and welfare, developing good people. With penance 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 tradition 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 sorrow and pain, by joining yoga with spirituality and medical 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 spreading awareness on yoga and nationalism to serve the motherland and sorrow-inflicted mankind. It is the etiquette of the yoga teachers to live a life with the feeling of friendship towards all, kindness towards the poor and sick, respect towards all religions and communities, and to inspire fellow countrymen to lead a life of purity. I am an Indian; humanity is my community; my religion is humanity and my responsibility towards the nation. It is to develop this feeling and develop national character 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-respect, 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 entire life for the good of the nation.’ Filled with this feeling, 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. Protecting 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 support. 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 distributing ‘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 representative 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 superpower 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 the entire nation. I am not narrow or small; I am vast. I am the image of the Lord. I am the representative of truth, non-violence and good conduct. In my body, my nation resides. I am the fate and the reflection of India. I am the one who decides the fate of myself 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 images of the Lord. Everything I do is a worship of the Lord. Everything that I have is a gift from the Lord. I am a child of God. He, the ruler of the world, the creator of the universe, is my Father. The blessings of the most superior and divine power are always with me. 3. I am extremely fortunate to have taken birth on the soil of this holy and pure country, which has also been the birthplace of divine personalities such as Shri Krishna, Buddha, Mahavir, Guru Nanakdev and Guru Govind Singh, brave heroes such as Maharana Pratap, Chattrapati Shivaji, Chandrashekhar Azad, Subhash Chandra Bose, Ram Prasad Bismil, Bhagat Singh, Raj Guru and Ashfaq, and holy souls such as Maharshi Dayanand and Swami Vivekanand. I pray to Mother India while offering the flower of my life. 4. As my inheritance, my Lord has given me the patience 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, my teacher, or my ancestors. This is not my glory because I did not contribute anything. My parents gave birth to me, my teachers gave me knowledge. My ancestors are my pride. With my knowledge, work and life, I will create my identity, and in doing so I will increase the honour of my parents, my teachers and my country. 6. I am not a believer in fate, material enjoyment or terrorism. I am a believer in humanity, patriotism,

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humanitarian values, and spirituality. Free from the boundaries of region, language, religion, and behavioural debates, I am the war-call for nationalism. I am not merely an individual but the manifestation of the gentility and culture of the entire nation. Hence, the entire country is affected by everything I do, good or bad. Till the time blood flows through my veins and life exists in my body, I will not betray my country. This is my ‘Bhisma pratigya’ (unshaken vow). The purity and fearlessness of childhood, the vigour of youth, the good sense of old age, and the dedication of ascetics the ideals of my life. Children and saints are not tied by the threads of illusion. Work is my only religion. Work is my worship. Work is the truth of life and the world. Working without any desire does not indicate lack of work, it indicates the lack of arrogance. Valour, nationalism, expertise, farsightedness, spirituality, humanitarianism, and humility are the ideals of my working style. Nation-religion is the biggest religion; Nation-god is the greatest God; and love for the nation is the highest form of love. The good of the nation is above everything else. The nation is everything for me. bna jk"Vªk; bnUu eeA . My body-mind-wealth will all remain dedicated to the nation. The seven principles of nationalism, the seven duties of spirituality and idealism are the ideals of my personal national life. When I am alone, it is not loneliness; in the silence I am permeated by many currents of divine knowledge and divine inspiration and I find an eternal lamp always shining on me. When my internal awakening took place, I found myself in the shade of the Sangbodi tree, my thirst quenched. At birth itself, man experiences pain and suffering. Hence, throughout life there will be thorns to walk upon. Amongst these thorns, you will have to blossom the flowers of your life like tender rose petals. God wants to choose you for great work. You have to just open up and let the vastness enter you completely. When through meditation and prayer you become the messenger of the Lord’s powers, then the divine powers are at work with you as the medium.

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16. When you long greedily for fame in the external world, it means you have not yet attained inner wealth or peace. The day you gain the inner kingdom or happiness, you will Yourself proclaim, ¶izkIra

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(Maharshi Vyas-yogsutra 1.16) 17. Take care not to repeat mistakes. Repetition of mistakes leads to hindrance in progress and your inner strength decreases. 18. Knowledge does not simply mean knowing; it means becoming that knowledge.¶l ,oa Hkofr ;

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25. You should never forget your past. The knowledge of the past saves us from mistakes and in the person who reaches the top, the remembrance of the past prevents arrogance. It is only because of forgetting the past that people forget their parents. If the memories of childhood and the mother’s womb are remembered, then you will never disregard your parents. Even after touching the sky, remembering the past keeps a person’s feet on the ground. 26. It is God himself who give birth to us in the form of our parents. In this way, experiencing the divine relationship in every relationship is yoga.

INSULT TO WOMAN IS INSULT TO MOTHER

19. Be determined but not obstinate. Be brave but not impulsive. Be kind but not weak. Be silent but not arrogant. Be clever but not cunning. Be patient but not irresponsible. Show respect but do not be a coward. 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 something that is done just once; it loses it’s meaning it repeated again and again. 21. My head has the intellect of a Brahmin, my arms have the valour, strength and the heroic energy of a Kshatriya, my belly has the business and management skills of a Vaishya, and in my feet I have the ability to serve like a Sudra. This is my caste vow. 22. I am Agni; I am knowledge, light, speed, the chief and the commander. ¶vfXujfLe tUeuk tkrosn%¸ (Rig Veda 3.26.7). The fire of resolution is always burning within me. The path of my life is always lighted.

PARENTS – GODS ON EARTH 23. Always keep happiness and a smile on your face. Give respect to others; you will get respect. Give happiness to others; you will get happiness. Serve your parents; in old age your children will serve you. 24. A mother keeps her child for nine months in the womb with love, kindness, affection and maternal feelings. After this, she keeps her child on her lap for nine months, and till she dies, a mother keeps her child in her heart. The four worlds can be found at your parents’ feet. Parents are the God of this world. Children are the only desire of parents. Never insult such parents. Do not leave them in old age homes otherwise in the next life God will give an animal’s birth to you where your father will often not be known and mother will leave you in childhood. Howsoever you sow, so shall you reap. Hence, awaken! Once again adopt the culture of ¶ekr`nsoks

Hko] fir`nsoks Hko] vkpk;Znsoks Hko] vfrfFknsoks Hko¸

. My mother is my god, my father is my god, my teacher is my god, and my guest is my god.

The real beauty of a woman is not her body but her character. Woman is not a commodity to be sold in the market. She is Sita, Savitri, Jagadamba, Durga, Taravati, Gargi, Madalasha, Mahalaksmi, Meera and Laksmibai. Woman is the affection of a mother, regard of a wife and love of a daughter. Do not make women a saleable commodity and do not joke about the character of a woman. This is an insult to mother. The way electronic media keeps placing a question mark over the character of the aware mothers, sisters and daughters of the nation, it should be opposed with full strength. These carnivores of the market with rotten minds should be made to understand that the women of India are not characterless – 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 selfstudy, 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 helpless, 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 completely 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. However, 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 we deserve, more than our abilities and our labour. 31. pjSosfr&pjSosfr] pju~ oS eèkq foUnfr. If there is a rest during work then this rest is a sin. Do not let obstacles stop you, do not let trouble and temptation over power you, do not let insults divert you. Keep marching forward till you reach your goal. 32. The sound of a single deed is louder than a thousand words – it is very powerful. Let us believe in the culture of showing by example and not merely in making speeches. 33. It is only our thoughts and culture that can be wealthy or great. Similarly, it is only our thoughts and culture that can be poor, destitute or infamous. 34. A person lost in a crowd can be found but a person who is lost in the crowd of thoughts will spend his entire life in darkness. A person trapped in the web of thoughts will end his life in the same way as a spider ends its life by tying itself in his web it spuns. 35. Old age is not how many years you have lived; it is the outcome of your thoughts. If there is energy, power, valour, courage and self-respect then even with increasing age, a person will remain young. A country will only become great with the knowledge of the elderly and the courage, valour and self-respect of the youth. A very big difference between the elderly and the young is – the young are not fearful of the outcome while the elderly remain constantly fearful of personal outcomes, and hence, cannot take decisions quickly. 36. If the flow of my opinions is not able to change the corrupt people, corrupt governments and corrupt systems, then I will be helpless and will be forced to protect my motherland from injustice, poverty, hunger, lack of education, social irregularities, hatred, crime, misconduct, ill intentions, anger and revenge, and will have to undertake a wide-spread revolution 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 evidence, sacrifice, might, valour, courage and selfrespect. 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 nothing 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 outcome 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 effective words. 52. Purity of thought is the solution to all our problems. Pure thought is the foundation of a healthy, prosperous and strong nation. 53. I am confident that the same pure thoughts that made me rise high, that increased my self-confidence and took me ahead on my mission will also awaken every individual of the nation, will awaken the selfrespect of the nation and when everyone performs his own duties with entire strength, then certainly my country will become great and it will lead the world. 54. My biggest strength is my thoughts. My pure thoughts have protected me from sin; my thoughts gave me the courage to fight against obstacles and adversities. It is because of my thoughts that I have been able to turn my defeat into my victory, and it only because of them that I have come out all the more powerful after going through the worst of the worst disasters. 55. When impure thoughts of jealousy, antipathy, anger and revenge can make a person hateful and criminal, then why can’t pure thoughts make a person patriotic, spiritual, humanitarian and progressive? 56. When with impure thought a person can be made characterless, when a person can sell his or her body, religion and humanity, why can’t pure thought create a person of character? 57. If the seeds of hatred and dislike can be sown within a person with the help of bad thoughts, why can’t the flowers of love, kindness and affection bloom with the help of pure thoughts? 58. When impure thought can be used to instigate a person into crime and lawlessness to break down a society, why can’t pure thought be used to awaken the 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 our mind, wisdom, intellect and all other feelings. Just as a person becomes malnourished with the use of adulterated or imbalanced food, in the same way, people become susceptible to illusions with polluted, impure and imbalanced thoughts; and it is this illusion of thoughts that is the root cause of corruption, hatred, crime and restlessness. Our sorrow and happiness do not depend on others but rather on our own thought. Impure thoughts are the root cause of all problems such as hatred, tension, crime, murder and suicide. Impure thoughts are the reason for all kinds of deterioration such as wickedness, obstinacy and arrogance. Poverty of thought is the cause for sorrow, deficiency and retrogression in the nation. Resolute and firm thought is the backbone of happiness, prosperity and progress. It is important to take care of historical inheritances. However, the rope that Mahatma Gandhi used to tie his goat with is exhibited in museums but the rope that was used to hang immortal martyrs such as Bhagat Singh, Rajguru, Sukhdev, Ashfaq Ullah Khan, and Ramprasad Bismil is not seen in any museum, it is the misfortune of the nation. Because by remembering the sacrifice of the martyrs the self-respect of the people will awaken, and corrupt, cunning and criminal people won’t be able to rob the nation any longer.

LIFE 65. Each morning of life is a new birth for me and each day is like one life for me. I will do today all those things for which God has sent me to this world. 66. My life as well as my death – both should be honourable.dhfrZ;ZL; l thofr. Live life not with timidity and weakness but with self-respect and selfknowledge. God has created you for great work. 67. Life is a celebration. Life is God’s greatest gift. This body is the house of God, the residence of Shiva. This body is the temple of God. This body is not to be fought against. The soul is immortal, everyoung, constant, indestructible, light, energetic, peaceful and contented. 68. As long as there is life, a person should not become lifeless. Keep moving towards your goal with determination showing friendship to the happy, kindness to the sad, love to the good and contempt to the wicked. You will definitely get success one day and will always remain happy in life.

DO NOT GIVE UP THE EFFORT 69. Often, the more developed a civilization is; the more developed a civilization, person, society and nation is, the lazier that civilization, person, society or

nation becomes, and this becomes the cause of its ruin. Hence, along with exaltation, the effort should not slow down.

SERVICE 70. Without service, the intellect is not purified and without purification of the intellect, the divine Lord cannot be experienced. Hence, you should always be on the lookout for opportunities for service.

SOCIAL WELFARE 71. Man remains more alert to others than about oneself; if we have the same alertness towards ourselves and become aware of our mind, thoughts, feelings, behaviour and work then it will lead to our welfare. Hence, before trying to improve the world, improve yourself. First, become a good person then you will automatically improve the world. Just as shadow is the outcome of the tree; only if the tree is there, we will get the shadow. Bring about your welfare, and the welfare of the world will happen on its own. 72. How will one who hasn’t quenched his own thirst quench the thirst of others? How can a sleeping person awaken others? How can a hungry individual satisfy the hunger of others? Hence, before the welfare 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 personality, not the person. Let us not live life by merely worshipping stone idols. Let us become worshippers of consciousness and awaken the flood of yoga and patriotism in stone hearts.

WORK 74. Work is religion. Work is worship. Rest is a sin and rest only occurs at the end of work. Your own work is your own religion. Total dedication towards your own 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 the people of our country be made upright and honest in order to protect the magnificence of our nation? A handful of people are ready to sell the country for a handful of money, betray the nation. But there are thousands and millions of people who would die for their nation rather than sell themselves. We have to 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 united with the country, the feeling arises that this country is mine and what I am today is solely because of the country. It is then that a person will become ready to sacrifice his everything for the nation. The life that is within me is because of the trees that grow on the soil of this nation. This country has given birth to me and the food and water of this nation’s land has kept me alive. The nation has given me wealth, power, property and respect. The tears of the mothers, sisters, daughters, children and human of this nation are my sorrow, and the wellbeing of the nation is my happiness. Even if one person in the country is helpless, destitute, poor, hungry or sick, then this pain of Mother India is my sorrow, my pain. It is my duty or obligation, it is my national responsibility, it is my service ethics to make sure that not even one individual of my nation dies of 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 my work-culture. 79. Always set your frequency to positive mode because there is a constant flow of energy waves, both positive and negative, from the universe. We have to accept only the positive vibrations from the universe. 80. Instead of thinking “What can I do by myself?”, think “What can I not do by myself!” Nothing is impossible in this world, everything is possible. 81. When corrupt, treacherous, criminal, and irresponsible people can together rob the nation, why can’t patriotic, honest, responsible and awakened individuals 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 doubts untruth or hatred. Always be positive! Always be open to new ideas! Feel the connection with God every moment! The Lord always gives us more than what we can do, what we deserve and what we do.

BE SENSITIVE 83. Emotion diminishes a person’s intellect and sensitivity enriches humanity. Hence, be sensitive, not

emotional. Sensitivity makes us aware of our responsibility and keeps us involved in self-duties and national duties.

SELF-QUALITIES 84. Just as cold, heat, hunger and thirst are the qualities of the body, honour-insult, happiness-sorrow and profit-loss are the qualities of the mind. Similarly, love, kindness, affection, respect, devotion, surrender, peace and joy are the qualities of the soul. The qualities of the soul are your self-qualities. Worshipping the Lord by doing your own work, while keeping your self-qualities intact, will take you to Samadhi and fulfillment. LodeZ.kk reH;P;Z flf¼a foUnfr ekuo% (Gita 18.46).

LOVE 85. Love is not desire, it is worship. Excess of desire kills love. Love is the highest degree of surrender and belief. Love is the cooling shadow of purity, affection and maternal feelings and an honour to effort, courage, valour and self-respect. True love is the one that parents have towards their children, a teacher has towards his student and a patriot has towards his nation. Others are just attraction, illusion and false quenching of the body’s thirst.

GURU 86. Saints, guru and acharyas advise us while they are living at a very high state of the intellect or are ascended on divine knowledge in a state that is free from life. If we too connect ourselves with that state of life consciousness then we will also say what the saints are saying and our lives too will become completely transformed like the saints’. 87. Guru is one who awakens, connects you with the eternal, tells you the direction, gives you what you have lost, teaches you to call, introduces you to your soul, shows you the way and finally, makes you like him. However, remember that guru will just show you the way; you will have to do the walking yourself. 88. Someone asked a Sufi saint for his introduction – What do you eat? What do you wear? Where do you stay? The saint replied – I eat death, I wear shrouds, and I stay in the grave.

FIND YOUR GURU 89. You truly see your guru when you become one with the mind, wisdom, speech, behaviour and will of guru or a saint, and live your life with divine consciousness like him. This is why it is said, ¶lkèkwuka n'kZua iq.;a] rhFkZHkwrk fg lkèko%A¸ Perceiving this body of flesh and bones is not the complete vision. See the soul inside the body.

CONVERSATION WITH GURU 90. Obtaining intelligence directly or indirectly through study of books of the guru is a direct conversation

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with the guru. Each divine sound of the words in the scriptures or written by the guru will ech in you and you will feel that his life is speaking to you through the scriptures or his words. Such self-study transforms our life and makes us images of our guru.

RELIGION 91. Omnipresent and scientific truth is omnipresent religion. That which does not measure up to the standards of omnipresent and scientific truths is not religion; it is illusion. I am religious, not blinded by religion. I will not make religion a business nor will I make work dirty. 92. Religion is another name for superior conduct. Religion is not merely symbolic, it affects your conduct. The principal root of religious symbols such as the Sikha (top-knot) and Sutra (thread) is also conduct. Symbolic religion without observing the established rule of conduct is nothing but illusion and irreligion. Hence, become religious, not blinded by religion. 93. I do not believe in conversion of religion. Religion is nothing but good qualities which includes non-violence, truth, affection, service, control, and good behaviour. All these qualities are present in all religions. Hence, there is no such thing as conversion in religion. Religion is nothing but premium ideals of a worthy life. 94. I do not think it is necessary to try and convert people by establishing schools and hospitals because even I have changed the lives of crores of people from various classes and religions. I have given them health, have given life to people who were very near death but I haven’t changed the religion of even a single person.

F OOD 95. Just as poisonous food causes frightening harm to our body, similarly harmful thoughts too cause frightening tension, sorrow, restlessness and incurable diseases after entering our mind. Hence, if you want to attain a superior personality, then be alert towards your food and thoughts at every moment. The amount of cruelty a person does on his body is probably not done by him on anyone else. 96. This body is the house of God, the residence of Shiva. This body is the temple of God. Do not make it a bar by drinking alcohol, a hospital by the intake of tobacco, etc. or a graveyard or cremation ground by eating meat, etc. Be conscientious about rituals, frugality and wellbeing. Have pure, balanced and complete 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 who gave us the right to kill them? And we kill any animal 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 them because they do not have any weapons for their security or because in this new era of the democratic drama, they do not have the voting rights. Only if they could also speak like us! Maybe then they could have made us realize their pain and sorrow. But what to do, these animals do not know how to speak in human language and we celebrate our joy by cruelly killing these mute animals who do not desire anything and have not committed any sin, and feel glorified in carnivorously tearing apart flesh and eating it like dogs and wolves. There can be no greater sin or crime than this. If you can lead a vegetarian life without killing innocent animals, then why are you continuing to kill them? Man is vegetarian by nature. The organization of the human body is that of a vegetarian being – this is a scientific truth.

ABILITY 98. You have, within yourself, unlimited capability, ability and energy to make the impossible possible. You too can obtain the glory of standing with the front line people of the world. You can write a new history of your power, courage and valour on the forehead of time.

TIME AND LIFE MANAGEMENT 99. Time is wealth. He who does not honour time or walk 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 of the family, you should dedicate the remaining 14 hours to hard work. This is the best time-management in life. This is life management or life philosophy.

BEHAVIOUR – SEE EVERYTHING EQUALLY 101. Always keep your feelings and vision at equilibrium. 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 everyone, everyone is in me. This world is nothing but an expansion of my ‘I’ – this is a feeling of equilibrium. 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 punishes 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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NATIONAL INTEREST IS ABOVEALL 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.

1. There is no greater religion than duty towards the nation. There is no God greater than the nation. National interest is above everything. I will not betray the nation for 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! Take a resolution of 100% voting and stop corrupt and dishonest people from reaching the pinnacle of administration. 3. The political leaders of the nation have shown false dreams of progress and the religious leaders have given false consolations, thus exploiting the Indian people since ages. Now the time has come to move away from dreams, consolations and imaginations and see the present reality of the nation and religion. We have to adopt a healthy and ideal political religion along with transparency, scientific, religious and spiritual thought and should come forward to stop the erosion of our aspirations.

INDEPENDENCE 4. Independence without any direction makes a person, society and nation unrestrained and thoughtless bondage makes a person frustrated. Hence, the eyes of the 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 farsightedness, then the nation will never be secure. Today, unfortunately, cowardliness and weakness have replaced valour, hypocrisy has replaced transparency, and momentary selfish gain and motive has replaced farsightedness. We have to change this misfortune into good fortune. Similarly, if a person, family, society or organization 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 for communication, business, contact and culture. However, using the language of another country as our national language is a tremendous insult and something to be ashamed of. No civilized country in the world imparts education to its citizens in a foreign language. We will make the national language, Hindi, and other Indian languages such as Gujarati, Tamil, Telugu, Kannada, Marathi, Punjabi, Bengali, Assamese, etc. the language of administration. We will impart science, technology and management education in Indian languages and thus give right to the children of the poor, labourers and farmers to also become doctors, IAS, IPS and scientists.

VIEWPOINT 7. The society or country in which good people are not respected and honoured, and the 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 honour while the wicked people and traitors should be rebuked in public or communal places. It is only then that good people will increase in society and corrupt people will decrease. 8. How can law-breakers be law-makers? When tainted people cannot even become ❀ YOG SANDESH-ENGLISH ❀ 12

small clerks and officers, how can they become MLAs, MPs, ministers or the prime minister? 9. Never give a final judgment on anyone. Never compare two people or great men. Never expect or wait for something. Wish never gets fulfilled. Unfulfilled desires lead to sorrow and give birth to the feelings of anger and revenge. 10. If you do not oppose injustice or crime then please understand that you are a supporter of injustice and crime. You are as big a criminal as the person who commits injustice, irreligion and crime. 11. I am not a person who will admit defeat or commit suicide because of the corrupt systems and laws of society. I am a warrior who will struggle to establish truth, justice and dignity with my last breath and gain victory. People who accept defeat are weak, cowardly and timid.

FOUR SUPERPOWERS 12. Wealth power, people power, ruling power and soul power are four superpowers. We want to increase the soul power with the help of yoga and unite people power 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 the ruling power and want to encourage good conduct, dignity and traditions. This is because unrestrained ruling power leads to wickedness in people power and 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 on the side of corrupt, dishonest and criminal people, then there is hatred, crime, fear, terrorism, injustice, exploitation and finally destruction of the nation or world. When people-power and wealth power increases in the side of good people, then service, good will, brotherhood and love will increase, nationalism, spiritualism and humanitarianism will get strength and the nation will prosper and progress. Whenever asuras got administrative control, property and power, there was destruction, and demigods always used administrative control, property and power for th good of mankind. 14. The glorious past of the nation is my pride. The nation that does not take pride in its past and that is not aware of it’s present problems, cannot create a golden future. 15. I have as much love for my motherland as I do for my mother, sister, daughter or teacher. My nation is everything for me. If my nation did not exist, I would not exist. My head is the Himalayas, my right arm is Purbanchal or the lands of the east, my left arm Paschimanchal or the lands of the west, and towards my feet is the Indian Ocean. India is in me. I am from India. I am India. I will make India the world’s superpower an India that leads the world in spiritual, social, economic and political ways I will make. This is my vow.

16. The nation’s honour is my honour and pride, and if the country’s image or the nation’s pride is blemished in any way, then it is my insult. I will awaken the nation’s self-pride and will dedicate my life to the good of the nation.

¶vkss3e~ jk"Vªk; LokgkA bna jk"Vªk; bnUu eeA¸

This life is for the nation. This is my holy vow and I will remove all traces of those who betray my nation. If people ask me why I talk about the nation, then I tell them that this country is my own country and I express the sorrow of my heart with my entire strength so that the selfrespect of the entire nation awakens. There are people who do not speak for the nation, that is, even if there is injustice and betrayal going on in the nation, they remain silent. Such people do not respect the nation and do not work for the nation. To such people, I would like to say very clearly that if you do not love this country, you have no right to live in this country. 17. Our culture, our values, ideals, social systems and traditions are not so weak that we have to take help from the philosophy of foreign thinkers such as Lenin, Marx or Mao. Our Vedic socialism and spiritualism is a balanced, all-encompassing and scientifically complete philosophy. Indian philosophy emphasizes more on others’ good rather than one’s own happiness. Hence, we do not need any imported social, religious, spiritual or political thinking. This is not arrogance but self-pride. I am not against knowledge but, at the same time, I am also not a supporter of ignorance. This is a truth accepted by all that India’s Vedic philosophy is the supreme philosophy of the world. 18. The rules, laws and democratic systems of the country are being used less to punish the bad and criminal elements and more to torture the good folks and patriots. If this is not an insult to democracy and freedom then what is it?

FROM YOGA DUTY TO NATIONAL DUTY 19. I want to asspcoate everyone with the religion of yoga in order to kindle in them the religion of the nation. I want to fill each one with the feeling of patriotism. After self-development with the help of yoga each morning, I want to fill myself with energy so as to help the nation’s development. After self-awakening with the help of yoga, I want to take ahead the holy mission of national awakening. The question arises in a number of people’s minds about the relationship between yoga and the nation’s progress. So, I want to make it clear that without self-progress, the nation’s progress is impossible. Hence, by self-development with the help of yoga each morning, we will be dedi-

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cated to the progress and prosperity of the nation the entire day. Yoga and nationalism are not two different philosophies 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, transparency, farsightedness, humanitarianism, spiritualism, and humility are the seven pillars or ideals of our personal and national lives. These seven principles are the main ideals to be followed for our self-duties, national duties and work processes. The seven principles form the benchmark for our citizens and leaders. The person who follows these seven principles is a true citizen of the nation. Only a person who lives according to these seven principles can provide leadership to the nation. It is with these seven principles that we want to bring in a new revolution and a new freedom to our personal life and national life, and make India a world leader again by establishing an ideal system in the country. We want to make India a superpower by following these seven principles. India will lead the world socially, spiritually and morally and usher in a new age of happiness, prosperity and peace in the entire world. Each nationalist-minded citizen and public-service providing leader should follow these seven principles – I. Nationalism: He, who always keeps the nation in the utmost position, is a nationalist. He, who considers the first religion among all religions to be that of the nation, and only after that comes personal religion – Hindu, Muslim, Sikh, Christian, etc., is a nationalist. He, who considers his nation to be the foremost among all gods, is a nationalist. He, who considers 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 those who love their nation. Do not love the person who does not love his nation. In worship and devotion, first comes the worship and devotion of the nation, after that comes devotion to God, devotion to mother and devotion to teacher, etc. In prayer, first comes prayer to the nation; in meditation, first comes meditation of the nation; in thoughts and thinking, first comes the thought of the nation; in work, first comes the work of the nation; in pride, he who keeps the pride of the nation foremost is a nationalist. In relations, the first relationship or connection is with the nation. Even

if the person who does not love the nation is a relation or family member, do not keep any relationship with him. In cleanliness and health too, first comes the cleanliness and health of the nation; in prosperity, first comes the prosperity of the nation; and even in progress, he who first makes an effort for the progress of the nation is a nationalist. In education, he who considers national education to be the best is a nationalist. In languages, he who keeps the language of the nation foremost in his life, conduct and behaviour, is a nationalist. He, who loves his own nation’s education, habits, culture, yoga, religion, philosophy and spirituality, is a nationalist. He, who is dedicated to building a clean, healthy, prosperous and cultural India, to building a self-dependent country, a country that is free from hunger, poverty and unemployment and has a 100 per cent compulsory vote bank, with the help of a controlled population, is a nationalist. He, who is resolute on the complete progress and research on Indian treatment methods – Yoga, Ayurveda, Yunani and Siddh, etc., is a nationalist. He, who loves the Vedic Indian knowledge, Indian food habits, Indian dress habits, India farming and Indian traditions inherited from the sages derived from Indian knowledge, that is, Veda, Philosophy and Upanishad, etc., is a nationalist. He who loves Indian sports, Indian arts and culture and India’s ancient language, Sanskrit, all Indian languages and the national language, and considers the national language to be above everything, is a nationalist. Even in entertainment, he who believes in Indian entertainment based on values, morals and traditions, is a nationalist. By nationalism, national duties and national laws, we denote all the systems, rules and laws, ideals and values and traditions, following which the nation attains happiness, prosperity and well-being, and the nation moves continuously in the direction of progress. Our ideals of nationalism and national duty are – Shri Ram, Shri Krishna, Chandragupta, Vikramaditya, Emperor Ashok, Tilak, Gokhale, Gandhiji, Netaji Subhash, Chattrapati Shivaji, Iron man Sardar Patel, and Lal Bahadur Shastri, etc. He, who does not use foreign products made with zero-technology, is a nationalist. II. Valour: He, who does not take even a moment to take a decision for the welfare of the nation, and does not fear anyone in taking or carrying out decisions for the welfare of the nation, who does not get trapped by superstition and lives his life with work, labour, bravery, courage, enthusiasm, and self-respect, has valour. When a person does not take the work related to the good of the nation lightly and does it aggressively, who takes rests only after every pure mission that he takes upon himself has reached success without being diverted by struggle, obstacles and insults or being influenced by propaganda, such a person has valour. He believes in doing today whatever has

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to be done tomorrow, he feels that if a task has to be done tomorrow why can’t it be done today, and if something hasn’t been done today, how can we think that it will be done tomorrow? He believes in the philosophy 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 one clear path of life. Work is worship. Work is the truth of life and this world. This entire creation is only an outcome of work. ¶LodeZ.kk reH;P;Z flf¼a foUnfr ekuo%¸ (xhrk 18-46), Shri Krishna says, worship God with your work. He, who considers ‘Karmanyevdhikaraste Ma Phuleshu Kadachana’ to be his motto, has valour. III. Transparency: He, whose life is spotless, unstained and pure, whose personal, family, business and social life is based on the benchmark of the seven principles, who does not lead a double life and stays alert about living a sinless life, such a person is skillful. He, who does not have any difference between his internal and outer lives, and has complete purity is transparent. IV. Farsightedness: He, who is farsighted, raises above the caste, region, zone, religion, opinion, party, community, language, etc., and respects all communities, talks of the progress of his area or region, respects all religions and Indian languages, and while doing all this, does not forget the national well-being, respects all Indian languages and foreign languages too for contact and communication but while doing all this keeps the national language above everything else. He who keeps the interest of the nation above everything else is farsighted. A person who gives rise to madness of regionalism, religion, regional languages and spreads hatred amongst the countrymen, and burns the nation for the interest of the region, is not a farsighted person. Unfortunately, majority of our politicians today go from street to street asking for votes in Indian languages and rule from the parliament in English. Let us become farsighted and, leaving aside our petty political selfishness, keep the national interest above everything else for which the coming generations will remember us with pride as their ideal and as national figures. V. Humanitarianism: We are humans before being Hindus, Muslims, Sikhs, Christians, etc. and our father is 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 religion. We all have, naturally, within our hearts the God-given qualities of love, kindness, affection, truth, non-violence, etc. Hence, humanitarianism, truth and non-violence are our main religious tenets. Ensuring

that external religions, etc. do not become a threat to humanity is humanitarianism. Keeping faith in these human values is humanitarianism. VI. Spiritualism: He, who considers universal and scientific values, ideals and traditions to be his religion, who might or might not be religious but is never a fanatic, who sees God in all humanity and every other living being including plants, and who dedicates his entire life to the service of all creatures and the world and diminishes the sorrow of the world, is spiritual. He rises above narrow thinking and loves mankind and looks upon the whole world as his family. He, who always keeps the feeling of ‘Vasudevah Kutumbakam’ in his heart, is spiritual. Spiritualism and nationalism are not two opposing opinions spoken in two different languages. On the other hand, these two are necessary in equal respect for the complete independence and self-security of every country and its citizens, According to worldly and national organization, we are the citizens of an independent country and the protection of its freedom, unity and integrity is our moral duty. This is our national duty, and along with this, if we look at things from the angle of global brotherhood, global peace and social coexistence then we are all one and are the sons of one God. Hence, we are all brothers and sisters from the point of view of being god’s children. This is our spiritual philosophy and spiritualism. VII. Humility: He, who is humble, serves others in an extremely humble manner even after reaching the pinnacle of power, property, luxury and knowledge, and who always keeps the faith that this life and the entire world is the gift of the Lord. He is of the view that the master of this life and the world is one invisible power, God, who is performing all my actions Himself keeping me as a medium. This body-mindwealth-life belongs to God – one who lives with this feeling is never arrogant of his work position or property and such a person is humble. We have to live our life 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 the life values and ideals demonstrated by the sages such as the eight yoga principles of yam, niyam, asanas, pranayam, restraint of the sense organs (Pratyahar), resolution, meditation and Samadhi, and the entire Indian religious, philosophical, spiritual and cultural traditions, is spiritual, is religious. The five yams of non-violence, truth, asteya (not stealing the property of others), celibacy and asceticism demonstrated by sage Patanjali and the five practices of purification, contentment, penance, self-learning and deep devotion into God have been accepted by me in the form of the universal, scientific and global religion, spirituality and culture and I am completely dedicated to the

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observance of ‘mansa, vacha and karmana’.Opposite of yam and niyam such as hatred, untruth and stealing, etc. can be considered a sin and a crime. India is a country of extensive cultural traditions. Hence, whatever is universal and scientific in all the various religious, spiritual, cultural and communal traditions, we consider as religion. However, I am not a follower of whatever is superstition, pretence, wicked, inhuman and unscientific. I do not believe in such traditions and hence I am religious, not irreligious. Instead of being the worshipper, publicist and accepter of the symbolic aspect of religion, I consider religion to be the superiority of conduct. I consider the life values of non-violence, truth, love, kindness, service, patience, forgiveness, purity, contentment, etc., to be religion. I consider the tenets of non-violence and truth in all the holy texts such as the Vedic scriptures, Quran, Bible and Gururgranth Sahib, etc., to be religion. No matter whatever religion, opinion, group, community, etc., our personal hopes might be based on, as a united nation, instead of being divided by worshipping various gods, we should believe in the worship of the one Supreme power or the Lord. The Lord has various names in various languages such as Hindi, Sanskrit, Punjabi, Arabic and English, etc. Amongst all these names, I address God by the name of ‘Om’ because this is the foremost and most ancient sound of creation. This sound is universal and scientific. There are many other forms of ‘Om’ found in Indian philosophy and culture of other countries, such as Amen, Omen, etc. Intensive study 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 religious tradition. In short, I believe in a lifestyle based on nationalism, spiritualism, and idealism. I am not a supporter of division on the basis of religion and region. I am a supporter of nationalism, humanitarianism and spiritualism. 22.

SEVEN RULES OF IDEALISM FOR YOGA TEACHERS Following are seven principles for the conduct of the yogi brothers and sisters dedicated to nationalism: 1. Vegetarian 2. No personal agenda 3. Healthy 4. Capable 5. Dedicated 6. Non-political lifestyle 7. Commitment to spend at least 1-2 hours each day for yoga and national interest. The above-mentioned are mainly connected to our personal life and conduct. If we do not give priority to purity, and national thought in our personal life, and if we ourselves are not healthy, capable, dedicated and devoid of the obstinacy of politics, then how can we fulfill the resolution of building a nation

that is free from corruption, crime and exploitation. Our head yoga teachers, deputy yoga teachers, coyoga teachers, workers and yoga practitioners will stay within the framework of these seven modes of conduct and will first bring purity, modesty, and expertise into their personal lives and will then take ahead the mission of national character building. First self-development and then we will offer everything for development of the nation. First self-interest and then the interest of the nation and the world – this is our motto. Non-political lifestyle means that a person connected strongly with our mission of building a new India will not represent any political party and will not give any special support to any group either directly or indirectly. Our political philosophy is – all party or no party. That is, support the people that have character, transparency, expertise and nationalism, belonging to all parties. Remember, do not give direct support even to honest politicians. Just as we give moral support in a collective way through Yogpeeth to nationalist and honest people, in the same way moral support should be given to ideal persons, nationalist politicians with character. ‘All party’ or ‘no party’ means that we do not represent any particular party but we morally or emotionally support all the people who are good in all parties. Hence, we are ‘all party’,it means we have no connection with the corrupt people in all the parties and that is why we are also ‘no party’. Our opposition is not any party or person, but it is theoretical and this is how it should remain. Any person who is directly connected to any political party cannot do complete justice to this mission. I am not a representative or publicist of any political party. I am a representative and publicist of national duty. We should always remember that our complete personality, our words, food habits and conduct is entirely according to the tradition of the sages and for the honour 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. Nationgod is the greatest god. Religion of the nation means our duty towards the nation, our responsibilities. Fulfilling 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 independence 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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OUR FIVE MAIN GOALS 1. Creating an India that is healthy, prosperous and traditional 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 nation will get a new freedom and new system, and India will become great and the country’s greatest problem – corruption – will get solved.

of self-confusion, and awaken India’s sleeping selfrespect 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, selfdependent, corruption-free, unemployment and poverty-free – this is our firm resolution. To fulfil this resolution, 1. Divya Yog Mandir (Trust), 2. Patanjali Yogpeeth (Trust) India and International, 3. Bharat OUR FIVE VOWS Swabhiman International (NRI organization), 4. 2. In the special training camps for yoga teachers, Patanjali Treatment Centre, 5. Patanjali Yoga Samiti our participating brothers and sisters are asked to and 6. Mahila Patanjali Yog Samiti – these six main take five vows in order to bring about the knowledge organizations and the people of the nation are being of self-qualities through yoga, to make their mind and involved through the medium of 15 different groups body healthy, and to build national character by develin this yoga revolution and national awareness misoping own character. You too can take these vows sion. These 15 groups are: and at the same time also request each teacher, devo1. Youth group tee, distinguished member, colleague, general mem2. Doctor group bers and every citizen in your district to take these 3. Teacher group vows and embark on the mission of building a healthy, 4. Financial service group prosperous and traditional India – 5. Legal group comprising advocates and ex-judges 1. We will only vote for patriotic, honest, valiant, far6. Ex-servicemen group sighted, and skillful people. We ourselves will vote 7. Farmer group 100% and also make others vote. 8. Industrialist and businessmen group 2. We will unite all patriotic, sincere, aware, sensitive, 9. Worker group intelligent and honest people together 100% and unit10. Officer group ing the powers of the nation will bring about a new 11. Labour group freedom, new system and new change. We will make 12. Science and technology group India the biggest superpower in the world. 13. Art and culture group 3. We will 100% boycott foreign goods made with 14. Media group zero technology and adopt indigenous goods. 15. Senior citizen group 4. We will adopt nationalist thought 100%, and while That is, a total of 15 groups will work. To estabin our personal lives we observe Hindu, Islam, Chrislish these 15 groups in each district, the responsibility tian, Sikh, Buddhist, Jain, etc. religious traditions, in of the selection of the members as well as the coordiour public lives we will live like a true Indian – a true nator will rest with the aforementioned six main orgaHindustani. nizations of Bharat Swabhiman and 15 supporting 5. We will make the entire country 100% yoga-origroups, a total of 21 constituents of our complete orented and make the citizens inward-focused by makganization. These 21 groups, in the 21st century, will ing them healthy and arouse the feeling of self-pride awaken ‘swadeshi’ in the entire nation by running a in each one by removing the cheating, corruption, revolution of complete social, spiritual, moral rise and hopelessness, disbelief and self-languor arising because bring about a new freedom and a new system in the ❀ YOG SANDESH-ENGLISH ❀ 17

country. Including 1100 to 2100 yoga teachers from each district, 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 authority. Those MLAs and MPs have been elected by us to protect our well-being. We have not made them our representative 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 authority for the welfare of the society, town, region, and nation; 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 constant fear of the governance and is again and again made a victim of exploitation. Now awaken! Do not bear exploitation instead of governance any longer! Live with complete self-respect, self-rule, and freedom! This country is yours; you are not a slave but a citizen of free India. Just like the legislature of the country, the entire administrative executives and judiciary too, that is all the democratic processes, administrative officers, police organization, 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, complete governance, and self-respect. Hence, wake up! And do not quietly accept exploitation, injustice and corruption in the name of governance. Whosoever is a corrupt ruler, throw him out of power with the help of your voting right; and vote 100% to bring into power those patriotic, 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 Constitution, 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 English. 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 refined India, I have five main goals – Healthy India, Clean India, Independent India, India free from hunger, unemployment 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 methods and traditional Indian remedies, because it is certain that only healthy citizens can build a prosperous, magnificent, 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 pollution 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 penance. We want to build a clean and strong India by purifying 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 nationwide 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-respect 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, refinement, Vedic knowledge in the entire system of education 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 emperor 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. Beginning 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 technique 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 harmful and dangerous for the economic condition of the nation. 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 tremendously, 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 because 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 distributing 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 appear in the list of people who gave strength to the nation.

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Then our name won’t be written among the traitors of the nation and will be among the patriots who used Indian products.

4. INDIA FREE FROM HUNGER, UNEMPLOYMENT AND POVERTY WITH POPULATION CONTROL

Poverty, hunger and unemployment are nation-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 extremely dangerous and uncontrolled. While there will definitely be an unbalance of health, wealth and education in a society devastated with hunger, unemployment and poverty, 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 unsocial systems, we should adopt Indian socialism which is based on valour and a balanced and progressive philosophy. 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-dependent, capable, independent and happy. Even if we distribute 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, illhealth and poverty because the root cause of these problems 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 powerful nation and remove hunger, unemployment and poverty.

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 governance, and there is an environment of insecurity and disbelief in the entire country. In such a situation the country needs a pure, nationalist thought with which we can remove 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 country 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, economic 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 noneducation 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, prosperous 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 administration 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 happiness, 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 dishonest 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 incarnation 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 without struggle. Do not live with insults any more. Recognize 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 excellent one, and just as more than 30 countries including Australia, Italy, France and Germany have done, we too should have a rule for 100% compulsory voting 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 widespread 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 assurances 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. corruption, 3. downfall of personal and national character, 4. insensitivity, 5. disbelief, 6. hopelessness, 7. self-languor The question arises in the heart of each patriotic Indian as to why does corruption, the reason for unemployment, poverty and hunger, the nation’s biggest problem, exist? After research, study and experience of the physical science, psychology and the entire emotional setup 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-languor, insensitivity, work confusion and all kind of irresponsible thought, character and behaviour. Self-confusion 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 selfconfusion arise insensitivity and from insensitivity, disbelief and hopelessness penetrate deeply among the common 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 national dangers – yoga. When a person becomes self-focussed with yoga, that is when he is joined with his centre, consciousness and soul, then he is not able to do anything that goes against his soul. The soul is, by nature, pure. The soul is full of love, kindness, light, energy, 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 problems. Hence, it is certainly my firm belief that yoga and spirituality can save the falling personal and national character. 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 budget of the local authorities, state government and central government for the development of the nation is approximately 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 authorities, municipal corporations and the development authorities 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 district in a year. If Rs 1666 crore was spent in a district in a year then no one would remain unemployed in that district, 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 corrupt 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 honest people, then corrupt and criminal people will get removed 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, hunger 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 together 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 common man. This money has been given by us for the development of the nation, and corrupt and criminal people steal this very money with the aid of dishonest paperwork 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 because 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 unemployment. II. Reason for obstruction in progress: When the nation’s wealth gets accumulated with some corrupt, dishonest and criminal kind of politicians and officers because 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 honesty 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 development in the nation. First, our nation’s wealth gets accumulated in the wrong hands because of corruption 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 embarrassing 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 natural 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 stronger from the economic point of view. Our exports will increase and imports will decrease, that is, millions of people will get employment from indigenous industries. However, because of selfish motives and corruption, politicians place their own known corrupt, dishonest, unconstitutional and good-for-nothing 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 together 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 systems: When there would be no corruption involved in communication systems and the wealth of the nation would be utilized in making good roads, overbridges, etc., then our communication system would become very beautiful and there will be three main benefits of this – first, the 1 lakh deaths approximately 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 nation 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 removed 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 cancer, T.B and AIDS and will die untimely deaths. Unless 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 children which are yet to come will be in trouble and they will rebuke us and say what a nation our forefathers have left behind for us. VII. Reason for social injustice: No other civilized nation 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 science, 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 languages such as Gujarati, Marathi, Tamil, Telugu, Kannada, Oriya, Bengali and Assamese or in the national 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 conspiracy was started from the first day of Independence and has continued till today since then. VIII. Cause of deaths of the poor: When there is corruption in education the poor or common man of the country can never move ahead. On top of this, because of corruption in the medical sector, we have adulterated medicine, unnecessary medicine, unnecessary operations, and terrorizing in the name of treatment. 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, exploitation instead of governance by police and administration 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 nation. There is poor sanitation in the county only because of our unconstitutional ways and because of a lack of strong will power. If we practice waste management with determination and honesty, and behave sternly with people who spread filth, then the country 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, today 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, awareness and a corruption-free strong punishment system needs to be set up to make the nation clean. XI. Reason for insecurity in the nation: It is only because of political corruption that our politicians indulge in dirty and cheap politics of votes and nationbreaking 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 population growth. If the government thinks about the welfare of the nation then it could control the population size like China. Instead of controlling the population 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 corruption, the people involved with industrial development and planned growth are also tortured in an unconstitutional manner and business persons are extorted 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 democracy? 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 nation 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 government officials – from a person’s birth certificate to his death certificate, from the registration of a motor 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, famines, 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 agricultural purposes. If water management is done properly, 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 workers. XV. Reason for inflation: Because values are not properly 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 selfish gains. If the natural resources are mined judiciously, managed well and skillfully handled then even today India can be a wealthy country. XVII. Reason for the insult of intellectual talent: Indians have a lot of intellectual ability and talent. Indians 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, illiterate and immoral people can destroy the country mercilessly. 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 education. 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 policies: Because of our wrong intentions, wrong policies 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 intoxication. 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, medical 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 beneficial animals such as cows and buffalos, and because of this, a negative energy is created in the country by the cries of lakhs of innocent animals everyday. Society and homes are affected with restlessness, insecurity and adversity. India is an agricultural 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 whatever 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 becomes weak. XX. Reason for the loss of millions of rupees of the common man in the stock market: Because of collaboration between some corrupt, dishonest, unconstitutional 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 happening 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 robbery are invariably the innocent people. Some of them get affected by depression; the families of some others 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, dishonest 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~ A èkeZlLa FkkiukFkkZ; 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 forehead 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 generations 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, honest, 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 occupied by patriotic, valiant, farsighted, humanitarian, spiritual, 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.

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BENEFITS OF THE NON-EXISTENCE OF CORRUPTION

1. If there is no corruption – directly, 10 lakh rupees and indirectly 10 lakh rupees will be spent on the nation’s development. When this 20 lakh is spent annually on the nation’s development, each district will be able to get development work of more than 10-12 crore rupees 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 unemployment. 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 cleanliness 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-cleanliness 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 universities. 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 education in the national language, Hindi and other regional languages 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. Citizens 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 victim 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, officers, 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 nation again, we will be become self-sufficient in food grains, edible oils, fruits and vegetables, and in the field of textiles and garments by cultivation of cotton, etc. By bringing 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-dependent. 6. If there is no corruption – citizens of the nation won’t need to go without food, clothes or shelter, essential 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-governance. 7. If there is no corruption – indigenous, home industries 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 diamond, 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 truthfulness – 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 infidelity. I am not a cowardly, weak, timid, helpless, desperate and slave child of Mother India that in front of my eyes her glory can be continuously robbed with corruption, 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 saying prayers in church, temple, etc. to be pure. I will not sit silent now! I have now committed myself to open revolution against the corrupt politicians of the nation! And all of us will take rest only after we remove 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 worship 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 revolution of the 21st century and we will all wint he battle.

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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-inlaws 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 advertisements 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 misbehaves 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 inappropriate beahviour in an intoxicated state with characterless, wild and reckless men? Will any father with business 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 protect 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 character of Mother India has also been stained by corruption, 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 forefathers 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 merciless, heartless killing of cows, buffaloes and other innocent lives who are killed mercilessly and heartlessly in slaughter houses. Cow slaughter is the reason for disaster and sorrow. I consider the killing of cows, buffaloes and any other innocent life to be immoral. In this creation, 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, Mahatma Gandhi, Swami Vivekanand and Maharshi Dayanand Saraswati. India is a nation that believes in truth, nonviolence, and values of good conduct. We, the citizens of such a pure nation, should remove the stain of cow slaughter 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 continuity. Corruption is deeply immerged in its purity and continuity. 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 employment 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 nation 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 person 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 democracy. 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 contribution 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 collected 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 happened 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 common 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 conspiracy 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% dishonest people will be destroyed. And India will be called a nation of honest people, not dishonest people. 4. Corruption can never be removed, only corruption will rule the nation!...Deep conspiracy! Resolution: Only honest, patriotic people will govern the nation Only corrupt people will govern the nation. Even this lie is being told like a conspiracy with which honest, patriotic 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, patriotic, 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 together? 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 possible without foreign investment!...Utter falsehood. fact: If resources are 100% utilized then our nation will progress and there will not be any unemployment. 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 deposited 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 status 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 investment (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 corrupt, 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 national 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 nationwide 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. However, 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 citizens in the language of another nation. Because technical, medical and management, etc. education 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 proficient 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 demanding 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 everything 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 security 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 occupied 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 necessary. 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 personal level for the progress, building, prosperity and service of the nation? You decide – Nehruji, Sardar Patel and Babu Rajendra Prasad, etc. fought for the nation’s independence, 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 cooperation 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 resolution 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’ successful 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 national 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 leadership 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 respect 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 sincere 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 social and national development work may directly cause loss to us, but if it is for the good of the nation and society 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 generations 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 property, 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 whenever 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 COMMISSION

When a corrupt politician gives the details of valuation of his house and land, etc. in the election commission, 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 established that the property of politicians should be evaluated at the market rate and if it does not match then the government 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 property.

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 consumption 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 senseless, stupid and animal-like. Hence, to encourage and conserve 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 characterless, 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 diseases including cirrhosis of liver and liver cancer, kidney diseases, heart diseases and TB, etc. fatal diseases. Because of the use of alcohol, cigarette and other intoxicating 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 vehicle 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 unconsciousness, 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 elections. To attract voters towards oneself, laws, regulations, democracy and constitutional values are mocked at openly. If while voting in an intoxicated state, a criminal, 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 rivers of alcohol flow during democratic elections. The election commission should urgently declare voting in an intoxicated 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 insult 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 systems but at the same time, I will not live like a destitute, slave or in a pitiable condition. I will also not allow corrupt, dishonest and criminal people to break any democratic or constitutional systems. The things that are happening in the temple of democracy are not written anywhere in the Constitution of India. The people who are taking pledges on the Constitution in the temple of democracy are themselves killing democracy, and are eating 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 traditional India is built. We will developed our personal character and run social revolutions across the country to develop national character. We will unite patriotic individuals 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 together, they become a body. When teachers come together 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 nation. 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 necessary 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~A lekua eU=efHkeU=;s o% lekusu oks gfo"kk tqgksfeA vks3e~ lekuh o vkdwfr% lekuk ân;kfu o%A lekueLrq 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 because the feelings of honesty and integrity, humanitarianism, nationalism and spiritualism are not united that there is fear, corruption, crime, poverty, unemployment, anarchy, 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 - ^^laxPNèoa laonèoa 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 patriotic people to join this huge mission and make it successful, 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 accumulating 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 foundation stone. Those who rule over what is already established 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 traditional values. 34. The meaning of organization is – contact, communication, mutual respect, support and putting in communal labour and struggling hard till we do not get success. 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 DEVELOPMENT IS NOT POSSIBLE WITHOUT SELF DEVELOPMENT 35. Only a yogi can protect 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-respect 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, selfindifference arises. And this dishonesty, corruption, hatred, crime, insensitivity, idleness, unawareness, materialism and impurity are nothing but a result of this selfindifference.

BECOME A YOGI 36. By starting yoga duties along with national duties and joining the religion of yoga with the religion of the nation, we have not done any opposing work and rather have accepted yoga in a vast form. There is no doubt, confusion, illusion or hesitation in my mind regarding the duties of yoga and the nation. My intention and rules are very clear and my intention is to bring unity and morality to divided India. Yoga means – to unite. I want to unite the entire world with yoga as a medium. I want to first make each person in the nation a yogi. When each person in India is a yogi then he will be a youth of character; he will be a patriotic teacher or doctor; he will be an aware farmer; he will be a thoughtful chartered accountant; he will be a hardworking lawyer; he will be a soldier, security person or policeman with tradition; he will be a dutiful supervisor, worker or labourer; he will be an energetic businessman; he will be a patriotic artist or journalist; he will be a scientist dedicated to the good of the nation; he will be a healthy, active and sensitive senior citizen; he will be an intelligent and sensitive judge and advocate because it is my clear opinion that there can be no development of the nation without self development. By doing and helping others do yoga, I will turn each person into a good person. I will make a mother an ideal mother. I will build such a foundation of tradition and culture and prepare ideal mothers and ideal fathers through yoga, so that children like Lord Ram and Shri Krishna are again born here. When, with the help of yoga, a selfrealized person sees the society, nation, entire universe in himself, he will not cheat anyone, he won’t hate anyone because he will feel that cheating or lying to another is cheating or lying to himself. It is because of self-confusion that there is corruption, dishonesty, immorality, anarchy, and insensitivity. With this yoga revolution, we will establish the age-old tradition of the sages across the globe and re-establish a kingdom of happiness, prosperity, joy and peace.

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AN INTRODUCTION TO YOGA Yoga is Samadhi, yoga is the spiritual philosophy of selfrealization, and selfknowledge. 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 making the soul pure and seedless.

1. Yoga Samadhi (Yogsutra—Vyas Bhasya 1.1) Yoga is Samadhi. Yoga is the spiritual 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 mentioned 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 (restraining the sense organs), Dharna (firmness), Dhyan (meditation), and Samadhi. No one can become a yogi without the implementation of ashtang yoga.

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Non-violence, truth, abstinence from stealing, celibacy and asceticism are the five yams.

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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 behind 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 ❀ YOG SANDESH-ENGLISH ❀ 34

to lose memories of this image of the soul is selfstudy. 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 entire 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, keeping yourself free from arrogance, is a devotion to God. To live very moment with penance, self-learning 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 complete 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 devotion to God makes it easy to gain freedom from the five sins of false knowledge, false memory, anger, 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. ^^tUekS"kèkeU=ri% lekfèktk% fl¼;%**(Yogsutra 4.1)

man might be, he can never become the Supreme Lord.

THE GOAL OF YOGA 16. I want to establish a healthy, prosperous and tradition-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 prosperous society and nation by making the sick healthy, making health useful and transforming pleasure seekers 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 importance. 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 opposition 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 arrogance will be replaced by Omkar.

FIVE STATES OF THE MIND

THE OUTCOME OF WORLDLY PLEASURES

13. Evidence (Praman), hostility (Viparya), variation (Vikalpa), sleep (Nidra) and memory (Smriti) are the five states. Controlling them with practice and asceticism is nothing but Yoga.

21. Illness, fear, sorrow, restlessness, insecurity, intolerance, impatience, ignorance, hatred, old age and death are the outcomes of worldly experiences. 22. To get happiness, contentment and peace by experiencing worldly pleasures is just as futile as trying to pacify fire by pouring clarified butter in it. Contentment and peace does not come from worldly pleasures but from intellect and knowledge.

KEY TO LIBERATION 14. The four main keys required for liberation are: Intellect, asceticism, six properties (tranquility, punishment, respect, solution, disinterestedness and endurance) and mumuksha or the desire to attain salvation.

GREAT MEN OR INCARNATIONS 15. When a human being gets blessed with godly qualities 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 incarnations 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

THE OUTCOME OF YOGA 23. Health, fearlessness, happiness, peace, security, tolerance, 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 science. 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. Do not reproach knowledge, salute it. It is not wise to unnecessarily oppose Yoga and Ayurveda because of obstinacy, selfishness, ignorance or arrogance. Good health is the basic right of human beings. Good health is the birthright of mankind. Become self-dependent 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. 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 tangible to intangible. 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 treatment methods will cease and there will be mutual discussion instead of arguments. 31. Yoga and Ayurveda are systemic remedies while Allopathy 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 methods in front of the patient, I want to give him the opportunity of being able to choose the best treatment 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 freedom to choose the treatment method he would want to use to get his health back. By sacrificing the wellbeing of patients, some powerful medicine companies 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, scientific 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 related 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~A

nSoha 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 medium.

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, humanitarianism, sensitivity, purity of character and tolerance 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 visible 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

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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 understanding of the truth of the world. What can this world give us apart from status, power, property, honour, residence, food, garments and endless sorrows connected with all of these? The meaning of meditation is going beyond this world where mounted on supreme 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 alertness, constant awareness, always natural and intelligent. When we remain aware, intelligent and natural then we automatically move from bad towards good. 46. Till a person does not know himself through meditation, he does not obtain self-respect, internal happiness, 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 becoming totally conscious with the highest nectar of the supreme knowledge, where stupor and ignorance is completely removed and finally the devotee’s intellect 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. Creation and removal of doubt occurs only by stepping

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into zero. It is through meditation that one can enter the zero state. 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 divine thought is attained. When qualities are born, the person is no longer attracted by external attractions and the person becomes free from the bonds of life. Fights and wars are taking place in this world because of honour, wealthy, position, power and arrogance. 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. Pure and divine thought take birth in an intellect that has become thoughtless and passionless with the help of meditation and pranayam. 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 towards the sad, delightfulness towards the virtuous person and hope towards the wicked keeps the intellect happy.

BREATH IS MEDICINE

54. izk.kL;sna o'ks loZ± f=fnos ;Rizfrf"Bre~ (Prashnopanishad 2.13). Breath is medicine. Breath is parents and master. Breath is Vasu, Rudra and Aditya. Breath is the Supreme lord Himself. 55. ^^;ksxf'pÙko`fÙkfujksèk%** (Yogsutra 1.2). The mind finds it intriguing to remain in falsehood, imagination or dreams. The mind either remains lost in the pains of the past; in the agony, in the memories of the past or in the worries about the future. The meaning of yoga is to live in the present, where there are no troubles or worries. In present there is creation. It is the present that creates the past and it is the present that lays the foundation for the future. Past and future is without existence. Only the present exists. To live in the present is to celebrate life. It is only when one goes beyond the mind that the reality of the conscious soul acquires a shape. Hence, the meaning of yoga is to connect with one’s consciousness, centre or reality; to recognize oneself and to recognize the Supreme Lord existing within oneself; to see yourself in the universe and the universe inside you. To expand one’s identity from the confines of narrowness in all directions. I am in everything and everything is in me. This expansion of ‘I’ is yoga.

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CULTURE

THE STRUGGLE OF CULTURES

1. We have a glorious past that is 1,96,08,53,109 years 6. Only when there is no research on the knowledge of old. ^lk izFkek laLÑfrfoZ'ookjk*(Yajurveda 4.14). We languages, struggle and differences arises in cultures, are the carriers of the oldest culture in the world. civilizations and races of the world. The opposition Our magnificent history goes back to approximately to Veda, Yoga, Ayurveda and Indian culture is also 200 crore years. With our hard work and devotion, because of the lack of research on Sanskrit or Vedic we will free Mother India from the troubles of the knowledge. In the same way, addressing religion or present and made a powerful, golden India that will calling God by various names in the various languages lead the world. of Hindi, Sanskrit, English, Arabic, Persian, Urdu, 2. Indian culture comprising restraint, good conduct, Punjabi, etc. leads to illusion. ^,da ln~ foçk cgqèkk good feelings, joint families and the glorious tradition onfUr* (Rig Veda 1.164.46). There are many names of sixteen cultures is the best, omnipresent, scienof one truth and if the illusion of names disappears, tific culture in the world. we can move towards world peace. Our aim is olqèkSo 3. The forefathers and culture, civilization and philosodqVqEcde~ (Panchtantra 5.38). phy of the people of India, Pakistan, Afghanistan, ASCETICISM Nepal, Myanmar, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka and the other 7. Asceticism is not another name for running away. Asceticism is the highest level of intellect. The comAsian countries were the same. India was the suplete aim of asceticism is to be constantly progrespreme kingdom of the world. In the middle ages, there sive, hard working and putting in effort in a detached came about geographical and cultural divisions and manner after attaining supreme vision. people got divided into various religions. Hence, deRENUNCIATION spite observing the different religions like Hinduism, 8. My sanyas or renunciation is not cultural escapism. Islam, Buddhism, Jainism and Sikhism, our forefaAsceticism is nothing but intellectual climax. Hence, thers were the same and even do not run and at the same time do not lose yourself today the blood that runs through in worldly experiences. Just wake up and awaken us is the same. Cultural differothers – this is our spirituality. No running away from ences and civilizations cannot life, no sorrow for death. We have to always remain divide us. This is our cultural and the same – this is yoga. Renunciation is nothing but doing your work in a detached manner without any geographical past and present. desires or expectations about the outcome. 4. Often it is seen that the COMPLETENESS OF PRAYER more developed a culture and the 9. Knowledge, work and devotion complete prayer or more developed a person or somediation. Only knowledge will bring about a feeling ciety becomes, lazy and this beof arrogance, and a person who lives his life only on comes the cause of its downfall. knowledge will be like a desert and build dryness, Hence, with exaltation the effort false arrogance and an artificial or imaginary personshould not end. ality in his life. Hence, knowledge is incomplete with5. Indian religion, phiout work; work without devotional knowledge is losophy, spirituality, political scibondage, and becomes a vanity. Hence, we can get ence, ethics, Vedic mathematics, salvation only by work in which our intellect is used. astrology and Vedic knowledge With knowledge, we get complete vision, and this vision should be definitely be used in work and devois universal and scientific. As we tion. God does not give beggars but to those who have a vast and magnificent culdeserve it. Always worship character, not the image. tural background, we do not need imported religion, philoso- 10. Independence does not mean indiscipline. Independence is the name of self-governance. While living phy, western culture and foreign an independent, self-dependent life, help others also morals. The interest of the nato become self-dependent. First become devotee and tion lies in the culture and civilithen you yourself become a reformer.^^ekrk Hkwfe% zation of our own nation. ❀ YOG SANDESH-ENGLISH ❀ 38

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 nation. 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 relationships, divine relationship is felt. This is the completeness 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 material 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 demigods was suppression or self-control. For the asuras or demons, His advice was that praying for compassion should be their religion. Hatred, anger and revenge 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 ceremony), Annaprasanna (ceremony in which food is first given to a child), Churakarma (tonsure ceremony), Karnavedh (ear piecing ceremony), Upanayan (investiture with sacred thread), Vedarambh (the start of education of the Vedas), Samavartan (ceremony 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 portion 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. Respect is the perception of divine knowledge. Respect is the acquisition of the highest knowledge and the staircase to eternal peace. In our religious life, respect is the holy water that is sprinkled during worship.

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 selfreflection, in cremation ground or in times of trouble, then the person becomes free from the bonds of attachment and illusion.

HEAVEN AND HELL 22. Achieving special happiness on the personal, familial, social, economic and spiritual fronts is heaven; and achieving circumstances of extraordinary sorrow is hell.

SALVATION 23. To become free from sorrow and the causes of sorrow such as disease, fear, sadness, five afflictions, birth and death, etc. is salvation.

DEATH 24. Death is not the solution because birth is certain after death. Hence, accepting death in weariness of getting scared of life or being hurt by the troubles or betrayal of near and dear ones is foolishness. 25. It is the mind or ‘mana’ that should be killed or destroyed. On destruction of the mind there will be a new birth. You will gain a new vision and find a beautiful world around you. And then you will feel the joy of life. Life will become a celebration. The day we understand 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 evidences 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 beginning 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 encompasses everything from complete teachings of knowledge 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 transformed into Rig, Yaju, Sam and Atharva on knowledge, 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, selfishness 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 knowledge 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 sciences deduced from the Vedas.

VEDANGA 31. Education, Kalp, Grammer, Nirukt, Verse and Astrology 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, devotion 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 husband; 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 knowledge 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 importance 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 importance has been given to Takva, meaning penance, sacrifice, patience and strength. Roza has been considered 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 Philosophy: The main subject of schools of Indian Philosophy 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 divided 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 combinations of Sakhya and Yoga, Nyay and Vaisheshik, and eastern Mimansa and Vedanta. The eleven Upanishads: The Upanisads is the simplified spiritual description of the Vedas, Upavedas, Brahman texts (the theological part of the Vedas, different 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 beings, 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 illusion 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 without 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 detachment 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 (birthdeath) and hopes (desire), and is all-knowing, omnipresent, all-powerful, just and kind.

LIVING BEING 40. Living beings are the immortal children of God. Individual souls can never become the supreme soul. Individual souls can never become all-knowing, omnipresent 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 previous 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 wisdom 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 element 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 oxygen 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 account 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 parents, 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 others and what you give to others is what you get in return. If you have love, kindness, affection, happiness 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.

MAN 54. A man is someone who does his work thoughtfully. ^^euqHkZo tu;k nSO;a tue~** (Atharva Veda 8.1.6)

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GIFT

48. We ourselves are the cause for our sorrow and happiness. 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 concentration then happiness emerges. It comes down from within. We build up obstinacy towards everything – religion, truth, saints, life, work, duty, nonduty, 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 incomplete without work. Without work, with only knowledge, devotion becomes bondage; and without knowledge, devotion becomes just a show. Hence, only by doing intelligent work we can obtain Samadhi or salvation. 51. Complete vision is gained with knowledge; this vision 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, sensitivity, 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 believe or have faith on these moral values then your personal life can never remain happy.

55. The love, thought, feeling and strength that is given is much more important than the object given as a gift.

INDUSTRIES 53. Industries are the temples of progress of Mother India 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.

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 category 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 knowledge and doubt belief. In life, doubt is like a computer 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 education, 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 already occurred. It has lost its reality and has lost its authority. That which has not come as yet is the future. 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. Living in the present is yoga.

FOUR ASHRAMS 61. The gradual steps in life are the four ashrams or religious 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, everything becomes meaningless or wasted. More wealth than required also brings about downfall. Hence, balance is the eternal principle of life and the world. 65. Balance is health. It is physical and emotional imbalance, 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, administrators 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

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 happiness of the soul is experienced 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 desperation, restlessness and the separation, and gradually, step by step, comes near the Lord, learning the mystery 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 rqA cqf¼a rq lkjfFka fof¼ eu% izxgz eso pA bfUnz;kf.k g;kukgqfoZ"k;kaLrs"kq xkspjku~A vkResfUnz; euks;Dq ra HkksDrsR;kgqeuZ hf"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 conduct, 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.

69. Physical body or receptacle of food (Annamay kosh), receptacle of life or vital air (Pran kosh), psychoemotional 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. HAPPY LIFE 71. Pran (breath), Apan (emission of wind backwards), Saman (air used in digestion), Udan (air which raises 80. The aim of life is not worldly pleasures, gambling, alcohol, meat, travel, leisure and entertainment. Life up the throat) and Vyan (the vital air that circulates is being able to give satisfaction, happiness, contentthe whole body) are the five vital airs, and Naga, ment to others with service and obtaining contentKoorma, krinkal, Devadutta and Dhananjaya are the ment, happiness and complete satisfaction with defive upaprans or sub-types. This is the receptacle of votion. vital air. 72. Mind, Ego and the five work organs of speech, hands, 81. Everyone is able to get six feet of land to live, two garments to cover the body, and two rotis to satisfy feet, kidney and urinary organs – these seven elehunger. The thirst of people are never quenched. ments form the psycho-emotional body. ❀ YOG SANDESH-ENGLISH ❀ 43

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 doing hard work in a disinterested manner. ^^dqoZUusosg dekZf.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 showing love towards the younger, respect towards the elders, giving the credit of success to everyone, always 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 boundaries and entering into the limitless and immeasurable eternity. Sacrifice does not mean letting go but making 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 system 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

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 ‘absence’ 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%A u oS r=k e`;Urs uks ;UèUre%AA loksZ 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 all divergences of arrogance. Hence, always live life as a witness. 96. Never consider yourself to be master. We are all trustees of the trust of God. The complete end of afflictions is reaching God.

THE RESOLUTION OF A DISCIPLE

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90. That which is known through the sense organs and (Gita 18.73) the mind is perceiving; knowledge of fire after seeing O Teacher! My attachment has gone away with your smoke, etc. is assumption; those which have similar pure proximity. I am now available to my soul. With forms is comparison, such as comparing a cow with your grace, all my ignorance, attachment, and illua Nilgai; and the true advice of completely reliable sions are gone and I know that I am the ever-young, and God, that is godlike great men, is called ‘word’ immortal, constant, indestructible, unchangeable, light, energy, peaceful soul. Now I am established in evidence. The history that is based on such ‘word’ my form and in my form I see your image. O Teacher! evidence and a path free from untruth is called tradiO yogeshar! I will now follow your words completely tional theory. If by saying one thing, the second thing without any doubt. is understood without being said, it is called Arthapatti. ❀ YOG SANDESH-ENGLISH ❀ 44

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. According 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 external 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 country used to run well. Nowadays, leaders have stopped doing Shirsasana, thus the country is turning 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 technology 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 development and they have to take the permission of the government 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 character and self-respect is disappearing today. Entangled in selfishness and narrowness, society has forgotten its values 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 reality. 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 important role in increasing friendship, kindness, love, goodwill, happiness, peace and prosperity in a nation. Unfortunately, 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 hatred. Even then, because of narrowness, they misuse religion. Such a person is very harmful to a nation and society. 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, mullahmaulavis or fathers are doing, may be it is just an illusion or betrayal in the name of religion. The selfishness, obstinacy, 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 ❀ YOG SANDESH-ENGLISH ❀ 45

Constitution. In the present circumstances, it is important to take another look at the laws regarding religion and the Constitution and it is necessary to have a discussion 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 science is same across the world. Religion is also a science of life. Why can’t its description and language also be the same? Some organizations established in the name of religion are spreading illusions. To maintain unity, morality, administration and justice in society, a Constitution and law and order are required. In the same way, to maintain happiness, peace and joy in our internal 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 person talks about religion and the Constitution. Religion and Constitution should be defined on the basis of human values and emotions leaving aside selfishness, narrowness 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 nonviolence. It is not a weapon for breaking or for spreading restlessness and hatred.

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 nothingness. 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 knowledge of god, the soul too becomes enlightened and forgetting 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 ,dkxzh

3. THE JOY OF GOD’S AUTHORITY IN SAMADHI THE ROAD TO FULFILLMENT OF LIFE AND SALVATION IS HIDDEN IN HIGHEST PEAK OF KNOWLEDGE

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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That in which the mind is removed from perplexity and is concentrated, is called Samadhi. The first words described in Yogdarshan are “Savitark Samapti”. In meditation, differences remain between word, meaning and knowledge and when there is and of all reasoning (Nirvitak Samapti), it should be understood 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 intellect 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 disappears. This is called Nirbeej Samadhi. This is the fulfillment 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 attained everything that has to be attained and all afflictions (false knowledge, false memory, anger, hatred and attachment) 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

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ality attains divinity, equilibrium and comprehensiveness. The mind contains obstinacy; the mind has the realityless 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 something 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, solutions 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 considers 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 greatness are external pomp. Hence, a person gathers wealth and considers the progress of his wealth to be the ultimate truth of life and in the final hours regrets that whatever he had obtained in his life, that waste is getting removed 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. However, it is also true that I have always kept self-knowledge 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 corruption, 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 political and religious thought. Politicians pride themselves in saying that they are indifferent towards religion. However, 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, nation and world. Religion is the carrying out of duties and responsibilities with sincerity. Religious indifference does not mean insulting people who have many different religious and spiritual faiths or unrestrained war on someone; 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 meaningless because every person, thing or substance is influenced 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-violence, 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 conversion 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 organizations 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 integrity. 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 ourselves 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 overcome 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.

by some superstitions, bad behaviour and false obstinacies associated with the communities, which are very difficult to get rid of. Can there be such rules and regulations or limits on which each person of the world can walk? That which will not compromise the unity and integrity of any country or person; that which can be accepted by each individual and life’s complete peace, happiness and joy can be found? One such path on which each person on earth can walk with complete independence 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 equality, physical health, mental peace and spiritual joy can be experienced. Astang yoga or eight-fold yoga stands the test of religion, 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 general behaviour to meditation to Samadhi.

6. REAL GLOBAL PEACE WILL BE ESTABLISHED ONLY BY EIGHT-FOLD YOGA

7. NON-VEGETARIAN FOOD HARMS HUMAN SENSITIVITY –

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 communities, 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 limitations. 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

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.” Understand 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, buttermilk, 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 afternoon. 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 beloved 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 meateaters 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 embarking on any task or journey we calculate the auspicious time, position of stars, etc. Days are divided into auspicious and inauspicious, we hunt for auspicious and inauspicious in planets and even in directions we establish auspicious and inauspicious. Be it for any purification ritual such as name-giving ceremony, sacred thread ceremony, etc. we are always alert about auspicious-inauspicious, and we move out in search of those people who are said to be learned or else read our horoscopes, planetary 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 ourselves 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 attentively 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 understand 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 dislike 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-CONFIDENCE, NOT OF SKILLS Defeat western and cosmopolitan 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 resolutions 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 victorious, 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 future, 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 specialize, 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, writers, etc. are the glorious children of India. Even in the business sector, people such as Laksmi Mittal have disturbed 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 confidence and self-respect and increase the honour of mother India.

10. ONLY THE COMPLETE REMOVAL OF DOUBTS AND AFFLICTIONS CAN HELP US OBTAIN GOD

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 without observing these eight, it is impossible to obtain personal or global peace. Behind all the processes and reactions of yoga of Maharishi Patanjali, there is one goal and that is removal of darkness and impurity. Doubts, illusion, 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 inward. He also teaches about akashman and parkaya entry. 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 mysteries of nature. He discusses doubtful, doubtless, thoughtful, thoughtless Samadhi. He had a totally scientific 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 consciousness 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 getting uncovered. The goal of all of us is obtaining complete truth, knowledge of self and search for reality.

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, monastery, 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 yourself are the centres of religion. He does not divide religion 11. INDIAN CULTURE IS NOT AGAINST SCIENCE into symbols. He motivates you to walk towards your According to Yajurveda, invention of science is goal on your own. He asks us to remain constant in soralso necessary for a happy life row and joy, praise and insult, cold and hot, action and What are the reasons for greatness of cultures earlier reaction, victory and defeat! Do penance! Practise self- to western culture, or Indian culture? This question arises thinking! Move ahead on the road to self-knowledge with again and again in the minds of the youth of the nation. penance, struggle, hard work and sincerity. Along with Some grown people in our nation ignores our tradition of this, totally surrender unto god! This entire process will science and technology and considers only religion, spiriwash away the dirt from your mind! Your afflictions will tuality, chanting, penance, fasting and rituals to be an wash away. Indian culture. When a youth does not go to the temple ❀ YOG SANDESH-ENGLISH ❀ 50

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 revolution has had some bad effects on both the fields – agricultural as well as the body. With the bad effects of dangerous 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 diseases, high blood pressure, obesity, thyroid, kidney and liver diseases, etc. With the heavy use of chemical fertilizers, the land has decreased its fertility and at the same time, with the sexual prowess and fertilizers of men, infertility is increasing in women. If we take a look at the total use of fertilizers in 2003-2004, the heart beats rapidly 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 everyone 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 primarily 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 produced 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 behind 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 government 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 12. EARTH IS BECOMING BARREN WITH DANGER- shortage of food grains and the fields of mother earth OUS CHEMICALS and the stomachs of human beings will also be safe. At If the profit gained in the name of fertilizers is the same time, the crores of animal wealth being cut don given to farmers then there won’t be any shortage each year will also be safe. If this happens then we will of food grains in the country also be free from the sin of cow slaughter and the fields In the Sanskrit language, the word ‘kshetra’ is used too will be safe from becoming barren. If only! If the equally to denote both the body as well as agricultural minds and hearts of the policy makers of our nation were field. In Hindi literature, the word ‘Khet’ or field is used a little more positive then every field in the nation would instead. There is a deep connection between the bodily have prospered. (Compilation of writings published in 2005). ❀ 51 ❀ YOG SANDESH-ENGLISH

and apply tilak, the elders of the house say in a very hopeless 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 tradition 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 spirituality, 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, materialism 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, astrology, surgery and philosophy. Our forefathers were familiar with all knowledges including aircraft science, telephone, 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 systems, 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!

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.

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5MAHAMRITYUNJAY MANTRA VEDIC NATIONAL SONG vks3e~&=;Ecda ;tkegs lqxfU/ka iqf"Vo/kZue~A vks3e~&vk czãu~ czkã.kks czãopZlh tk;rkekjk"Vsª mokZ#dfeo cU/kukUe`R;kseqZ{kh; ek¿e`rkr~AA jktU;% 'kwj¿b"kO;ks¿frO;kèkh egkjFkks tk;rka nksX/zh Meaning: We constantly pray to the Rudra-like Lord èksuqoksZ
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, animals 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 lifespan we wish for to do penance for others. Let there be an overflow of fruits and flowers, medicinal and productivity. Let our freedom come through yoga.

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PRAYER TO MAHARSHI PATANJALI ;ksxsu fpÙkL; insu okpka eya 'kjhjL; p oS|dsuA ;ks¿ikdjksÙka çoja equhuka ir´tfya çk´tfyjkurks¿fLeAA 3THE HOLY MONOSYLLABLE (OM) Take a deep breath and make the sound of ‘OM’ three times

4GAYATRI MAHAMANTRA vks3e~&HkwHkqZo% Lo%A rRlforqoZjs.;a HkxksZ nsoL; /khefgA f/k;ks ;ks u% izpksn;kr~AA (;tq 0&36@3)] (½ 0&3@62@90)

tar, similarly we too will get detached from the body and life and will never be separated from the bliss of salvation

6SWADHYAY MANTRA vks3e~ lg ukoorqA lg ukS HkquDrqA lg oh;± djokogSA rstfLouko/khreLrqA ek fof}"kkogSAA vkss3e~ '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 obtain the three kinds of peace – Adhyatmik (spiritual), Adhibhoutik (material), and Adhidaivik (from pain brought about by evil spirits or fate).

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PRAYER MANTRA vkss3e~ vlrks ek ln~xe;A relks ek T;ksfrxZe;] e`R;ksekZ¿e`ra xe;A vkss3e~ 'kkfUr% 'kkfUr% 'kkfUr%A

Lord! Take us from falsehood to truth, from darkness to light. Free me, O Lord, from the cycle of life and death. Fill me with blissful nectar, O Lord!

Meaning – Being created from the ‘aa’ accent (vast, fire, world, etc.), ‘oo’ accent (Brahma, wind, energy, MORNING MANTRA etc.) and ‘ma’ accent (God, Aditya, divine knowledge, 8vks3e~ izkrjfXua izkRkfjUnza gokegs izkrfeZ=ko#.kk izkrjf'oukA etc.), the word ‘Om’ occupies the highest position izkrHkZxa iw"k.ka czã.kLifra izkrLlkseeqr #nza gqoseAA1AA amongst all names of the Lord. The meanings of all names vks3e~ izkrftZra Hkxeqxaz gqoes o;a iq=kefnrs;ksZ fo/krkZA come into it. The Lord who is more beloved than even vk/kzf'p|a eU;ekuLrqjf'pnzktk fp|a Hkxa Hk{khR;kgAA2AA life and who is the basis of the world is also known as vks3e~ Hkx iz.ksrHkZx lR;jk/kks Hkxseka f/k;eqnok nnUu%A ‘Bhuh’. He who removes all sorrow from those who are Hkx iz.kks tu; xksfHkj'oSHkZx iz u`fHkuZ`oUr% L;keAA3AA desirous of salvation, that kindhearted Lord is ‘Bhuvah’. vks3e~ mrsnkuha HkxoUr% L;keksr izfiRo mr e/;s vÞuke~A He who is omnipresent and keeps a control over the enmrksfnrk e?koURlw;ZL; o;a nsokuka lqerkS L;keAA4AA tire world and Brahma is the place of residence for evvks 3 e~ Hkx ,o Hkxok¡ vLrq nsokLrsu o;a HkxoUr% L;keA eryone, that Supreme Lord’s name is ‘Swaha’. ra Rok Hkx loZ bTtksgohfr l uks Hkx iqj ,rk HkosgA5A He who creates the world and is the father and master of everyone, He who is the best and is worthy of choos- 9EVENING SHIVSANKALPA MANTRA ing, He who is without chaos, sinless, virtueless, pure, vks3e~ ;TTkkxzrks nwjeqnSfr nSoa rnq lqIrL; rFkSoSfrA free from all faults, mature, salvation, science, He who nwjÂea T;ksfr"kka T;ksfrjsda rUes eu% f'koladYieLrqA1A lights and give joy to the entire world – we worship that ❀ YOG SANDESH-ENGLISH ❀ 52

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~ ;suns a Hkwra Hkqoua Hkfo";r~ ifjx`ghree`rus loZeA~ ;su ;KLrk;rs lIrgksrk rUes eu% f'koladyieLrqA4A vks3e~ ;fLeUu`p% lke;twfa "k ;fLeu~ izfrf"Brk jFkukHkkfookjk%A ;fLe¡f'pÙka loZeksra iztkuka rUes eu% f'koladYieLrqA5A vks3e~ lq"kkjfFkj'okfuo ;Ueuq";kUusuh;rs¿Hkh 'kqfHkokZftu boA âRizfr"Ba ;nftja tfo"Ba rUes eu% f'koladYieLrqA6A 10-

MANTRA TO BE SAID AT MEALTIMES vks3e~ vUuirs¿UuL; uks nsáuehoL; 'kqf"e.k%A iz iznkrkja rkfj"k Åt± uks /ksfg f}ins prq"insA

11SANGATHAN SOOKT vks3e~ la lfe|qols o`"kUuXus fo'okU;;Z vkA bGLins 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.

vks3e~ la xPNèoa la on/oa la oks eukafl tkurke~A nsok Hkkxa ;Fkk iwosZ latkukuk miklrs AA2AA Walk with love, everyone become wise You too, like

your forefathers, carry out your duty well

vks3e~ lekuks eU=k% lfefr% lekuh lekua eu% lg fpÙkes"kke~A lekua 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.

vks3e~ lekuh o vkdwfr% lekuk ân;kfu o%A lekueLrq oks euks ;Fkk o% lqlgklfr AA4AA Let everyone’s heart and resolution always be tranquil.Let minds be filled with love, which in turn increases happiness

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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 awakening my self-quality and national responsibilities, I will make India once again the world leader. l

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GIVING VOICE TO RESPECTED SWAMI RAMDEVJI’S REVOLUTIONARY THOUGHTS AND THE RESOLUTION OF BHARAT SWABHIMAN (TRUST)

REVOLUTIONARY SONG tkx mBk gS vkt ns'k dk fiQj lks;k vfHkeku! tkx mBk gS vkt ns'k dk fiQj lks;k vfHkekuA izkph dh papy fdj.kksa ij] vk;k Lo.kZ fogku&2AA c<+rs vR;kpkj ;qxksa ls LokfHkeku fiQj tkxkA nwj 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
EARTH WILL ECHO TODAY WITH THE SLOGANS OF SELF-RESPECT

vkt rks xwatsxh ;s /kjrh LokfHkeku ds ukjksa ls Vdjk;saxh ;s vkoktsa ns'k ds igjsnkjksa ls oans ekrje~-------------------4AA fo'o xq: Hkkjr dks cukus] pys gSa eLr fnokus js lsok] lerk vkSj esgur ds] xkrs gq, rjkus js Hkkjr u;k cukus dks ge] LoxZ /jk ij yk;sa js g¡lrs&xkrs xqtj tk;asxs] dk¡Vks ls vaxkjksa lsA Vdjk;saxh ;s vkoktsa ns'k ds igjsnkjksa lsAA oans ekrje~-------------------4AA 100 izfr'kr ernku djsxa ]s Hkz"Vkpkj feVkus dks vc xk¡oksa dh vksj c<+saxs] ns'k dks LoLFk cukus dks jk"Vªokn Lohdkj djaxs ]s ns'k dks ,d cukus dks Hkkjr ek¡ dks eqDr djsxa ]s Hkkjr ds xn~nkjksa lsA Vdjk;saxh ;s vkoktsa ns'k ds igjsnkjksa lsAA oans ekrje~-------------------4AA ugha tqMs+ gSa tks Hkh gels] vHkh oDr gS vkvks js Hkz"Vkpkj feVkus dks vc] lkFk [kM+s gks tkvks js ubZ vktknh ubZ O;oLFkk] u;k ifjorZu ykvks js xwats iwjk ns'k gekjk] Lons'kh ds ukjksa lsA Vdjk;saxh ;s vkoktsa ns'k ds igjsnkjksa lsA oans ekrje~-------------------4AA vuq'kklu dk ikB i<+k gS] ;ksx&/eZ viuk;k gS Hkz"Vkpkj] vU;k;] dq'kklu] ftlus gesa lrk;k gS Hkkjr dk LokfHkeku txk gS] fot; dk fcxqy ctk;k gS eqDr djsaxs Hkkjr ek¡ dks] ikiksa vR;kpkjksa lsA Vdjk;saxh ;s vkoktsa ns'k ds igjsnkjksa lsAA oans ekrje~-------------------4AA (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; accept 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.)

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LIVE FOR HINDUSTAN, NOT FOR HINDUS OR MUSLIMS

fgUnw ds fy;s u eqlyeku ds fy;sA thuk gS rks th;ks fgUnqLrku ds fy;sAA vkilh erHksn geas thus ugha nsaxsA ns'k u jgk rks ge dSls jgsaxsA lkspuk gS gesa bUlku ds fy;sA thuk gS rks th;ks fgUnqLrku ds fy;sAA tkfr iaFk dk vkvks Hksn ge feVk;saA ,d gSa ge ,d ;gka cuds fn[kk;saA ,d gS ygw dk jax igpku ds fy;sA thuk gS rks th;ks fgUnqLrku ds fy;sAA ;ksx dk nhi vkvks fey ds tyk;saA ns'k vkSj lekt dks LoLFk (lqUnj) cuk;saA xhrk ds fy;s u dqjku ds fy;sA thuk 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 gks tkvks rS;kj lkfFk;ksa gks tkvks rS;kjA vxj ns'k ds dke u vk;s rks thou csdkjAA gks tkvks rS;kj---------AA vfiZr dj nks ru&eu&/u] ek¡x jgk cfynku oruA mBs gq, ekFks ds lEeq[k Bgj uk ikrh gkjAA gks tkvks rS;kj---------AA dk¡i mBs /kjrh vEcj vkSj mBk yks Å¡pk LojA dksfV&dksfV d.Bksa ls xwt¡ s ns'k dh t;&t;dkjAA gks tkvks rS;kj---------AA (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

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MIND BE SWADESHI

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-----(Let my mind be indigenous, my body be indigenous. 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 indigenous. 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 indigenous, culture will become indigenous, at the time of death, even my shroud needs to be indigenous.)

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THE TIME HAS COME TO WAKE UP tkxus dk oDr vk x;k&3AA [kwu gS Lons'k ds fy;s] vku gS Lons'k ds fy;sA vkc: dk ;s loky gS] tku gS Lons'k ds fy;sAA xjtrk rwiQku vkt bu fnyksa esa mB x;kA tks >d>ksj dj txk x;k&txk x;kAA tkxus dk oDr vk x;k-----ekSr dh pquksfr;ksa dks lqu] ftanxh dHkh ugha #dhA dky dh djky 'kfDr ls] ftanxh dHkh ugha >qdhAA tks toku ns'k ds fy;s 'kghn gks x;kA ekSr dks ogh >qdk x;k&>qdk x;kAA tkxus dk oDr vk x;k-----ljgnksa dh oks igkfM+;k¡] >kad dj gesa fugkjrhaA yks lquks ogk¡ dh ?kkfV;k¡] xwatrh gesa iqdkjrhaAA bap&bap Hkwfe ge Lons'k dh cpk;saxsA diQu cka/ iz.k ;s dj fy;k&dj fy;kAA tkxus dk oDr vk x;k-----(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 nation, have made death bow down, bow down. The mountains in the horizon are looking at us; listen 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! ,s ohj /jk ds tkx tjkA fprdkj dgk¡ ls vkrh gSAA bl ns'k dh vku is feVus dks] Hkkjr ek¡ rq>s cqykrh gSAA Hkkjr dh /jrh LoxZ Hkwfe gS] ve`r bldk ikuh gSA cPpk&cPpk gS Hkxr flag] cgusa >k¡lh okyh jkuh gSAa fiQj vkt fons'kh ywV jgs] ;g ns[k //drh Nkrh gSAA ,s ohj /jk ds tkx tjk-----vkt xqykeh dh csMh+ es]a ns'k tdM+rk tkrk gSA vc rd ftls ltks;k Fkk] oks fur&fur yqVrk tkrk gSA fiQj 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 csdkjhA ns'k dk iSlk jgs ns'k es]a ywVsa u vR;kpkjhA vc ^^Hkkjr LokfHkeku** tkxk] vkokt xxu ls vkrh gSAA ,s ohj /jk ds tkx tjk------

O brave soul of the land, wake up; where is the call coming from? Mother India is calling you to lay your life for her dignity. The land of India is paradise, its water is nectar; each child is Bhagat singh, sisters are Jhansi ki rani. Again foreigners are robbing us, see how the hearts are beating. Today the country is getting tangled in the nets of slavery; That which we have decorated is being robbed constantly; let us again destroy that enemy. There will be no poverty in this nation, nor will there be unemployment; let the money of the nation remain here, let not the torturers take it away. Now India’s self-respect has awakened, the voice is coming from the skies, O brave soul of the land, wake up…

LET OUR HEARTBEATS, OUR BREATH BE FOR THE MOTHERLAND for the nation, ns'k ds fy, th;sa lekt ds fy, th;saA live(Live for the society; let ;s /M+dusa] ;s 'okl gksa] these heartbeats and ekr`Hkwfe ds fy,AA our breath be for the nation. xoZ ls lHkh dgsa] ,d gSa ge ,d gSaA Everyone says with tkfr iaFk fHkUurk esa Lusg lw=k ,d gSaAA pride, we are one; lw[kZ jax dh NVk lIrjax gS fy,A castes and creeds are different but love is the ;s /M+dusa] ;s 'okl gksa] same; From billions of ekr`Hkwfe ds fy,A national duties ns'k ds fy, th;as lekt ds fy;s th;saAA throats, sound; with your dksfV&dksfV daB ls jk"Vª/eZ xtZukA strength daily worship fuR; fl¼ 'kfDr ls ekr`Hkwfe dh vpZukAAmotherland; Yoga is ;ksx 'kfDr dy;qxs lq/k gS /eZ ds fy,A the religion of this dark age. ;s /M+dusa] ;s 'okl gksa] In each person, naekr`Hkwfe ds fy,AA tional devotion be ns'k ds fy, th;sa lekt ds fy;s th;asAA awakened; and join the with the soO;fDr&O;fDr esa txs jk"Vª HkfDr&HkkoukAindividual ciety. O;fDr dks lekt ls tksM+us dh lk/ukAA Countless lamps nk¡o ij lHkh yxs tUe Hkwfe ds fy,A are lit with a divine lamp; Who can blow it ;s /M+duas] ;s 'okl gkas] out, which burns even ekr`Hkwfe ds fy;sA in storms? With brightns'k ds fy, th;sa lekt ds fy, ft;saAA ness, we move ahead ,d fnO; T;ksfr ls vla[; nhi ty jgsA tearing apart darkness. dkSu ykS cq>k lds] vk¡f/;ksa esa tks tysAA Live for the nation, live the society; let rst iq¡t ge cqduk esjs lkFkhAA ugha >qduk esjs lkFkhA ;s dkys lkai iSjksa ls] ;s eqf'dy pkj fnu dh gs] fyiVrs gSa fyiVus nksA fot; ds xhr xkus gSaA ;s dkys n`'; vk¡[kksa esa] Hkys viuh gFksyh ij] fleVrs gSa fleVus nksA vHkh ioZr mBkus gSaA tgu esa vkx dh yiVsa] tys jguk e'kkyksa ls] mBk ysuk esjs lkFkhAA ugha #duk esjs lkFkhAA Lons'kh jkx gh xkuk] Lons'kh jkx gh xkuk] ugha >qduk esjs lkFkhA ugha >qduk esjs lkFkhA Hk¡oj esa gS Hkys d'rh] le; dh ekj lg ysukA fNM+h gS tax jkrksa lsA ugha #duk esjs lkFkhAA gesa rks ck¡/uk gS (Bear the blow of time, do not stop my friend; sing only indigenous tunes, do not bow down, my friend. This black snake has encircled the feet, let it be there; these dark gazes penetrate your eyes, let it penetrate. Pick up bales of fire on this land, my friend. Even if your boat is in the whirlpool, battles have began in the night. We have to stop the force of the flood with these very hands. This difficulties are for only four days, we have to sing the song of victory; What if we still have to raise mountains with our hands now. Burn with torches, do not stop, my friend; sing only indigenous tunes, do not bow down, my friend.)

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List of indigenous products for daily use

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To become a special member of Bharat Swabhimaan (Trust), please fill up this form as directed, cut it here and submit it to the mentioned location.

Boycott foreign products Adopt indigenous goods. Product Foreign Toothpaste/ Most toothpastes are made from bone powder. Colgate, tooth Hindustan Lever (Close Up, powder Pepsodent, Cibaka), Aquafresh, Amway, (Forhans), Oral B, Quantam, etc. Colgate, Close Up, Pepsodent, Aquafresh, Toothbrush Cibaka, etc. Hindustan Lever (Lux, Liril, Lifebouy, Denim, Bath Soap Camay, Dove, Revlon, Pears, Rexona, Breeze, Hamam, OK), Ponds, Dettol, Clearsil, Palmolive, Amway, Johnson Baby, etc. Colgate Palmolive (Halo, Palmolive), Hindustan Shampoo Lever (Lux, Clinic, Sun Silk, Revlon, Lakme), Procter and Gamble (Pantene, Medicare), Ponds, Old Spice, Shower to Shower, Head and Shoulders, Johnson Baby, etc. Hindustan Lever (Surf, Rin, Sunlight, Wheel, OK, Clothes and utensil Vim), Ariel, Check, Henko, Revel, Amway, Quantam, washing For woolen clothes – soaps, Woolwash, Easy. Indigo – powders and indigo Robin Blue, Tinapol, Skylark, etc. Old Spice, Palmolive, Ponds, gilette, Erasmik, Shaving Cream Shaving

Denim, Yardley, etc. Gilette

Indigenous

Product

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.

Cold

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,

Tea and

Drinks

coffee

Infant food and milk powder

Ice cream

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, Vision, Emami, Balsara, Godrej, Nivea, etc.

Clock), Topaz, Gallant, Supermax, Blade Erasmik), Wilman, etc. Lazer, Esquire, Premium, etc. Hindustan Lever (Fair and Kayakanti Aloevera, Kayakanti Cream, Lovely, Lakme, Liril, Neem, Kantilep (Pantanjali), powder and Denim, Revlon), Procter Borosil, Ayur, Emami, Vicco, cosmetics and Gamble (Oil of Olay, Boroplus, Borolin, Himani Gold, Clearsil, Cleartone), Nyle, Lavender, Hair and Care, Charmis, Ponds, Old Spice, Nivea, Heaven’s, Cinthol Glory, Dettol, Nycil, Charlie, Velvete (baby), etc. Johnson Baby, etc. Wrangler, Nike, Duke, Cambridge, Park Avenue, Readymade Adidas, Newport, Puma, etc. Oxemberg, Bombay Dyeing, garments Ruff and Tuff, Trigger Jeans, etc. Rado, Rolex, Swissco, Sico, Titan, HMT, Maxima, Watches etc. Prestige, Ajanta Nicholson, Camel, Kingson, sharp, Pens and Parker, Cello, Wilson, Today, Rotomac, Swissair, Adgel, Natraj, Ambassador, Link, pencils Rider, Mitsubishi, Player, Montex, Stic, Sangeeta, Unibal, Pilot, Rollgold, etc. Luxor, Apsara, etc.

Foreign

Indigenous

Coca Cola (Coke, Fanta, Sprite, Thums Up, Gold Spot, Limca), Pepsi (Lehar, 7Up, Mirinda, Slice), Teem, Citra, Crush, McDowell

Rose sherbet, Badam sherbet (Patanjali), Milk Lassi, buttermilk, juice, lemonade, coconut water, shake, thandai, jal jeera. Rooh Afza, Rasna, Frooti, Godrej Jumpin, etc.

Lipton (tiger, Green Label, Yellow Label, Cheers), Brooke Bond (Red Label, Taj Mahal), Geoffrey Phillips, Polson, Goodricke, Sunrise. Coffee – Nestle, Nescafe, Richbru Nestle (Lactogen, Cerelac, Nestum, LPF, Milkmaid, Nespray, Everyday), Glaxo (Farex), 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.

In most icecreams, there Home-made ice cream, Kulfi, is a layer of animal en- amul, Vadilal’s, milk food, trails. Walls, Kwality, etc. Dollops, Cadbury, etc.

Salt

Annapurna, Captain Cook (Hindustan Lever), Kissan (BrookeBond), Pilsbury, etc.

Akur Salt, Sandhya Namak (Patanjali), Low sodium and iron – 45 Ankur, Tata, surya, Taza, Tara

Potato chips and savouries Tomato Sauce, Fruit jam

Uncle, Pepsi (Raffles, Laher, Kurkure), Fun munch, etc. Nestle, Brooke Bond (Kissan), Brown and

Bikano savouries, Haldiram, Home-made chips, Bikaji, etc. Fruti jam, apple jam, mixed jan (Patanjali), Home-made sauce. Indana, Priya, Rasna, etc.

Polson, etc.

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Most chocolates have arsenic salt poison. Biscuit, Cadbury (Bournvita, 5 Chocolate Star), Lipton, Horlicks, Nutrene, Eclairs, etc. Water

Aquafina, Kinley, Bailey, Home-boiled water, Yes, Pure Life, Evian, Perrier, Ganga, Himalaya, Catch, etc.

Tonic

Jaggery and peanuts, almonds are more healthy. Amla candy, Bel candy, Biscuit, candy (Patanjali). Brittania, Parle, Bakeman’s, Creamica, Sagrila, Indana, Amul, Ravalgaon, etc.

Rail-neer, Bisleri, etc.

Boost, Polson, Bournvita, Badam Pak, Chawanprash, Horlicks, Complan, Spurt, amrit Rasayan (Patanjali), Nutramul, Maltova Protinex

Nestle ghee, all brands Clarified of ITC or Hindustan butter and Lever edible oil

Param ghee, Amul ghee, Deshi cow ghee, mustard oil (Patanjali)

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 made in 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 on a priority and make the village self-dependent.

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Application form for Bharat Swabhimaan (Trust)

Special Member

Correspondence headquarters: Patanjali Yogpeeth, Maharshi Dayanand Gram, Bahadrabad, Haridwar - 249 402 Telephone: 01334-244107, 240008, 246737 FAX: 01334-244805, 240664 I.D No.

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(Signature of applicant) Oath I 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 noted 1. Apart from being healthy, dedicated, financially stable and educated, the applicant must follow the seven principles, seven ideals and five vows. 2. You can 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 receipt of 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 through Yoga. Special members will be given priority over working members and ordinary members. 2. All members of Bharat Swabhimaan (Trust) will be given free daily or weekly Yoga training by yoga teachers trained at Patanjali Yogpeeth. 3. Under the scheme of ‘One family-One gift’, each family joined with Bharat Swabhimaan will get an annual gift in the form yog Prasad. 4. By joining with Bharat Swabhimaan, you will get the opportunity to participate to a large extent in all activities of an international organization, Patanjali Yogpeeth. 5. Special members will be given preference while nominating candidates 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 Maharaj in Haridwar. For this, working members will be given priority over ordinary members. 2. All members of the Bharat Swabhimaan family will be given daily or weekly yoga training by yoga teachers trained by Patanjali Yogpeeth. 3. By joining with Bharat Swabhimaan, you get the opportunity to participate 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 is nationalism, 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 to contribute financially to national wellbeing according to your capacity. 2. Our special members and working members should practise yoga for 1 hour everyday for their self-confidence. However, it is compulsory to attend the weekly yoga classes and monthly meetings. 3. Each special and working member of Bharat Swabhimaan will observe all five vows including 100% voting, and will observe the concise aims, philosophy and principles, and will also motivate others to follow these vows for national wellbeing. 4. Registration fee for special members: To become special members, a bi-annual registration fee of Rs 1100/- has been decided. Draft should be in the name of “Bharat Swabhimaan (Trust)” payable at Haridwar. The name, address and phone number 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 from the 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. till December 2010.

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