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YOG SANDESH-ENGLISH 3 m|e% lkgla /S;± cqf¼% 'kfDr% ijkØe%A "kMsrs ;=k orZUrs r=k nso lgk;Ñr~AA CONTENTS Year : 6 Issue : 7 March 2009 Editor Acharya Balkrishan Sub-Editor Dr. Rajendra Vidyalankar Jayshankar Mishra Subscription Single copy.........................15- Annual................................150/- Five year .............................700/- Eleven years...................... 1500/- Outside India (Annual)......800/- Editorial 4 Foreword 5 Jeevan Darshan 6 National Religion 12 ‘Bharat Swabhiman’ Aim Philosophy And Principles 17 The Religion Of Yoga 34 Cultural Understanding 38 Personal And National Thoughts 45 Daily Eulogy 52 OFFICE PATANJALI YOGPEETH Maharshi Dayanand Gram, Delhi-Hardwar High Way Near- Bahadrabad, Hardwar, Uttarakhand, (INDIA) 249402 Ph: 01334-240008, 244107, 246737 Fax No. 01334-244805, 240664 E-mail : [email protected], Visit us at : www.divyayoga.com Publication & Distribution Office Diamond Comics Group of Publications D. C. Magazines Punjabi Pustak Bhandar 257, Dariba Kalan, Delhi-110006 Contact : Gulshan Rai Fax % (0120)&4238010 Fax % (0120)&4238010] E-mail: [email protected] OM OFFICE

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Yog Sandesh of March 2009, by Patanjali Yogpeeth Trust. This issue contains most of Jivan Darshan (Philosophy of Life) book written and widely distributed by Swami Ramdev

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m|e% lkgla /S;± cqf¼% 'kfDr% ijkØe%A"kMsrs ;=k orZUrs r=k nso lgk;Ñr~AA

CONTENTS

Year : 6 Issue : 7 March 2009

Editor

Acharya Balkrishan

Sub-Editor

Dr. Rajendra Vidyalankar

Jayshankar Mishra

Subscription

Single copy.........................15-

Annual................................150/-

Five year.............................700/-

Eleven years......................1500/-

Outside India (Annual)......800/-

Editorial 4

Foreword 5

Jeevan Darshan 6

National Religion 12

‘Bharat Swabhiman’ Aim

Philosophy And Principles 17

The Religion Of Yoga 34

Cultural Understanding 38

Personal And National Thoughts 45

Daily Eulogy 52

OFFICE

PATANJALI YOGPEETH

Maharshi Dayanand Gram, Delhi-Hardwar High Way

Near- Bahadrabad, Hardwar, Uttarakhand, (INDIA) 249402

Ph: 01334-240008, 244107, 246737 Fax No. 01334-244805, 240664

E-mail : [email protected], Visit us at : www.divyayoga.com

Publication & Distribution Office

Diamond Comics Group of Publications

l l l l l D. C. Magazines l l l l l Punjabi Pustak Bhandar257, Dariba Kalan, Delhi-110006

Contact : Gulshan RaiFax % (0120)&4238010

Fax % (0120)&4238010] E-mail: [email protected]

OM

OFFICE

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;L;ka iwosZ HkwrÑr ½"k;ks xk mnku`pq%AlIr l=ks.k os/lks ;Ksu rilk lgAAThe tradition of sages has continued in our mother-

land. Our forefathers had been great sages, great ascet-

ics and scholars. Our ancestors lived a simple and re-

strained life enhanced with penance. They lead a life of

sacrifice and welfare, developing good people. With pen-

ance and the feeling of sacrifice, they continuously strived

for excellence and their words of advice have continued

to guide the people of the nation. In this way, they made

their life a ‘sapta hota’ yagna.

With such a life, enriched with these great qualities,

the sages worked for the nation. In our nation, the tradi-

tion of these great sages is still continuing in the same

way even now. Even today we have sages with great

qualities living in our nation.

Ram, Krishna, Buddha, Swami Ramkrishna

Paranhansa, Swami Dayanand and Swami Vivekanand

have aroused the sleeping spiritual powers in Indian

people. Respected Swami Ramdevji has not only lit the

lamp of spirituality and philosophy in Indian souls, but

also shown mankind a beautiful path, leaving aside sor-

row and pain, by joining yoga with spirituality and medi-

cal treatment. Approximately crores of people across the

world have been shown the path of gaining spirituality

through yoga and pranayam and vice versa, of gaining

spirituality through the medium of yoga. For this, people

have entrusted their faith on Swamiji and he has become

the symbol of manhood as defined in Indian culture.

Today there is no politician, actor or any such saint

who have as much public support as Swami Ramdevji

Maharaj.

Every section of society is benefiting from yoga. To

ensure that even the last man gets benefits from yoga,

‘yoga teachers’ trained by ‘Patanajali Yogpeeth’ are spread-

ing awareness on yoga and nationalism to serve the moth-

erland and sorrow-inflicted mankind. It is the etiquette of

the yoga teachers to live a life with the feeling of friend-

ship towards all, kindness towards the poor and sick,

respect towards all religions and communities, and to in-

spire fellow countrymen to lead a life of purity.

I am an Indian; humanity is my community; my reli-

gion is humanity and my responsibility towards the na-

tion. It is to develop this feeling and develop national char-

acter that continuous work is going on.

Respected Swami Ramdevji believes that ‘Glorious past

is my self-respect’. The nation that does not take pride in

its past, or about which the present generation is not aware,

will never be able to build a golden future. A poet has also

written – ‘Jise nij gaurav tatha nij desh ka abhimaan na

ho, who nar nahi, nira pashu aur mritak saman he’. One

who does not take pride in his and his country’s glory is

not a man but is equivalent to a mere animal or a dead

person.

‘The honour of the nation is my honour and self-re-

spect, and if the image of the nation, the self-respect of

the country, is hurt at any point then it is my insult. I will

awaken the nation’s self-respect. I will dedicate my en-

tire life for the good of the nation.’ Filled with this feel-

ing, Swami Ramdevji established the ‘Bharat Swabhiman

Trust’ and started the important work of awakening

India’s self-respect across the globe.

With his sacrifice, penance, labour and hard work,

Swamiji is constantly trying to re-establish the almost lost

tradition of sages. Renouncing his own happiness for the

good of others, he has lit the world with the light of Vedic

knowledge and brought about welfare of mankind. The

work of removing ignorance, superstition and evils is

constantly going on. Today, Swamiji Maharaj has become

the carrier of Vedic tradition.

Today our nation is independent but there is still the

large problem of protecting this independence. Protect-

ing the independence of the nation is much harder than

the trials and ordeals of gaining independence. A lot has

been said about one’s nation in the Vedas. At various places

in the four Vedas, there is discussion about nation. The

protection of the nation is not possible by a single person

and that is why it is the duty of all the citizens of the

nation. It is necessary to instill the feelings of oneness

and love in all people of the nation and obtain their sup-

port.

It is to light this lamp of national feeling in each and

everyone that Swami Ramdevji Maharaj has gifted us

‘Jeevan Darshan’. It gives us directions on our duties

and responsibilities for the self and the nation. Please help

in the accomplishment of national responsibilities by dis-

tributing ‘Jeevan Darshan’ to the maximum extent you

can.

In this way, freeing people from maladies, Swami

Ramdevji Maharaj is intent on establishing India once again

on the throne of ‘Global Guru’ by removing the various

widespread inconsistencies and faults and instilling the

feeling of national honour and pride in people.

- Acharya Balkrishan

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Our Life is God’s greatest boon. Being born as a human being is God’s greatest gift to us.

Life is priceless and living life to fulfill petty goals is an insult to it. To spend your energy in

trivial pursuits, and to waste invaluable time in fulfilling material desires and obtaining luxuries

is akin to looking down on life. Life is endless, our strengths are also endless and our potential

is also vast. We are able to utilize only about 5 per cent of our physical, mental, social and

spiritual strengths. Majority of our powers are lying unconscious. If we use our internal

strengths fully, we turn from man into superman, from human to super-powerful humans.

Our human consciousness gradually falls down to a licentious consciousness and the world

out of delusion starts worshipping human beings as Gods. All the divine qualities that were

present in Sri Krishna, Sri Ram, Mahayogi Shiva, Mahavir Swami, Nirvana-attaining Buddha,

Guru Nanakdev and Guru Govind Singh are also inherent in us. A yogi should never consider

himself poor, helpless or powerless. At every moment tell yourself, I am vast. I am a repre-

sentative of God. I was born on this earth with a great purpose. I have within myself the

patience of the earth, the energy of fire, the speed of wind, the calmness of water and the

vastness of the sky.

My brain has the energy, intellect, wisdom and brilliance of the Brahmin. My arms have

the courage, strength, power and dignity of the Kshatriya. Within my stomach I have the

business strategies of the Vaishya and I consider it my honour to be able to serve like the

Sudra. I am not an individual but a culture. I am a messenger of eternal traditions. India is in

me. I am the beloved child of mother India. I am not land, mansion, position or youth. I am

not the mortal body but I am the immortal, brilliant, rootless, eternal soul.

Love, kindness, peace and affection is my identity and religion. My work is my

religion. I am not merely a worshipper of stone idols but of those living idols that my

Lord has created Himself and in whose souls He resides himself. I am the worshipper

of the chaitanya murta Brahma. Storms cannot make me bend, obstacles cannot

hinder my life path and insults cannot distract my patience. I will make my life blessed

by surrendering totally to obey the instructions of my guru and the scriptures. I will not

allow any hindrance to the flow of virtue in my life. At each moment, I will lead a life full

of love, kindness, courage, bravery, power, self-confidence. At every moment, my

external and internal life will remain pure and free from fault. In my life, the good of

the nation will be above everything else and this will be my motto. I am first of all the

child of Mother India and only after that I am an ascetic, householder, politician,

actor, worker, officer or businessman. How could I have existed if my country did not

exist? My country is everything for me. This life is for the nation. This life is for God.

This is the aim of my life. Duty towards my nation comes before my political duties or

ascetic duties. The nation’s glory is my glory and any insult to my nation is an insult

towards me. I will not allow my country’s glory, pride and honour to be tarnished.

Even if I have to sacrifice everything, I will do so in order to make India the super-

power of the world. I will bring back the lost glory of my country.

Come! Come forward and be ready to sacrifice everything in fulfilling this pure

and holy resolution.

Come! Let us all unite to build a new India together.

- Swami Ramdev

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I AND MY PERSONALITY

1. I am not an individual; I am the manifestation of theentire nation. I am not narrow or small; I am vast. Iam the image of the Lord. I am the representativeof truth, non-violence and good conduct. In my body,my nation resides. I am the fate and the reflectionof India. I am the one who decides the fate of my-self and my nation.

2. I am always in my Lord; my Lord is always in me.Everything that I see around me is nothing but im-ages of the Lord. Everything I do is a worship ofthe Lord. Everything that I have is a gift from theLord. I am a child of God. He, the ruler of the world,the creator of the universe, is my Father. The bless-ings of the most superior and divine power are al-ways with me.

3. I am extremely fortunate to have taken birth on thesoil of this holy and pure country, which has alsobeen the birthplace of divine personalities such asShri Krishna, Buddha, Mahavir, Guru Nanakdev andGuru Govind Singh, brave heroes such as MaharanaPratap, Chattrapati Shivaji, Chandrashekhar Azad,Subhash Chandra Bose, Ram Prasad Bismil, BhagatSingh, Raj Guru and Ashfaq, and holy souls such asMaharshi Dayanand and Swami Vivekanand. I prayto Mother India while offering the flower of mylife.

4. As my inheritance, my Lord has given me the pa-tience of earth, the energy of fire, the speed of wind,the calmness of water, and the vastness of the sky.

5. Let me be known by my mother, my father, myteacher, or my ancestors. This is not my glory be-cause I did not contribute anything. My parents gavebirth to me, my teachers gave me knowledge. Myancestors are my pride. With my knowledge, workand life, I will create my identity, and in doing so Iwill increase the honour of my parents, my teach-ers and my country.

6. I am not a believer in fate, material enjoyment orterrorism. I am a believer in humanity, patriotism,

humanitarian values, and spirituality. Free from theboundaries of region, language, religion, andbehavioural debates, I am the war-call for national-ism.

7. I am not merely an individual but the manifestationof the gentility and culture of the entire nation.Hence, the entire country is affected by everythingI do, good or bad. Till the time blood flows throughmy veins and life exists in my body, I will not betraymy country. This is my ‘Bhisma pratigya’ (unshakenvow).

8. The purity and fearlessness of childhood, the vigourof youth, the good sense of old age, and the dedica-tion of ascetics the ideals of my life. Children andsaints are not tied by the threads of illusion.

9. Work is my only religion. Work is my worship. Workis the truth of life and the world. Working withoutany desire does not indicate lack of work, it indi-cates the lack of arrogance.

10. Valour, nationalism, expertise, farsightedness, spiri-tuality, humanitarianism, and humility are the idealsof my working style.

11. Nation-religion is the biggest religion; Nation-god isthe greatest God; and love for the nation is the high-est form of love. The good of the nation is aboveeverything else. The nation is everything for me.bna jk"Vªk; bnUu eeA . My body-mind-wealth will allremain dedicated to the nation. The seven principlesof nationalism, the seven duties of spirituality andidealism are the ideals of my personal national life.

12. When I am alone, it is not loneliness; in the silenceI am permeated by many currents of divine knowl-edge and divine inspiration and I find an eternal lampalways shining on me.

13. When my internal awakening took place, I foundmyself in the shade of the Sangbodi tree, my thirstquenched.

14. At birth itself, man experiences pain and suffering.Hence, throughout life there will be thorns to walkupon. Amongst these thorns, you will have to blos-som the flowers of your life like tender rose petals.

15. God wants to choose you for great work. You haveto just open up and let the vastness enter you com-pletely. When through meditation and prayer you be-come the messenger of the Lord’s powers, then thedivine powers are at work with you as the medium.

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16. When you long greedily for fame in the externalworld, it means you have not yet attained innerwealth or peace. The day you gain the inner king-dom or happiness, you will Yourself proclaim, ¶izkIraizki.kh;a {kh.kk% {ksrO;k% Dys'kk% fNUu% f'y"ViokZHkolaØe% ;L;kfoPNsnkTtk;rs tfuRok p fez;rsA¸(Maharshi Vyas-yogsutra 1.16)

17. Take care not to repeat mistakes. Repetition of mis-takes leads to hindrance in progress and your innerstrength decreases.

18. Knowledge does not simply mean knowing; itmeans becoming that knowledge.¶l ,oa Hkofr ;,oa osnA¸

19. Be determined but not obstinate. Be brave but notimpulsive. Be kind but not weak. Be silent but notarrogant. Be clever but not cunning. Be patient butnot irresponsible. Show respect but do not be a cow-ard. There should be sweetness but not flattery.There should be justice but not a feeling of revenge.

20. A prayer for forgiveness or penance is somethingthat is done just once; it loses it’s meaning it re-peated again and again.

21. My head has the intellect of a Brahmin, my armshave the valour, strength and the heroic energy of aKshatriya, my belly has the business and manage-ment skills of a Vaishya, and in my feet I have theability to serve like a Sudra. This is my caste vow.

22. I am Agni; I am knowledge, light, speed, the chiefand the commander. ¶vfXujfLe tUeuk tkrosn%¸(Rig Veda 3.26.7). The fire of resolution is alwaysburning within me. The path of my life is alwayslighted.

PARENTS – GODS ON EARTH

23. Always keep happiness and a smile on your face.Give respect to others; you will get respect. Givehappiness to others; you will get happiness. Serveyour parents; in old age your children will serve you.

24. A mother keeps her child for nine months in thewomb with love, kindness, affection and maternalfeelings. After this, she keeps her child on her lapfor nine months, and till she dies, a mother keepsher child in her heart. The four worlds can be foundat your parents’ feet. Parents are the God of thisworld. Children are the only desire of parents. Neverinsult such parents. Do not leave them in old agehomes otherwise in the next life God will give ananimal’s birth to you where your father will oftennot be known and mother will leave you in child-hood. Howsoever you sow, so shall you reap. Hence,awaken! Once again adopt the culture of ¶ekr`nsoksHko] fir`nsoks Hko] vkpk;Znsoks Hko] vfrfFknsoks Hko¸. My mother is my god, my father is my god, myteacher is my god, and my guest is my god.

25. You should never forget your past. The knowledgeof the past saves us from mistakes and in the per-son who reaches the top, the remembrance of thepast prevents arrogance. It is only because of for-getting the past that people forget their parents. Ifthe memories of childhood and the mother’s womb

are remembered, then you will never disregard yourparents. Even after touching the sky, rememberingthe past keeps a person’s feet on the ground.

26. It is God himself who give birth to us in the form ofour parents. In this way, experiencing the divinerelationship in every relationship is yoga.

INSULT TO WOMAN IS INSULT TO MOTHER

The real beauty of a woman is not her body but hercharacter. Woman is not a commodity to be sold inthe market. She is Sita, Savitri, Jagadamba, Durga,Taravati, Gargi, Madalasha, Mahalaksmi, Meera andLaksmibai. Woman is the affection of a mother, re-

gard of a wife and love of a daughter. Do not makewomen a saleable commodity and do not joke aboutthe character of a woman. This is an insult to mother.The way electronic media keeps placing a questionmark over the character of the aware mothers, sis-ters and daughters of the nation, it should be op-

posed with full strength. These carnivores of themarket with rotten minds should be made to under-stand that the women of India are not character-less – they are the highest degree of purity.

CONTINUOUS FLOW OF THOUGHT

27. In my inner and outer life, pure qualities such as

non-violence, truth, love, kindness, affection, valour,

courage, strength, might, and self-respect, etc. should

always be found. To keep this flow unobstructed,

one should determinedly immerge yourself in self-

study, and utmost devotion unto God and worship

of gods. teacher’s nearness, his life, teachings and

conduct gives us strength from within, and keeps

the holy flow of our life continuous.

28. If you smile, the world smiles along with you, and

when you feel sad, depressed, defeated and help-

less, the world will seem extremely sad to you.

29. Happiness does not come from outside, but from

within. Happiness appears when you are in a com-

pletely silent, unconscious and peaceful state. Live

a life that is always full of inner enthusiasm, energy

and self-confidence. God has created and chosen

you for a great purpose.

30. You doubt yourself and the Lord at times. How-

ever, it is strange that people never doubt untruth or

hatred.

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Wake Up! Always be Positive!Always be a collector of nectar, be curious!

At every moment experience God’s contact!The Lord always gives us more than what wedeserve, more than our abilities and our labour.

31. pjSosfr&pjSosfr] pju~ oS eèkq foUnfr. If there is a restduring work then this rest is a sin. Do not let ob-stacles stop you, do not let trouble and temptationover power you, do not let insults divert you. Keepmarching forward till you reach your goal.

32. The sound of a single deed is louder than a thou-sand words – it is very powerful. Let us believe inthe culture of showing by example and not merelyin making speeches.

33. It is only our thoughts and culture that can bewealthy or great. Similarly, it is only our thoughtsand culture that can be poor, destitute or infamous.

34. A person lost in a crowd can be found but a personwho is lost in the crowd of thoughts will spend hisentire life in darkness. A person trapped in the webof thoughts will end his life in the same way as aspider ends its life by tying itself in his web it spuns.

35. Old age is not how many years you have lived; it isthe outcome of your thoughts. If there is energy,power, valour, courage and self-respect then evenwith increasing age, a person will remain young. Acountry will only become great with the knowledgeof the elderly and the courage, valour and self-re-spect of the youth. A very big difference betweenthe elderly and the young is – the young are notfearful of the outcome while the elderly remain con-stantly fearful of personal outcomes, and hence,cannot take decisions quickly.

36. If the flow of my opinions is not able to change thecorrupt people, corrupt governments and corruptsystems, then I will be helpless and will be forcedto protect my motherland from injustice, poverty,hunger, lack of education, social irregularities, ha-tred, crime, misconduct, ill intentions, anger and re-venge, and will have to undertake a wide-spreadrevolution to remove the wide-spread injustice,crime, exploitation and hatred.

37. Thought is the biggest strength and wealth. Thought

is the greatest power in the world. Thoughts have

unlimited strength and energy. Thoughts are evi-

dence, sacrifice, might, valour, courage and self-

respect. Thoughts can rage like the fire and storm,

and be calm like peace and contentment.

38. Pure thought-flow is life. In other words, breaking

up the thought-flow is death.

39. The great vows of non-violence and truth are noth-

ing but the purity of thought.

40. Morality, spirituality and humanitarianism are noth-

ing but purity of thought.41. Jealousy, crime, cruelty, exploitation, injustice,

irreligion, and corruption are nothing but the out-come of impure thoughts.

42. Pure thought is the basis of a person’s pure food,pure behaviour, pure conduct and pure life.

43. Ethics is nothing but the purity of thoughts.44. A resolute thought is the bridge of success.45. Purity of thoughts builds up social capability.46. Thoughts are the gateway to happiness.47. Good thought is the root of good conduct.48. Our entire life is the outcome of our thoughts.

Thought is the seed of this tree of life.49. With unrelenting good resolution and thought, even

a wicked man can become great.50. Thought is human, while lack of thought is animal.51. Pure thought is the voice behind sweet and effec-

tive words.52. Purity of thought is the solution to all our problems.

Pure thought is the foundation of a healthy, pros-perous and strong nation.

53. I am confident that the same pure thoughts that mademe rise high, that increased my self-confidence andtook me ahead on my mission will also awaken ev-ery individual of the nation, will awaken the self-respect of the nation and when everyone performshis own duties with entire strength, then certainlymy country will become great and it will lead theworld.

54. My biggest strength is my thoughts. My purethoughts have protected me from sin; my thoughtsgave me the courage to fight against obstacles andadversities. It is because of my thoughts that I havebeen able to turn my defeat into my victory, and itonly because of them that I have come out all themore powerful after going through the worst of theworst disasters.

55. When impure thoughts of jealousy, antipathy, angerand revenge can make a person hateful and crimi-nal, then why can’t pure thoughts make a personpatriotic, spiritual, humanitarian and progressive?

56. When with impure thought a person can be madecharacterless, when a person can sell his or herbody, religion and humanity, why can’t pure thoughtcreate a person of character?

57. If the seeds of hatred and dislike can be sown withina person with the help of bad thoughts, why can’tthe flowers of love, kindness and affection bloomwith the help of pure thoughts?

58. When impure thought can be used to instigate aperson into crime and lawlessness to break down asociety, why can’t pure thought be used to awakenthe inner soul of a person to unite society?

59. Just as food is the basis for our physical growth,

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similarly thought is the basis for the growth of ourmind, wisdom, intellect and all other feelings.

60. Just as a person becomes malnourished with theuse of adulterated or imbalanced food, in the sameway, people become susceptible to illusions withpolluted, impure and imbalanced thoughts; and it isthis illusion of thoughts that is the root cause of cor-ruption, hatred, crime and restlessness.

61. Our sorrow and happiness do not depend on othersbut rather on our own thought.

62. Impure thoughts are the root cause of all problemssuch as hatred, tension, crime, murder and suicide.Impure thoughts are the reason for all kinds of de-terioration such as wickedness, obstinacy and arro-gance.

63. Poverty of thought is the cause for sorrow, defi-ciency and retrogression in the nation. Resolute andfirm thought is the backbone of happiness, prosper-ity and progress.

64. It is important to take care of historical inheritances.However, the rope that Mahatma Gandhi used totie his goat with is exhibited in museums but therope that was used to hang immortal martyrs suchas Bhagat Singh, Rajguru, Sukhdev, Ashfaq UllahKhan, and Ramprasad Bismil is not seen in anymuseum, it is the misfortune of the nation. Becauseby remembering the sacrifice of the martyrs theself-respect of the people will awaken, and corrupt,cunning and criminal people won’t be able to robthe nation any longer.

LIFE

65. Each morning of life is a new birth for me and eachday is like one life for me. I will do today all thosethings for which God has sent me to this world.

66. My life as well as my death – both should behonourable.dhfrZ;ZL; l thofr. Live life not withtimidity and weakness but with self-respect and self-knowledge. God has created you for great work.

67. Life is a celebration. Life is God’s greatest gift. Thisbody is the house of God, the residence of Shiva.This body is the temple of God. This body is not tobe fought against. The soul is immortal, everyoung,constant, indestructible, light, energetic, peaceful andcontented.

68. As long as there is life, a person should not becomelifeless. Keep moving towards your goal with de-termination showing friendship to the happy, kind-ness to the sad, love to the good and contempt tothe wicked. You will definitely get success one dayand will always remain happy in life.

DO NOT GIVE UP THE EFFORT

69. Often, the more developed a civilization is; themore developed a civilization, person, society and

nation is, the lazier that civilization, person, society or

nation becomes, and this becomes the cause of itsruin. Hence, along with exaltation, the effort should

not slow down.SERVICE

70. Without service, the intellect is not purified and with-out purification of the intellect, the divine Lord can-not be experienced. Hence, you should always beon the lookout for opportunities for service.

SOCIAL WELFARE

71. Man remains more alert to others than about one-self; if we have the same alertness towards our-selves and become aware of our mind, thoughts,feelings, behaviour and work then it will lead to ourwelfare. Hence, before trying to improve the world,improve yourself. First, become a good person thenyou will automatically improve the world. Just asshadow is the outcome of the tree; only if the treeis there, we will get the shadow. Bring about yourwelfare, and the welfare of the world will happenon its own.

72. How will one who hasn’t quenched his own thirstquench the thirst of others? How can a sleepingperson awaken others? How can a hungry individualsatisfy the hunger of others? Hence, before thewelfare of the world, first accomplish self-welfare.First wake up yourself! Then awaken others!!WORSHIP CHARACTER, NOT THE IMAGE

73. Worship character, not the image. Worship person-ality, not the person. Let us not live life by merelyworshipping stone idols. Let us become worship-pers of consciousness and awaken the flood of yogaand patriotism in stone hearts.

WORK

74. Work is religion. Work is worship. Rest is a sin andrest only occurs at the end of work. Your own workis your own religion. Total dedication towards yourown work is the worship of God.

WHY CAN’T THIS HAPPEN?75. When, for a paltry sum of money, people of our

own nation can become treacherous, can’t thepeople of our country be made upright and honestin order to protect the magnificence of our nation?A handful of people are ready to sell the countryfor a handful of money, betray the nation. But thereare thousands and millions of people who would diefor their nation rather than sell themselves. We haveto unite such patriotic people.

FROM ‘I’ TO ‘LOVE’76. Where ‘me’ and ‘mine’ unites, there love, kindness,

affection and surrender is born, there service and

goodwill evolves by itself. In worldly relationships

where ‘I’ and ‘mine’ are joined, we would always

be ready to sacrifice for our close relatives. When

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‘I’ and ‘mine’ gets unitedwith the country, the feel-ing arises that this coun-try is mine and what I amtoday is solely because ofthe country. It is then thata person will becomeready to sacrifice his ev-erything for the nation.The life that is within meis because of the treesthat grow on the soil ofthis nation. This country

has given birth to me and the food and water of thisnation’s land has kept me alive. The nation has givenme wealth, power, property and respect. The tearsof the mothers, sisters, daughters, children and hu-man of this nation are my sorrow, and the well-being of the nation is my happiness. Even if oneperson in the country is helpless, destitute, poor, hun-gry or sick, then this pain of Mother India is mysorrow, my pain. It is my duty or obligation, it is mynational responsibility, it is my service ethics to makesure that not even one individual of my nation diesof hunger or sickness.

WE MUST THINK LIKE THIS?77. There is no permission for “No”.78. I will follow the advice and orders of my teachers

and scriptures to my utmost capacity. This is mywork-culture.

79. Always set your frequency to positive mode be-cause there is a constant flow of energy waves,both positive and negative, from the universe. Wehave to accept only the positive vibrations from theuniverse.

80. Instead of thinking “What can I do by myself?”,think “What can I not do by myself!” Nothing isimpossible in this world, everything is possible.

81. When corrupt, treacherous, criminal, and irrespon-sible people can together rob the nation, why can’tpatriotic, honest, responsible and awakened individu-als get together to protect the nation?

SHED APPREHENSIONS, BE POSITIVE!82. You sometimes have doubts about truth, love, self

and God, but how strange that a person never doubtsuntruth or hatred. Always be positive! Always beopen to new ideas! Feel the connection with Godevery moment! The Lord always gives us more thanwhat we can do, what we deserve and what wedo.

BE SENSITIVE

83. Emotion diminishes a person’s intellect and sensi-tivity enriches humanity. Hence, be sensitive, not

emotional. Sensitivity makes us aware of our re-sponsibility and keeps us involved in self-duties andnational duties.

SELF-QUALITIES

84. Just as cold, heat, hunger and thirst are the qualitiesof the body, honour-insult, happiness-sorrow andprofit-loss are the qualities of the mind. Similarly,love, kindness, affection, respect, devotion, surren-der, peace and joy are the qualities of the soul. Thequalities of the soul are your self-qualities. Wor-shipping the Lord by doing your own work, whilekeeping your self-qualities intact, will take you toSamadhi and fulfillment. LodeZ.kk reH;P;Z flf¼afoUnfr ekuo% (Gita 18.46).

LOVE

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

GURU

86. Saints, guru and acharyas advise us while they areliving at a very high state of the intellect or are as-cended on divine knowledge in a state that is freefrom life. If we too connect ourselves with that stateof life consciousness then we will also say what thesaints are saying and our lives too will become com-pletely transformed like the saints’.

87. Guru is one who awakens, connects you with theeternal, tells you the direction, gives you what youhave lost, teaches you to call, introduces you to yoursoul, shows you the way and finally, makes you likehim. However, remember that guru will just showyou the way; you will have to do the walking your-self.

88. Someone asked a Sufi saint for his introduction –What do you eat? What do you wear? Where doyou stay? The saint replied – I eat death, I wearshrouds, and I stay in the grave.

FIND YOUR GURU

89. You truly see your guru when you become one withthe mind, wisdom, speech, behaviour and will of guruor a saint, and live your life with divine conscious-ness like him. This is why it is said, ¶lkèkwuka n'kZuaiq.;a] rhFkZHkwrk fg lkèko%A¸ Perceiving this body offlesh and bones is not the complete vision. See thesoul inside the body.

CONVERSATION WITH GURU

90. Obtaining intelligence directly or indirectly throughstudy of books of the guru is a direct conversation

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

RELIGION

91. Omnipresent and scientific truth is omnipresent re-ligion. That which does not measure up to the stan-dards of omnipresent and scientific truths is not re-ligion; it is illusion. I am religious, not blinded byreligion. I will not make religion a business nor willI make work dirty.

92. Religion is another name for superior conduct. Re-ligion is not merely symbolic, it affects your con-duct. The principal root of religious symbols suchas the Sikha (top-knot) and Sutra (thread) is alsoconduct. Symbolic religion without observing theestablished rule of conduct is nothing but illusionand irreligion. Hence, become religious, not blindedby religion.

93. I do not believe in conversion of religion. Religion isnothing but good qualities which includes non-vio-lence, truth, affection, service, control, and goodbehaviour. All these qualities are present in all reli-gions. Hence, there is no such thing as conversionin religion. Religion is nothing but premium ideals ofa worthy life.

94. I do not think it is necessary to try and convert peopleby establishing schools and hospitals because evenI have changed the lives of crores of people fromvarious classes and religions. I have given themhealth, have given life to people who were very neardeath but I haven’t changed the religion of even asingle person.

FOOD

95. Just as poisonous food causes frightening harm toour body, similarly harmful thoughts too cause fright-ening tension, sorrow, restlessness and incurablediseases after entering our mind. Hence, if you wantto attain a superior personality, then be alert towardsyour food and thoughts at every moment. Theamount of cruelty a person does on his body is prob-ably not done by him on anyone else.

96. This body is the house of God, the residence ofShiva. This body is the temple of God. Do not makeit a bar by drinking alcohol, a hospital by the intakeof tobacco, etc. or a graveyard or cremation groundby eating meat, etc. Be conscientious about rituals,frugality and wellbeing. Have pure, balanced andcomplete food in time and make your body healthy.

WHY ONLY VEGETARIANISM?97. Just as we have to live in this world, similarly other

living beings too have the right to live here without

fear. If we cannot create any living being, then whogave us the right to kill them? And we kill any ani-mal for the reason that they do not look like us.However, all animals have heart, brain and eyes.They have sorrow and deep pain but we kill thembecause they do not have any weapons for theirsecurity or because in this new era of the demo-cratic drama, they do not have the voting rights.Only if they could also speak like us! Maybe thenthey could have made us realize their pain and sor-row. But what to do, these animals do not knowhow to speak in human language and we celebrateour joy by cruelly killing these mute animals who donot desire anything and have not committed any sin,and feel glorified in carnivorously tearing apart fleshand eating it like dogs and wolves. There can be nogreater sin or crime than this. If you can lead avegetarian life without killing innocent animals, thenwhy are you continuing to kill them? Man is veg-etarian by nature. The organization of the humanbody is that of a vegetarian being – this is a scien-tific truth.

ABILITY

98. You have, within yourself, unlimited capability, abil-ity and energy to make the impossible possible. Youtoo can obtain the glory of standing with the frontline people of the world. You can write a new his-tory of your power, courage and valour on the fore-head of time.

TIME AND LIFE MANAGEMENT

99. Time is wealth. He who does not honour time orwalk with time is never forgiven by time.

100. By keeping six hours for sleep, one hour for yoga,one hour for daily tasks, two hours for members ofthe family, you should dedicate the remaining 14hours to hard work. This is the best time-manage-ment in life. This is life management or life philoso-phy.

BEHAVIOUR – SEE EVERYTHING EQUALLY

101. Always keep your feelings and vision at equilib-

rium. However, it is not always possible to always

behave in the same manner. Everyone is the image

of my Lord. Everyone is my image. I am in every-

one, everyone is in me. This world is nothing but an

expansion of my ‘I’ – this is a feeling of equilib-

rium. One should behave with a teacher as a teacher.

With mother, daughter and wife, there are worldly

and behavioural differences. Even God does not

behave in the same way with everyone; he pun-

ishes the wicked and protects the good. He is kind

and also metes out justice. Feeling occurs at the

level of the soul, while behaviour occurs at the level

of the body or the world.

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1. There is no greater religion than duty towards the nation. There is no God greaterthan the nation. National interest is above everything. I will not betray the nationfor my personal, political, economic and family welfare. I will contribute my body,mind, wealth, life and vote for national interest.

POLITICAL AUTHORITY

2. To leave the authority of the nation in the hands of corrupt, dishonest, criminal,cowardly, weak, and foolish people is an insult to the country. Hence, come! Takea resolution of 100% voting and stop corrupt and dishonest people from reachingthe pinnacle of administration.

3. The political leaders of the nation have shown false dreams of progress and thereligious leaders have given false consolations, thus exploiting the Indian peoplesince ages. Now the time has come to move away from dreams, consolations andimaginations and see the present reality of the nation and religion. We have to adopta healthy and ideal political religion along with transparency, scientific, religiousand spiritual thought and should come forward to stop the erosion of our aspira-tions.

INDEPENDENCE

4. Independence without any direction makes a person, society and nation unre-strained and thoughtless bondage makes a person frustrated. Hence, the eyes ofthe mind should always be kept open in nature independence and administration.The search for truth is only in independence.

NATIONAL LEADERSHIP

5. If the leadership of a country lacks valour, humility, transparency and farsighted-ness, then the nation will never be secure. Today, unfortunately, cowardliness andweakness have replaced valour, hypocrisy has replaced transparency, and mo-mentary selfish gain and motive has replaced farsightedness. We have to changethis misfortune into good fortune. Similarly, if a person, family, society or organi-zation does not have valour, humility, skill and farsightedness then that person,family, society or organization will also never become successful.

LANGUAGE

6. It is excellent to have knowledge of foreign languages because this is essential forcommunication, business, contact and culture. However, using the language ofanother country as our national language is a tremendous insult and something tobe ashamed of. No civilized country in the world imparts education to its citizensin a foreign language. We will make the national language, Hindi, and other Indianlanguages such as Gujarati, Tamil, Telugu, Kannada, Marathi, Punjabi, Bengali,Assamese, etc. the language of administration. We will impart science, technologyand management education in Indian languages and thus give right to the childrenof the poor, labourers and farmers to also become doctors, IAS, IPS and scien-tists.

VIEWPOINT

7. The society or country in which good people are not respected and honoured, andthe wicked are not insulted or punished is sure to be ruined.viwT;k ;=k iwT;Urs iwT;kuka p foekuukA=khf.k r=k izorZUrs nqfHkZ{ka ej.ka Hk;e~AA

(Panchatantra 3.192)Hence, good people, truthful people and patriots should be given communal honourwhile the wicked people and traitors should be rebuked in public or communalplaces. It is only then that good people will increase in society and corrupt peoplewill decrease.

8. How can law-breakers be law-makers? When tainted people cannot even become

Unfortunately, even

after 60 years of

independence, we

cannot identify our

country with one

name, one language

and one culture.

Now let this country

of sages, Aryavarta,

remain Bharat. Do

not feel glorified by

calling it by the

symbol of slavery,

India.

NATIONAL INTEREST IS ABOVEALL

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small clerks and officers, how can they becomeMLAs, MPs, ministers or the prime minister?

9. Never give a final judgment on anyone. Never com-pare two people or great men. Never expect or waitfor something. Wish never gets fulfilled. Unfulfilleddesires lead to sorrow and give birth to the feelingsof anger and revenge.

10. If you do not oppose injustice or crime then pleaseunderstand that you are a supporter of injustice andcrime. You are as big a criminal as the person whocommits injustice, irreligion and crime.

11. I am not a person who will admit defeat or commitsuicide because of the corrupt systems and laws ofsociety. I am a warrior who will struggle to establishtruth, justice and dignity with my last breath and gainvictory. People who accept defeat are weak, cow-ardly and timid.

FOUR SUPERPOWERS

12. Wealth power, people power, ruling power and soulpower are four superpowers. We want to increasethe soul power with the help of yoga and unite peoplepower and stop the exploitation of the nation’s wealth.We want to make the country economically strong.At the same time, we want to keep a check on theruling power and want to encourage good conduct,dignity and traditions. This is because unrestrainedruling power leads to wickedness in people powerand with misuse of wealth power, hatred, cruelty,restlessness and anarchy spreads in society.

TWO FORMS OF POWER

13. When people-power and wealth-power increases onthe side of corrupt, dishonest and criminal people,then there is hatred, crime, fear, terrorism, injustice,exploitation and finally destruction of the nation orworld. When people-power and wealth power in-creases in the side of good people, then service, goodwill, brotherhood and love will increase, nationalism,spiritualism and humanitarianism will get strength andthe nation will prosper and progress. Whenever asurasgot administrative control, property and power, therewas destruction, and demigods always used admin-istrative control, property and power for th good ofmankind.

14. The glorious past of the nation is my pride. The na-tion that does not take pride in its past and that is notaware of it’s present problems, cannot create a goldenfuture.

15. I have as much love for my motherland as I do formy mother, sister, daughter or teacher. My nation iseverything for me. If my nation did not exist, I wouldnot exist. My head is the Himalayas, my right arm isPurbanchal or the lands of the east, my left armPaschimanchal or the lands of the west, and towardsmy feet is the Indian Ocean. India is in me. I amfrom India. I am India. I will make India the world’ssuperpower an India that leads the world in spiritual,social, economic and political ways I will make. Thisis my vow.

16. The nation’s honouris my honour andpride, and if thecountry’s image orthe nation’s pride isblemished in any way,then it is my insult. Iwill awaken thenation’s self-pride andwill dedicate my life tothe good of the nation.¶vk s3s3s3s3s3e~ jk"Vªk; LokgkAbna jk"Vªk; bnUu eeA¸This life is for the na-tion. This is my holy vow and I will remove all tracesof those who betray my nation. If people ask mewhy I talk about the nation, then I tell them that thiscountry is my own country and I express the sorrowof my heart with my entire strength so that the self-respect of the entire nation awakens. There are peoplewho do not speak for the nation, that is, even if thereis injustice and betrayal going on in the nation, theyremain silent. Such people do not respect the nationand do not work for the nation. To such people, Iwould like to say very clearly that if you do not lovethis country, you have no right to live in this country.

17. Our culture, our values, ideals, social systems andtraditions are not so weak that we have to take helpfrom the philosophy of foreign thinkers such as Lenin,Marx or Mao. Our Vedic socialism and spiritualism isa balanced, all-encompassing and scientifically com-plete philosophy. Indian philosophy emphasizes moreon others’ good rather than one’s own happiness.Hence, we do not need any imported social, religious,spiritual or political thinking. This is not arrogancebut self-pride. I am not against knowledge but, at thesame time, I am also not a supporter of ignorance.This is a truth accepted by all that India’s Vedic phi-losophy is the supreme philosophy of the world.

18. The rules, laws and democratic systems of the countryare being used less to punish the bad and criminalelements and more to torture the good folks and pa-triots. If this is not an insult to democracy and free-dom then what is it?

FROM YOGA DUTY TO NATIONAL DUTY

19. I want to asspcoate everyone with the religion of yogain order to kindle in them the religion of the nation. Iwant to fill each one with the feeling of patriotism.After self-development with the help of yoga eachmorning, I want to fill myself with energy so as tohelp the nation’s development. After self-awakeningwith the help of yoga, I want to take ahead the holymission of national awakening. The question arisesin a number of people’s minds about the relationshipbetween yoga and the nation’s progress. So, I wantto make it clear that without self-progress, the nation’sprogress is impossible. Hence, by self-developmentwith the help of yoga each morning, we will be dedi-

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cated to the progress and prosperity of the nation theentire day. Yoga and nationalism are not two differentphilosophies but are two sides of the same coin!

20. THE CONDUCT OF CITIZENS AND LEADERS

THE SEVEN PRINCIPLES OF NATIONALISM

The seven principles of nationalism, valour, trans-parency, farsightedness, humanitarianism, spiritual-ism, and humility are the seven pillars or ideals of ourpersonal and national lives. These seven principlesare the main ideals to be followed for our self-duties,national duties and work processes. The seven prin-ciples form the benchmark for our citizens and lead-ers. The person who follows these seven principlesis a true citizen of the nation. Only a person wholives according to these seven principles can provideleadership to the nation. It is with these seven prin-ciples that we want to bring in a new revolution anda new freedom to our personal life and national life,and make India a world leader again by establishingan ideal system in the country. We want to make In-dia a superpower by following these seven principles.India will lead the world socially, spiritually and mor-ally and usher in a new age of happiness, prosperityand peace in the entire world. Each nationalist-mindedcitizen and public-service providing leader should fol-low these seven principles –

I. Nationalism: He, who always keeps the nation inthe utmost position, is a nationalist. He, who consid-ers the first religion among all religions to be that ofthe nation, and only after that comes personal reli-gion – Hindu, Muslim, Sikh, Christian, etc., is a na-tionalist. He, who considers his nation to be the fore-

most among all gods, is a nationalist. He, who con-siders the of the nation to be above his personal,family and economic interest, is a nationalist.

Amongst the different kinds of love,foremost is love of the nation; even in

life and the world, love only thosewho love their nation. Do not

love the person who does notlove his nation. In worship anddevotion, first comes the wor-

ship and devotion of the nation,after that comes devotion toGod, devotion to mother and de-votion to teacher, etc. In prayer,first comes prayer to the nation;in meditation, first comes medi-tation of the nation; in thoughtsand thinking, first comes the

thought of the nation; in work,first comes the work of the na-tion; in pride, he who keeps thepride of the nation foremost isa nationalist. In relations, thefirst relationship or connec-tion is with the nation. Even

if the person who does not love the nation is a rela-tion or family member, do not keep any relationshipwith him. In cleanliness and health too, first comesthe cleanliness and health of the nation; in prosperity,first comes the prosperity of the nation; and even inprogress, he who first makes an effort for theprogress of the nation is a nationalist. In education,he who considers national education to be the best isa nationalist. In languages, he who keeps the languageof the nation foremost in his life, conduct andbehaviour, is a nationalist. He, who loves his ownnation’s education, habits, culture, yoga, religion,philosophy and spirituality, is a nationalist. He, whois dedicated to building a clean, healthy, prosperousand cultural India, to building a self-dependent coun-try, a country that is free from hunger, poverty andunemployment and has a 100 per cent compulsoryvote bank, with the help of a controlled population, isa nationalist. He, who is resolute on the completeprogress and research on Indian treatment methods– Yoga, Ayurveda, Yunani and Siddh, etc., is a nation-alist. He, who loves the Vedic Indian knowledge, In-dian food habits, Indian dress habits, India farmingand Indian traditions inherited from the sages derivedfrom Indian knowledge, that is, Veda, Philosophy andUpanishad, etc., is a nationalist. He who loves Indiansports, Indian arts and culture and India’s ancientlanguage, Sanskrit, all Indian languages and the na-tional language, and considers the national languageto be above everything, is a nationalist. Even in enter-tainment, he who believes in Indian entertainmentbased on values, morals and traditions, is a national-ist. By nationalism, national duties and national laws,we denote all the systems, rules and laws, ideals andvalues and traditions, following which the nation at-tains happiness, prosperity and well-being, and thenation moves continuously in the direction ofprogress. Our ideals of nationalism and national dutyare – Shri Ram, Shri Krishna, Chandragupta,Vikramaditya, Emperor Ashok, Tilak, Gokhale,Gandhiji, Netaji Subhash, Chattrapati Shivaji, Iron manSardar Patel, and Lal Bahadur Shastri, etc.He, who does not use foreign products made withzero-technology, is a nationalist.

II. Valour: He, who does not take even a moment totake a decision for the welfare of the nation, and doesnot fear anyone in taking or carrying out decisionsfor the welfare of the nation, who does not get trappedby superstition and lives his life with work, labour,bravery, courage, enthusiasm, and self-respect, hasvalour. When a person does not take the work relatedto the good of the nation lightly and does it aggres-sively, who takes rests only after every pure missionthat he takes upon himself has reached success with-out being diverted by struggle, obstacles and insultsor being influenced by propaganda, such a personhas valour. He believes in doing today whatever has

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to be done tomorrow, he feels that if a task has to bedone tomorrow why can’t it be done today, and ifsomething hasn’t been done today, how can we thinkthat it will be done tomorrow? He believes in thephilosophy of ‘If not now, never’, who never tires,never stops, and believes in rest only after work,and¶vdekZ nL;q%¸ (Ved) and¶dqoZUusosg dekZf.k ftthfo"ksPNr§ lek%A,oa Rof; ukU;Fksrks¿fLr u deZ fyI;rs ujsAA

( Yajurveda 40.2)Live up to 100 years while working, that is the oneclear path of life. Work is worship. Work is the truthof life and this world. This entire creation is only an

outcome of work. ¶LodeZ.kk reH;P;Z flf¼a foUnfrekuo%¸ (xhrk 18-46), Shri Krishna says, worship God

with your work. He, who considers‘Karmanyevdhikaraste Ma Phuleshu Kadachana’ tobe his motto, has valour.

III. Transparency: He, whose life is spotless, unstainedand pure, whose personal, family, business and so-cial life is based on the benchmark of the seven prin-ciples, who does not lead a double life and stays alertabout living a sinless life, such a person is skillful.He, who does not have any difference between hisinternal and outer lives, and has complete purity istransparent.

IV. Farsightedness: He, who is farsighted, raises abovethe caste, region, zone, religion, opinion, party, com-munity, language, etc., and respects all communities,talks of the progress of his area or region, respectsall religions and Indian languages, and while doing allthis, does not forget the national well-being, respectsall Indian languages and foreign languages too forcontact and communication but while doing all thiskeeps the national language above everything else.He who keeps the interest of the nation above every-thing else is farsighted. A person who gives rise tomadness of regionalism, religion, regional languagesand spreads hatred amongst the countrymen, andburns the nation for the interest of the region, is not afarsighted person. Unfortunately, majority of our poli-ticians today go from street to street asking for votesin Indian languages and rule from the parliament inEnglish. Let us become farsighted and, leaving asideour petty political selfishness, keep the national inter-est above everything else for which the coming gen-erations will remember us with pride as their idealand as national figures.

V. Humanitarianism: We are humans before being Hin-dus, Muslims, Sikhs, Christians, etc. and our fatheris the same, no matter by what name we call him.God has sent us to this world as a human being.Hence, our first and main religion is humanitarian re-ligion. We all have, naturally, within our hearts theGod-given qualities of love, kindness, affection, truth,non-violence, etc. Hence, humanitarianism, truth andnon-violence are our main religious tenets. Ensuring

that external religions, etc. do not become a threat tohumanity is humanitarianism. Keeping faith in thesehuman values is humanitarianism.

VI. Spiritualism: He, who considers universal and sci-entific values, ideals and traditions to be his religion,who might or might not be religious but is never afanatic, who sees God in all humanity and every otherliving being including plants, and who dedicates hisentire life to the service of all creatures and the worldand diminishes the sorrow of the world, is spiritual.He rises above narrow thinking and loves mankindand looks upon the whole world as his family. He,who always keeps the feeling of ‘VasudevahKutumbakam’ in his heart, is spiritual. Spiritualismand nationalism are not two opposing opinions spo-ken in two different languages. On the other hand,these two are necessary in equal respect for the com-plete independence and self-security of every coun-try and its citizens, According to worldly and nationalorganization, we are the citizens of an independentcountry and the protection of its freedom, unity andintegrity is our moral duty. This is our national duty,and along with this, if we look at things from theangle of global brotherhood, global peace and socialcoexistence then we are all one and are the sons ofone God. Hence, we are all brothers and sisters fromthe point of view of being god’s children. This is ourspiritual philosophy and spiritualism.

VII. Humility: He, who is humble, serves others in anextremely humble manner even after reaching the pin-nacle of power, property, luxury and knowledge, andwho always keeps the faith that this life and the en-tire world is the gift of the Lord. He is of the viewthat the master of this life and the world is one invis-ible power, God, who is performing all my actionsHimself keeping me as a medium. This body-mind-wealth-life belongs to God – one who lives with thisfeeling is never arrogant of his work position or prop-erty and such a person is humble. We have to live ourlife like this and this is the truth of our life and world.

21. SPIRITUALISM

(Universal and scientific truths of spirituality,religion and culture)

A person who is completely dedicated towards thelife values and ideals demonstrated by the sages suchas the eight yoga principles of yam, niyam, asanas,pranayam, restraint of the sense organs (Pratyahar),resolution, meditation and Samadhi, and the entireIndian religious, philosophical, spiritual and culturaltraditions, is spiritual, is religious. The five yams ofnon-violence, truth, asteya (not stealing the propertyof others), celibacy and asceticism demonstrated bysage Patanjali and the five practices of purification,contentment, penance, self-learning and deep devo-tion into God have been accepted by me in the formof the universal, scientific and global religion, spiritu-ality and culture and I am completely dedicated to the

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observance of ‘mansa, vacha and karmana’.Oppositeof yam and niyam such as hatred, untruth and steal-ing, etc. can be considered a sin and a crime. India isa country of extensive cultural traditions. Hence,whatever is universal and scientific in all the variousreligious, spiritual, cultural and communal traditions,we consider as religion. However, I am not a fol-lower of whatever is superstition, pretence, wicked,inhuman and unscientific. I do not believe in suchtraditions and hence I am religious, not irreligious.Instead of being the worshipper, publicist and ac-cepter of the symbolic aspect of religion, I considerreligion to be the superiority of conduct. I considerthe life values of non-violence, truth, love, kindness,service, patience, forgiveness, purity, contentment,etc., to be religion. I consider the tenets of non-vio-lence and truth in all the holy texts such as the Vedicscriptures, Quran, Bible and Gururgranth Sahib, etc.,to be religion. No matter whatever religion, opinion,group, community, etc., our personal hopes mightbe based on, as a united nation, instead of being di-vided by worshipping various gods, we should be-lieve in the worship of the one Supreme power or theLord. The Lord has various names in various lan-guages such as Hindi, Sanskrit, Punjabi, Arabic andEnglish, etc. Amongst all these names, I address Godby the name of ‘Om’ because this is the foremostand most ancient sound of creation. This sound isuniversal and scientific. There are many other formsof ‘Om’ found in Indian philosophy and culture ofother countries, such as Amen, Omen, etc. Intensivestudy and research on the scientific influences of ‘Om’reveals that Om is a pure, scientific and medical word.This is not a representative of any image, idol or reli-gious tradition. In short, I believe in a lifestyle basedon nationalism, spiritualism, and idealism. I am not asupporter of division on the basis of religion and re-gion. I am a supporter of nationalism, humanitarian-ism and spiritualism.

22. SEVEN RULES OF IDEALISM FOR

YOGA TEACHERS

Following are seven principles for the conduct of theyogi brothers and sisters dedicated to nationalism:

1. Vegetarian2. No personal agenda3. Healthy4. Capable5. Dedicated6. Non-political lifestyle7. Commitment to spend at least 1-2 hours each

day for yoga and national interest.The above-mentioned are mainly connected to ourpersonal life and conduct. If we do not give priorityto purity, and national thought in our personal life,and if we ourselves are not healthy, capable, dedi-cated and devoid of the obstinacy of politics, thenhow can we fulfill the resolution of building a nation

that is free from corruption, crime and exploitation.Our head yoga teachers, deputy yoga teachers, co-yoga teachers, workers and yoga practitioners willstay within the framework of these seven modes ofconduct and will first bring purity, modesty, and ex-pertise into their personal lives and will then takeahead the mission of national character building. Firstself-development and then we will offer everythingfor development of the nation. First self-interest andthen the interest of the nation and the world – this isour motto.Non-political lifestyle means that a person connectedstrongly with our mission of building a new Indiawill not represent any political party and will not giveany special support to any group either directly orindirectly. Our political philosophy is – all party or noparty. That is, support the people that have charac-ter, transparency, expertise and nationalism, belong-ing to all parties. Remember, do not give direct sup-port even to honest politicians. Just as we give moralsupport in a collective way through Yogpeeth to na-tionalist and honest people, in the same way moralsupport should be given to ideal persons, nationalistpoliticians with character. ‘All party’ or ‘no party’means that we do not represent any particular partybut we morally or emotionally support all the peoplewho are good in all parties. Hence, we are ‘all party’,itmeans we have no connection with the corrupt peoplein all the parties and that is why we are also ‘no party’.Our opposition is not any party or person, but it istheoretical and this is how it should remain. Any per-son who is directly connected to any political partycannot do complete justice to this mission. I am not arepresentative or publicist of any political party. I ama representative and publicist of national duty. Weshould always remember that our complete person-ality, our words, food habits and conduct is entirelyaccording to the tradition of the sages and for thehonour of this mission.

NATION-GOD

23. ekrk Hkwfe% iq=kks¿ga i`fFkO;k% (Atharva Ved 12.1.12)

Earth is our mother and we are her children. Nation-

god is the greatest god. Religion of the nation means

our duty towards the nation, our responsibilities. Ful-

filling them is our biggest religion. Just as irreligion

and injustice are sinful, it is equally sinful to bear up

with atrocity. Every individual should have gratitude,

respect and pride towards the nation.

24. It is unfortunate that even after 60 years of indepen-

dence we have not been able to identify our nation

with one name, one language and one culture. Now,

let this country of sages, Aryavartta, remain Bharat.

Now let us not feel proud by calling it by the name of

India, the identity of slavery.

25. Those who do not love the soil, culture, civilization,

and the people of the nation have no right to stay in

this country.

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of self-confusion, and awaken India’s sleeping self-

respect by building national character.

OUR ORGANIZATION BUILDING

AND WORK PROCESS

3. By observing the aforementioned five vows, we will

build an India that is healthy, clean, prosperous, self-

dependent, corruption-free, unemployment and pov-

erty-free – this is our firm resolution. To fulfil this

resolution, 1. Divya Yog Mandir (Trust), 2. Patanjali

Yogpeeth (Trust) India and International, 3. Bharat

Swabhiman International (NRI organization), 4.

Patanjali Treatment Centre, 5. Patanjali Yoga Samiti

and 6. Mahila Patanjali Yog Samiti – these six main

organizations and the people of the nation are being

involved through the medium of 15 different groups

in this yoga revolution and national awareness mis-

sion. These 15 groups are:

1. Youth group

2. Doctor group

3. Teacher group

4. Financial service group

5. Legal group comprising advocates and ex-judges

6. Ex-servicemen group

7. Farmer group

8. Industrialist and businessmen group

9. Worker group

10. Officer group

11. Labour group

12. Science and technology group

13. Art and culture group

14. Media group

15. Senior citizen group

That is, a total of 15 groups will work. To estab-

lish these 15 groups in each district, the responsibility

of the selection of the members as well as the coordi-

nator will rest with the aforementioned six main orga-

nizations of Bharat Swabhiman and 15 supporting

groups, a total of 21 constituents of our complete or-

ganization. These 21 groups, in the 21st century, will

awaken ‘swadeshi’ in the entire nation by running a

revolution of complete social, spiritual, moral rise and

bring about a new freedom and a new system in the

OUR FIVE MAIN GOALS

1. Creating an India that is healthy, prosperous and tra-

ditional with 100% voting, 100% nationalist thought,

100% boycott of foreign companies, adoption of

‘swadeshi’, uniting the people of the nation 100%,

and building an India that is100% yoga-oriented – This

is the ‘Bharat Swabhiman’ mission. With this the na-

tion will get a new freedom and new system, and In-

dia will become great and the country’s greatest prob-

lem – corruption – will get solved.

OUR FIVE VOWS

2. In the special training camps for yoga teachers,

our participating brothers and sisters are asked to

take five vows in order to bring about the knowledge

of self-qualities through yoga, to make their mind and

body healthy, and to build national character by devel-

oping own character. You too can take these vows

and at the same time also request each teacher, devo-

tee, distinguished member, colleague, general mem-

bers and every citizen in your district to take these

vows and embark on the mission of building a healthy,

prosperous and traditional India –

1. We will only vote for patriotic, honest, valiant, far-

sighted, and skillful people. We ourselves will vote

100% and also make others vote.

2. We will unite all patriotic, sincere, aware, sensitive,

intelligent and honest people together 100% and unit-

ing the powers of the nation will bring about a new

freedom, new system and new change. We will make

India the biggest superpower in the world.

3. We will 100% boycott foreign goods made with

zero technology and adopt indigenous goods.

4. We will adopt nationalist thought 100%, and while

in our personal lives we observe Hindu, Islam, Chris-

tian, Sikh, Buddhist, Jain, etc. religious traditions, in

our public lives we will live like a true Indian – a true

Hindustani.

5. We will make the entire country 100% yoga-ori-

ented and make the citizens inward-focused by mak-

ing them healthy and arouse the feeling of self-pride

in each one by removing the cheating, corruption,

hopelessness, disbelief and self-languor arising because

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country.

Including 1100 to 2100 yoga teachers from each dis-

trict, we will prepare 2100 to 5000 special members

of Bharat Swabhiman and the special members shall

select 5,000 to 11,000 working members and these

will prepare 5-11 lakh ordinary members of Bharat

Swabhiman (Trust).

To join in this national revolution through the medium

of Bharat Swabhiman, contact the local Patanjali Yog

Samiti/ Patanjali Treatment centre to join any one of

the above-mentioned 15 groups and come forward to

become our teacher/member!

A BIG QUESTION MARK ON DEMOCRACY AND

THE CONSTITUTION

4. Legislature, Executive, Judiciary and Media are

the four pillars of this democracy. In a democracy, the

voters are not helpless, destitute or slaves and the rulers

are not masters; on the other hand, the rulers are public

servants to whom people have given power and author-

ity. Those MLAs and MPs have been elected by us to

protect our well-being. We have not made them our rep-

resentative to dictate instead of rule or to do injustice to

us under the cover of the law. We do not give rights to

the people’s representative so that they take away our

right to live. The rulers are our employees and in return

for their services, we give the MLA/MP, ministers, chief

minister and prime minister their salaries, houses, entire

expenses, travel and petrol expenses, car, etc. through

our taxes. The rulers do not give free service, instead, in

return for this service, we give heavy salaries and entire

expenses to each representative and we give him author-

ity for the welfare of the society, town, region, and na-

tion; and if he misuses this authority we have all the right

to take him out of power. In the present time, the country

is so terrorized by the misdeeds of the corrupt rulers and

corrupt authorities that the common man feels himself to

be helpless, destitute, lonely and tired, and even while

living in independent India, is desperate because of con-

stant fear of the governance and is again and again made

a victim of exploitation. Now awaken! Do not bear ex-

ploitation instead of governance any longer! Live with

complete self-respect, self-rule, and freedom! This coun-

try is yours; you are not a slave but a citizen of free India.

Just like the legislature of the country, the entire adminis-

trative executives and judiciary too, that is all the demo-

cratic processes, administrative officers, police organi-

zation, and the judicial system, have all been instituted so

that the people of the nation can live with security, justice

and self-respect. However, if some government officer,

employee or police officer is doing injustice to you or

behaving in an unconstitutional manner, then you have

the right to raise a voice against that corrupt system and

getting that corrupt officer punished, getting him removed

from office, because all the government elements are there

for our security and to give us justice, and in return for

their work, we give them heavy salaries. Do not be afraid

of them. Definitely show them respectful behaviour but

keep in mind that they are not your masters and they are

there to serve you. In a democracy, every Indian is the

master and he has moral and constitutional rights. Every

citizen has the right to live with complete freedom, com-

plete governance, and self-respect. Hence, wake up! And

do not quietly accept exploitation, injustice and corrup-

tion in the name of governance. Whosoever is a corrupt

ruler, throw him out of power with the help of your vot-

ing right; and vote 100% to bring into power those patri-

otic, brave, skillful and farsighted people who are honest,

who feel for the nation in their heart and sincerely want

the progress of the nation! And save the nation! We will

take a resolution that neither will we rob the nation and

nor will we allow corrupt, cunning and criminal minded

people rob the nation. This country is mine. I will not

allow it to be ruined. When majority of the leaders who

sit in the Parliament and legislative assemblies themselves

make a joke of democracy and when those who take

oaths on the Constitution themselves kill the Constitu-

tion, then we cannot keep silent. I will build the India that

the martyrs dreamt of, bring a new independence to the

nation, and will remove the exploitation and corruption

that is going on in the name of governance in the nation

today.

WHAT DEMOCRACY IS THIS?5. In this democracy, votes are seeked in Hindi and

other Indian languages while governance is done in En-

glish. Can’t the nation be ruled with the national language?

Can’t the judgment of the High Courts and Supreme Court

of India be given in Hindi or other regional languages?

Even after 60 years of Independence, the people of our

country don’t get justice in their own language—what

kind of injustice is this?

BREAK YOUR SILENCE!6. A country is harmed more by the despondency

of the good people of the country than by the misdeeds

of the bad people. Hence, now break your silence! Awaken

yourself! And awaken the nation!! And come forward to

defeat the demonic forces of the nation!

THE INDIA OF MY DREAMS

7. In order to build a healthy, prosperous and re-

fined India, I have five main goals – Healthy India, Clean

India, Independent India, India free from hunger, unem-

ployment and poverty with population control, and India

free from political corruption with 100% voting.

1. HEALTHY INDIA

I want to build such an India in which each citizen,

poor or rich, is healthy physically, in thoughts, and in

feelings. Unfortunately, despite spending or wasting al-

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most Rs 6,00,000 crore in health services, only 35 per

cent of people are being able to control their illness with

the help of modern treatment methods and allopathy, while

the rest of 65 per cent are not even capable of availing

allopathic treatment.

We want to give mankind total health by the use of

yoga, Ayurveda, acupressure, natural and balanced meth-

ods and traditional Indian remedies, because it is certain

that only healthy citizens can build a prosperous, mag-

nificent, and refined India.

2. CLEAN INDIA

The country’s land, food, water, rivers, air and sky

have all become polluted, and the main cause of 50% of

the diseases in India is non-cleanliness. Because of pollu-

tion in food, thought, mind and behaviour, disease, fear,

corruption, crime and anarchy is spreading in the entire

country. Even sage Patanjali had pronounced cleanliness

to be the first rule for a yogi. The universe is purified by

sacrificial fires, air is purified through planting of trees,

the body is purified by water, mind if purified by truth,

wealth is purified by donation, wisdom is purified by

knowledge, and the soul is purified by study and pen-

ance. We want to build a clean and strong India by puri-

fying politics by 100% voting and purifying the nation by

the identity cards of each citizen. To make the air, food

and water pollution-free, it is important to have nation-

wide movements.

3. INDEPENDENT INDIA THROUGH INDIAN

LIFESTYLE

No country in the world can become great without

indigenous industries, indigenous education, indigenous

treatment, indigenous technology, indigenous knowledge,

indigenous languages, indigenous costumes, and self-re-

spect of the motherland.

I want to make India and each Indian stand on its

own feet and be independent and want to place India at

the highest position in the world.

I want to awaken self-respect in every individual of

the nation, and inculcate Indian languages, culture, re-

finement, Vedic knowledge in the entire system of educa-

tion and medical treatment, and carve a unique identity

for India in the world. In 1611 in Machli Pattnam (Andhra

Pradesh) and in 1613 in Surat (Gujarat), the Mughal em-

peror had given permission to a foreign company to trade.

Gradually, by exploiting the nation, this company made

its roots strong, and in 1757, by gaining victory in the

Battle of Plassey in Bengal, started invoking taxes. In the

unprecedented famine of Bengal in 1769-70, far from

helping the victims, the company exploited them all the

more. Despite the presence of famine in the country, this

foreign company made a lot of profit. Taking the help of

its ‘Regulatory Act’, it started its rule in India from 1773

with the Bengal province. In other words, a foreign trad-

ing company became the ruler before our eyes. Be-

ginning with the first agent of the East India Company in

1615, Thomas Roe to the first Governor General Warren

Hastings to the last Governor General Mountbatten, a

foreign company robbed property and wealth worth Rs

278 lakh crore for 350 years. The first foreign company,

East India Company, not only robbed the wealth and glory

of India but also made it a slave country for 200 years,

and now the 5000+ foreign companies producing flour,

salt, water, cold drinks, juice, chips, soap, oil, cream,

powder, shoes, sandals and garments, etc., with zero

technology (these are the goods in which no special tech-

nique or science is used) are taking away lakhs and crores

of rupees from the country. This is a big obstacle to the

country’s economic progress. Even if one rupee from

the country is deposited in foreign banks then it is harm-

ful and dangerous for the economic condition of the na-

tion. The economic condition of the country is the nation’s

biggest strength or backbone. We will make our country

strong, and will not make it weak by buying products of

foreign companies. Foreigners have robbed us tremen-

dously, hence, for the empowerment of the economic

condition of the nation, it is essential to bring in foreign

currency through trade and jobs, to increase exports by

trading with foreign nations, to create demand for our

goods in foreign markets. However, if money is being

credited to the account books of foreign companies be-

cause of you, then you are betraying the country. We

should not cheat the nation and rather we should become

responsible and trustworthy citizens and businessmen of

the nation.

We take the vow that we will no longer use in our life

th daily-use products made by foreign companies using

zero technology such as Lux, Lifebuoy, Liril, Rexona,

Pears, Colgate, Pepsodent, Ponds, Lakme, Dettol, Dalda,

etc., We will also never use products by Amway and

poisonous cold drinks of Pepsi and Coca-Cola, as well as

drinking water sold under the brand names of Aquafina

and Kinley. Even if some foreign companies are only dis-

tributing fruit juice, water, soap and other good quality

products, we will not buy those products because these

products while not harming our health are very harmful

to India’s economic state, prosperity and the indigenous

Indian industries. Nowadays even Indian industries are

producing quality essential-use products with purity

checks. Hence, by adopting an Indian lifestyle, we will

save the country from economic bondage and make the

country free from poverty, unemployment and hunger

by increasing indigenous industries.

When the history of India’s progress is written, then

our name, at the very least, should not appear in the list

of individuals who weakened the nation and should ap-

pear in the list of people who gave strength to the nation.

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Then our name won’t be

written among the trai-

tors of the nation and

will be among the patri-

ots who used Indian

products.

4. INDIA FREE

FROM HUNGER,UNEMPLOYMENT AND

POVERTY WITH

POPULATION CON-TROL

Poverty, hunger and

unemployment are na-

tion-wide problems, and all these three problems are an

insult ot any country and a sign of failure of social and

political systems. Today, the daily income of 25 crore

people in India is Rs 5 and, on the other hand, only 25

people in the same country are daily earning the sum of

Rs 5 crore. There are two meanings of this is – First, our

economic policies are based on feudalism and second,

our population is increasing in an extremely fast rate each

day. If we do not take any effective step while there is

still time then the state of the nation will become ex-

tremely dangerous and uncontrolled. While there will defi-

nitely be an unbalance of health, wealth and education in

a society devastated with hunger, unemployment and pov-

erty, there will also be the beginning of an age of hatred,

crime and communal violence that will burn the entire

nation. This will prove very unfortunate and dangerous

for the country.

Instead of feudalism, Marxism, Leninism, and unso-

cial systems, we should adopt Indian socialism which is

based on valour and a balanced and progressive philoso-

phy. It is necessary to establish the socialism that was

prevalent in our villages before Independence in which

each village, individual, society and nation is self-depen-

dent, capable, independent and happy. Even if we distrib-

ute equally the wealth and property of the nation amongst

all its citizens according to communist ideology, within a

few days there will again be hunger, unemployment, ill-

health and poverty because the root cause of these prob-

lems is uncontrolled population rise, the solution to which

is population control.

It is only with population control that we can build an

India that is free from hunger, fear, unemployment, ill

health and hatred, and is civilized, healthy, happy and

glorious. Just as there is no production with demand,

similar is the case in context of human beings.

We do not even have resources or employment for

people who are already born, and despite this we are

continuously producing unnecessary babies. In such a

state, no one can stop the misfortune of the nation. There

are only two solutions for this: either the people of the

nation use their own intellect and produce fewer children

or in case this is not done, then India too should take

strong steps like China against those who produce more

children. Only then can we build a prosperous and pow-

erful nation and remove hunger, unemployment and pov-

erty.

5. INDIA FREE FROM POLITICAL CORRUPTION

WITH 100% VOTING

We have gained freedom from foreign slavery but even

in free India, we see high levels of exploitation, injustice,

torture and corruption going on in the name of gover-

nance, and there is an environment of insecurity and disbe-

lief in the entire country. In such a situation the country

needs a pure, nationalist thought with which we can re-

move most of the corrupt, dishonest and criminal people

sitting at the helm of power and bring in a new freedom,

handing over the power to patriotic, brave, farsighted,

skillful, humanitarian, spiritual, humble and honest people

and building a powerful and democratic India.

The people representatives, e.g. MLAs and MPs, are

selected by us to occupy the highest position in the coun-

try or the parliament, that parliament which is the highest

centre of power and wealth in the nation. The country’s

parliament is the main centre of all the systems in the

nation. It is from here that the political administrators

determine what the education system should be like and

what children should learn. The medical system, eco-

nomic system, law and security are all liabilities of the

political administrators. It is the liability of the political

administrators to improve the agricultural sector which

in turn will ensure that the problems of hunger and food

do not arise. The political administrators are also liable

for utilizing the labour capital of the nation properly which

will remove unemployment, poverty, hunger and non-

education and take the nation to progress. If the politics

of the nation are functioning well then all the systems will

run well. By politics, nationalism and national duties, my

indication is towards those systems, laws, ideals, values

and traditions which will bring happiness, prosperity and

glory to the nation and it will continuously move towards

progress. Unfortunately, as the character of majority of

the leaders who lead the systems of the nation is not

correct, there is corruption in the nation and because of

corruption ther is unemployment and it is unemployment

that gives birth to hunger, poverty and crime.

If corruption is removed from politics then every

year, more than Rs 10 lakh crore will be spent in the

development of the nation, crores of youth will get

new avenues of employment, there will be industrial

progress and there will be all-round development in

the nation. The country will become strong, prosper-

ous and free from crime.

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Our political, administrative and democratic ideals are

– Lord Ram, Shri Krishna, Chandragupta, Vikramaditya,

Emperor Ashoka, Chattrapati Shivaji, Netaji Subhash

Chandra Bose, Tilak, Gokhale, Gandhi, Iron man Sardar

Patel and Lal Bahadur Shastri, etc. However, the main

positions in today’s cheap politics, democracy and ad-

ministration are occupied mostly by corrupt, dishonest,

immoral and criminal people and if any patriotic, honest

person with character speaks of cleanliness in politics

and lights the lamp of nationalism in place of immoral

politics, and wants to build a new nation by bringing a

new revolution and new systems, wants to bring in hap-

piness, prosperity and equality by removing corruption,

hatred, crime and intolerance, then these aforementioned

corrupt, dishonest and criminal people do not like it and

say that honest, educated, patriotic and truthful people

should stay away from politics, whereupon these dis-

honest corrupt people can run the country according to

their whims and rob and destroy it. We should remove

from power the corrupt and dishonest people who have

ruined the nation and punish them for their sins. If we

think that we can sit silent and peacefully and some in-

carnation of God will come and change our country then

this is our illusion. To achieve something, we have to

fight or take a stand ourselves. There is no victory with-

out struggle. Do not live with insults any more. Recog-

nize your strengths and unite to defeat these demonic

powers and pull out corrupt people from the helm of

power and replace them with superior people and there is

only on way to do this – 100% voting.

Hence, with 100% voting, we have to replace the

corrupt political system of the nation with an excel-

lent one, and just as more than 30 countries includ-

ing Australia, Italy, France and Germany have done,

we too should have a rule for 100% compulsory vot-

ing in India. Only then the exploitation, injustice,

torture and corruption that is going on in the nation

in the name of governance will end and the wide-

spread feeling of disbelief and insecurity too will end

and India will become a powerful democratic nation

in true sense. Otherwise, 25-30% people vote and form

the government and 70-80% people become victims of

exploitation, injustice and torture in silence, and these

corrupt people do not even look after the well-being of

the 25-30% people who vote for them and instead of

working for the interest of the nation, give false assur-

ances and show false dreams of progress, and mislead

and rob the nation.

I consider not voting to be an insult to democracy and

the freedom of the nation. If we do not vote, the nation’s

freedom falls into danger. The freedom that we got as a

result of sacrifice of martyrs will change into slavery. If

we do not vote, we are insulting martyrs and their sacri-

fice. Martyrs and bravehearts had not sacrifice their lives

so that cowardly, weak, corrupt, dishonest and criminal

people rule over free India. We Indians are all equally to

blame for the sorry plight of India.

Hence, let us take a vow that we won’t sit silently

during the elections; we will ourselves vote 100% and

make others also do so and together we will make India a

powerful democracy and bring in true freedom to the

country and make India free from political slavery. It is

only because we do not vote that the administration of

the nation goes into the hands of corrupt people and the

country gets ruined.

8. SEVEN NATIONAL DANGERS

1. Self-confusion, because of self-confusion 2. cor-

ruption, 3. downfall of personal and national character,

4. insensitivity, 5. disbelief, 6. hopelessness, 7. self-lan-

guor

The question arises in the heart of each patriotic In-

dian as to why does corruption, the reason for unem-

ployment, poverty and hunger, the nation’s biggest prob-

lem, exist? After research, study and experience of the

physical science, psychology and the entire emotional set-

up of a person, we have come to this conclusion that

when a person moves away from his centre, then within

him arises dishonesty, bribery, hatred, dislike, self-lan-

guor, insensitivity, work confusion and all kind of irre-

sponsible thought, character and behaviour. Self-confu-

sion is the main reason for personal and national

downfall…as a result, anarchy is spread throughout the

nation. Corruption, hatred and crime run wild. From self-

confusion arise insensitivity and from insensitivity, dis-

belief and hopelessness penetrate deeply among the com-

mon people and as an outcome of all this, self-languor

seeps in the minds and thoughts of crores of people in

the nation. However, there is a solution to all these na-

tional dangers – yoga. When a person becomes self-fo-

cussed with yoga, that is when he is joined with his cen-

tre, consciousness and soul, then he is not able to do

anything that goes against his soul. The soul is, by na-

ture, pure. The soul is full of love, kindness, light, en-

ergy, peace, joy and is always content.

A person who is spiritual sees the nation in his body.

He gets the scent of the soil of his motherland from each

particle of his body, in its cells and his blood. This is

because he feels that his body is made from the food, air

and water of the soil of this nation. Each cell of my body

has been directly built by the soil of this land. This land

has given me life. This land is my mother who gave birth

to me. My country resides in my body. This is not merely

imagination, wishful feeling or emotional thought, and

when a person lives with such kind of feeling, then he

will never be able to cheat his nation. He will consider

betraying his country equivalent to betraying himself.

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When he sees India in the form of his mother, then in

each citizen he will see his mother’s love. How then will

he become a traitor to the nation? He will love hi nation

and its people. This is the solution to the national prob-

lems.

Hence, it is certainly my firm belief that yoga and spiri-

tuality can save the falling personal and national charac-

ter. With yoga, self-focus will replace self-confusion,

honesty will replace corruption and dishonesty, rise of

personal and national character will replace the downfall

in personal and national character, sensitivity will replace

insensitivity, faith will replace disbelief, hope will replace

hopelessness, and the feeling of self-glory of the nation

will replace self-languor. And India will regain its lost glory

and become a superpower in the world.

9. THE BIGGEST PROBLEM OF THE NATION –CORRUPTION – AND ITS SOLUTION

It is only because all the honest and patriotic people

don’t vote and most of the corrupt, wicked and criminal

kind of people reach the top most political positions and

steal, the hard-earned money that we give in the form of

taxes for the development of the country. The total bud-

get of the local authorities, state government and central

government for the development of the nation is approxi-

mately Rupees 20 lakh crore. In the year 2008-09, the

total budget of all the state governments were Rs

909444.75 crore and the central government budget was

Rs 801600.00 crore. If the budget of the local authori-

ties, municipal corporations and the development authori-

ties are also added to this, then the total amount comes to

approximately Rs 20 lakh crore.

Of this, at least Rs 10 lakh crore gets sacrificed at the

altar of corruption every year, and in one term of the

central government, that is 5 years, corrupt and criminal

type of people loot approximately Rs 50 lakh crore from

the country. If Rs 10 lakh crore were distributed without

any bias amongst the 600 districts of the country, then

each district would directly or indirectly get Rs 4.5 crore

everyday, and approximately Rs 1666 crore would be

spent on development directly or indirectly in each dis-

trict in a year. If Rs 1666 crore was spent in a district in

a year then no one would remain unemployed in that dis-

trict, and if there is no unemployment then there would

be no problem of poverty or hunger in the country, and if

there is no poverty and hunger then everyone would be

happy, and if everyone is happy then hatred, robbery and

other crimes in the country would be almost zero. In

short, corruption is the reason for unemployment

and the misery of the country. If the money that is

robbed by corrupt people is used for the development of

the nation then new avenues for employment would have

come about. When there would be no unemployment in

the country, then the problem of hunger and poverty

would disappear by itself.

Hence, come! Let us all united take a vow that in the

elections this time, we will participate 100% and will not

allow the country to be robbed at the hands of the cor-

rupt people. We will remove the corrupt, wicked and

criminal people from power and hand it over to patriotic

and honest people. When we vote for patriotic and hon-

est people, then corrupt and criminal people will get re-

moved from power and only when power comes in the

hands of honest and patriotic people, corruption can be

erased. The country’s problem of unemployment, hun-

ger and poverty would be removed. India will stand

amongst the developed nations of the world. India will

stand out as the biggest economic, social, spiritual and

political power in the world. India will gain the respect of

the entire world and with our nation’s honour, the honour

and respect of each Indian too would increase in the world.

We will be able to re-establish the lost glory of India.

When corrupt, dishonest and criminal people can get to-

gether and rob the country with corruption, why can’t

god, gentle, patriotic and honest people save the country

from being robbed?

The money that is being robbed from the nation by

corruption is our hard-earned money that we give to the

nation in the form of 64 kinds of taxes including land tax

by farmers and house tax, water tax, road tax, sewerage,

service tax, VAT, income tax, sales tax, etc. by the com-

mon man. This money has been given by us for the de-

velopment of the nation, and corrupt and criminal people

steal this very money with the aid of dishonest paper-

work or corruption.

Come! Let us all take a resolution that we will not

allow corrupt people to steal our hard-earned money. We

will spend this money in the development of the nation

and make the nation strong.

10. DESTRUCTION OF THE NATION

WITH CORRUPTION

I. The main reason of unemployment: It is only be-

cause of corruption that unemployment is prevalent

in the country. Corruption is the main reason for

unemployment, poverty, hunger, fear, want, robbery,

hatred, kidnappings and crime. If there would be no

corruption in my country, there would be no unem-

ployment.

II. Reason for obstruction in progress: When the nation’s

wealth gets accumulated with some corrupt, dishon-

est and criminal kind of politicians and officers be-

cause of corruption. The money/property that is

robbed from the nation is spent for their dogs, cats,

cows, etc or else accumulated cash gets rotten in

their rooms, while the common man does not get

two square meals a day. This is not all—to hide their

crime, the money is stored in foreign banks as in

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Swiss bank accounts, which stop the progress of

the nation.

III. Reason for the humiliation of patriotic and honest

people: It is because of the increase of corruption

that patriotic, honest and hardworking people have

to live with insults. Many-a-times, the price of hon-

esty has to be paid with your life.

IV. Reason for death of Indian industries: When the

wealth of the nation gets accumulated in the hands

of a few corrupt people, then investment of foreign

companies have to be invited for industrial develop-

ment in the nation. First, our nation’s wealth gets

accumulated in the wrong hands because of corrup-

tion and then these corrupt people declare to the world

that India is a poor nation. With such declaration,

they get India into debt and all the more embarrass-

ing position because of loans by the World Bank and

other prosperous nations. The truth, on the other

hand, is that there is no other country in the world

as prosperous and beautiful as India. If India’s natu-

ral resources and tax money is used properly then in

just a few years we can become the biggest power

in the world. A few corrupt politicians and a few

corrupt officers have got together and are making

the country poor. On top of that, foreign companies

too start taking their share of our wealth. If there is

no corruption in the nation then there would be double

the rate of progress. In the absence of corruption,

firstly the wealth of the nation would be used for the

good of the nation and along with this the country

would not be in the need for foreign investment. The

country will see industrial, academic and other

planned growths with the nation’s own wealth, the

country will prosper, and the foreign companies

which take away a huge chunk of our country’s

money each year won’t be able to lay any claims to

our wealth. The country will become much stron-

ger from the economic point of view. Our exports

will increase and imports will decrease, that is, mil-

lions of people will get employment from indigenous

industries. However, because of selfish motives and

corruption, politicians place their own known cor-

rupt, dishonest, unconstitutional and good-for-noth-

ing officers in charge of government industries and

slow them down in the business race. First, these

corrupt people rob the nation – they tear up Mother

India and eat her up, and after that these dishonest

politicians in collaboration with foreign companies

hand over the nation to foreign companies. This is

like saying whatever we could rob, we have and now

it’s your turn. Loot whatever you can and then to-

gether let us sell it off to a multinational company

through a conspiracy. Many-a-times, indigenous in-

dustries and factories have become victims of such

conspiracies.

V. The reason for four roads and communication sys-

tems: When there would be no corruption involved

in communication systems and the wealth of the

nation would be utilized in making good roads, over-

bridges, etc., then our communication system would

become very beautiful and there will be three main

benefits of this – first, the 1 lakh deaths approxi-

mately caused each year due to road accidents will

almost become negligible. Second, good roads will

mean the valuable time of the people won’t be

wasted. Third, vehicles will no longer waste almost

50% of their fuel as they do now while waiting at

traffic jams. Because of good roads, the country will

save around Rs 2.5 lakh crore in petrol and other oil

expenses, and the lesser amount of fuel burnt means

lesser pollution in the nation. The people of the na-

tion will also be able to avoid illnesses that are caused

by increase in pollution such as cancer, T.B., allergy,

asthma, etc.

VI. Reason for fatal diseases: When the pollution is re-

moved from the Pollution department then the people

of the nation will get god air, good water and clean

land. Unfortunately, today the air, water and soil has

become so polluted that unless we take care of it in

time then we will be leaving behind a poison-filled

country for the coming generations and our children

will become victims of fatal diseases such as can-

cer, T.B and AIDS and will die untimely deaths. Un-

less the immoral and naked dances being served

through cable television and the Internet is not stopped

in time, then our youth will remain in the grasp of

intoxicants and sexual desires. The lives of our chil-

dren which are yet to come will be in trouble and

they will rebuke us and say what a nation our fore-

fathers have left behind for us.

VII. Reason for social injustice: No other civilized na-

tion of the world educates their citizens in a foreign

language. Unfortunately, the 5% English educated

people of our nation considers the rest 95% people

to be illiterate fools and only their children can study

and become doctors, engineers, scientists, IAS or

IPS officers. This is the reason why the medium of

instruction in the higher education institutes of sci-

ence, technology and management is English. This

is also a big corruption and an injustice to crores of

people in the country because if science, technology

and management education was given in Indian lan-

guages such as Gujarati, Marathi, Tamil, Telugu,

Kannada, Oriya, Bengali and Assamese or in the na-

tional language Hindi, then the child of a poor

labourer or a farmer could also become a doctor,

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engineer or scientist; he too could become an IAS or

IPS officer. However, the useless and corrupt rulers

of the nation do not want this to happen. This con-

spiracy was started from the first day of Indepen-

dence and has continued till today since then.

VIII. Cause of deaths of the poor: When there is cor-

ruption in education the poor or common man of the

country can never move ahead. On top of this, be-

cause of corruption in the medical sector, we have

adulterated medicine, unnecessary medicine, unnec-

essary operations, and terrorizing in the name of treat-

ment. The poor thus struggle and die untimely deaths.

IX. Reason for exploitation in place of governance: It

is only because of corruption that injustice is done

with people with bribery, hawala business, exploita-

tion instead of governance by police and administra-

tion and misuse of law. The law is used to torture

poor, truthful and honest people.

X. Reason for lack of sanitation: It is only because of

political corruption that there is filthiness in the na-

tion. There is poor sanitation in the county only be-

cause of our unconstitutional ways and because of a

lack of strong will power. If we practice waste man-

agement with determination and honesty, and behave

sternly with people who spread filth, then the coun-

try can definitely be made clean. The workers who

have to clean the towns are made to clean the houses

of corrupt officials. Because of poor sanitation, to-

day the world sees India as a dirty country. This

sentence is common amongst NRIs and foreigners:

Culturally, India is the best but as far as cleanliness

is concerned, India is a very dirty country. We have

to erase this image and we have to increase the glory

of the nation all over the world. Education, aware-

ness and a corruption-free strong punishment sys-

tem needs to be set up to make the nation clean.

XI. Reason for insecurity in the nation: It is only be-

cause of political corruption that our politicians in-

dulge in dirty and cheap politics of votes and nation-

breaking hatred. It is only because of this that there

is controlled population growth in the country and

the government is taking no strong steps against it.

Poor education and unconstitutional governance are

the main reasons for this limitless, uncontrolled popu-

lation growth. If the government thinks about the

welfare of the nation then it could control the popu-

lation size like China. Instead of controlling the popu-

lation of our nation, we are also sheltering over 4

crore illegal migrants from neighbouring Bangladesh.

This can put our nation’s security at risk and have

also taken away avenues of income and work from

us, increasing the problems of unemployment and

hunger. It is only because of corruption that anyone

can get a ration card, voter ID card or identity card

made in our country by only paying Rs 500-Rs 1000.

Any terrorist, drug dealer or traitor can enter India

through Bangladesh or Pakistan and a handful of

people in our county, for the greed of a little money,

put the lives of all citizens at risk. Even today, for a

mere Rs 50-100, transport papers are stamped to let

loaded trucks pass without any checks, which is a

high risk to our nation.

XII. Reason for extortion and robbery: Apart from cor-

ruption, the people involved with industrial develop-

ment and planned growth are also tortured in an un-

constitutional manner and business persons are ex-

torted by corrupt officials and politicians. Sometimes

this extortion is in the name of party donation and

sometimes in the name of election funds. First, there

is a robbery in the name of elections and once the

elections are won, it is as if they have got a permit to

rob. There is a fixed price for everything – before

elections in the name of donations and afterwards in

the form of corruption and extortion! Is this democ-

racy? Is this freedom? The laws that are formulated

in the highest temple of justice in the nation are mostly

not used to correct the various systems of the na-

tion and instead are misused for looting, extortion

and corruption. In a democracy, the centre of power

and property is with the administration. With the

control of administration moving more and more into

hands of corrupt people, the country has started

moving towards disaster instead of progress.

XIII. License Raj: Everything is in the hands of govern-

ment officials – from a person’s birth certificate to

his death certificate, from the registration of a mo-

tor cycle to a car, from the building of a small house,

shop, factory or school, etc. to the running of it,

from land registration to making of ration card and

identity cards. When most of the leaders who lead

the system themselves become corrupt, then this

corruption spreads from the PM to the Peon and the

people of the nation are robbed without mercy. This

is what we see in India today. In some states, where

corruption is less, the government and government

officials do not interfere in people’s lives without

any reason.

XIV. Reason for the plight of agriculture and farmers:

Because of irresponsible politics, there is lack of

proper water control which leads to floods, fam-

ines, hunger and suicides by farmers every year. The

total agricultural land in India is 17.5 crore hectare,

of which 10 crore hectare can be used for agricul-

tural purposes. If water management is done prop-

erly, then this 10 crore hectares can be completely

utilized and the problems of food and hunger can be

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removed and India can be made self-sufficient in

food grains and edible oils. The rural economy of

the nation can be improved, bringing happiness into

the lives of crores of farmers and agricultural work-

ers.

XV. Reason for inflation: Because values are not prop-

erly fixed, the prices of commodities required by the

common man such as iron and cement reach the

sky, and the farmer does not get full price for his

crop. As a result, the gap between the rich and poor

becomes very huge. And this oceanic gap becomes

the reason for social inequality and injustice.

XVI. Merciless exploitation of natural resources: It is

the result of our corrupt political system that today

even though India has plenty of natural resources

available in the form of iron, gold, diamonds and

pearls, mineral products, gas and petrol, the country

is being made weaker day by day due to misuse of

these resources by government officials, in a kind

of conspiracy. The iron, coal, gold and mineral mines

are knowingly handed over to mafia gangs by some

corrupt, dishonest and criminal people for their self-

ish gains. If the natural resources are mined judi-

ciously, managed well and skillfully handled then even

today India can be a wealthy country.

XVII. Reason for the insult of intellectual talent: Indi-

ans have a lot of intellectual ability and talent. Indi-

ans are running many important organizations in

many countries. However, here, intellectual talent is

intentionally insulted and such people are not allowed

to progress so that some uneducated, idiotic, illiter-

ate and immoral people can destroy the country mer-

cilessly.

XVIII. Reason for good-for-nothing, unconstitutional

and irresponsible conduct: When the politicians that

lead the system themselves show irresponsible

behaviour and do not have any liability towards their

duties, then the organizations of the entire country

and the people running those organizations become

unconstitutional, good-for-nothing and irresponsible.

This is the reason that in most of the government

schools and colleges, we have teachers but no edu-

cation. In government hospitals, we have doctors

but the philosophy of treatment is not there. Despite

the existence of police administration, criminals and

corrupt people do not get punished. Victims have to

go from pillar to post to get justice while criminals

move about freely.

XIX. The reason for wrong intention and wrong poli-

cies: Because of our wrong intentions, wrong poli-

cies are made and because of these wrong policies,

every village has a brewery. As a result, the poor,

hard-working farmers and underage children get

ruined because of in-

toxication. The lives of

women and children at

home get destroyed.

We are not able to mete

justice to the country

and its people in the

administration of the

education policy, medi-

cal policy, agricultural

policy, security policy

and foreign policy and

the country keeps

moving towards ruin. Just to provide benefits to

certain people and because of cheap mentality, we

give subsidy to slaughter houses that kill such ben-

eficial animals such as cows and buffalos, and be-

cause of this, a negative energy is created in the coun-

try by the cries of lakhs of innocent animals every-

day. Society and homes are affected with restless-

ness, insecurity and adversity. India is an agricul-

tural country and even today, in many states, carts

are pulled by bullocks, buffalos and camels, the land

is tilled with the help of bullocks or camels, which

saves millions of rupees in petrol and diesel costs.

When all these beneficial animals are killed by the

slaughter houses and agriculture gets mechanized,

then on one hand many lakhs of rupees would be

spent on petrol and diesel and on the other pollution

too would increase manifold. Remember that what-

ever amount of money is spent in petrol and diesel is

going to the gulf countries, and if money goes out of

the country in any form then it is not good for the

economic state of the nation and the country be-

comes weak.

XX. Reason for the loss of millions of rupees of the

common man in the stock market: Because of col-

laboration between some corrupt, dishonest, uncon-

stitutional and good-for-nothing officials and some

greedy, corrupt businessmen and wrong policies of

some irresponsible politicians as well as short-sighted,

loose rules and laws, millions of hard-earned money

of the nation have gone down the drainpipe of the

stock market recently. This painful episode is not

just connected to the highly dishonest Harshad Mehta

or to Raju, the owner of Satyam Company. If the

thousands of companies in the stock market are

judged without any bias, then who knows how many

companies will be found to be walking in ‘Asatyam’

(untruthful) paths and cheating the nation. Even

though certain companies are not making profit, they

are shown to be profit-making companies on paper

and their shares which are actually worth peanuts

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are being sold for crores of rupees. All this is hap-

pening under the eyes of the government because of

its wrong policies. The common man has to bear

the loss of millions of rupees in the stock market.

The victims of such cheating, corruption and rob-

bery are invariably the innocent people. Some of them

get affected by depression; the families of some oth-

ers become homeless; in yet other families, marriages

get cancelled while a few even commit suicide.

11. FEAR GOOD PEOPLE AND

DESTROY THE BAD!Even if people with good souls are in a weak, poor

and pitiable condition, fear them and never do them any

harm because giving that pure soul trouble will turn all

your joys into sorrow. However, no matter how much

power, strength, position or property a corrupt, dishon-

est or criminal kind of person might have, never fear

them because the soul of corrupt and dishonest people is

dead and it is only to destroy them that the Lord has

given birth to us in this world and country. This is the

very advice that Shri Krishna gives in Gita:

ifj=kk.kk; lkèkwuka fouk'kk; p nq"Ñrke~ AèkeZlaLFkkiukFkkZ; lEHkokfe ;qxs ;qxs AA

(Gita)

Come! Let us all get together to destroy the demonic

forces; let us take away the strength and property of

corrupt, dishonest and criminal people and give power to

patriotic, honest and truthful people. Come! Let us all

take a vow together, a pledge together, a resolution that

we will remove this stain of corruption from the fore-

head of Mother India. Come! We will together arouse the

lost dignity of India and build a new powerful India. We

will not hand over a corrupt India to our coming genera-

tions and instead will present an ideal and powerful India

to them – A India that they can be proud of.

12. CAN CORRUPTION END IN OUR NATION?Till the time the people who lead the system do

not mend their character, corruption will not be removed

from the nation. It is the biggest challenge to mobilise

patriotic people with character to develop leaders with

character.

It is a truth that there is no drought of patriotic, hon-

est, sensitive, valiant, farsighted and learned people. The

problem is not shortage of people with character. What is

necessary is voting for these people and placing them in

authority. The goal of Bharat Swabhiman is to develop a

very large vote bank in the nation of patriotic people and

people with character, and to use our vote for patriotic

people. People say that often the honest, educated and

patriotic people do not vote during elections after seeing

the crowd of mostly corrupt politicians. In my opinion,

when I can tell people about the benefits of Kapal-bhati

and Anulom-Bilom and make crores of people practice

pranayam 365 days in a year, then by telling people about

the benefits of removal of corruption, can’t I motivate

the honest and patriotic people, for just 1 day in 5 years,

to vote?...My answer is we will be 100% successful in

bringing people out from their homes and very soon, the

highest positions of authority in the nation will be occu-

pied by patriotic, valiant, farsighted, humanitarian, spiri-

tual, learned, sensitive, hard working and humble people

and a new freedom, new system and new change will

come and India will once again shine in the world with

the glory of her golden days.

13. BENEFITS OF THE NON-EXISTENCE OF

CORRUPTION

1. If there is no corruption – directly, 10 lakh ru-

pees and indirectly 10 lakh rupees will be spent on the

nation’s development. When this 20 lakh is spent annu-

ally on the nation’s development, each district will be able

to get development work of more than 10-12 crore ru-

pees done each day. When so much wealth will be spent

in development work in each district, then there will be

no unemployment. When there is no corruption, there

will be no unemployment, and there will be no poverty,

hunger, hatred or inequality arising because of unemploy-

ment. When there is no corruption, everyone will get equal

opportunity of justice and development.

2. If there is no corruption – the adulteration that is

going on in food and thought will disappear. Along with

Vanaspati oil, ghee, drinking water, fruits and vegetables

being pure, even the character of every person and that

of the nation will be pure.

Excellent services and treatment will be available to

you. The country will remain clean and each citizen will

get clean drinking water. When the standards of cleanli-

ness and purity are intensified, then there will be control

over adulteration in food and drink products and over the

almost 50% diseases that occur because of non-cleanli-

ness and adulteration of food and water. There will be no

torture in the name of remedy. Corrupt people will no

longer will able to adulterate medicine and food products,

and we will get pure milk, ghee, edible oils, and spices

such as turmeric.

3. If there is no corruption – your children will get

good education and habits in schools, colleges and uni-

versities. Correcting the tempering that has been done

with Indian culture and history, the glorious work done

by martyrs and bravehearts of the nation will again be

included in the curriculum. Also, your children will be

able to get science, technology and management educa-

tion in the national language, Hindi and other regional lan-

guages such as Tamil, Telugu, Kannada, Oriya, Gujarati,

Marathi, Bengali, Assamese, etc. and even the children of

poor labourer or farmer can become doctor, engineer,

scientist, IAS, IPS, etc, and people will be saved from

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the extortion that is going on in the name of tuition. Citi-

zens of the nation will be saved from the social injustice

that is going on in the name of education.

4. If there is no corruption – you will not be a vic-

tim to exploitation in the name of administration. You will

not need to give bribe/price in return for work done in

government offices. Corrupt government workers, of-

ficers, bureaucrats, and corrupt dishonest and criminal

politicians will sop asking for donations and bribes.

5. If there is no corruption – we can make India the

largest producer of food grains. The lives of 80 crore

people in our nation is directly or indirectly dependent on

agriculture. These farmers and agricultural labourers will

get equal participation in development. By developing the

10 crore hectares of agriculture-capable land in the na-

tion again, we will be become self-sufficient in food grains,

edible oils, fruits and vegetables, and in the field of tex-

tiles and garments by cultivation of cotton, etc. By bring-

ing in progress and self-dependency in the agricultural

sector, we will be able to bring about a dynamic rise in

the national economic GDP and make villages self-de-

pendent.

6. If there is no corruption – citizens of the nation

won’t need to go without food, clothes or shelter, essen-

tial commodities and won’t have any electricity, water

and road problems. Each citizen will be able to live with

complete self-respect, complete freedom and self-gover-

nance.

7. If there is no corruption – indigenous, home in-

dustries will get more opportunities and the indigenous

economy of the nation will get a profit of lakhs and crores

of rupees.

8. If there is no corruption – natural resources will

be used correctly for the good of the nation and the dia-

mond, iron, coal, gold and aluminum mines that are worth

billions will not be sold for pittance. On the other hand,

this national wealth will be used to improve the life of the

impoverished people of the nation.

14. WHY DO I FEEL MY NATION’S PAIN?You must have often heard people saying that why

does only Baba feel the pain of the nation’s corruption?

When Baba does not have any attraction for authority,

wealth and power, why does he travel day and night for

the nation’s troubles? So I want to reveal to you the true

feeling in my heart with complete honesty and truthful-

ness – I call and feel India is my mother and that is why

I look at the conspiracy of corrupt politicians against

mother India and the failing democracy, sensitive values

and ideals from the view of political misconduct and infi-

delity. I am not a cowardly, weak, timid, helpless, des-

perate and slave child of Mother India that in front of my

eyes her glory can be continuously robbed with corrup-

tion, that irresponsible people and traitors with criminal

character can continuously betray my nation, and I will

remain silent.

I consider national duty and responsibility to be as

pure as any religious person considers religious tradition,

worship of gods and goddesses, rites and rituals and say-

ing prayers in church, temple, etc. to be pure.

I will not sit silent now! I have now committed my-

self to open revolution against the corrupt politicians of

the nation! And all of us will take rest only after we re-

move corruption from the nation! I will not stop, nor will

I bow down! Now I will not stop before I make India

free from unemployment, poverty, fear and hunger. My

belief is that there are crores of people like me who wor-

ship India like a mother, who also cry for the victory of

Mother India, and all those who love India and the people

of India will stand by me in this biggest non-violent revo-

lution of the 21st century and we will all wint he battle.

15. THE HONOUR OF FIVE MOTHERS

ARE AT RISK –1. MOTHER, 2. MOTHER INDIA, 3. VEDA

MOTHER, 4. MOTHER COW, 5. MOTHER GANGA

The mother who has given birth to us is joked about

publicly today. Girls, daughters, sisters, and daughter-in-

laws are all forms of mother. In the hunger of pleasure,

women, that is mother, is being considered only as an

object of pleasure, as a saleable commodity in advertise-

ments or in the market with the argument that nudity

sells. That is why we show it, distribute it and sell it.

Society harasses woman, commits adultery or misbe-

haves with her in order to satisfy physical hunger and

uses condoms simply to prevent the spread of AIDS –

such an attitude is an insult to motherhood, mother and

woman. The ideals or glory of mother is made a joke in

pubs, restaurants or dance bars – this is a dirty and ugly

trick played with Indian culture. I want to ask humbly

whether even a prostitute would want her daughter to fall

into the ditch that she herself has fallen into? Would any

true parents want their young daughter to drink alcohol

and smoke in pubs with strange men or indulge in inap-

propriate beahviour in an intoxicated state with charac-

terless, wild and reckless men? Will any father with busi-

ness interests in cigarette or alcohol, etc. intoxicating

substances want his innocent child to be trapped in the

evil circle of intoxication and spoil her life or youth? Even

a person trapped in intoxication does not want his child

to be a thief, dishonest or characterless. We have to pro-

tect the respect of mother and human values from the

characterless. The way values of personal character and

national character are falling in this race of progress, we

have to protect both of these with firm determination.

Along with staining the character of mother, the char-

acter of Mother India has also been stained by corrup-

tion, poverty, unemployment, hatred, crime, terrorism,

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hunger, social injustice,

wickedness or exploitation

in the name of governance.

I will free Mother India

from corrupt, dishonest,

criminal and characterless

politicians. In the beginning

of creation, our forefa-

thers used to pray to the

giver of knowledge and

science, Veda mother, by

saying “Stuta Maya Varda

Vedamata Prachodayanta

Pavmani Divjanam”. The

protect of the Veda that is the oldest text in creation, of

the Veda mother, is our cultural, spiritual and national duty.

By doing research and study on Vedas, I am resolved to

protect Veda and Vedic tradition.

The Mother Cow that is the home of 36 crore gods

and goddesses, the Mother Cow which our ancestors

used to worship because the kindness, love and affection

in her is for the good of the nation, that Mother Cow is

being killed in slaughter houses daily in lakhs. This is the

main reason for the unbalanced increase in disastrous

natural calamities such as floods, earthquakes, droughts,

hatred, and wickedness. A negative energy is born in the

entire country from the scream and shrieks of the merci-

less, heartless killing of cows, buffaloes and other inno-

cent lives who are killed mercilessly and heartlessly in

slaughter houses. Cow slaughter is the reason for disas-

ter and sorrow. I consider the killing of cows, buffaloes

and any other innocent life to be immoral. In this cre-

ation, every living creature has equal and complete right

to live with freedom and enjoy life. India is the land of

great saints and great souls such as Lord Mahabir, Ma-

hatma Gandhi, Swami Vivekanand and Maharshi Dayanand

Saraswati. India is a nation that believes in truth, non-

violence, and values of good conduct. We, the citizens of

such a pure nation, should remove the stain of cow slaugh-

ter from the head of Mother India.

Mother Ganga is the symbol of our devotion, faith

and belief. Corrupt politicians and governments are the

biggest obstacle to Mother Ganga’s purity and continu-

ity. Corruption is deeply immerged in its purity and con-

tinuity. As a result, after Naroda-Bulandseher, after the

monsoons, only 2% of the Ganga water remains. 98% is

dirty water comprised of sewage from toilets and waste

water from factories. The Ganga that makes each of us

pure, is herself getting dirty. I see purity of water more

connected with human good than religion. It is my belief

that only if the water, land and air of the country is pure

and clean, the nation will be safe. I am resolved in my

vow to clean ad purify all the rivers in the entire country

along with Ganga.

16. FIVE NATIONAL MYTHS AND THE REALITY

1. India is a poor country, 2. Only about 5% people

pay tax in the nation, 3. All people are dishonest, 4.

Corruption cannot be removed, only corruption will

govern the nation, 5. The nation’s progress and em-

ployment is not possible without foreign investment.

The Fact

It is a conspiracy run by some corrupt, dishonest and

cunning people to spread these lies and false rumours. It

is a conspiracy to develop self-languor amongst people

that these lies and false figures have been circulated. On

the basis of reality, true figures and theories, we present

the facts in front of the citizens so that patriotic people

may get together and unmask the corrupt people, and

come forward to change the country and the country’s

fate.

1. India is a poor nation!....White Lie!

Fact: India is the most powerful and richest na-

tion in the world.

This is a very big truth that people of most of the

developed countries are weak but their leadership or law

is very strong. Here, the people of the nation are strong

but the leadership is cowardly, timid and corrupt and the

law is weak. The total budget of local authorities, state

governments and central government of India is Rs 20

lakh crore. And this Rs 20 lakh crore budget is there

when corruption is in its peak everywhere in the nation.

If corruption did not exist, the total budget of India could

be Rs 35-40 lakh crore. You think, you decide, can the

budget of a poor nation be so huge? The corrupt and

dishonest people of the nation are intentionally portraying

the nation poor. If the corruption, then not even one per-

son in the country will remain unemployed or poor. People

are kept unemployed, poor and illiterate as a conspiracy.

This enables the corrupt administrators rule over the poor,

unemployed, illiterate and insecure people according to

their whims and run an autocracy in the name of democ-

racy.

2. Only about 5% of India’s people pay tax! …White

Lie!

Fact: Almost 100% people pay tax in India!

Every Indian who puts on two garments to cover his

body and uses 1-2 bars of soap in the year or wears

shoes or sandals or goes to shops or the market and buys

daily essential goods such as flour, salt, toothpaste, oil,

spices, paper, pen, iron, cement, etc., pays duty in the

form of VAT or excise on all these items. Even a common

man definitely pays tax in one way or the other such as

stamp duty, water tax, house tax, sewage tax, road tax,

service tax, sale tax, etc. Thus, isn’t this a white lie that

only 5% people pay tax! This myths and false rumours

are spread in a conspiracy so that if some corrupt an

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dishonest people rob the nation, then no voice is raised,

so that when someone asks for an account of the tax

money paid by these corrupt people, they are able to say,

‘You do not even pay tax. Who are you to ask?’ This

myth has been so deeply embedded in the hearts of the

common people that they feel they do not have any con-

tribution at all in the nation’s progress. While the truth is

that each Indian has the right to ask the various systems

of the nation, the authority of the nation, about the col-

lected by the government through various taxes, money

of the money that they have contributed for the progress

of the nation. They have the right to ask, ‘What has hap-

pened to that money?’

3. All people are dishonest!...The biggest conspiracy.

Fact: In India, 99% of the common people are

honest, or they want to live with honesty.

This kind of lie that everyone is dishonest is spread

because the illusion that everyone is dishonest becomes

deeply engraved in the mind of a patriotic, honest person

with character. Whereas the reality is that 99% of com-

mon Indians are honest or want to live with honesty while

99% of the representatives of the nation, that is almost

99% of the politicians, MPs, MLAs were dishonest. In

order to hide their own dishonesty, these 99% corrupt

and dishonest people have carried out this very big con-

spiracy by calling the 99% honest citizens of the nation

dishonest and liars. The day these 99% sensitive, aware,

patriotic and honest people unite together, these 1% dis-

honest people will be destroyed. And India will be called a

nation of honest people, not dishonest people.

4. Corruption can never be removed, only corrup-

tion will rule the nation!...Deep conspiracy!

Resolution: Only honest, patriotic people will gov-

ern the nation

Only corrupt people will govern the nation. Even this

lie is being told like a conspiracy with which honest, pa-

triotic people are never able to come into authority and

one corrupt person after the other sit in authority and

mercilessly loot the nation. There are also honest, patri-

otic, educated and responsible people with character who

are capable of excellently governing the nation without

corruption. A simple question arises in everyone’s minds

– is it possible for good people with character to get to-

gether? Can patriots be given votes keeping patriotism

above everything else? Can’t honest people become MPS,

MLAs? The direct, complete and simple answer to this is

there are patriotic people with character who are capable

of leading the nation but the patriotic, honest people who

would vote for them and bring them into power are not

organized.

The aim of Bharat Swabhiman is – to organize these

patriotic people and by organizing them to bring patriotic,

honest, sensitive, sincere people with character to the

seat of authority. By organizing patriotic people, I will

unveil the truth behind the myth that only corrupt people

can rule over the nation. My resolution is that henceforth

only patriotic people will govern the nation.

5. The nation’s progress and employment is not pos-

sible without foreign investment!...Utter falsehood.

fact: If resources are 100% utilized then our na-

tion will progress and there will not be any unem-

ployment.

This is also a projected lie in order to rob the nation

and a conspiracy that without foreign investment our

country will not progress. The truth is if the wealth of

the nation is not destroyed by corruption is big enough to

ensure that not even one person of the nation need not be

hungry, poor or unemployed. If the wealth is not depos-

ited in the hands of the dishonest people, and is invested

in solid business and progress then there will be so much

wealth coming into the nation that we will reach the sta-

tus of being able to loan out money to other nations with

interest. India will then be able to stand with pride as the

biggest economic power in the world.

Today the reality is that about Rs 70 lakh crores,

money that has been stolen by some corrupt people, are

deposited in foreign banks. And the corruption by the

corrupt people continues. Reality is not that this country

won’t be able to progress without foreign direct invest-

ment (FDI); truth is the day we bring back our stolen

money from foreign banks, that day the world will not

run. The world is running by our money stolen by cor-

rupt, dishonest people. At the very least, the economic

source of powerful nations like Switzerland comes from

the corruption in our country.

17. OUR FIVE FORTHCOMING NATIONAL-SOCIAL

REVOLUTIONS –1. Corruption removal, 2. Making all services

available to the last person in the country, 3.

Cleanliness revolution, 4. Establishment of na-

tional and Indian languages in the nation, 5. Free

education for the poor and compulsory inclusion of

yoga education in the curriculum.

1. Removal of corruption: By uniting the people of

the nation through the medium of yoga, I will run a na-

tionwide revolution and remove the stain of corruption

from Mother India.

2. Availability of all services to everyone: In each

of the 6,38,365 villages of the country, a yoga teacher

would be established and free yoga education would be

imparted through the medium of the yoga teachers. We

will give the last person in India the dignity of leading a

healthy life through the medium of yoga, Ayurveda and

nature, and teach them the art of living a healthy and

independent life.

3. Nationwide Cleanliness Mission: By running a

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mission by making a work policy, we will remove filth

from the nation and portray a clean image of India in

front of the world.

4. Unity of languages in the nation: Along with the

national language Hindi, we will give necessary respect

to other Indian languages such as Gujarati, Tamil,Telugu,

Kannada, Marathi, Punjabi, Bengali, Assamese, etc. How-

ever, using the language of another country as national

language is a big insult and matter of embarrassment. No

civilized nation in the country gives education to its citi-

zens in the language of another nation.

Because technical, medical and management, etc. edu-

cation does not take place in national language Hindi and

other Indian languages, the dreams of many children to

become scientists, doctors and managers, etc. remain

unfulfilled. Many children of labourers, farmers and the

poor, despite being good in other subjects, are not able to

pass to the matric examination because of not being pro-

ficient in English language or failing in it, and hence are

kept from becoming doctors, IAS, and scientists. We

will provide our children with equal opportunities in our

language. We will provide vocational education to them

in mother tongues – Malyalam, Gujarati, Tamil, Telugu,

Kannada, Marathi, Punjabi, Bengali, Assamese, Oriya, etc.

along with national language, Hindi.

5. Free education for the poor and compulsory

yoga education included in the curriculum:

We will provide free education to the children of the

poor, labourers, farmers, villagers, forest dwellers and

tribals in government and non-government schools in the

morning and afternoons, in non-school hours, and give

them the right to live with self-respect and independence,

and increase the participation of the poor in progress. I

will communicate with the governments to make yoga

education compulsory for classes 1-12. If governments

do not agree then with the help of student organizations

and teacher organizations of various schools and colleges

and common people, a revolution will be started demand-

ing for yoga education, not sex education!

18.IN WHOSE HANDS SHOULD WE HANDOVER

THE REINS OF THE NATION?Shall we give the reins of the nation into the hands of

cowardly, corrupt, dishonest, timid, weak people?

Shall we make administrators from amongst those

people who cannot administer themselves! For whom

national duty is not above everything, money is every-

thing and for money they sell their nation, can betray

their nation and for wealth can become a traitor to the

nation?

Shall we handover the reins of the nation in the hands

of such people who are hypocrites and whose children

too are ashamed to grow up in their names? Shall we

stand behind such people behind whom even their chil-

dren are not prepared to stand? This is a matter of utter

shame and insult that we give them the charge of secu-

rity of the nation who themselves are not secure.

Shall we make them sit on the highest throne of the

nation, a throne on which some day in the past was oc-

cupied by such people of character as Lord Ram, Shri

Krishna, Emperor Ashoka, Vikramaditya, iron man Sardar

Patel, Sarvapalli Radhakrishnan, Lal Bahadur Shastri and

Guljari Lal Nanda?

Shall we hand over the nation to such people who are

themselves handcuffed in prison? They who themselves

do not have a good conduct, how will they conduct the

affairs of the nation properly?

He who himself falters, how will he make the nation

stand? An aged father hands over his business to his young

children, remains secure and advices his children as nec-

essary. Will our politicians, like a father, for the good of

the nation, be ready for the majority participation of youth

in authority?

Shall we hand over the authority of this nation to those

people who have made no special contribution at the per-

sonal level for the progress, building, prosperity and ser-

vice of the nation? You decide – Nehruji, Sardar Patel and

Babu Rajendra Prasad, etc. fought for the nation’s inde-

pendence, and gave their entire youth and life for the

freedom of the nation. Today if you look at the lives of

the people who are in authority or wish to be in authority,

you will find that leave alone providing service or progress

of the naion, they have directly or indirectly robbed the

nation in a big way. Apart form looting the nation in the

form of tax money and corruption, they have also sold

the priceless land of the nation for peanuts. Shall we hand

over the nations to these robbers?

19. MY FIVE EXPECTATIONS FROM THE CITIZENS

– 1. Give voice to my voice, 2. Complete coop-

eration and assent to national issues without fear

and greed, 3. Have courage to oppose wrong deeds,

4. Give votes or notes for the nation, 5. Resolve to

live like a true Indian

I do not want authority, nor do I want wealth, nor do

I have any greed for the throne. I do not want any of

these five things – authority, wealth, throne, vote or note.

I want you to give your full cooperation and assent on

national issues without fear and without attachment. Give

voice to my voice, give votes and notes for the nation,

have courage to oppose wrong deeds and take the reso-

lution of living life like a true and good Hindustani. For

my personal life, I have never had any need of authority,

wealth, throne, vote or note in the past, nor do I have any

need today and nor will I have in the future. At the same

time, my resolution is to see that the authority and wealth

of the nation is in the hands of the patriotic, good, honest

people with character. Corrupt, honest and criminal people

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get power with notes and authority with votes and they

use this authority and power not for progress but have

always used it for destruction and selfish needs. Hence,

do not give notes or votes to the wicked!

I want you to add your voice to my voice which I am

using for building up national and personal character. Make

this yagna or revolution of ‘Bharat Swabhimaan’ suc-

cessful by offering your mind, body, wealth and life. Give

votes to patriotic, learned, valiant, farsighted and skillful

people with character, which can make the nation free

from hunger, corruption, unemployment and poverty. We

can be Hindu, Muslim, Christian, Sikh, Buddhist, Jain,

etc. at home or in our personal life but in social and na-

tional context, we are an ideal and true Indian and will

work to make India the most powerful nation in the world.

Along with yourself, think of your neighbour, also think

of your society and nation. If the streets near you are

dirty then take up the task of removing the filth and bringing

about cleanliness. If a cleanliness drive is organized, come

forward and participate. Come forward to provide lead-

ership in such tasks. If children are not being given good

education in government schools in your neighborhood

or nearby villages, if patients are not being given proper

treatment in your nearby government hospitals, if the

forces created for your security, independence and re-

spect such as police, administration, representatives of

the people such as board member, MLA, MP, minister,

etc. are not doing their social, democratic, constitutional

and national duties properly, then raise your voice against

them! Oppose them! Come forward to make them sin-

cere in their work!

We are Indians first of all. Our thought is nationalism.

We should think of solutions to each problem by keeping

nationalism above everything. We should not give rise to

unnecessary arguments and debates on issues of progress,

even if there is personal disadvantage in it. Many-a-times

the progressive works around us, including building of

roads, over bridges, schools, universities and other so-

cial and national development work may directly cause

loss to us, but if it is for the good of the nation and soci-

ety then we should not raise an unnecessary debate or

oppose it.

Never talk of hopelessness, self-languor, disbelief.

When the nation can be freed from 700 years of slavery

or when iron man Sardar Patel could unite 565 princely

states and kingdoms that were ruled from many genera-

tions by royal families with his positive thinking, firm

will, farsightedness and valour and build one India, and

even in Free India, if one brave, valiant and revolutionary

woman Prime Minister could declare in 1968 that the

property of kings and erstwhile rulers to be national prop-

erty, and if our neighbouring country China could control

its population increase with firm measures, can run the

country without rulers by the people for the good of the

nation, can move forward and stand with self-respect in

the world, then why can’t we remove corruption from

our nation and bring about a new freedom, new system

and new change in the nation, or make India the biggest

superpower in the world.

The history of the entire world is witness that when-

ever the population of any country stand in revolution

together then systems, authorities and history changes

and the impossible becomes possible.

20. QUESTIONS ABOUL THE DETAILS OF THE

WEALTH OF POLITICIANS IN ELECTION COMMIS-SION

When a corrupt politician gives the details of valua-

tion of his house and land, etc. in the election commis-

sion, then the value of his house is Rs 5 lakh and the land

is valued at Rs 50 lakh. But when that politician goes to

take a loan from the bank, then that very house is shown

to be worth Rs 5 crore and the land to be Rs 50 crore.

For the good of the nation, a law should be estab-

lished that the property of politicians should be evaluated

at the market rate and if it does not match then the gov-

ernment should give 1 ½ of times whatever amount is

mentioned in the election papers and keep the property

with itself, or else the property should be auctioned and

whatever amount has been declared by the politician on

his papers, money or land of that value should be left

with him and the rest should be declared national prop-

erty.

21. DEALERS OF INTOXICANTS ARE GUILTY OF

THE DEATH OF THOUSANDS OF INNOCENT LIVES

Encouraging alcohol consumption is not conservation

of human rights or democracy. This is because after con-

sumption of alcohol, a person loses his intellect and only

someone who has the power of remembrance or intellect

can be called a human. Alcohol makes a person sense-

less, stupid and animal-like. Hence, to encourage and con-

serve the culture of alcoholism, to indulge in alcoholism

and to make alcohol available – these three fall under the

category of social and moral crime on the basis of work

theory, argument, ground reality and human values.

Will any parents want their young daughter to behave

licentiously, immorally and disgracefully with character-

less, wild and reckless boys in pubs, deeply intoxicated

with alcohol and cigarettes? Will any father dealing in the

business of intoxicants such as cigarettes or alcohol want

his innocent children to get trapped in this destructive

cycle and destroy their life and youth? Even a person

who is himself intoxicated will want to save his children

from it. Even thieves, and people with bad conduct and

bad habits would not want their children to be thieves,

characterless or have bad habits.

Intoxicants and alcohol is the root of crime and de-

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struction. Alcohol, tobacco, etc. are the main cause of

wickedness, bad conduct, unchastity, misconduct with

women, bad culture, hatred, crime, family ruin, liver dis-

eases including cirrhosis of liver and liver cancer, kidney

diseases, heart diseases and TB, etc. fatal diseases. Be-

cause of the use of alcohol, cigarette and other intoxicat-

ing substances, 5 lakh people die every year in India from

liver cirrhosis, kidney failure and cancer, etc. diseases.

The responsibility of the lakhs of such innocent people

falls on the people with direct or indirect interest in the

business of alcohol, cigarettes, etc. When the dealers of

intoxicating substances can be fined a sum of 5000 crore

for the people who are ill because of consumption of

alcohol, cigarettes, etc., and when Saddam could be

hanged for the death of 148 people then action should

definitely be taken against the intoxicant dealers, alcohol

mafia responsible for the death of thousands of citizens

and directly or indirectly responsible for the destruction

of the homes, lives, families and children of crores of

people, and they should be taken behind bars or hanged.

22.VOTING IN AN IN EBRIATED STATE

IS A CRIME

It is a crime in India and the world to drive any ve-

hicle such as a car, scooter, etc in an intoxicated state

because driving a car in that condition is dangerous to

oneself and to others. Similarly, keeping this view in mind,

it is clear that election is the time for handing over the

reins of authority of the nation into the hands of a person

with full consciousness and intellect. If during this time,

we are intoxicated and we vote in a state of unconscious-

ness, then the authority of the nation can go into the wrong

hands. Hence, voting in an intoxicated state can be the

cause of a very big disaster and downfall of democracy

and constitutional values.

In India, there is open business of alcohol during elec-

tions. To attract voters towards oneself, laws, regula-

tions, democracy and constitutional values are mocked

at openly. If while voting in an intoxicated state, a crimi-

nal, rogue, thug, corrupt, dishonest and characterless

person becomes MLA or MP, then is this right for a clean

democracy and constitutional values? Unfortunately, it is

matter of deep shame that alcohol is openly sold and riv-

ers of alcohol flow during democratic elections. The elec-

tion commission should urgently declare voting in an in-

toxicated state to be illegal and protect our constitutional

values. Such a law should be passed that if any person

comes in after consuming alcohol to vote then a test

should be carried out in the voting booth itself and the

election officer from that zone should immediately stop

that person from casting his vote. This is very necessary

for national good. Voting in an intoxicated state is an in-

sult to democracy and constitutional values, it is an insult

to the nation.

MY POLITICAL VIEWPOINT

23. I will not rob the nation, nor will I become weak,

nor will I tear it apart. At the same time, I will not allow

the nation to be robbed, nor will I let it become weak,

now will I let it to be torn apart.

24. I will not break democratic or constitutional sys-

tems but at the same time, I will not live like a destitute,

slave or in a pitiable condition. I will also not allow cor-

rupt, dishonest and criminal people to break any demo-

cratic or constitutional systems. The things that are hap-

pening in the temple of democracy are not written any-

where in the Constitution of India. The people who are

taking pledges on the Constitution in the temple of de-

mocracy are themselves killing democracy, and are eat-

ing India alive with corruption and dishonesty. I will not

quietly bear this sorry plight of the Mother India.

25. I will not govern but I will not bear exploitation in

the name of governance.

26. I will not indulge in politics but I will not allow

corrupt, dishonest and criminal people do their cheap

politics by socially exiling them.

27. We will not sit on thrones but at the same time we

also have the resolution that each and every citizen gets

awakened with yoga and a healthy, prosperous and tradi-

tional India is built. We will developed our personal char-

acter and run social revolutions across the country to

develop national character. We will unite patriotic indi-

viduals so that corrupt, dishonest and criminal people are

not able to sit on thrones.

POLITICAL THOUGHTS

28. My political thought is – ‘All party’ and ‘No party’.

People with good and pure character in all parties are my

own. That is why I am ‘all party’. Corrupt, dishonest

and criminal people from all parties have no connection

with me. That is why I am ‘no party’.

IMPORTANCE OF ORGANIZATION

29. There is power in organization. When stones get

together, they become a mansion. When organs get to-

gether, they become a body. When teachers come to-

gether and teach, a school, college or university is formed.

When soldiers get together, they form a powerful army.

When pearls come together, they become a necklace.

When states come together, they become a powerful na-

tion. When threads get together, they become a garment

and the threads that were themselves naked when alone,

are now used in covering up another’s body. When labour

gets together, the nation’s industries stand to attention.

30. Give yourself as an offering in the continuous yagna

of person and nation development. It is not always nec-

essary to start a new organization. The goal is not reached

by floating in different directions. Hence, Come! Let all

of us nationalists unite! This is also the advice of the

Vedas.

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vks3e~ lekuks eU=k% lfefr% lekuh] lekua eu% lg&fpÙkes"kke~Alekua eU=efHkeU=;s o% lekusu oks gfo"kk tqgksfeAvks3e~ lekuh o vkdwfr% lekuk ân;kfu o%AlekueLrq oks euks ;Fkk o% lq lgklfrAA

(Rig Veda 10.191.3-4)

31. When corrupt people are together then why don’t

good people unite and remove wickedness with bravery?

There is limitless power in organization. It is only be-

cause the feelings of honesty and integrity, humanitarian-

ism, nationalism and spiritualism are not united that there

is fear, corruption, crime, poverty, unemployment, anar-

chy, restlessness, and insecurity in this world. The day

good people will become one, there will be peace and

happiness on this world and wickedness will end. We

will join hands and all good people will also join in and

collect strength. This is the advice of the Vedas - ^laxPNèoalaonèoa la oks eukafl tkurke~** (Rig Veda 10.191.2)

32. There are two main powers in any organization –

people-power and wealth power. The success or failure

of any organization depends on these two. I invite you to

make the revolution of India’s self-respect successful.

Join this organization yourself first and unite other patri-

otic people to join this huge mission and make it success-

ful, and help by giving monetary help too because only

money can make any such huge mission successful. It is

only because of lack of wealth that most work losses

happen. At the same time, also keep in mind that wealth

accumulated in an irreligious or immoral manner or

method also leads to misfortune. Hence, it is only by ac-

cumulating wealth earned in a pure and religious manner

that we have to attain the goal of India’s self-respect.

losZ"kkeso 'kkSpkukeFkZ'kkSpa ija Le`re~ (Manusmriti 5.106)

After an organization is established and known, lakhs

of people join in with their mind, body and wealth. You,

however, join this mission of nation building as a founda-

tion stone. Those who rule over what is already estab-

lished are ordinary people. Brave men are those who labour

to build new traditions and new kingdoms.

33. Hence, Come! Let us all unite and build a new

India. Let us bring in a new freedom and new system and

unite patriotic and gentle people, unmask corrupt people

and build a powerful and prosperous India with tradi-

tional values.

34. The meaning of organization is – contact, com-

munication, mutual respect, support and putting in com-

munal labour and struggling hard till we do not get suc-

cess. With mutual contact and communication between

patriotic, honest, gentle, pure and good people, we have

to unite the nationalist, brave-hearted, skillful, farsighted,

humanitarian, spiritual and humble people of the nation

and awaken the self-respect of India.

NATION’S IS DEVEL-OPMENT IS NOT POS-SIBLE WITHOUT SELF

DEVELOPMENT

35. Only a yogi can pro-

tect himself from the

worldly attractions of

wealth, position, status,

form and beauty. Hence the

first and essential requisite

in this nation-awakening

mission of India’s self-re-

spect is that each yoga

teacher, worker, and member must be a yogi. This is

because if we do not practice yoga or are not yogis, self-

indifference arises. And this dishonesty, corruption, ha-

tred, crime, insensitivity, idleness, unawareness, materi-

alism and impurity are nothing but a result of this self-

indifference.BECOME A YOGI

36. By starting yoga duties along with national dutiesand joining the religion of yoga with the religion of thenation, we have not done any opposing work and ratherhave accepted yoga in a vast form. There is no doubt,confusion, illusion or hesitation in my mind regarding theduties of yoga and the nation. My intention and rules arevery clear and my intention is to bring unity and mo-rality to divided India. Yoga means – to unite. I want tounite the entire world with yoga as a medium. I want tofirst make each person in the nation a yogi. When eachperson in India is a yogi then he will be a youth of char-acter; he will be a patriotic teacher or doctor; he will bean aware farmer; he will be a thoughtful chartered ac-countant; he will be a hardworking lawyer; he will be asoldier, security person or policeman with tradition; hewill be a dutiful supervisor, worker or labourer; he will bean energetic businessman; he will be a patriotic artist orjournalist; he will be a scientist dedicated to the good ofthe nation; he will be a healthy, active and sensitive seniorcitizen; he will be an intelligent and sensitive judge andadvocate because it is my clear opinion that there can beno development of the nation without self development.By doing and helping others do yoga, I will turn eachperson into a good person. I will make a mother an idealmother. I will build such a foundation of tradition andculture and prepare ideal mothers and ideal fathers throughyoga, so that children like Lord Ram and Shri Krishna areagain born here. When, with the help of yoga, a self-realized person sees the society, nation, entire universe inhimself, he will not cheat anyone, he won’t hate anyonebecause he will feel that cheating or lying to another ischeating or lying to himself. It is because of self-confu-sion that there is corruption, dishonesty, immorality, an-archy, and insensitivity. With this yoga revolution, wewill establish the age-old tradition of the sages across theglobe and re-establish a kingdom of happiness, prosper-ity, joy and peace.

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1. Yoga Samadhi (Yogsutra—Vyas Bhasya 1.1) Yoga is Samadhi. Yoga is the spiri-

tual philosophy of self-realization, or self-knowledge. Yoga is life philosophy. Yoga

is self-discipline. Yoga is not merely physical exercise but a complete lifestyle.

Yoga is the spiritual knowledge of making the soul pure and seedless. Yoga is a

complete medical science. Yoga is the science of life. Yoga is the solution to all the

problems of individuals, societies, countries and the world.

2. ^^leRoa ;ksx mP;rs** (Gita 2.48) You have the power within you to turn darkness

to light, sorrow to happiness, defeat to victory, unfavourable to favourable. You

have the fuel within you to make a sick body healthy. Illness, sorrow, danger and

struggles are nothing, you have the enthusiasm, valour and self-respect required

to check death. Simply go ahead continuously in life without getting diverted. On

e day you will definitely be successful – this is yoga.

3. If you want to be free from Vishad-yoga (sorrow) and enter the 18 yogas men-

tioned in the Gita including Sankhya, Karma and Gyan-yoga, then practise Pranyoga.

Pranyoga is the union of all yogas.

ASHTANG YOGA

(THE EIGHT YOGA PRACTICES)4. The eight yoga practices are Yam, Niyam, Asana, Pranayam, Pratyahar (restrain-

ing the sense organs), Dharna (firmness), Dhyan (meditation), and Samadhi. No

one can become a yogi without the implementation of ashtang yoga.

YAM

5. Non-violence, truth, abstinence from stealing, celibacy and

asceticism are the five yams.

NIYAM

6. Cleanliness, contentment, penance, self-learning and

utmost devotion to God are the five niyams.

KARMA YOGA

7. Penance, continuous and regular study of

the self and utmost devotion to God are karma

yoga. ri% Lokè;k;s'ojizf.kèkkukfufØ;k;ksx%(Yog sutra 2.1). One should not get diverted

even during penance, struggle and devotion.

Penance is nothing but continuously moving

towards the goal fighting against obstacles,

storms and emotions. There is a success be-

hind every failure. Visualizing honour behind

insults, never sitting down hopeless, defeated

or sorrowful. Only he who continuously

struggles or does penance reaches the peak of

spirituality or sorcery.

8. The meaning of continuous study of the

self is to constantly study the self. The ‘self’ should

be aware of itself—live an aware life, be alert, and

should be always in touch with his soul. Light, energy,

happiness, formless and truth are part of the nature of the soul.

Soul is bright, immortal, everlasting, imperishable and pure consciousness. Not

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Yoga is Samadhi,

yoga is the spiritual

philosophy of self-

realization, and self-

knowledge. Yoga is

life philosophy. Yoga

is life management.

Yoga is self-control.

Yoga is not merely

physical exercise but

a complete lifestyle.

Yoga is the spiritual

knowledge of mak-

ing the soul pure

and seedless.

AN INTRODUCTION TO YOGA

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to lose memories of this image of the soul is self-

study. To live every moment in awareness of your

soul is self-knowledge.

9. Utmost devotion to god means complete surrender

to the divine father, the Lord. We have got this body,

mind, wealth, position, power, form, youth, this en-

tire world and life only by the grace of God. Living

life with this in mind is a devotion to God.

10. While doing work, always keep in mind that you are

just a small speck and the strength, understanding,

capability, energy and speed is being given to you

indirectly by God. To do your work in this way, keep-

ing yourself free from arrogance, is a devotion to

God. To live very moment with penance, self-learn-

ing and devotion to God is karma yoga. Karma yoga

does not mean avoidance of work; it means working

without arrogance in your work, working with com-

plete surrender in God. Observing work as worship

and doing work keeping in mind that you are nothing

but a small speck, is karma yoga.

11. Constant practice of penance, self-learning and de-

votion to God makes it easy to gain freedom from

the five sins of false knowledge, false memory, an-

ger, hatred and attachment.

ACHIEVEMENT OF FULFILLMENT

12. Fulfillment is obtained by some great souls from birth,

some through medicine, some through mantras, some

yogis get it through penance, and some get it through

Samadhi. ^ ^tUe k S " k è ke U =ri% lek f è ktk %fl¼;%**(Yogsutra 4.1)

FIVE STATES OF THE MIND

13. Evidence (Praman), hostility (Viparya), variation

(Vikalpa), sleep (Nidra) and memory (Smriti) are the

five states. Controlling them with practice and as-

ceticism is nothing but Yoga.

KEY TO LIBERATION

14. The four main keys required for liberation are: Intel-

lect, asceticism, six properties (tranquility, punish-

ment, respect, solution, disinterestedness and endur-

ance) and mumuksha or the desire to attain salvation.

GREAT MEN OR INCARNATIONS

15. When a human being gets blessed with godly quali-

ties through yoga, then he becomes a demigod, great

soul, an architect of an age or a great man. The power,

knowledge and light of Gods arts becoming visible in

him. Such great men with godly qualities are then

worshipped by the people of the world as incarna-

tions of God, such as Ram, Krishna, Buddha, Mahavir,

etc. There is only one Supreme Lord but there may

be many children of that Supreme Lord in the form

of incarnations, great men or demigods. All god-like

incarnated men too worshiped and worship just one

Supreme Omkar. Hence, no matter how superior a

man might be, he can never become the Supreme

Lord.

THE GOAL OF YOGA

16. I want to establish a healthy, prosperous and tradi-

tion-bound nation through Yoga. This is the thought

of my life.

17. I want to awaken patriotism in each and every one

with the help of Yoga. I want to connect each one

with their national duties with the help of Yoga. I want

to take forward the holy mission of self-awakening

through yoga awakening. Developing my self with

yoga, I want to dedicate my entire being to the pure

mission of bringing about nation development.

18. I want to build a progressive, cultured and prosper-

ous society and nation by making the sick healthy,

making health useful and transforming pleasure seek-

ers into yogis and increasing the health, awareness

and qualities of the people of the nation.

19. The primary aim of Yoga is Samadhi. At the same

time, if the diagnosis of incurable illnesses can also

be done with scientific data, it is not of small impor-

tance. Yoga is very vast. Keeping a narrow view on

yoga is an insult to yoga.

20. A person who is in the grasp of ignorance, obstinacy,

selfishness and arrogance cannot be acquainted with

truth. These are also four reasons behind the opposi-

tion to yoga. As knowledge about yoga increases in

people, all obstinacy will go away and the subtle truth

or salvation will take the place of selfishness and ar-

rogance will be replaced by Omkar.

THE OUTCOME OF WORLDLY PLEASURES

21. Illness, fear, sorrow, restlessness, insecurity, intoler-

ance, impatience, ignorance, hatred, old age and death

are the outcomes of worldly experiences.

22. To get happiness, contentment and peace by experi-

encing worldly pleasures is just as futile as trying to

pacify fire by pouring clarified butter in it. Content-

ment and peace does not come from worldly plea-

sures but from intellect and knowledge.

THE OUTCOME OF YOGA

23. Health, fearlessness, happiness, peace, security, tol-

erance, love, kindness, patience, intelligence, energy,

virility, immortality are the outcomes of yoga.

24. We get strength with yoga, salvation with knowledge,

devotion with love and nourishment with service.

Getting nourishment with service means when we

serve, then the entire society or nation stands by us

in order to fulfill our pure resolutions.

YOGA – A SCIENCE

25. When knowledge comes forward after passing

through the experimental stage, then it becomes sci-

ence. When scientific experiments are done on yoga,

Ayurveda, and Vedic knowledge, then the outcome

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we get is called proof. Today these are scientific as

well as proven.

26. Do not reproach knowledge, salute it. It is not wise

to unnecessarily oppose Yoga and Ayurveda because

of obstinacy, selfishness, ignorance or arrogance.

27. Good health is the basic right of human beings. Good

health is the birthright of mankind. Become self-de-

pendent in matters of health with the help of yoga

and pranayam. Vaid, doctors, medicines, teachers and

scriptures will all combine to make you weak. Hence,

become aware and move ahead in life with valour.

Your vaid, doctor or teacher is seated inside you. You

have all kinds of medicine inside you, all Vedas and

scriptures are also there inside you. Hence, become

self-dependent and self-respecting.

28. Every teacher, saint and scripture says that truth, God

and all solutions are within us. However, they often

do not show us the path to the inside world. Be aware!

Breath or Pranayam is the way to reach the inside

world, that is from known to unknown, from tan-

gible to intangible.

29. I want to break the narrow confines of community,

region, religion or regionalism and unite the entire

nation and mankind with Yoga.

YOGA – MEDICAL TREATMENT METHOD

30. Treatment of sick people is above everything. The

day this statement is accepted in the arena of health,

that day the struggle amongst various medical treat-

ment methods will cease and there will be mutual

discussion instead of arguments.

31. Yoga and Ayurveda are systemic remedies while All-

opathy is a symptomatic treatment method. This is

the main difference between ancient and modern

medical science.

32. My ambition is not to compare yoga and allopathy

and place a question mark against any treatment

method. However, by placing various treatment meth-

ods in front of the patient, I want to give him the

opportunity of being able to choose the best treat-

ment method.

33. A person can invite death by buying poison from the

market. Tobacco and alcohol are responsible for

deadly diseases such as cancer and these can be

bought from anywhere. However, a person very close

to death because of ill health does not have the free-

dom to choose the treatment method he would want

to use to get his health back. By sacrificing the

wellbeing of patients, some powerful medicine com-

panies are busy looking after their own wellbeing and

torturing patients instead of solving problems.

Wrongly criticizing the traditional, faultless treatment

methods and opposing the inexpensive, simple, sci-

entific and proven treatment methods such as Yoga,

Ayurveda, Unani, Acupuncture, Homeopathy, etc. is

an insult and betrayal of medical science.

YOGA IS THE SOLUTION

34. Experiencing worldly pleasures ignites the volcano

of desire, just as pouring clarified butter on fire can

never calm it down. Hence, yoga is the solution. Do

not burn yourself in the fire of worldly experiences!

Now heat yourself with the fire of yoga and gain

victory over disease, old age and death!!

35. The road to retirement from crime and ambitions –

Instead of asking for position, power, luxury from

god, you should ask for his mercy. If a person’s

thoughts are constantly the same as they are on a

cremation ground, in good company, when sick or in

trouble, then crime will automatically cease to exist.

DO NOT BLINDLY INDULGE IN

VICES, BECOME A YOGI!36. Nature is there to give happiness from sacrifice re-

lated worldly experiences. Worldly pleasures without

yoga will give disease, old age and death.

37. It is not necessary to go anywhere to reach God.

When the unknown will disappear from the person’s

mind with the help of service, chanting, penance and

yoga, and hence will become pure, then he will find

God within himself.

38. lq=kek.ka i`fFkoha |keusgla lq'kekZ.kefnfra lqiz.khfre~AnSoha ukoa Lofj=keukxleÏoUrhe~ vk#gsek LoLr;sAA(½Xosn 93-10).

This body is a beautifully crafted boat to help us

cross the ocean of existence. Self-realized people

and yogis sit on it and cross the sea of existence,

and undiscriminating people and those who indulge

in worldly experiences get trapped in whirlpools.

CELIBACY AND CHASTITY (BRAHMACHARYA)39. To save life and mind from being torn apart in this

world full of subjects, Brahmacharya is the only me-

dium.

MIND

40. The states of the mind must be removed. When the

mind ceases to exist, there will be a new birth; you

will get a new vision and you will find a beautiful

world around you and then you will become aware

of the happiness of life. We ourselves are the reason

for our happiness and sorrow. The day we realize

this truth, that day our sorrows will disappear.

41. Social and moral values, truth, non-violence, humani-

tarianism, sensitivity, purity of character and toler-

ance will bring about global wellbeing and the world

will become happy. Also, do not forget that if you do

not cultivate these values and stand by them then you

will never be happy in your personal life as well.

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BODY

42. ^^v'ek Hkorq uLruw%** (Rig Veda 6.75.12). Our body

should be as alert and powerful as lightening. To live

with illness and disease is a sin and a crime.

43. There are four bodies – large, tiny, root and the fourth.

There are three forms of bodies: 1. the body that is

visible or the large body, 2. The body that is not vis-

ible or the tiny body, and 3. The root natural form is

the root body. The five large elements make up the

large body. The five breaths, five sense organs, five

small elements (panchtanmatraye), mind and wisdom

– these 17 elements make up the tiny body. When the

living being is in ecstasy on union with God in the

condition of Samadhi, this is the fourth body

MEDITATION

44. Meditation is not an escape from the world. This is

not a process of separating yourself from everything

or closing yourself from all directions. This is under-

standing of the truth of the world. What can this world

give us apart from status, power, property, honour,

residence, food, garments and endless sorrows con-

nected with all of these? The meaning of meditation

is going beyond this world where mounted on su-

preme knowledge, you are able to see yourself and

the world with the eyes of the intellect as a neutral,

unchanging witness. Then you will not want what

you do not have or remain discontent with what you

have. You will then see the beauty of the Lord in this

entire world.

45. The meaning of active meditation is – constant alert-

ness, constant awareness, always natural and intelli-

gent. When we remain aware, intelligent and natural

then we automatically move from bad towards good.

46. Till a person does not know himself through medita-

tion, he does not obtain self-respect, internal happi-

ness, self-contentment, internal peace, internal wealth

and high bloody struggle for power, property, honour

and status in the world will not end.

47. Meditation is not stupor or ignorance. It means be-

coming totally conscious with the highest nectar of

the supreme knowledge, where stupor and ignorance

is completely removed and finally the devotee’s intel-

lect becomes seedless. In this seedless mind, desires

do not sprout just as roasted chana (Bengal gram)

loses its ability to sprout. Desires do not sprout in the

intellect of a devotee who has attained awakening.

48. Asceticism is not another name for running away but

it is the name for the highest degree of intellect and

knowledge. The main ambition of asceticism is to

become constantly progressive, dedicated and

hardworking in a disinterested state after attaining

complete vision. The meaning of asceticism is to go

beyond limits into the limitless, endless infinity. Cre-

ation and removal of doubt occurs only by stepping

into zero. It is through

meditation that one can

enter the zero state.

49. It is only by entering the

unknown that the

doors to the known are

opened. It is only by

reaching the state of

thoughtlessness that di-

vine thought is attained.

When qualities are born,

the person is no longer

attracted by external at-

tractions and the person becomes free from the bonds

of life.

50. Fights and wars are taking place in this world be-

cause of honour, wealthy, position, power and arro-

gance. When a person attains self-knowledge through

meditation and devotion, he also attains internal

wealth, kingdom and unlimited power and there is an

end to arguments and wars.

51. Pure and divine thought take birth in an intellect that

has become thoughtless and passionless with the help

of meditation and pranayam.

52. Hearing, reflection, remembering again and again and

self-interview – this is called Shravan Chatustay or

quadrangle.BLISS OF THE MIND

53. To show friendship towards the happy, kindness to-wards the sad, delightfulness towards the virtuousperson and hope towards the wicked keeps the intel-lect happy.

BREATH IS MEDICINE

54. izk.kL;sna o'ks loZ± f=fnos ;Rizfrf"Bre~ (Prashnopanishad2.13). Breath is medicine. Breath is parents and mas-ter. Breath is Vasu, Rudra and Aditya. Breath is theSupreme lord Himself.

55. ^^;ksxf'pÙkofÙkfujksèk%** (Yogsutra 1.2). The mind findsit intriguing to remain in falsehood, imagination ordreams. The mind either remains lost in the pains ofthe past; in the agony, in the memories of the past orin the worries about the future. The meaning of yogais to live in the present, where there are no troublesor worries. In present there is creation. It is thepresent that creates the past and it is the present thatlays the foundation for the future. Past and future iswithout existence. Only the present exists. To live inthe present is to celebrate life. It is only when onegoes beyond the mind that the reality of the conscioussoul acquires a shape. Hence, the meaning of yoga isto connect with one’s consciousness, centre or real-ity; to recognize oneself and to recognize the SupremeLord existing within oneself; to see yourself in theuniverse and the universe inside you. To expand one’sidentity from the confines of narrowness in all direc-tions. I am in everything and everything is in me.This expansion of ‘I’ is yoga.

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CULTURE

1. We have a glorious past that is 1,96,08,53,109 years

old. ^lk izFkek laLÑfrfoZ'ookjk*(Yajurveda 4.14). We

are the carriers of the oldest culture in the world.

Our magnificent history goes back to approximately

200 crore years. With our hard work and devotion,

we will free Mother India from the troubles of the

present and made a powerful, golden India that will

lead the world.

2. Indian culture comprising restraint, good conduct,

good feelings, joint families and the glorious tradition

of sixteen cultures is the best, omnipresent, scien-

tific culture in the world.

3. The forefathers and culture, civilization and philoso-

phy of the people of India, Pakistan, Afghanistan,

Nepal, Myanmar, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka and the other

Asian countries were the same. India was the su-

preme kingdom of the world. In the middle ages, there

came about geographical and cultural divisions and

people got divided into various religions. Hence, de-

spite observing the different religions like Hinduism,

Islam, Buddhism, Jainism and Sikhism, our forefa-

thers were the same and even

today the blood that runs through

us is the same. Cultural differ-

ences and civilizations cannot

divide us. This is our cultural and

geographical past and present.

4. Often it is seen that the

more developed a culture and the

more developed a person or so-

ciety becomes, lazy and this be-

comes the cause of its downfall.

Hence, with exaltation the effort

should not end.

5. Indian religion, phi-

losophy, spirituality, political sci-

ence, ethics, Vedic mathematics,

astrology and Vedic knowledge

is universal and scientific. As we

have a vast and magnificent cul-

tural background, we do not

need imported religion, philoso-

phy, western culture and foreign

morals. The interest of the na-

tion lies in the culture and civili-

zation of our own nation.

THE STRUGGLE OF CULTURES

6. Only when there is no research on the knowledge of

languages, struggle and differences arises in cultures,

civilizations and races of the world. The opposition

to Veda, Yoga, Ayurveda and Indian culture is also

because of the lack of research on Sanskrit or Vedic

knowledge. In the same way, addressing religion or

calling God by various names in the various languages

of Hindi, Sanskrit, English, Arabic, Persian, Urdu,

Punjabi, etc. leads to illusion. ^,da ln~ foçk cgqèkkonfUr* (Rig Veda 1.164.46). There are many names

of one truth and if the illusion of names disappears,

we can move towards world peace. Our aim is olqèkSodqVqEcde~ (Panchtantra 5.38).

ASCETICISM

7. Asceticism is not another name for running away.

Asceticism is the highest level of intellect. The com-

plete aim of asceticism is to be constantly progres-

sive, hard working and putting in effort in a detached

manner after attaining supreme vision.

RENUNCIATION

8. My sanyas or renunciation is not cultural escapism.

Asceticism is nothing but intellectual climax. Hence,

do not run and at the same time do not lose yourself

in worldly experiences. Just wake up and awaken

others – this is our spirituality. No running away from

life, no sorrow for death. We have to always remain

the same – this is yoga. Renunciation is nothing but

doing your work in a detached manner without any

desires or expectations about the outcome.

COMPLETENESS OF PRAYER

9. Knowledge, work and devotion complete prayer or

mediation. Only knowledge will bring about a feeling

of arrogance, and a person who lives his life only on

knowledge will be like a desert and build dryness,

false arrogance and an artificial or imaginary person-

ality in his life. Hence, knowledge is incomplete with-

out work; work without devotional knowledge is

bondage, and becomes a vanity. Hence, we can get

salvation only by work in which our intellect is used.

With knowledge, we get complete vision, and this

vision should be definitely be used in work and devo-

tion. God does not give beggars but to those who

deserve it. Always worship character, not the image.

10. Independence does not mean indiscipline. Indepen-

dence is the name of self-governance. While living

an independent, self-dependent life, help others also

to become self-dependent. First become devotee and

then you yourself become a reformer.^^ekrk Hkwfe%

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iq=ks¿ga i`fFkO;k%** . Earth is our mother, we are her

children. Nation is the biggest God and religion means

the duties towards the nation. Our responsibilities are

the biggest religion.

11. It is an equal sin to bear exploitation as it is to actually

do injustice and wickedness. Every individual should

have gratefulness, respect and pride towards his na-

tion.

12. When the internal eyes are opened or divine vision is

obtained with yogic devotion, company of spiritual

teachers and philosophy, self-study of Upanishads and

other ancient texts, detached work and service, then

the Supreme Lord is seen in everything. In all rela-

tionships, divine relationship is felt. This is the com-

pleteness of devotion, worship or prayer.

THE PRAYER OF A DEVOTEE

13. Instead of asking wealth and its by-products from

god, ask God for God. Ask the Lord for support or

his devotion. Asking for his wealth and luxury are

petty demands.

14. Do not pray for position, authority, wealth or mate-

rial luxuries from God because he is a kind father and

always gives us more than we are worthy or capable

of. Just pray to God – O Lord! Let me be able to

carry out my work as if it is my religion and O Lord!

Let me not forget you even for a moment. Just give

me this boon.

GREAT ADVICE

15. Prajapati has three great advices. His advice for demi-

gods was suppression or self-control. For the asuras

or demons, His advice was that praying for compas-

sion should be their religion. Hatred, anger and re-

venge are the reasons for global restlessness. For

human beings, He advised sharing. The religious text

is this – share and eat, do not store, read the book of

distribution. (Brihadaranyak Upanishad).

SIXTEEN RITES

16. The foundation of building a human life is “sixteen

rites”. Hence, I will make my and my nation’s life

better with the following sixteen rites: Garvadhan or

conception, Punsavan (ceremony that is performed

in the third month after conception), Simantonayan

(Vedic rite that is performed in the fourth, sixth or

eighth month after conception), Jatkarma (ceremony

performed on birth), Namakaran (name giving cer-

emony), Annaprasanna (ceremony in which food is

first given to a child), Churakarma (tonsure cer-

emony), Karnavedh (ear piecing ceremony),

Upanayan (investiture with sacred thread), Vedarambh

(the start of education of the Vedas), Samavartan (cer-

emony performed on return of student from gurukul),

Grihastha or householder, Vanaprastha or retirement,

Sanyas or renunciation and Antyesti or last rites.

RELIGIOUS SACRIFICE

17. All holy work, starting from the ceremony in which

offerings are made to the consecrated fire, are called

religious sacrifices or yagna.

18. Brahmayagna (worship of God), Devyagna (ceremony

in which offerings are made to the sacrificial fire),

Pitriyagna (service to parents), Baliveswadev yagna

(eating after offering food to others or keeping a por-

tion aside for others), and Atithi yagna (Travellers

who are scholarly, helps others, has control over the

senses, religious, truthful, and without craftiness are

called guests and one should always serve them).

These five great yagnas are our ancient culture.

SATSANG

19. That, on the doing of which one gets away from

untruth or falsehood and acquires the truth, is known

as Satsang. That which leads us to entanglement with

sin is called bad company.

RESPECT

20. Respect is mother and belief is father. Respect is the

consecrated fire of the purifying yagna of life. Re-

spect is the perception of divine knowledge. Respect

is the acquisition of the highest knowledge and the

staircase to eternal peace. In our religious life, re-

spect is the holy water that is sprinkled during wor-

ship.

THE WAY TO FREEDOM FROM BONDAGE

21. If a person’s thoughts and wisdom always remain

still as when he is in good company, undergoing self-

reflection, in cremation ground or in times of trouble,

then the person becomes free from the bonds of at-

tachment and illusion.HEAVEN AND HELL

22. Achieving special happiness on the personal, familial,social, economic and spiritual fronts is heaven; andachieving circumstances of extraordinary sorrow ishell.

SALVATION

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

DEATH

24. Death is not the solution because birth is certain afterdeath. Hence, accepting death in weariness of get-ting scared of life or being hurt by the troubles orbetrayal of near and dear ones is foolishness.

25. It is the mind or ‘mana’ that should be killed or de-stroyed. On destruction of the mind there will be anew birth. You will gain a new vision and find a beauti-ful world around you. And then you will feel the joyof life. Life will become a celebration. The day weunderstand life, that day life’s sadness will end.

THE EIGHT BENCHMARKS OF THE

TOUCHSTONE OF TRUTH

26. The eight evidences include that which is perceived,

inferred, compared, heard, traditional, reasoned, pos-

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sible and absent, and it is

through these that we get

the knowledge of truth and

untruth. These are the

benchmarks of research

and truth. These eight evi-

dences are the touchstone

of the highest knowledge.

CREATION’S OLDEST

BOOK – VEDA

27. According to Indian

belief, Veda is the pure

knowledge that evolved

from the pure souls of the

four sages Agni, Vayu, Aditya and Angira in the be-

ginning of creation. The oldest text of Indian culture

and tradition, Veda is not merely a book on methods

of worship or work. It is the first text that encom-

passes everything from complete teachings of knowl-

edge and science to universal and scientific truths.

28. Veda is the divine and universal truth that emerged

from pure souls of the four sages, Agni, Vayu, Aditya

and Angira in the beginning of creation and got trans-

formed into Rig, Yaju, Sam and Atharva on knowl-

edge, science, religion, work principles, etc.

VEDIC TEXTS

29. Texts written by our ancient sages are called Vedic

texts. They contain the highest truth without any bias.

Man, being affected by ignorance, prejudice, selfish-

ness and obstinacy, may also write something wrong.

Hence, the texts written by sages that come in the

category of self-realization include six philosophies,

eleven Upanishads, Gita, Mahabharat, Balmiki

Ramayan, etc. and the book of divine knowledge,

Veda. If the writing of some scholar follows the Vedas,

truth, science and is supported by evidence, then even

these can be studied. If a writer writes unnecessary

and unscientific things then you should not waste

your valuable time and money.

UPVEDA

30. The science of age is called Ayurveda, the knowl-

edge of weaponry and their use is called Dhanurveda,

the science of vocal modulation and music is called

Gandharvaveda and the knwoeldge of art is called

Shilpashastra. These are the four Upvedas or the sci-

ences deduced from the Vedas.

VEDANGA

31. Education, Kalp, Grammer, Nirukt, Verse and Astrol-

ogy are the universal knowledge of the Vedic texts.

These are called Vedanga or the six subordinate

branches of the Vedas

UPANISHAD

32. There are eleven Upanishads. The hidden knowledge

of the sages on spiritual truth is presented in the form

of messages and conversations in the Upanishads.

PHILOSOPHY

33. The six texts composed by the sages Gemini, Kanad,

Gautam, Patanjali, Kapil and Vyas – Mimansha,

Vaisheshik, Nyay, Yoga, Sakhya and Vedanta – are

called philosophies or Upang.

34. RELIGIOUS TEXTS

Ramayan: Composed by the great Sage Balmiki in

Sanskrit language, Ramayana is the first epic that

describes the pure character of Lord Ram. In this

there is a conspectus of the various relations, broader

view of rules such as ideal parental devotion, devo-

tion towards the mother, beneficial political duties,

etc. From this text, we get to know the values of an

ideal and disciplined life; the character of an ideal

woman, her purity and devotion towards her hus-

band; ideal love of a brother; the high standards of

socially beneficial nationalism. This epic has been

translated into many languages.

Gita: This world famous text is a part of

Mahabharata, composed by great sage Vyas. In its

18th chapter, 18 kinds of yoga have been described

by Yogesheswar Sri Krishna. In this, Arjun, who is

saddened by the prospect of war, is given the knowl-

edge of kshatriya duties. Narrating the importance of

yoga through the medium of leRoa ;ksx mP;rs, the

great messages of Karma yoga such as

deZ.;sokfèkdkjLrs ek iQys"kq dnkpu and ifj=k.kk;lkèkwuka fouk'kk; p nq"Ñrke~ are found in Gita, which,

even today, inspires and motivates people who feel

low, defeated and sad to start doing good work.

Bible: The Christian text, Bible, gives messages of

humanity, love, service, etc to mankind. Special im-

portance has been given to the fact that every good

deed that we do makes God happy and every sin we

commit saddens God. God is always with us.

Quran: In this religious text of the Muslims, there is

the advice of giving all human beings safety, peace,

social goodwill and good of mankind. Here impor-

tance has been given to Takva, meaning penance, sac-

rifice, patience and strength. Roza has been consid-

ered a duty in devotion to God so that we to can

understand the hunger and thirst of the poor and also

can keep our bodies fit.

Guru Granth Sahib: For the welfare of mankind

and to awaken strength, devotion and valour, Guru

Nanakji, Guru Angad Devji, Guru Amardas ji, Guru

Ramdas ji, Guru Arjundevji, Guru Hargovindji, Guru

Har Raiji, Guru Harkrishnaji, Guru Teghbahadurji, and

Guru Govind Singhji has advised in this holy book,

“Ek Nur te sab upajya, Kaun bhale kaun mande”,

meaning there is one divine light and the entire world

is lit by it.

Shad-Darshan or the six schools of Indian Phi-

losophy: The main subject of schools of Indian Phi-

losophy is – philosophy of the soul, complete phi-

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losophy of the world and nature and communication

with the Divine Lord. Indian philosophy has been di-

vided into two segments – Astik and Nastik. Charvak,

Buddhist and Jain philosophies are considered Nastik

while Nyay, Vaisheshik, Sakhya, Yoga, Eastern

Mimansa and Vedanta (Northern Mimansa) are six

Astik philosophies. In philosophies, the combination

of two completes each other; for example, the com-

binations of Sakhya and Yoga, Nyay and Vaisheshik,

and eastern Mimansa and Vedanta.

The eleven Upanishads: The Upanisads is the sim-

plified spiritual description of the Vedas, Upavedas,

Brahman texts (the theological part of the Vedas, dif-

ferent from the mantras), and Aranyaks. In other

words, it tells us how to work in a detached manner

with penance, surrender and knowledge for 100 years,

getting the necessary knowledge of God, living be-

ings, nature, and obtaining salvation or freedom.

Jain texts: The philosophy of the great ascetic saint

Mahavir on non-violence, truth, self-realization and

renunciation is found in Jain scriptures.

Buddhist texts: Teachings of renunciation of illu-

sion and obstinacy, eight-fold path and freedom from

sorrow and eternal peace in the form of Nirvana are

found in the Buddhist texts.

GOD

35. God, life and nature – these are three existences with-

out beginning.

36. We are all children of God. That God is the image of

Sacchidananda, formless, all-powerful, just, kind,

without birth, eternal, unequalled, basis of everything,

Lord of all, omnipresent, all-knowing, ever young,

immortal, fearless, constant, pure and the creator.

Everything should worship this one God. He is the

mother and father of all.

37. With the help of prayer to the Lord, we obtain de-

tachment from the world and endless love from God.

We become free from pride and get godly qualities

with devotion and prayer.

38. When we accept God, it is also a divine truth that we

ourselves have first been accepted by God.

39. The great sage Patanjali considers Him to be God,

who is free from affliction (five afflictions including

ignorance), work (good-bad), change of state (birth-

death) and hopes (desire), and is all-knowing, omni-

present, all-powerful, just and kind.

LIVING BEING

40. Living beings are the immortal children of God. Indi-

vidual souls can never become the supreme soul. In-

dividual souls can never become all-knowing, omni-

present or all-powerful. This is the difference between

living beings and God. A life is a drop of water while

God is the river. Life in the form of a drop joins the

river and becomes part of it! Superficially we may

say that the drop becomes the river but the truth is

that the drop, even after becoming one with the river,

still remains a drop and the river remains the river.

The drop becomes a part of the river.

41. The individual soul is free to do whatever it wants

but it is always submissive to God in getting the just

fruit for its deeds according to the divine system.

KARMA AND FATE

42. Whatever a living being does with his mind, speech

and body is called ‘Karma’. There are three stages of

karma – Kriyaman (present performance of work),

Sanchit (that which is collected) and Prarabdh or fate.

That which is done in the present is Kriyaman Karma.

The influence that the Kriyaman has on the intellect

is Sanchit Karma, while the experiencing of the fruit

of work that we have done in this life and our previ-

ous births is Fate.

43. Strength, valour, attraction, inspiration, speed,

speech, judgement, activity, enthusiasm, memory,

determination, will, love, hatred, connection, division,

convener, divider, devotion, touch, vision, tasting,

smelling and knowledge – these 24 capabilities make

a living being of worthy authority.

NATURE

44. The association of truth, sin and ignorance is called

root nature. From nature comes wisdom; from wis-

dom come arrogance; from arrogance comes mind,

five sense organs, five work organs, five Tanmatraye

(subtle form of matter); From tanmattraye comes the

five elements including earth – These are the 24 ele-

ment and the 25th is living being, that is man, and

God. This is the entire world.

45. Nature is our mother. We should protect it. Trees are

like our father who protects us. The amount of oxy-

gen that you have taken in this life, the same amount

of oxygen should be returned to nature by planting

trees otherwise the Lord will tell you, ‘Son! You

haven’t returned the oxygen you have breathed by

planting trees. Hence, now go and balance your ac-

count books! Now become a tree and return the

amount of oxygen you have taken from nature!’

PILGRIMAGE

46. That with which man crosses the ocean of sorrow is

called pilgrimage. The service and company of par-

ents, teacher, scholarly and worthy people, religious

undertaking and holy work is pilgrimage.

CAUSE OF SORROW

47. What you have with you is what you share with oth-

ers and what you give to others is what you get in

return. If you have love, kindness, affection, happi-

ness and joy then you will also share this with others

and you will get these in return to from others. And if

you are filled with anger and hatred then whatever

you share, you will get. Whatsoever you sow, that

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will you reap. We sow the seeds of acacia trees and

in return, instead of thorns we want flowers which

we do not get. This is the reason for our sorrow.

END OF SORROW

48. We ourselves are the cause for our sorrow and hap-

piness. The day we understand this truth that day

our sorrow will end. If you smile then the world smiles

at you and if you feel depressed, sad, hopeless, and

defeated then the world seems sad to you.

49. Happiness comes from within, not from outside.

When you are in the state of complete silence or con-

centration then happiness emerges. It comes down

from within. We build up obstinacy towards every-

thing – religion, truth, saints, life, work, duty, non-

duty, body and the entire universe on the basis of the

sanchit, what we hear, what we see, and inferred

knowledge.

50. Only He who does not have any obstinacy reaches

the pinnacle of life. We have to break our obstinacy.

Obstinacy build arrogance and false illusion, it makes

us wicked and narrow. When obstinacy is broken,

the doors of truth open. Only knowledge will bring

about arrogance. Only knowledge will, like a desert,

bring about dryness, false pride and hypocritical or

imaginary personality. Hence, knowledge is incom-

plete without work. Without work, with only knowl-

edge, devotion becomes bondage; and without knowl-

edge, devotion becomes just a show. Hence, only by

doing intelligent work we can obtain Samadhi or sal-

vation.

51. Complete vision is gained with knowledge; this vi-

sion should definitely be used in work and devotion

after it is obtained. Each time, each moment, live a

life filled with enthusiasm, energy and self-confidence.

52. God has created you for great work. Social and moral

values, truth, non-violence, humanitarianism, sensi-

tivity, purity of character, and tolerance will bring

about global good, the world will become happier.

Before this, do not also forget that if you do not be-

lieve or have faith on these moral values then your

personal life can never remain happy.

INDUSTRIES

53. Industries are the temples of progress of Mother In-

dia where priests in the form of workers worship

Mother India with their work and make the country

prosperous and powerful. If we want to make India

magnificent and a superpower of the world, then we

have to respect industries, factories and workshops

like temples. Just as there are never any strikes in a

temple and its doors open everyday, similarly there

shouldn’t be any strike in the industry and factory

temples. We should look upon strikes in factories as

a crime akin to betrayal of the nation.

MAN

54. A man is someone who does his work thoughtfully.

^^euqHkZo tu;k nSO;a tue~** (Atharva Veda 8.1.6)

GIFT

55. The love, thought, feeling and strength that is given

is much more important than the object given as a

gift.

ARROGANCE AND LAZINESS

56. There is no greater enemy than arrogance and there

is no greater crime than laziness. Crime is not merely

absence sin. Not doing any good also falls in the cat-

egory of sin. A lazy person committing crime because

he is not doing any good work. Not opposing sin,

injustice or irreligion is also a crime. In this way, if

you are not part of the solution, then you yourself are

a problem.

DOUBT

57. You should never misuse power, disrespect knowl-

edge and doubt belief. In life, doubt is like a com-

puter virus. “Sanchayatma Vinasyati” (Gita).

TRUE HERITAGE

58. It is not important how much property you leave your

children; what is important are the values you give

them as inheritance, because it is with the seed of

values they will build the mansion of life or establish

the kingdom of the world.

MEANING OF PROGRESS

59. Progress does not mean how much or the great

amount of wealth acquired by a wealthy person. The

true meaning of progress should be how much edu-

cation, medical treatment, social justice and honour

we are being able to give to the last common man in

the nation and in the world.

IMPORTANCE OF THE PRESENT

60. The complete effort in doing one’s own duties or

work with complete knowledge, strength, energy,

valour and self-respect is known as hard work. Hard

work is stronger than fate because it is hard work

that creates destiny. The hard work of this moment

decides the fate of the next moment. It is the truth

that life only exists in the present; the past has al-

ready occurred. It has lost its reality and has lost its

authority. That which has not come as yet is the fu-

ture. Future never comes. That is why it is called

unknown. That which has come has become the

present. Hence, authority is only there with the present

and present is the creator of the past and future. Liv-

ing in the present is yoga.

FOUR ASHRAMS

61. The gradual steps in life are the four ashrams or reli-

gious orders of Brahmacharya (student), Grihastha

(householder), Vanaprastha (retirement) and Sanyas

(renunciation).

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STATES

62. Awakened, dream and unconsciousness are the three

states.

63. When the mind is doing work through the organs, it

is in awakened state. When the mind is doing work

even when the organs are not working, during sleep,

it is dream state. When the entire organ and mind

completely stop working and only breathing occurs,

it is unconscious state.

BALANCE

64. Wealth is not everything but it is also true that only

wealth brings about fruitfulness. Without wealth, ev-

erything becomes meaningless or wasted. More wealth

than required also brings about downfall. Hence, bal-

ance is the eternal principle of life and the world.

65. Balance is health. It is physical and emotional imbal-

ance, non-control, irregularity and disproportion that

bring about ill-health.

ADMINISTRATOR

66. He who himself lives with control can become a true

instructor, teacher, administrator or leader.

67. Only he whose behaviour is softer than a flower, whose

discipline is tougher then thunderbolt and who has a

determined nature can become true instructors, ad-

ministrators and leaders.

YOGA EDUCATION, NOT SEX EDUCATION

68. Character building of youth and students will take

place with yoga education, not with sex education.

Unfortunately, some characterless politicians do not

want the character of the people of the nation to be

developed with yoga. Their fear is that if the nation

acquires character then characterless people will lode

heir authority. Hence, by advocating sex education

they are taking their country into a pit.

CULTURAL KNOWLEDGE

69. Physical body or receptacle of food (Annamay kosh),

receptacle of life or vital air (Pran kosh), psycho-

emotional body (Mannomay kosh), Intellectual body

(Vigyanmay kosh), and receptacle of bliss (Anandmay

kosh) – these are the Panchkosh or the five bodies

(receptacles) within the body according to the Vedic

system.

70. Complete vision with the five basic elements, seven

humours and three doshas is the physical body.

71. Pran (breath), Apan (emission of wind backwards),

Saman (air used in digestion), Udan (air which raises

up the throat) and Vyan (the vital air that circulates

the whole body) are the five vital airs, and Naga,

Koorma, krinkal, Devadutta and Dhananjaya are the

five upaprans or sub-types. This is the receptacle of

vital air.

72. Mind, Ego and the five work organs of speech, hands,

feet, kidney and urinary organs – these seven ele-

ments form the psycho-emotional body.

73. Wisdom, intellect and five

sense organs (ears, eyes,

skin, tongue and nose) –

these seven elements

form the intellectual body.

74. That in which the light,

energy, peace and happi-

ness of the soul is experi-

enced in true nature is the

receptacle of bliss.

75. Ancient texts such as

Atreya, Satpath-Brahman

are books written by

sages. These are called Puranas, history, Kalpa, Gatha

and Narasanshi.

DEVOTEE AND TROUBLE

76. This is also an eternal truth that the kind and loving

Lord throws his devotee very far away from Him

into the forests of danger, trouble, poverty, want and

misfortune so that he feels the hunger of despera-

tion, restlessness and the separation, and gradually,

step by step, comes near the Lord, learning the mys-

tery of each factor and drink the nectar of His love.

THE WAY OF SUCCESS

77. There is no greater enemy than arrogance and there

is no greater crime than laziness.

vkRekua jfFkua fof¼ 'kjhja jFkeso rqAcqf¼a rq lkjfFka fof¼ eu% izxzgeso pAbfUnz;kf.k g;kukgqfoZ"k;kaLrs"kq xkspjku~AvkResfUnz; euks;qDra HkksDrsR;kgqeZuhf"k.k%AA (Kathopanishad)

Soul is the rider of this body chariot. Wisdom is the

charioteer and mind is the reins. The sense organs

are the horses that run on the roads of experiences.

The soul is experiencing with the help of the senses

and mind. One who has divine knowledge and holds

the reins-like mind firmly and steers the chariot away

from the roads of worldly pleasure and desires, and

drives on the roads of truth, restraint and good con-

duct, he will reach his destination.

78. Gain victory over desires and tastes with prayer. He

whose words are always true and has control over

his actions cannot be defeated by any power on earth.

79. Big thoughts, hard work and firm determination –

these are the three mottos of success.

HAPPY LIFE

80. The aim of life is not worldly pleasures, gambling,

alcohol, meat, travel, leisure and entertainment. Life

is being able to give satisfaction, happiness, content-

ment to others with service and obtaining content-

ment, happiness and complete satisfaction with de-

votion.

81. Everyone is able to get six feet of land to live, two

garments to cover the body, and two rotis to satisfy

hunger. The thirst of people are never quenched.

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Hence, Veda Bhagavat says – rsu R;äsu Hkq´thFkk%(Yajurveda 40.1). Go through worldly experiences

with a sacrificial attitude and live for a 100 years do-

ing hard work in a disinterested manner. ^^dqoZUusosgdekZf.k ftthfo"ksPNra lek%** (Yajurveda 40.2)

82. m|kua rs iq#"k uko;kue~ (Atharvavaeda 8.1.6) – O

Man! God ahs created you to rise high, not to fall

low.

POPULARITY

83. A person will reach the pinnacle of popularity by show-

ing love towards the younger, respect towards the

elders, giving the credit of success to everyone, al-

ways remaining happy and positive thought.

VIRTUE

84. Doing good towards oneself and others is virtue and

doing harm is vice.

SACRIFICE

85. The meaning of sacrifice is – leaving aside bound-

aries and entering into the limitless and immeasurable

eternity. Sacrifice does not mean letting go but mak-

ing the vastness known to oneself. Only by entering

zero does birth and solution take place. It is only by

meditation that you can enter a zero-like state.

86. It is only by entering the unknown that the doors of

the known will be opened. It is only by reaching the

stage of thoughtlessness that you will attain divine

thought.

87. When each birth of qualities has occurred then the

attractions fail to attract the person any more and he

becomes free from life.

88. To make a change it is not time but determination

that is required. The wickedest of wicked people can

change with just one moment of pure resolution or

thought and become good.

SUCCESS

89. No person is great by birth, nor is anyone high or

low by birth. Even in Indian culture, the caste sys-

tem is not based on birth but on work. Deeds make a

man great. One who dedicates his life in performing

his duties with constant effort, courage, patience,

bravery, hard work and valour definitely reaches the

pinnacle of success in life. Truth and continuous work

is success. The constant flow of work is success.

EVIDENCE

90. That which is known through the sense organs and

the mind is perceiving; knowledge of fire after seeing

smoke, etc. is assumption; those which have similar

forms is comparison, such as comparing a cow with

a Nilgai; and the true advice of completely reliable

and God, that is godlike great men, is called ‘word’

evidence. The history that is based on such ‘word’

evidence and a path free from untruth is called tradi-

tional theory. If by saying one thing, the second thing

is understood without being said, it is called Arthapatti.

The thing that has evidence, reasoning and order of

creation is called possible. The knowledge that is based

on absence is called absence. Just as someone told

another to bring water. The person who is bringing

the water sees that water is not here but should be

got from where it is. This knowledge is called ‘ab-

sence’ evidence.

THEISM

91. Belief and faith in existence is belief in existence of

god or theism. See the unseen in the seen, the large in

the small, and the tree in the seed. The dwarf is also

the giant.

FATE

92. Just as a sculptor makes stone idols, we too scupt

our own destinies.

A CALL

93. mfÙk"Br tkxzr izkI; ojku~ fucksèkr (Kathopanishad

3.14). arise! Wake up! Move towards your goal with

courage, valour, intellect, bravery and hard work. Your

destination is calling you, go and acquire it.

94. Do now, get now. Do yourself, get yourself. If not

now, then never. ^^dk;± ok lkèk;s;a nsga ok ikr;s;a**.Do or die. Can cut, but cannot move away. Ved

Bhagavat advises.

u efj";fr u efj";fr ek fcHks%Au oS r=k e`;Urs uks ;UèUre%AAloksZ oS r=k thofr xkSj'o% iq#"k% i'kq%AA;=ksna czã fØ;rs ifjfèkthZouk;de~AA

(Atharvaved 8.2.24-25).

You will not die, fear not. He who fears dies. He

who does not fear does not die. Make the strength

of the Supreme Lord your security shield. No power

on earth can defeat you.

SURRENDER

95. The abandonment of the Ego is surrender. Jealousy,hatred, intolerance, wickedness, thirst, anger are alldivergences of arrogance. Hence, always live life asa witness.

96. Never consider yourself to be master. We are all trust-ees of the trust of God. The complete end of afflic-tions is reaching God.

THE RESOLUTION OF A DISCIPLE

97. u"Vks eksg% Le`fryZCèkk RoRizlknkUe;kP;qrAfLFkrks¿fLe xrlUnsg% dfj";s opua roAA

(Gita 18.73)O Teacher! My attachment has gone away with yourpure proximity. I am now available to my soul. Withyour grace, all my ignorance, attachment, and illu-sions are gone and I know that I am the ever-young,immortal, constant, indestructible, unchangeable,light, energy, peaceful soul. Now I am established inmy form and in my form I see your image. O Teacher!O yogeshar! I will now follow your words completelywithout any doubt.

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1. LEAVE DOUBLE STANDARDS, MAKE PERSONAL

AND PUBLIC LIFE PURE!Character and self-respect falling victims to

selfishness

Double standards of people are the biggest hurdle to

the rise and progress of any society. A lot of contrast is

seen between our personal and social life today. Accord-

ing to the Indian Vedic tradition of “Yadantar Tad Bahya

Yad Bahya Tadantaram”, our internal and external lives

used to be the same. Unfortunately, today,

the people mounted at the crest of religion

and politics have started singing a new

tune: Look at our social lives and do not

try to peep into our personal lives. Iron man

Sardar Vallabh Bhai Patel, Lal Bahadur

Shastri, Maharshi Swami Dayanand

Saraswati and Yogi shri Arobinda, etc were

such great men whose internal and exter-

nal lives were pure and without any stain.

Unfortunately, the religious and political

leaders today have turned traditions and

principles upside down. Earlier, political

leaders used to do Shirsasana, and hence the coun-

try used to run well. Nowadays, leaders have

stopped doing Shirsasana, thus the country is turn-

ing upside down and doing it. This is why in the

education sector, sex education is being advocated

instead of yoga education.

At present, approximately 4500 companies across

the country are selling products made with zero tech-

nology to the people and every year approximately 90,000

crore rupees are being sent out of the country in the form

of profits of these companies. Even in the neighbouring

country of China, multinational companies run according

to the Chinese government. There, major portion of the

profits have to be spent by the MNCs in local develop-

ment and they have to take the permission of the govern-

ment to take the profit out of the country. There is no

such provision in India. We say ‘Bande Mataram’ but do

not mean it. This is harmful for the nation. National char-

acter and self-respect is disappearing today. Entangled in

selfishness and narrowness, society has forgotten its val-

ues and I do not know where it wants to end up. Every

person is acting. It is true that it is very nice to see acting,

but it is also an eternal truth that a person needs to live in

reality. Acting out the emotions of love, patriotism, power,

knowledge, capability, meditation, devotion, form, grace,

purity and skill, people are moving quite far away from

the truth. This is dangerous for culture of mankind. No

good can come out of this for any nation or society.

A truthful person is not very good at acting. It is also

equally true that acting cannot be considered as the real-

ity. Our soul is always aware of acting and truth. Hence,

we have to leave this pageantry, drama and superstition

and move towards the truth. Only then will our internal

and external personalities would be one.

2. GIVE SUCH A FORM TO RELIGION THAT EVERY

PERSON ON EARTH COULD ACCEPT IT

Some questions connected with religion, God and the

Constitution force us to think. Religion, God and the laws

and rules of a nation, in a way, play an im-

portant role in increasing friendship,

kindness, love, goodwill, happiness,

peace and prosperity in a nation. Un-

fortunately, some representatives of

different communities are spreading

illusion in the name of religion for

cheap publicity. They know

very well that religion never

permits the breaking of

hearts and spreading of ha-

tred.

Even then, because of

narrowness, they misuse re-

ligion. Such a person is very

harmful to a nation and so-

ciety. One should never

doubt the proofs given by

sages and great men. However,

it is possible that maybe it is not

religion that religious leaders, pandits, granthis, mullah-

maulavis or fathers are doing, may be it is just an illusion

or betrayal in the name of religion. The selfishness, obsti-

nacy, ignorance or arrogance of these religious leaders

won’t let you get introduced to the truth. Or else, if you

too hunt for religion, truth and goodness with the light of

obstinacy, selfishness, arrogance or ignorance, then you

too won’t be able to get introduced to the truth. Hence,

hunt for religion, truth and goodness with the light of

science, knowledge and self-knowledge, leaving aside

obstinacy. Our learned sages have saidthat , Become you

are your own guru. Search for knowledge, truth and god

from within.

At the time of India’s independence, some scholars

studied the Constitutions of many counties. The laws made

by the British who abided by the primary law of “Put

your foot down and rule”, the laws that were made by

them to rule over us were included as it is in the Indian

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Constitution. In the present circumstances, it is impor-

tant to take another look at the laws regarding religion

and the Constitution and it is necessary to have a discus-

sion with a positive view on some aspects of these. It

must be kept in mind that the religious feelings and faith

of people are not hurt.

A solution should be found to prevent division in the

name of casteism, fanaticism and religion. At this time, it

is important to solve many burning issues and questions.

In ancient times, when there was no religious text, was

there a kingdom of irreligion? Thousands of years ago,

there was no temple, mosque, gurudwara or church on

earth. Everyone used to pray to the Lord under the open

skies. The question is were people of those days happy

or are they happier now while praying in temples

and mosques?

The definition and language of sci-

ence is same across the world. Reli-

gion is also a science of life. Why

can’t its description and language

also be the same? Some organi-

zations established in the name

of religion are spreading illu-

sions. To maintain unity, moral-

ity, administration and justice in

society, a Constitution and law

and order are required. In the

same way, to maintain happi-

ness, peace and joy in our inter-

nal lives, religion is necessary. We

humans before we are Hindus,

Muslims or Christians, then why

can’t the Constitution and religion of

the entire world be one? Why can’t

learned men decide an equal constitution

for world peace?

Why shouldn’t all women get equal rights? One

should also notice the reservation going on in the nation

on the basis of caste and religion. Actually the time has

come now to move away from the shelter of the temple,

mosque, church, parliament and assemblies and move

under the open skies where every good and learned per-

son talks about religion and the Constitution. Religion and

Constitution should be defined on the basis of human

values and emotions leaving aside selfishness, narrow-

ness and obstinacy. Religion and Constitution should be

given such a form that every individual and every nation

can adopt it. Religion is for uniting, for peace and non-

violence. It is not a weapon for breaking or for spreading

restlessness and hatred.

3. THE JOY OF GOD’S AUTHORITY IN SAMADHI

THE ROAD TO FULFILLMENT OF LIFE AND SALVA-TION IS HIDDEN IN HIGHEST PEAK OF KNOWLEDGE

Meditating upon the Lord, who is the very image of

happiness, light and peace, a person becomes so absorbed

in Omkar, the Supreme Lord, that he forgets himself. He

just experiences the divine joy of God – this is nothing-

ness. Maharshi Dayanandji used to say the person who

meditates, the mind with which he meditates and the thing

on which he meditates, exists. However, in Samadhi, the

soul is absorbed only to attain the Lord’s form of joy,

peace and light, and in the light. Just as a person upon

diving into water remains under water for some time,

similarly man emerges himself in the joy of the Supreme

Lord to get joy in Samadhi. This thing is said by the sage

in another way. Just as an iron rod placed in fire acquires

the form of fire, similarly in the light of the divine knowl-

edge of god, the soul too becomes enlightened and for-

getting the body, etc. becomes ecstatic with the

Lord’s light and knowledge. This is Samadhi.

Shri Bhoj Maharaj gives the meaning of

Samadhi in this way:^^lE;xk/h;rs ,dkxzhfØ;rs fo{ksiku~ ifjâR; euks ;=k l lekf/%**A (Bhojvriti Vibhutipad 3.3)

That in which the mind is re-

moved from perplexity and is con-

centrated, is called Samadhi. The

first words described in Yogdarshan

are “Savitark Samapti”. In medita-

tion, differences remain between

word, meaning and knowledge and

when there is and of all reasoning

(Nirvitak Samapti), it should be un-

derstood as the state of Samadhi. In

this state of ecstasy of Sampragya

Samadhi, the devotee gets the blessing

of god in the form of divine knowledge.

After this there are various stages of

Samadhi –Nirbeej (seedless) Samadhi. There

is a layer of past experiences in the worldly in-

tellect of experiences, pleasures and desires. When

these experiences and their influences are removed along

with the seed then all afflictions get completely cured.

Then the possibility of attachment and bondage also dis-

appears. This is called Nirbeej Samadhi. This is the ful-

fillment of yoga and life. Asceticism is the highest peak

of knowledge. Reaching this pinnacle through yoga is

Moksh, on attaining which the yogi feels that he has at-

tained everything that has to be attained and all afflictions

(false knowledge, false memory, anger, hatred and at-

tachment) that had to be removed have been destroyed;

as if the cycle of obtaining one body from another has

been torn apart.

4. SPIRITUALISM IS THE SOLUTION TO ALL PROBLEMS

A person who attains self-knowledge remains

far from corruption, religious fanaticism and crime

Maharshi Patanjali’s yoga begins after going beyond

the mind. Only when we go above the mind, our person-

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ality attains divinity, equilibrium and comprehensiveness.

The mind contains obstinacy; the mind has the reality-

less past and innumerable fantasies of the future. We want

to live in the known and are scared of the unknown. That

is why we are not able to gather courage to do something

new – because the unknown is hidden, mysterious and

unsaid. It is true that only those people have given some-

thing new to the world and only those people can do

something new, who have gathered courage and dived

into the unknown. There mysteries will be revealed, so-

lutions will be found and illusion, fear and delusion will

end. There is obstinacy and narrowness in the mind, there

are boundaries and bondages in the mind. To obtain the

vast, limitless eternity, you have to enter the conscious

mode.

We have made our life’s centre outside. “I” means

land, mansion, money, wealth, authority, status, youth

and the wish to gather external wealth. This is where the

journey of life’s destruction begins because a person con-

siders his identity and personality to be outside. Thus,

even his prayers of becoming great or happy in life are

also built outside. Earlier, a person used to be considered

great because of his wide vision, sacrifice, restraint,

struggle and life values. Today, the standards of great-

ness are external pomp. Hence, a person gathers wealth

and considers the progress of his wealth to be the ulti-

mate truth of life and in the final hours regrets that what-

ever he had obtained in his life, that waste is getting re-

moved from him. The wealth, status and authority, which

hasbeen obtained after losing our night’s sleep and day’s

peace, would from us at the time of death.

The sorrow is not of death but of losing everything

and of where will I go after the unknown or death. The

main point of the thoughts and philosophy of the sages of

India is life and death. Today we just think while placing

life at the centre. All the theories of progress and science

are centered only on life. People are scared of death and

they are thus not even prepared to think about it. I have

never opposed materialism, science and progress. How-

ever, it is also true that I have always kept self-knowl-

edge as the primary goal in life. Without the equilibrium

of materialism and spiritualism, the hope of a healthy,

prosperous and happy world will remain a dream.

A completely spiritual person remains far from cor-

ruption, crime, casteism and religious fanaticism. He who

has identified the real “I’ beyond the body and the mind

and has himself seen the diffusion of the “I” will not

betray others in this manner. He cannot be a traitor to his

nation; he cannot be an accomplice in bribery, theft,

dacoity, murder and crime. Spiritualism is the answer to

the burning problems of people and the nation.

5. RELIGION IS BEING DEFINED ON THE BASIS OF

SELFISHNESS

Leave aside thoughts of salvation and heaven,

do your work!

There is a need for positive change in the present po-

litical and religious thought. Politicians pride themselves

in saying that they are indifferent towards religion. How-

ever, they forget that no one can live without religion.

Religion is not merely another name for going to the

temple, mosque, gurudwara or chapel. Religion is the name

of those values, rules and limits, following which will

bring joy, peace and prosperity to the person, family, na-

tion and world. Religion is the carrying out of duties and

responsibilities with sincerity. Religious indifference does

not mean insulting people who have many different reli-

gious and spiritual faiths or unrestrained war on some-

one; it is also not about abusing the majority society and

declaring yourself to be the well wisher and supporter of

a minority community. In fact, from the point of view of

linguistic science, the word religious indifference is mean-

ingless because every person, thing or substance is influ-

enced by religion, and is not indifferent to it.

It is unfortunate that today we have declared external

rituals of worship as religion and across the entire world

today, we mostly see illusion, wickedness, hatred and

religious conversions going on in the name of religion. If

we look at history, we will know that 2000 years ago,

there was no monastery, temple, mosque or church on

earth. Approximately before 2000 years, there was no

knowledge of Puranas, Quran or the Bible. Before 5000

years, there was no knowledge of the Gita and before 9

lakh years, even the Ramayana wasn’t there. So, didn’t

religion exist before this? The cultural history of India is

many lakhs of years old, and at that time, the great sages

of India considered life values to be religion.

The great sage Manu declared patience, forgiveness,

restraint, purity, control of senses, learning, truth and the

absence of anger as the religion. By forgetting non-vio-

lence, truth, equality, contentment and global friendship,

we are considering our external life to be religion. Just as

the word religious indifference is meaningless, the word

religious conversion is also meaningless because when

truth, non-violence, sacrifice, love, tolerance, sensitivity,

service and good to others is religion then what is the

meaning of religion conversion? If by religious conver-

sion our life’s values do not change, then what is the

need for religion conversion? Religion inspires us to leave

aside our selfishness and take up universal feelings so

why is there the selfishness of reservation in the name of

religion and feeling of difference? Conspiracy in the name

of religion is a hurdle in the way of the country’s progress.

Hence, the people representing the various religious or-

ganizations also should not define religion according to

their own needs. Dividing the nation on the basis of reli-

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gion and caste is dangerous for national unity and integ-

rity. Unfortunately, the system given in the Constitution

in the name of religion, caste and sub-caste has been

misused by politicians to divide the nation. We have to

rise above our own needs and should not identify our-

selves on the basis of caste, religion or community. We

should not doubt the theories of great learned men and

sages. However, it is possible that religion is not what is

being preached by religious leaders, pandits, granthis,

mulla-maulvi or fathers. It may be an illusion and betrayal

in the name of religion. These aforementioned religious

leaders do not let you know the truth because of their

own selfish needs, obstinacy, ignorance and arrogance.

And if you yourself start defining religion being over-

come by obstinacy, selfishness, arrogance or ignorance

then you too won’t get to know the truth. Hence, search

for religion, truth and goodness with the light of science,

knowledge and self-knowledge, leaving aside obstinacy.

The teachers and external guides may misguide you.

Hence, our great sages have said, ‘become your own

guru’. Search for religion, truth and the Supreme Lord

from within. Indianess is our identity, humanitarianism is

our religion and mankind is our caste. Living with this

feeling, we will consider our work to be our worship.

6. REAL GLOBAL PEACE WILL BE ESTABLISHED

ONLY BY EIGHT-FOLD YOGA

This has stood the test of the life processes of

religion, humanity and science

Every person on earth wants peace and happiness.

All the nations of the world agree on the point that peace

should be established on earth. Each year, for this reason

only, one person gets honoured with the Nobel Prize for

peace.

Everyone, according to his or her intellect, thinks about

this but a solution that is acceptable by all has not come

about. Someone says that on a day when certain religion

is the only religion on earth there will be peace. Someone

else says that if everyone surrenders to a certain God

(great man, incarnation or guru), there will be global peace

and happiness. In India, there is an overflow of commu-

nities, religious thoughts and gurus and each one makes

the claim that waling on the path shown by them will lead

to global peace and happiness. There is no such clarity,

spread or completeness in all these routes that they would

be accepted by entire mankind. Each has its own limita-

tions.

There has been autocratic establishment and bloody

battles for the aforementioned religions but there has been

no outcome. Restlessness is on the increase. This means

that the issues that the people of the world have been

thinking about are meaningful but lack completeness,

wideness and totality. On accepting these popular sects,

communities and aforementioned religions, a person gets

a little peace on one side and on the other, he gets trapped

by some superstitions, bad behaviour and false obstina-

cies associated with the communities, which are very

difficult to get rid of. Can there be such rules and regula-

tions or limits on which each person of the world can

walk? That which will not compromise the unity and in-

tegrity of any country or person; that which can be ac-

cepted by each individual and life’s complete peace, hap-

piness and joy can be found? One such path on which

each person on earth can walk with complete indepen-

dence fearlessly and complete happiness, peace and joy

of life can be obtained is the eight-fold yoga established

by the sage Patanjali. This is not any sect, religion or

community but a complete way of life. If the people of

the world are serious about establishing world peace then

this is the only solution – practice of eight-fold yoga. It is

only through eight-fold yoga that personal and social equal-

ity, physical health, mental peace and spiritual joy can be

experienced.

Astang yoga or eight-fold yoga stands the test of reli-

gion, spirituality, humanitarianism and science. If the

bloody battles on earth can be stopped by any method

then it is this – Astang yoga. Astang yoga has the unique

co-existence of the highest level of spirituality from gen-

eral behaviour to meditation to Samadhi.

7. NON-VEGETARIAN FOOD HARMS HUMAN SENSI-TIVITY –

Meat eating destroys kindness, pity, love and other

good qualities

Maharshi Charak had a very beautiful view on food.

Once Maharshi Charak asked his disciple, ‘Who is not

sick, that is who is healthy?” Maharshi’s learned student

Bhagbhatt replied, “One who eats beneficial food, in the

right quantity and eats food suitable to the season.” Un-

derstand your nature (Vat, Pitta and Kapaha) and take

food according to that. Food decides a person’s nature

and behaviour. Vegetarianism cools temperament. Meat

eating builds up anger in a person. If your nature is Vata

or wind, then you should leave wind-building substances

such as rice and sour things and keep using choti pippali,

dry ginger, ginger, etc. People with pitta nature should

not eat hot, fried stuff and meals with raw cucumber

however gourds, etc are beneficial. Kapha people should

not eat lot of cold substances such as rice, curd, butter-

milk, etc. Eating food according to what is available in

the season keeps diseases away. Meals taken at odd times

lead to indigestion and ill health.

In the morning, between 8-9am, it is good to take a

light drink or fruits. The less use of cooked food in the

morning is better. People who are above 50 years of age

should not eat cooked food in the morning. It is best to

take the midday meal between 11-12’o clock in the after-

noon. It is okay to have your food between 12-1pm in

the afternoon but after that it is not advisable. For the

evening meal, 7-8 pm is the best time, 8-9 pm is okay but

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as far as possible should not be taken after 9pm. Talking

during meals lead to poor chewing and you also end up

eating more. Chew well while eating. One mouthful should

be chewed 32 times or at least 20 times. Eating food

while chewing also removes feeling of hatred. There is a

shlok in Sanskrit which means – ‘He who drinks water

after getting up in the morning, drinks milk after his

evening meal and buttermilk after his midday meal, such

a person does need the Vedas.” Do not use meat, eggs,

etc. in your food. God has made us vegetarian. We can

all survive eating rotis which does not involve violence,

then why do we have to kill living beings, end their be-

loved lives in order to live? It is better to die than to live

like this. Meat eating ends human qualities such as pity,

kindness, sympathy, love, feeling of oneness, respect and

devotion. Men become demons. The stomach of meat-

eaters is like a graveyard.

8. BELIEVE IN YOURSELF AND IN GOD!Auspicious and inauspicious is within us

What is auspicious? This question arises

again and again in front of us and wants

a solution because every person is

afraid of the inauspicious. We have

heard from our childhood to avoid

inauspicious work and to protect

oneself from the inauspicious. We

do rituals to protect ourselves from

the inauspicious and before em-

barking on any task or journey we

calculate the auspicious time, po-

sition of stars, etc. Days are di-

vided into auspicious and inauspi-

cious, we hunt for auspicious and

inauspicious in planets and even

in directions we establish auspi-

cious and inauspicious. Be it for

any purification ritual such as

name-giving ceremony, sacred

thread ceremony, etc. we are al-

ways alert about auspicious-inaus-

picious, and we move out in search

of those people who are said to be

learned or else read our horoscopes, plan-

etary positions or faults in directions.

When man gets turned down by everyone and he gets

betrayed even after trying everything, then he sits down

in a hopeless state dependent on fate and finally becomes

an atheist. But have you ever gathered the courage to

think what is auspicious? Instead of asking others, have

you asked yourself? What is auspicious? Let us ask our-

selves this question and become silent for a moment. The

solution will come on its own, from within. Others might

cheat you but you will never be able to cheat yourself.

Are there the same standards of auspicious-inauspicious

in all the other nations as in India? I will say that we have

unnecessarily harboured an illusion. A cat crossing the

road is inauspicious, sneezing is inauspicious! What is

wrong if you sneeze? This is a common phenomenon of

the body. What is inauspicious in it?

It is understandable that when a wild animal moves in

front of you, you let it go. You wait for a while because

they have the first right to walk on the path, but what is

this superstition of it being inauspicious for them to cross

your path? Do we think before eating whether eating meat,

alcohol, etc. is auspicious or inauspicious for us or not?

Before you are about to do something, just be silent for a

moment and ask your conscious soul, and listen atten-

tively to whatever reply comes to you from within and

do as directed. You will never be cheated. Whenever you

are about to do some good work and there is a feeling of

joy, energy and enthusiasm within you, you should un-

derstand that your guru, astrologer, scriptures and God

is motivating you to do that task. Whenever you

are about to do something wrong and there is

a fear within you and you are in doubt,

and there is a feeling of shame and dis-

like then you should understand that this

is inauspicious for you. All directions,

days, time and moments are made by

God. These are all auspicious. Instead

of depending on others, believe in

yourself and in God! Everything will

be auspicious.

9. SHORTAGE OF SELF-CONFI-DENCE,

NOT OF SKILLS

Defeat western and cosmo-

politan culture with nationalism

and spiritualism

I am proud that I have been born

in India and I feel self-confident of

the fact that I am an inheritor of the

world’s oldest and wealthiest culture,

civilization and traditions. All the cultures

of the world revolve around 2000-3000

years while in India, we see in the resolu-

tions that we take in our various religions the

glorious, golden history that has been continuously

flowing since the beginning of the creation.

In the holy moments of the beginning of the new vic-

torious, golden year, let us think about our past, present

and future. Taking pride in our past, let us work towards

a hopeful and bright future with a mission, by being alert,

awake, intelligent and hard working in the present. The

nation that has no pride and self-confidence in its past,

no hard work in the present or no hope towards the fu-

ture, that nation will be ruined. This is what the English

did to us. Indians who sing the praise of the motherland

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have been taught and are still being taught that we are the

children of monkeys and not of mother earth or mother

India. This false evolution theory of Darwin is now being

disregarded even by western scientists and we still go by

this theory that erases our self-respect and identity. We

are the children of not monkeys but of sages such as

Ram, Krishna, Gautam, Kapil, Kanad, Gemini, Brahma,

Panini, Patanjali, etc. Even today history books give us

lessons that continue to enslave us.

We do have any respect towards our ancestors and

only enjoy the songs of praise of foreigners. When talk

arises of the early scientists, we remember Einstein and

Newton but forget great scientists such as Vishwamitra

and Bhascaracharya. Before the time people even listened

to talk of aircraft as if in a story, Maharshi Bharadwaj

wrote his text on aircraft and also knew how to build

aircraft. When we discuss mathematicians, we read about

foreign names such as Pythagoras in book but tend to

forget great Indian mathematicians such as Aryabhatta

and Shridhar. It is a mockery that when a child joins the

MBBS course to become a doctor or the MD to special-

ize, there is not even a single mention of the first fathers

of Ayurveda, Maharshi Charak and the father of surgery,

Susrut.

No other country in the world has as much potential

as India. Even today, in the global level, great doctors,

engineers, scientists, economists, thinkers, poets, writ-

ers, etc. are the glorious children of India. Even in the

business sector, people such as Laksmi Mittal have dis-

turbed the sleep of multinational corporations. There is

no lack of talent in our country. There has been a decline

in our self-confidence and self-respect. In the new year,

let us unite and move ahead on all sectors with full confi-

dence and self-respect and increase the honour of mother

India.

10. ONLY THE COMPLETE REMOVAL OF DOUBTS

AND AFFLICTIONS CAN HELP US OBTAIN GOD

The union of knowledge, work and devotion is

the completeness of yoga

Maharishi Patanjali inspires us to leave our clutches

and become self-dependent. Scriptures, guru, tradition,

beads, markings on the forehead, temple, mosque, mon-

astery, gurudwara, church – these are all supports,

clutches. Maharishi Patanjali makes us truly religious and

‘astik’. But he does not do any acting. He says, you your-

self are the centres of religion. He does not divide religion

into symbols. He motivates you to walk towards your

goal on your own. He asks us to remain constant in sor-

row and joy, praise and insult, cold and hot, action and

reaction, victory and defeat! Do penance! Practise self-

thinking! Move ahead on the road to self-knowledge with

penance, struggle, hard work and sincerity. Along with

this, totally surrender unto god! This entire process will

wash away the dirt from your mind! Your afflictions will

wash away.

Maharshi Patanjali did not consider the vision of any

idol or image to be meditation. He says – the complete

end of afflictions is obtaining God. Maharshi says – the

aim of kriyayog is Samadhi, Sanbodhi, Swarupolabdhi,

and complete end of afflictions. He advices eight-fold

yoga to clean the impurities of the intellect. Describing

the eight-fold yoga of yam, niyam, asana, pranayam,

pratyahar, dharana, dhyan and Samadhi, he says that with-

out observing these eight, it is impossible to obtain per-

sonal or global peace. Behind all the processes and reac-

tions of yoga of Maharishi Patanjali, there is one goal and

that is removal of darkness and impurity. Doubts, illu-

sion, obstinacy should break. After this you do not have

to go anywhere, all solutions will come to you. He talks

of obtaining fulfillment through restraint with the help of

concentration of dharana, meditation and Samadhi, He

speaks of the knowledge of the past and eternity with the

help of restraint and explains the way to concentrate in-

ward. He also teaches about akashman and parkaya en-

try. He also explains how to obtain fulfillments such as

Anima, Laghima, Garima, etc. Maharshi Patanjali also

unveils the mysteries of physical science and universal

science.

Maharshi Patanjali introduces us to the smallest mys-

teries of nature. He discusses doubtful, doubtless,

thoughtful, thoughtless Samadhi. He had a totally scien-

tific viewpoint. His path is one of truth, love, surrender

and complete joy. He enables us to feel the accuracy,

destructibility and sorrow absorbing capacity of nature.

He describes yoga as a science. He also tells of a definite

result for each yoga process. He considers the union of

gyanyog (knowledge), bhaktiyog (devotion) and karmyog

(work) to yoga. He is not one-sided. He does not hold

any obstinacy. He travels through the spiritual with the

viewpoint of science. He does not chase you away, he

awakens you. He keeps you steady between battle and

escape. I admire Patanjali because I find complete truth

in whatever he advices. No one has inspired me more

than Maharshi Patanjali, As the level of our conscious-

ness will rise with yoga, the doors of the mysteries of

yoga too will open for us. We should just move ahead on

the road of devotion, and God himself will help us. I am

myself a devotee and can see that truth is gradually get-

ting uncovered. The goal of all of us is obtaining com-

plete truth, knowledge of self and search for reality.

11. INDIAN CULTURE IS NOT AGAINST SCIENCE

According to Yajurveda, invention of science is

also necessary for a happy life

What are the reasons for greatness of cultures earlier

to western culture, or Indian culture? This question arises

again and again in the minds of the youth of the nation.

Some grown people in our nation ignores our tradition of

science and technology and considers only religion, spiri-

tuality, chanting, penance, fasting and rituals to be an

Indian culture. When a youth does not go to the temple

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and apply tilak, the elders of the house say in a very hope-

less and weary voice, ‘What to do, generation has changed

– children have forgotten culture, customs, traditions and

only blindly follow western ways.’

On the other hand, some learned people take pride in

deriding Indian religion, spiritual culture and sanatan tra-

dition as superstition, fraud and hypocrisy, and think they

have become developed, and they joke about religious

people as ignorant, foolish, etc. In the 40th chapter of

Yajurveda, it is written that the people for whom science

and technological progress is the only goal in life live in

utter darkness; but in deeper darkness than them are those

who live life only engrossed in devotion, rituals and spiri-

tuality, ignoring everything else.

It is further described in Yajurveda that to live happily

in this world scientific inventions are also necessary and

for happiness and peace of the soul, spirituality in the

form of devotion, worship, meditation and Samadhi are

also very necessary. That is in Indian culture, material-

ism and spiritualism are believed to complement each

other. In the absence of study, understanding and thought,

Indian culture is today only concentrated on temples and

holy places. This is not proper. Equal importance is given

to knowledge, science and worship in the Vedas. Indian

culture is not one-sided, it is multifaceted.

Our ancestral sages were experts in geology, astrol-

ogy, surgery and philosophy. Our forefathers were fa-

miliar with all knowledges including aircraft science, tele-

phone, television, education and health, etc. Unfortunately,

after Mahabharat the downfall of Indian culture began.

With the passage of time, the description of religion and

culture was limited to the fulfillment of selfish whims

and we limit our scientific religion to only external rituals.

Today, it has again become necessary to rise above

obstinacy and selfishness and look at Indian tradition and

culture with the light of science, and this is the eternal

truth that India and Indians were never against science

and our culture is totally for science.

The study and research of Vedic socialism, class sys-

tems, Vedic education system, knowledge of ancient

Ayurvedic tradition, Vedic agricultural tradition, Vedic

mathematics, Vedic astrology and vastu shastra, etc. is

necessary. It is only by understanding and experiencing

the complete foundation of ancient Indian culture and

civilization that we will be able to say with pride that

Indian culture is better than western culture!

12. EARTH IS BECOMING BARREN WITH DANGER-OUS CHEMICALS

If the profit gained in the name of fertilizers is

given to farmers then there won’t be any shortage

of food grains in the country

In the Sanskrit language, the word ‘kshetra’ is used

equally to denote both the body as well as agricultural

field. In Hindi literature, the word ‘Khet’ or field is used

instead. There is a deep connection between the bodily

field and the agricultural field. This is because whatever

is sown in the fields ultimately comes into the human

field, that is, it comes into the stomach. The human body

is nourished by food grains and milk from animals that is

again formed from the grass they chew. The green revo-

lution has had some bad effects on both the fields – agri-

cultural as well as the body. With the bad effects of dan-

gerous chemicals, the fields are either barren or are in the

process of becoming barren. With the entry of chemical

products inside the stomach, there has been an onslaught

of terrible diseases such as cancer, diabetes, heart dis-

eases, high blood pressure, obesity, thyroid, kidney and

liver diseases, etc. With the heavy use of chemical fertil-

izers, the land has decreased its fertility and at the same

time, with the sexual prowess and fertilizers of men, in-

fertility is increasing in women. If we take a look at the

total use of fertilizers in 2003-2004, the heart beats rap-

idly as 16 thousand million 80 crore kg of chemicals had

been offered to mother earth in just one year.

If we divide this amount by India’s population, which

we consider to be 112 crore, then an average of 15 kgs

have been used per person. Approximately 1.25 kg of

poison comes into a family every month, and affects ev-

eryone from babies to old people. The illusionary rumour

that crop production is increasing because of urea and

chemical fertilizers is being spread all over the nation pri-

marily to satisfy selfish needs. The reality, on the other

hand, is that the naturally produced insects in the soil are

being destroyed because of excessive use of urea. Crop

production increases because of the fertilizer that is pro-

duced on their death and not because of urea. Urea on

mixing with animal dung produces a chemical reaction

that increases crop production. Try and use only urea

without any animal dung or leaves, and you will see that

even the crop burns out. Another shocking element be-

hind these chemical fertilizers is that the manufacturers

get Rs 12 lakh to 622 crore each year in the form of

subsidy from the government.

The government gives this subsidy to companies that

manufacture urea and other chemical fertilizers because

it is expensive to make such fertilizers and the companies

sell them at low costs to the farmers. That is, the govern-

ment makes good the loss of these companies. If the

profit attained from fertilizers is given directly to farmers

then the necessary crop can be achieved with animal dung

fertilizers and organic fertilizers. This won’t lead to any

shortage of food grains and the fields of mother earth

and the stomachs of human beings will also be safe. At

the same time, the crores of animal wealth being cut don

each year will also be safe. If this happens then we will

also be free from the sin of cow slaughter and the fields

too will be safe from becoming barren. If only! If the

minds and hearts of the policy makers of our nation were

a little more positive then every field in the nation would

have prospered. (Compilation of writings published in

2005).

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1- VEDIC NATIONAL SONG

vks3e~&vk czãu~ czkã.kks czãopZlh tk;rkekjk"VsªjktU;% 'kwj¿b"kO;ks¿frO;kèkh egkjFkks tk;rka nksX/zhèksuqoksZ<k¿uM~okuk'kq% lfIr% iqjfU/;ksZ"kk ft".kw jFks"Bk%lHks;ks ;qokL; ;tekuL; ohjks tk;rke~A fudkesfudkes u% itZU;ks o"kZrq iQyoR;ks u vkS"kè;% iP;Urka;ksx{kseks u% dYirke~AA

Lord! Let there be in my nation twice-born Kshtriya

warriors with spiritual energy, who can destroy the

enemy’s army. Let there be milk-producing cows, ani-

mals and swift horses. Let the foundation of the nation

be always on the basis of auspicious women. Let there

be strong youth and worthy sons. Give us whatever life-

span we wish for to do penance for others. Let there be

an overflow of fruits and flowers, medicinal and produc-

tivity. Let our freedom come through yoga.

2- PRAYER TO MAHARSHI PATANJALI

;ksxsu fpÙkL; insu okpka eya 'kjhjL; p oS|dsuA;ks¿ikdjksÙka çoja equhuka ir´tfya çk´tfyjkurks¿fLeAA

3- THE HOLY MONOSYLLABLE (OM)Take a deep breath and make the sound of ‘OM’

three times

4- GAYATRI MAHAMANTRA

vks3e~&HkwHkqZo% Lo%A rRlforqoZjs.;a HkxksZ nsoL; /khefgAf/k;ks ;ks u% izpksn;kr~AA (;tq 0&36@3)]

(½ 0&3@62@90)Meaning – Being created from the ‘aa’ accent (vast,

fire, world, etc.), ‘oo’ accent (Brahma, wind, energy,

etc.) and ‘ma’ accent (God, Aditya, divine knowledge,

etc.), the word ‘Om’ occupies the highest position

amongst all names of the Lord. The meanings of all names

come into it. The Lord who is more beloved than even

life and who is the basis of the world is also known as

‘Bhuh’. He who removes all sorrow from those who are

desirous of salvation, that kindhearted Lord is ‘Bhuvah’.

He who is omnipresent and keeps a control over the en-

tire world and Brahma is the place of residence for ev-

eryone, that Supreme Lord’s name is ‘Swaha’.

He who creates the world and is the father and master

of everyone, He who is the best and is worthy of choos-

ing, He who is without chaos, sinless, virtueless, pure,

free from all faults, mature, salvation, science, He who

lights and give joy to the entire world – we worship that

Supreme Lord. For what use? Only by acquiring him we

will be nourished, determined and happy with strengths

such as science, etc. for this reason and also the Lord

who motivates our wisdom for auspicious works.

5- MAHAMRITYUNJAY MANTRA

vks3e~&=;Ecda ;tkegs lqxfU/ka iqf"Vo/kZue~AmokZ#dfeo cU/kukUe`R;kseqZ{kh; ek¿e`rkr~AA

Meaning: We constantly pray to the Rudra-like Lord

who increases the strength of the pure body, soul and

society. Just like the muskmelon flowers ripen get de-

tached from the creeper and becomes equivalent to nec-

tar, similarly we too will get detached from the body and

life and will never be separated from the bliss of salvation

6- SWADHYAY MANTRA

vks3e~ lg ukoorqA lg ukS HkquDrqA lg oh;± djokogSArstfLouko/khreLrqA ek fof}"kkogSAA

vks s3e~ 'kkfUr% 'kkfUr% 'kkfUr%A

O Lord, protector of all! Protect both of us, master

and pupil. Give us the taste of joy. Impregnate us both

with strength. Let our knowledge burn bright for national

good. Let us never fight with each other, oppose each

other and learn and teach with extreme love. Let us ob-

tain the three kinds of peace – Adhyatmik (spiritual),

Adhibhoutik (material), and Adhidaivik (from pain brought

about by evil spirits or fate).

7- PRAYER MANTRA

vkss3e~ vlrks ek ln~xe;A relks ek T;ksfrxZe;]e`R;ksekZ¿e`ra xe;A

vkss3e~ 'kkfUr% 'kkfUr% 'kkfUr%ALord! Take us from falsehood to truth, from dark-

ness to light. Free me, O Lord, from the cycle of life and

death. Fill me with blissful nectar, O Lord!

8- MORNING MANTRA

vks3e~ izkrjfXua izkRkfjUnza gokegs izkrfeZ=ko#.kk izkrjf'oukAizkrHkZxa iw"k.ka czã.kLifra izkrLlkseeqr #nza gqoseAA1AA

vks3e~ izkrftZra Hkxeqxza gqose o;a iq=kefnrs;ksZ fo/krkZAvk/kzf'p|a eU;ekuLrqjf'pnzktk fp|a Hkxa Hk{khR;kgAA2AA

vks3e~ Hkx iz.ksrHkZx lR;jk/kks Hkxseka f/k;eqnok nnUu%AHkx iz.kks tu; xksfHkj'oSHkZx iz u`fHkuZoUr% L;keAA3AA

vks3e~ mrsnkuha HkxoUr% L;keksr izfiRo mr e/;s vÞuke~Amrksfnrk e?koURlw;ZL; o;a nsokuka lqerkS L;keAA4AA

vks3e~ Hkx ,o Hkxok¡ vLrq nsokLrsu o;a HkxoUr% L;keAra Rok Hkx loZ bTtksgohfr l uks Hkx iqj ,rk HkosgA5A

9- EVENING SHIVSANKALPA MANTRA

vks3e~ ;TTkkxzrks nwjeqnSfr nSoa rnq lqIrL; rFkSoSfrAnwjÂea T;ksfr"kka T;ksfrjsda rUes eu% f'koladYieLrqA1A

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vks3e~ ;su dekZ.;ilks euhf"k.kks ;Ks d.ofUr fonFks"kq /khjk%A;niwo± ;{keUr% iztkuka rUes eu% f'koladYieLrqA2A

vks3e~ ;r~ izKkueqr psrks /k`fr'p ;TT;ksfrjUrje`ra iztklqA;LekUu ½rs fdapu deZ fØ;rs rUes eu% f'koladYieLrqA3A

vks3e~ ;susna Hkwra Hkqoua Hkfo";r~ ifjxghreersu loZe~A;su ;KLrk;rs lIrgksrk rUes eu% f'koladyieLrqA4A

vks3e~ ;fLeUup% lke;twaf"k ;fLeu~ izfrf"Brk jFkukHkkfookjk%A;fLe¡f'pÙka loZeksra iztkuka rUes eu% f'koladYieLrqA5A

vks3e~ lq"kkjfFkj'okfuo ;Ueuq";kUusuh;rs¿Hkh 'kqfHkokZftu boAâRizfr"Ba ;nftja tfo"Ba rUes eu% f'koladYieLrqA6A

10- MANTRA TO BE SAID AT MEALTIMES

vks33333e~ vUuirs¿UuL; uks nsáuehoL; 'kqf"e.k%Aiz iznkrkja rkfj"k Åt± uks /ksfg f}ins prq"insA

11- SANGATHAN SOOKT

vks3e~ la lfe|qols o`"kUuXus fo'okU;;Z vkAbGLins lfeè;ls l uks olwU;kHkj AA9AA

O Lord! You are powerful, you build creation.Everyone

sings the Vedas to you, shower wealth on us.

vks33333e~ la xPNèoa la on/oa la oks eukafl tkurke~Ansok Hkkxa ;Fkk iwosZ latkukuk miklrs AA2AA

Walk with love, everyone become wise You too, like

your forefathers, carry out your duty well

vks33333e~ lekuks eU=k% lfefr% lekuh lekua eu% lg fpÙkes"kke~Alekua eU=kefHkeU=k;s o% lekusu oks gfo"kk tqgksfe AA3AA

Let everyone’s thoughts be the same, let the intellect

and mind be the same. I give knowledge constantly, let

everyone become good.

vks33333e~ lekuh o vkdwfr% lekuk ân;kfu o%AlekueLrq oks euks ;Fkk o% lqlgklfr AA4AA

Let everyone’s heart and resolution always be

tranquil.Let minds be filled with love, which in turn in-

creases happiness

12- SANKALPA MANTRA

This life of mine is for the nation. I take the resolution

that I will offer my body, mind, wealth and life in the

yagna of the nation to bring back the lost glory and fame

of Mother India. Acquiring self-power and patriotism with

the help of yoga, I take the resolution that this life of mine

is now for the nation. I take the resolution that by awak-

ening my self-quality and national responsibilities, I will

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GIVING VOICE TO

RESPECTED SWAMI RAMDEVJI’S

REVOLUTIONARY THOUGHTS AND

THE RESOLUTION OF

BHARAT SWABHIMAN (TRUST)

tkx mBk gS vkt ns'k dk fiQj lks;k vfHkeku!

tkx mBk gS vkt ns'k dk fiQj lks;k vfHkekuAizkph dh papy fdj.kksa ij] vk;k Lo.kZ fogku&2AA

c<+rs vR;kpkj ;qxksa ls LokfHkeku fiQj tkxkAnwj gqvk vKku lHkh dk tu&x.k&eu gS tkxkA;ksx½f"k us vkt lquk;k] laLÑfr dk t;xku&2AA

tkx mBk gS vkt ns'k dk fiQj lks;k vfHkeku----Åij fge ls <dh [kM+h gS] os ioZr ekyk;saAlqyx jgh gS Hkhrj&Hkhrj] izy;adj Tokyk;saAmu yiVksa esa nh[k jgk gS] Hkkjr dk mRFkku&2AAtkx mBk gS vkt ns'k dk fiQj lks;k vfHkeku------

[kqyk 'kEHkq dk us=k vkt fiQj] og izy;adj tkxkArkaMo dh og yiVsa tkxs] og f'ko 'kadj tkxkArky&rky ij gksrk tkrk] ikiksa dk volku&2AA

tkx mBk gS vkt ns'k dk fiQj lks;k vfHkeku----tkx mBh gS okuj lsuk] tkx mBk ouoklhApyk fo'o dks ;ksx&lw=k esa] cka/us ,d lU;klhA'ka[k ukn dj jgk vkt fiQj] ^^Hkkjr&LokfHkeku**&2AAtkx mBk gS vkt ns'k dk fiQj lks;k vfHkeku------

'kklu ds gSa uke is 'kks"k.k] iQSyk vfo'oklAHkz"Vkpkj vU;k; c<+ jgk] iQSyk gS vijk/Atkx mBk Hkkjr dk ukStoka] tkxk fgUnqLrku&2AA

tkx mBk gS vkt ns'k dk fiQj lks;k vfHkeku------

REVOLUTIONARY SONG

vkt rks xwatsxh ;s /kjrh LokfHkeku ds ukjksa lsVdjk;saxh ;s vkoktsa ns'k ds igjsnkjksa ls

oans ekrje~-------------------4AAfo'o xq: Hkkjr dks cukus] pys gSa eLr fnokus jslsok] lerk vkSj esgur ds] xkrs gq, rjkus jsHkkjr u;k cukus dks ge] LoxZ /jk ij yk;sa jsg¡lrs&xkrs xqtj tk;asxs] dk¡Vks ls vaxkjksa lsAVdjk;saxh ;s vkoktsa ns'k ds igjsnkjksa lsAA

oans ekrje~-------------------4AA100 izfr'kr ernku djsaxs] Hkz"Vkpkj feVkus dksvc xk¡oksa dh vksj c<+saxs] ns'k dks LoLFk cukus dksjk"Vªokn Lohdkj djasxs] ns'k dks ,d cukus dksHkkjr ek¡ dks eqDr djsaxs] Hkkjr ds xn~nkjksa lsAVdjk;saxh ;s vkoktsa ns'k ds igjsnkjksa lsAA

oans ekrje~-------------------4AAugha tqMs+ gSa tks Hkh gels] vHkh oDr gS vkvks jsHkz"Vkpkj feVkus dks vc] lkFk [kM+s gks tkvks jsubZ vktknh ubZ O;oLFkk] u;k ifjorZu ykvks jsxwats iwjk ns'k gekjk] Lons'kh ds ukjksa lsAVdjk;saxh ;s vkoktsa ns'k ds igjsnkjksa lsA

oans ekrje~-------------------4AAvuq'kklu dk ikB i<+k gS] ;ksx&/eZ viuk;k gSHkz"Vkpkj] vU;k;] dq'kklu] ftlus gesa lrk;k gSHkkjr dk LokfHkeku txk gS] fot; dk fcxqy ctk;k gSeqDr djsaxs Hkkjr ek¡ dks] ikiksa vR;kpkjksa lsAVdjk;saxh ;s vkoktsa ns'k ds igjsnkjksa lsAA

oans ekrje~-------------------4AA

(The nation’s slumber self-respect has again awak-ened today; With the rays of the east has come a goldenchariot. Self-respect has once again awakened due toincreasing atrocity for generations; Ignorance has goneaway and everyone has awakened. Yogarshi has sungtoday the victory song of culture.

Lovered with the snow this garland of mountains;simmering inside are volcanoes of destruction. In theseflames can be seen the rise of India.

Today again, Lord Shiva has awakened, with eachrhythm of his dance, sins get vanquished. The mon-key army has awakened, the forest dwellers have awak-ened. An ascetic has moved forward to write the worldwith yoga. Today, once again Bharat Swabhiman isblowing the conch shell.

In the name of governance is spread exploitationand disbelief; corruption and dishonesty is increasing,crime is on the rise; the youth of India has awakened,Hindustan is awake.)

EARTH WILL ECHO TODAY WITH THE

SLOGANS OF SELF-RESPECT

(Today the earth will resound with the slogans of

self-respect; these sounds will clash with the guards

of the nation…Bande Mataram

We move forward to make India a world leader; to

make a new India, to bring paradise to earth. Laughing

and singing we will cross over embers and thorns.

We will do 100% voting, make India healthy; ac-

cept nationalism, make India one. We will free Mother

India from traitors.

If you haven’t yet joined with us, there is still time,

come and join; stand with us to fight corruption; bring

new freedom, new change, new systems.

We have read the texts of discipline, adopted yoga;

Corruption, injustice and bad governance, whatever

has tortured us; India’s self-respect has awakened, the

victory bugle has sounded; We will free India from the

atrocities and sins.)

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gks tkvks rS;kj lkfFk;ksa gks tkvks rS;kjAvxj ns'k ds dke u vk;s rks thou csdkjAA

gks tkvks rS;kj---------AAvfiZr dj nks ru&eu&/u] ek¡x jgk cfynku oruAmBs gq, ekFks ds lEeq[k Bgj uk ikrh gkjAA

gks tkvks rS;kj---------AAdk¡i mBs /kjrh vEcj vkSj mBk yks Å¡pk LojAdksfV&dksfV d.Bksa ls xw¡ts ns'k dh t;&t;dkjAA

gks tkvks rS;kj---------AA

esjk gks eu Lons'kh] esjk gks ru Lons'khA

ej tkma rks Hkh esjk] gksos diQu Lons'khAA

pêku VwV tk;s rwiQk¡u ?kqeM+ ds vk;sA

xj ekSr Hkh iqdkjs] rks Hkh y{; gks Lons'khAA

esjk gks eu Lons'kh] esjk gks ru Lons'kh------

tks xk¡o esa cuk gks] vkSj xk¡o esa [kik gksA

tks xk¡o dks clk;s] og dke gS Lons'khAA

esjk gks eu Lons'kh] esjk gks ru Lons'kh------

tks gkFk ls cuk gks] ;k xjhc ls fy;k gksA

ftlesa Lusg Hkjk gks] og phT+k gS Lons'khAA

esjk gks eu Lons'kh] esjk gks ru Lons'kh------

ekuo dk /eZ D;k gS] ekuo dk nnZ tkusA

tks djs euq";rk dh] j{kk ogh Lons'khAA

esjk gks eu Lons'kh] esjk gks ru Lons'kh------

djsa 'kfDr dk foHkktu] feVs iw¡th dk ;s 'kkluA

cus xk¡o LokoyEch] og uhfr gS Lons'khAA

esjk gks eu Lons'kh] esjk gks ru Lons'kh------

ru esa clu Lons'kh] eu esa yxu Lons'khA

fiQj gks Hkou&Hkou esa] foLrkj gks Lons'khAA

esjk gks eu Lons'kh] esjk gks ru Lons'kh------

lc gksa Lotu Lons'kh] gksos pyu Lons'khA

ejrs le; diQu Hkh] njdkj gks Lons'khAA

esjk gks eu Lons'kh] esjk gks ru Lons'kh------

LIVE FOR HINDUSTAN, NOT FOR HIN-

DUS OR MUSLIMS

fgUnw ds fy;s u eqlyeku ds fy;sAthuk gS rks th;ks fgUnqLrku ds fy;sAAvkilh erHksn geas thus ugha nsaxsAns'k u jgk rks ge dSls jgsaxsAlkspuk gS gesa bUlku ds fy;sAthuk gS rks th;ks fgUnqLrku ds fy;sAAtkfr iaFk dk vkvks Hksn ge feVk;saA,d gSa ge ,d ;gka cuds fn[kk;saA,d gS ygw dk jax igpku ds fy;sAthuk gS rks th;ks fgUnqLrku ds fy;sAA;ksx dk nhi vkvks fey ds tyk;saAns'k vkSj lekt dks LoLFk (lqUnj) cuk;saAxhrk ds fy;s u dqjku ds fy;sAthuk gS rks th;ks fgUnqLrku ds fy;s-------

(Not for Hindus, not for Muslims; if you have to

live, live for Hindustan

Differences will not let live together survive, how

will we survive if the nation does not? We have to

think for human beings.

Let us remove the differences in caste and creed;

We are one and let us show that. The colour of blood

is the same for identification. Let us together light the

lamp of yoga; Let us make the country and society

healthy (beautiful). Not for Gita or Quran, if you have

to live, live for Hindustan.)

GET READY, COMRADES

(Get ready comrades; if you are not of use to the

nation, your life is wasted. Offer your body, mind,

wealth; your nation is asking for a sacrifice. Defeat

cannot remain in front of heads that are raised. The

earth and skies are trembling, and raise your voice.

The victory song of the nation echoes from billions

of throats)

LET MY MIND BE SWADESHI

(Let my mind be indigenous, my body be indig-

enous. Even if I die, my shroud be indigenous.

Mountains may break, storms may come; even if

death calls, even then let my aim be indigenous.

Whatever is made and sown in the villages; in

which love pervades, that product is indigenous. What

is human religion, only human pain knows. Who ever

protects humanity, he is indigenous.

Work together, remove this governance of wealth,

villages become self-dependent, that policy is indig-

enous. The garments on my body are indigenous,

the will in my mind is indigenous; once again swadeshi

will spread in every house. Everyone will be indig-

enous, culture will become indigenous, at the time of

death, even my shroud needs to be indigenous.)

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tkxus dk oDr vk x;k&3AA[kwu gS Lons'k ds fy;s] vku gS Lons'k ds fy;sAvkc: dk ;s loky gS] tku gS Lons'k ds fy;sAAxjtrk rwiQku vkt bu fnyksa esa mB x;kAtks >d>ksj dj txk x;k&txk x;kAA

tkxus dk oDr vk x;k------ekSr dh pquksfr;ksa dks lqu] ftanxh dHkh ugha #dhAdky dh djky 'kfDr ls] ftanxh dHkh ugha >qdhAAtks toku ns'k ds fy;s 'kghn gks x;kAekSr dks ogh >qdk x;k&>qdk x;kAA

tkxus dk oDr vk x;k------ljgnksa dh oks igkfM+;k¡] >kad dj gesa fugkjrhaAyks lquks ogk¡ dh ?kkfV;k¡] xwatrh gesa iqdkjrhaAAbap&bap Hkwfe ge Lons'k dh cpk;saxsAdiQu cka/ iz.k ;s dj fy;k&dj fy;kAA

tkxus dk oDr vk x;k------

,s ohj /jk ds tkx tjkAfprdkj dgk¡ ls vkrh gSAAbl ns'k dh vku is feVus dks]Hkkjr ek¡ rq>s cqykrh gSAAHkkjr dh /jrh LoxZ Hkwfe gS]ver bldk ikuh gSAcPpk&cPpk gS Hkxr flag]cgusa >k¡lh okyh jkuh gSaaAfiQj vkt fons'kh ywV jgs];g ns[k //drh Nkrh gSAA,s ohj /jk ds tkx tjk------vkt xqykeh dh csM+h esa]ns'k tdM+rk tkrk gSAvc rd ftls ltks;k Fkk]oks fur&fur yqVrk tkrk gSAfiQj uk'k djsa ml nq'eu dk];g lkap gesa g"kkZrh gSAA,s ohj /jk ds tkx tjk------bl ns'k esa uk daxkyh gksxh]uk gh gksxh csdkjhAns'k dk iSlk jgs ns'k esa]ywVaas u vR;kpkjhAvc ^^Hkkjr LokfHkeku** tkxk]vkokt xxu ls vkrh gSAA,s ohj /jk ds tkx tjk------

ns'k ds fy, th;sa lekt ds fy, th;saA;s /M+dusa] ;s 'okl gksa]ekr`Hkwfe ds fy,AAxoZ ls lHkh dgsa] ,d gSa ge ,d gSaAtkfr iaFk fHkUurk esa Lusg lw=k ,d gSaAAlw[kZ jax dh NVk lIrjax gS fy,A;s /M+dusa] ;s 'okl gksa]ekr`Hkwfe ds fy,Ans'k ds fy, th;as lekt ds fy;s th;saAAdksfV&dksfV daB ls jk"Vª/eZ xtZukAfuR; fl¼ 'kfDr ls ekr`Hkwfe dh vpZukAA;ksx 'kfDr dy;qxs lq/k gS /eZ ds fy,A;s /M+dusa] ;s 'okl gksa]ekr`Hkwfe ds fy,AAns'k ds fy, th;sa lekt ds fy;s th;asAAO;fDr&O;fDr esa txs jk"Vª HkfDr&HkkoukAO;fDr dks lekt ls tksM+us dh lk/ukAAnk¡o ij lHkh yxs tUe Hkwfe ds fy,A;s /M+duas] ;s 'okl gkas]ekr`Hkwfe ds fy;sAns'k ds fy, th;sa lekt ds fy, ft;saAA,d fnO; T;ksfr ls vla[; nhi ty jgsAdkSu ykS cq>k lds] vk¡f/;ksa esa tks tysAArst iq¡t ge c<a+s leLr frfej phjrs gq,Ans'k ds fy, th;as lekt ds fy, th;saA;s /M+duas] ;s 'okl gksa]ekr`Hkwfe ds fy,AA

le; dh ekj lg ysukAugha #duk esjs lkFkhALons'kh jkx gh xkukAugha >qduk esjs lkFkhAA;s dkys lkai iSjksa ls]fyiVrs gSa fyiVus nksA;s dkys n`'; vk¡[kksa esa]fleVrs gSa fleVus nksAtgu esa vkx dh yiVsa]mBk ysuk esjs lkFkhAALons'kh jkx gh xkuk]ugha >qduk esjs lkFkhAHk¡oj esa gS Hkys d'rh]fNM+h gS tax jkrksa lsAgesa rks ck¡/uk gS

THE TIME HAS COME TO WAKE UP

(The time has come to wake up; This blood is for

the nation, dignity is for the nation; this life is for the

nation. Today thundering storm has arisen in these

hearts, which has awakened everyone with its roar.

Listen to the challenge of death, life has never

stopped. Life has never bowed down to the power of

time. The youth that have become martyrs for the na-

tion, have made death bow down, bow down.

The mountains in the horizon are looking at us; lis-

ten to the valleys there, they are calling out to us. We

will save every inch of our land, this is our vow.)

O’ BRAVEHEART OF THE LAND,

WAKE UP!O brave soul of the land, wakeup; where is the call comingfrom? Mother India is callingyou to lay your life for her dig-nity. The land of India is para-dise, its water is nectar; eachchild is Bhagat singh, sisters areJhansi ki rani.Again foreigners are robbingus, see how the hearts are beat-ing. Today the country is get-ting tangled in the nets of sla-very; That which we have deco-rated is being robbed con-stantly; let us again destroy thatenemy. There will be no povertyin this nation, nor will there beunemployment; let the money ofthe nation remain here, let notthe torturers take it away. NowIndia’s self-respect has awak-ened, the voice is coming fromthe skies, O brave soul of theland, wake up…

LET OUR HEARTBEATS, OUR BREATH

BE FOR THE MOTHERLAND

(Live for the nation,live for the society; letthese heartbeats andour breath be for thenation.

Everyone says withpride, we are one;castes and creeds aredifferent but love is thesame; From billions ofthroats, national dutiessound; with yourstrength daily worshipmotherland; Yoga isthe religion of this darkage.

In each person, na-tional devotion beawakened; and join theindividual with the so-ciety.

Countless lampsare lit with a divinelamp; Who can blow itout, which burns evenin storms? With bright-ness, we move aheadtearing apart darkness.Live for the nation, livefor the society; letthese heartbeats andour breath be for thenation.)

(Bear the blow of time, do not stop my friend; sing onlyindigenous tunes, do not bow down, my friend. This blacksnake has encircled the feet, let it be there; these dark gazespenetrate your eyes, let it penetrate. Pick up bales of fire onthis land, my friend.

Even if your boat is in the whirlpool, battles have beganin the night. We have to stop the force of the flood withthese very hands.

This difficulties are for only four days, we have to singthe song of victory; What if we still have to raise mountainswith our hands now. Burn with torches, do not stop, myfriend; sing only indigenous tunes, do not bow down, myfriend.)

Tokj dk Toj bUgha gkFkksa lsAtgk¡ ij l[r gks feêðh]ogha mxuk esjs lkFkhAALons'kh jkx gh xkuk]ugha >qduk esjs lkFkhA;s eqf'dy pkj fnu dh gs]fot; ds xhr xkus gSaAHkys viuh gFksyh ij]vHkh ioZr mBkus gSaAtys jguk e'kkyksa ls]ugha #duk esjs lkFkhAALons'kh jkx gh xkuk]ugha >qduk esjs lkFkhAle; dh ekj lg ysukAugha #duk esjs lkFkhAA

BEAR THE BLOW OF TIME!

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Rose sherbet, Badam sherbet

(Patanjali), Milk Lassi, but-

termilk, juice, lemonade, co-

conut water, shake, thandai,

jal jeera. Rooh Afza, Rasna,

Frooti, Godrej Jumpin, etc.

Tea – Divya Pey (Patanjali),

Tata, Brahmaputra, Assam,

Girnar. Coffee – Indian

coffee, MR.

Honey, dal water, boiled rice,

fruit juice. Amul, Indana,

Sagar, Tapan, Milk Care, etc.

Home-made ice cream, Kulfi,

amul, Vadilal’s, milk food,

etc.

Akur Salt, Sandhya Namak

(Patanjali), Low sodium and

iron – 45 Ankur, Tata, surya,

Taza, Tara

Bikano savouries, Haldiram,

Home-made chips, Bikaji,

etc.

Fruti jam, apple jam, mixed

jan (Patanjali), Home-made

sauce. Indana, Priya, Rasna,

etc.

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

Home-boiled water, Yes,

Ganga, Himalaya, Catch,

Rail-neer, Bisleri, etc.

Badam Pak, Chawanprash,

amrit Rasayan (Patanjali),

Nutramul, Maltova

Param ghee, Amul ghee,

Deshi cow ghee, mustard oil

(Patanjali)

Coca Cola (Coke, Fanta,

Sprite, Thums Up, Gold

Spot, Limca), Pepsi

(Lehar, 7Up, Mirinda,

Slice), Teem, Citra,

Crush, McDowell

Lipton (tiger, Green La-bel, Yellow Label,Cheers), Brooke Bond(Red Label, Taj Mahal),Geoffrey Phillips,Polson, Goodricke, Sun-rise. Coffee – Nestle,

Nescafe, Richbru

Nestle (Lactogen,

Cerelac, Nestum, LPF,

Milkmaid, Nespray,

Everyday), Glaxo

(Farex), etc.

In most icecreams, there

is a layer of animal en-

trails. Walls, Kwality,

Dollops, Cadbury, etc.

Annapurna, Captain

Cook (Hindustan Lever),

Kissan (BrookeBond),

Pilsbury, etc.

Uncle, Pepsi (Raffles,

Laher, Kurkure), Fun

munch, etc.

Nestle, Brooke Bond

(Kissan), Brown and

Polson, etc.

Most chocolates have

arsenic salt poison.

Cadbury (Bournvita, 5

Star), Lipton, Horlicks,

Nutrene, Eclairs, etc.

Aquafina, Kinley, Bailey,

Pure Life, Evian, Perrier,

etc.

Boost, Polson, Bournvita,

Horlicks, Complan, Spurt,

Protinex

Nestle ghee, all brands

of ITC or Hindustan

Lever

Cold

Drinks

Tea and

coffee

Infant

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Ice cream

Salt

Potato

chips and

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Tomato

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Fruit jam

Biscuit,

Chocolate

Water

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Product Foreign Indigenous

Note: 1. Please inform us of any new products that you come across apart from the one listed above so that necessary correction can be madein the next edition.2. Wherever you stay, a number of daily use essential items are made in nearby villages and small-scale industries. You use those products ona priority and make the village self-dependent.

List of indigenous products for daily useBoycott foreign products

Adopt indigenous goods.

Toothpaste/

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powder

Toothbrush

Bath Soap

Shampoo

Clothes

and utensil

washing

soaps,

powders

and indigo

Shaving

Cream

Shaving

Blade

Cream,

powder and

cosmetics

Readymade

garments

Watches

Pens and

pencils

Most toothpastes are madefrom bone powder. Colgate,Hindustan Lever (Close Up,Pepsodent, Cibaka), Aquafresh,Amway, (Forhans), Oral B,

Quantam, etc.

Colgate, Close Up,

Pepsodent, Aquafresh,

Cibaka, etc.

Hindustan Lever (Lux,

Liril, Lifebouy, Denim,

Camay, Dove, Revlon,

Pears, Rexona, Breeze,

Hamam, OK), Ponds,

Dettol, Clearsil, Palmolive,

Amway, Johnson Baby, etc.

Colgate Palmolive (Halo,

Palmolive), Hindustan

Lever (Lux, Clinic, Sun Silk,

Revlon, Lakme), Procter

and Gamble (Pantene, Medi-

care), Ponds, Old Spice,

Shower to Shower, Head and

Shoulders, Johnson Baby, etc.

Hindustan Lever (Surf, Rin,

Sunlight, Wheel, OK,

Vim), Ariel, Check, Henko,

Revel, Amway, Quantam,

For woolen clothes –

Woolwash, Easy. Indigo –

Robin Blue, Tinapol, Sky-

lark, etc.

Old Spice, Palmolive,

Ponds, gilette, Erasmik,

Denim, Yardley, etc.

Gilette (7’o Clock),

Erasmik), Wilman, etc.

Hindustan Lever (Fair and

Lovely, Lakme, Liril,

Denim, Revlon), Procter

and Gamble (Oil of Olay,

Clearsil, Cleartone),

Charmis, Ponds, Old Spice,

Dettol, Nycil, Charlie,

Johnson Baby, etc.

Wrangler, Nike, Duke,

Adidas, Newport, Puma, etc.

Rado, Rolex, Swissco, Sico,

etc.

Parker, Nicholson,

Rotomac, Swissair, Adgel,

Rider, Mitsubishi, Player,

Unibal, Pilot, Rollgold, etc.

Danth Kanti, Dant Manjn(Patanjali), Powder – MDH,Vicco Vajradanti, Baidyanath,Gurukul Pharmacy, Chais,Neem, Anchor, Miswak,Babul, Promise, etc.

Promise, Ajay, Ajanta,

Monet, Royal, Classic, Dr.

Stock, etc.

Kayakanti Aloevera (Patanjali),

Nirma, Medimix, Neem, Nima,

Jasmine, Mysore Sandal, Kutir,

Sahara, Himani Glycerine,

Godrej (Cinthol, Fairglow,

Shikakai, Ganga), wipro,

Santoor, etc.

KeshKanti (Patanjali),

Wipro, Park Avenue,

Swatik, Ayur Herbal, Kesh

Nikhar, Hair and Care,

Nycil, Arnica, Velvette,

Dabur, Vatika, Bajaj, Nyle,

Lavender, Godrej, etc.

Tata Sudh, Nima, Modi

Care, Sahara, Swastik,

Vimal, Hipolene, Fena,

Sasha, T-series, Dr. Date,

Gadhi. For woolen clothese

– Gentil. Indigo – Ujala,

Ranipal, Nirma, chamko,

Dip, etc.

Park Avenue, Premium, Vi-

sion, Emami, Balsara,

Godrej, Nivea, etc.

Topaz, Gallant, Supermax,

Lazer, Esquire, Premium, etc.

Kayakanti Aloevera, Kayakanti

Neem, Kantilep (Pantanjali),

Borosil, Ayur, Emami, Vicco,

Boroplus, Borolin, Himani Gold,

Nyle, Lavender, Hair and Care,

Nivea, Heaven’s, Cinthol Glory,

Velvete (baby), etc.

Cambridge, Park Avenue,Oxemberg, Bombay Dyeing,

Ruff and Tuff, Trigger Jeans, etc.Titan, HMT, Maxima,

Prestige, Ajanta

Camel, Kingson, sharp,Cello, Wilson, Today,Natraj, Ambassador, Link,Montex, Stic, Sangeeta,

Luxor, Apsara, etc.

Product Foreign Indigenous

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1. Name of applicant ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

2. Name of father/husband --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

3. Date of birth ----------------------------------------------- Age ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Address ---------------------------------------- Block ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Tehsil ----------------------------------District ----------------------------------State -------------------------------------------------------------

PIN code Phone number

5. E-mail ID --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

6. Educational qualification ------------------------------- 7. Monthly income -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

8. Present business/service or other occupation ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

9. If member of Patanjali Yogpeeth, please write ID ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

10. I will be obliged to devote 10% of my time for the spread of the organization Yes No

11. I will fully observe the seven principles and seven ideals Yes No

12. I will donate 1-10% of my income as financial assistance for the building of the nation Yes No

13. Details of donation: Cash/DD No.-------------------------------------------- Amount----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Name of Bank---------------------------------------------------Reciept no. of Bharat Swabhimaan (Trust)---------------------------------------------------------------------------

14. Which group/cell do you want to join?----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Correspondence headquarters: Patanjali Yogpeeth, Maharshi Dayanand Gram, Bahadrabad, Haridwar - 249 402 Telephone: 01334-244107, 240008, 246737 FAX: 01334-244805, 240664

OathI have studied the seven principles, seven ideals, five resolutions, five vows and the concise aims, philosophy and principles highlighted in Jeevan

Darshan. I agree with them and I take the oath that I will completely follow the purpose and rules of Bharat Swabhimaan (Trust)

(Signature of applicant)

Special: To be noted1. Apart from being healthy, dedicated, financially stable and educated, the applicant must follow the seven principles, seven ideals and five vows. 2. Youcan submit this form to the district office of the local Patanjali Yog Samiti or Patanjali Yogpeeth, Haridwar headquarters. 4. To become a special member,the two-yearly registration fee has been fixed at Rs 1100/- The draft should be made in the name of “Bharat Swabhimaan (Trust)” payable at Haridwar.Please write your name, address and phone number behind the draft. 5. The registration fee for becoming a working member is only Rs 51/-, the receiptof which can be got from the office or office bearers of the District-level Yog Samiti.

Concise list of rules for the members of Bharat Swabhimaan (Trust)The aim of Bharat Swabhimaan is to bring the knowledge of self-qualities through Yoga, to make their body, mind and thought healthy, and

to build national character by purifying personal character – Our determined resolution is to build an India that is healthy, clean, prosperous, self-dependent,and free from corruption, unemployment and poverty

Services provided to Special Members of Bharat Swabhimaan (Trust)1. Free 7-day residential training will be provided under the direction of Param Pujya Swami Ramdevji Maharaj on national responsibilities throughYoga. Special members will be given priority over working members and ordinary members. 2. All members of Bharat Swabhimaan (Trust) will be givenfree daily or weekly Yoga training by yoga teachers trained at Patanjali Yogpeeth. 3. Under the scheme of ‘One family-One gift’, each family joined withBharat Swabhimaan will get an annual gift in the form yog Prasad. 4. By joining with Bharat Swabhimaan, you will get the opportunity to participateto a large extent in all activities of an international organization, Patanjali Yogpeeth. 5. Special members will be given preference while nominatingcandidates by Bharat Swabhimaan for its associated organizations.Services given to working members of Bharat Swabhimaan (Trust)1. Free 7-day residential training on national responsibilities through yoga will be given under the direction of Param Pujya Swami Ramdevji Maharajin Haridwar. For this, working members will be given priority over ordinary members. 2. All members of the Bharat Swabhimaan family will be givendaily or weekly yoga training by yoga teachers trained by Patanjali Yogpeeth. 3. By joining with Bharat Swabhimaan, you get the opportunity toparticipate in a large way in all the activities of an international organization, Patanjali Yogpeeth.Compulsory rules in short for applicants:1. To become a member of the Bharat Swabhimaan (Trust), you should believe and follow the seven principles directed by Patanjali Yogpeeth, that isnationalism, valour, expertise, farsightedness, humanitarianism, spiritualism, humility and vegetarianism, and should be healthy, financially stable,without any personal agenda, dedicated, lead a non-political life and spend 1-2 hours per day for national well being Also should be able and ready tocontribute financially to national wellbeing according to your capacity. 2. Our special members and working members should practise yoga for 1 houreveryday for their self-confidence. However, it is compulsory to attend the weekly yoga classes and monthly meetings. 3. Each special and working memberof Bharat Swabhimaan will observe all five vows including 100% voting, and will observe the concise aims, philosophy and principles, and will alsomotivate others to follow these vows for national wellbeing. 4. Registration fee for special members: To become special members, a bi-annual registrationfee of Rs 1100/- has been decided. Draft should be in the name of “Bharat Swabhimaan (Trust)” payable at Haridwar. The name, address and phonenumber should be written behind the draft. 5. To become working members, the registration fee is only Rs 51/-, the receipt of which can be collected fromthe office or office-bearers of the district-level office of Patanjali Yog Samiti. The discount for teachers will only be available for two years, i.e. tillDecember 2010.

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