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Foreword 5

Year : 6 Issue : 7 March 2009 Jeevan Darshan 6

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Acharya Balkrishan

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 ;L;ka iwosZ HkwrÑr ½"k;ks xk mnku`pq%A
lIr l=ks.k os/lks ;Ksu rilk lgAA
The tradition of sages has continued in our 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
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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
 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 the
entire nation. I am not narrow or small; I am vast. I
am the image of the Lord. I am the representative
of truth, non-violence and good conduct. In my body,
my nation resides. I am the fate and the reflection
of India. I am the one who decides the fate of 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 of
the Lord. Everything that I have is a gift from the
Lord. I am a child of God. He, the ruler of the world,
the creator of the universe, is my Father. The bless-
ings of the most superior and divine power are al-
ways with me.
3. I am extremely fortunate to have taken birth on the
soil of this holy and pure country, which has also
been the birthplace of divine personalities such as
Shri Krishna, Buddha, Mahavir, Guru Nanakdev and
Guru Govind Singh, brave heroes such as Maharana
Pratap, Chattrapati Shivaji, Chandrashekhar Azad,
Subhash Chandra Bose, Ram Prasad Bismil, Bhagat
Singh, Raj Guru and Ashfaq, and holy souls such as
Maharshi Dayanand and Swami Vivekanand. I pray
to Mother India while offering the flower of my
life.
4. As my inheritance, my Lord has given me the 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, my
teacher, or my ancestors. This is not my glory be-
cause I did not contribute anything. My parents gave
birth to me, my teachers gave me knowledge. My
ancestors are my pride. With my knowledge, work
and life, I will create my identity, and in doing so I
will increase the honour of my parents, my teach-
ers and my country.
6. I am not a believer in fate, material enjoyment or
terrorism. I am a believer in humanity, patriotism,
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humanitarian values, and spirituality. Free from the
boundaries of region, language, religion, and
behavioural debates, I am the war-call for national-
ism.
7. I am not merely an individual but the manifestation
of the gentility and culture of the entire nation.
Hence, the entire country is affected by everything
I do, good or bad. Till the time blood flows through
my veins and life exists in my body, I will not betray
my country. This is my ‘Bhisma pratigya’ (unshaken
vow).
8. The purity and fearlessness of childhood, the vigour
of youth, the good sense of old age, and the dedica-
tion of ascetics the ideals of my life. Children and
saints are not tied by the threads of illusion.
9. Work is my only religion. Work is my worship. Work
is the truth of life and the world. Working without
any desire does not indicate lack of work, it indi-
cates the lack of arrogance.
10. Valour, nationalism, expertise, farsightedness, spiri-
tuality, humanitarianism, and humility are the ideals
of my working style.
11. Nation-religion is the biggest religion; Nation-god is
the greatest God; and love for the nation is the high-
est form of love. The good of the nation is above
everything else. The nation is everything for me.
bna jk"Vªk; bnUu eeA . My body-mind-wealth will all
remain dedicated to the nation. The seven principles
of nationalism, the seven duties of spirituality and
idealism are the ideals of my personal national life.
12. When I am alone, it is not loneliness; in the silence
I am permeated by many currents of divine knowl-
edge and divine inspiration and I find an eternal lamp
always shining on me.
13. When my internal awakening took place, I found
myself in the shade of the Sangbodi tree, my thirst
quenched.
14. At birth itself, man experiences pain and suffering.
Hence, throughout life there will be thorns to walk
upon. Amongst these thorns, you will have to blos-
som the flowers of your life like tender rose petals.
15. God wants to choose you for great work. You have
to 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 the
divine powers are at work with you as the medium.
16. When you long greedily for fame in the external
world, it means you have not yet attained inner
wealth or peace. The day you gain the inner king-
dom or happiness, you will Yourself proclaim, ¶izkIra
izki.kh;a {kh.kk% {ksrO;k% Dys'kk% fNUu% f'y"ViokZ
HkolaØe% ;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 inner
strength decreases.
18. Knowledge does not simply mean knowing; it
means becoming that knowledge.¶l ,oa Hkofr ;
,oa osnA¸
19. Be determined but not obstinate. Be brave but not
impulsive. Be kind but not weak. Be silent but not
arrogant. Be clever but not cunning. Be patient but
not irresponsible. Show respect but do not be a 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 something
that 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 arms
have the valour, strength and the heroic energy of a
Kshatriya, my belly has the business and manage-
ment skills of a Vaishya, and in my feet I have the
ability to serve like a Sudra. This is my caste vow.
22. I am Agni; I am knowledge, light, speed, the chief
and the commander. ¶vfXujfLe tUeuk tkrosn%¸
(Rig Veda 3.26.7). The fire of resolution is always
burning within me. The path of my life is always
lighted.
PARENTS – GODS ON EARTH
23. Always keep happiness and a smile on your face.
Give respect to others; you will get respect. Give
happiness to others; you will get happiness. Serve
your parents; in old age your children will serve you.
24. A mother keeps her child for nine months in the
womb with love, kindness, affection and maternal
feelings. After this, she keeps her child on her lap
for nine months, and till she dies, a mother keeps
her child in her heart. The four worlds can be found
at your parents’ feet. Parents are the God of this
world. Children are the only desire of parents. Never
insult such parents. Do not leave them in old age
homes otherwise in the next life God will give an
animal’s birth to you where your father will often
not be known and mother will leave you in child-
hood. Howsoever you sow, so shall you reap. Hence,
awaken! Once again adopt the culture of ¶ekr`nsoks
Hko] fir`nsoks Hko] vkpk;Znsoks Hko] vfrfFknsoks Hko¸
. My mother is my god, my father is my god, my
teacher is my god, and my guest is my god.
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25. You should never forget your past. The knowledge
of the past saves us from mistakes and in the per-
son who reaches the top, the remembrance of the
past prevents arrogance. It is only because of for-
getting the past that people forget their parents. If
the memories of childhood and the mother’s womb
are remembered, then you will never disregard your
parents. Even after touching the sky, remembering
the past keeps a person’s feet on the ground.
26. It is God himself who give birth to us in the form of
our parents. In this way, experiencing the divine
relationship in every relationship is yoga.
INSULT TO WOMAN IS INSULT TO MOTHER
The real beauty of a woman is not her body but her
character. Woman is not a commodity to be sold in
the market. She is Sita, Savitri, Jagadamba, Durga,
Taravati, Gargi, Madalasha, Mahalaksmi, Meera and
Laksmibai. Woman is the affection of a mother, re-
gard of a wife and love of a daughter. Do not make
women a saleable commodity and do not joke about
the character of a woman. This is an insult to mother.
The way electronic media keeps placing a question
mark over the character of the aware mothers, sis-
ters and daughters of the nation, it should be op-
posed with full strength. These carnivores of the
market 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.
 Wake Up! Always be Positive!
Always be a collector of nectar, be curious!
At every moment experience God’s contact!
The Lord always gives us more than what we
deserve, more than our abilities and our labour.
31. pjSosfr&pjSosfr] pju~ oS eèkq foUnfr. If there is a rest
during work then this rest is a sin. Do not let ob-
stacles stop you, do not let trouble and temptation
over power you, do not let insults divert you. Keep
marching forward till you reach your goal.
32. The sound of a single deed is louder than a thou-
sand words – it is very powerful. Let us believe in
the culture of showing by example and not merely
in making speeches.
33. It is only our thoughts and culture that can be
wealthy or great. Similarly, it is only our thoughts
and culture that can be poor, destitute or infamous.
34. A person lost in a crowd can be found but a person
who is lost in the crowd of thoughts will spend his
entire life in darkness. A person trapped in the web
of thoughts will end his life in the same way as a
spider ends its life by tying itself in his web it spuns.
35. Old age is not how many years you have lived; it is
the outcome of your thoughts. If there is energy,
power, valour, courage and self-respect then even
with increasing age, a person will remain young. A
country will only become great with the knowledge
of the elderly and the courage, valour and self-re-
spect of the youth. A very big difference between
the elderly and the young is – the young are not
fearful of the outcome while the elderly remain con-
stantly fearful of personal outcomes, and hence,
cannot take decisions quickly.
36. If the flow of my opinions is not able to change the
corrupt people, corrupt governments and corrupt
systems, then I will be helpless and will be forced
to protect my motherland from injustice, poverty,
hunger, lack of education, social irregularities, ha-
tred, crime, misconduct, ill intentions, anger and re-
venge, and will have to undertake a wide-spread
revolution to remove the wide-spread injustice,
crime, exploitation and hatred.
37. Thought is the biggest strength and wealth. Thought
is the greatest power in the world. Thoughts have
unlimited strength and energy. Thoughts are 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-
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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 made
me rise high, that increased my self-confidence and
took 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 performs
his own duties with entire strength, then certainly
my country will become great and it will lead the
world.
54. My biggest strength is my thoughts. My pure
thoughts have protected me from sin; my thoughts
gave me the courage to fight against obstacles and
adversities. It is because of my thoughts that I have
been able to turn my defeat into my victory, and it
only because of them that I have come out all the
more powerful after going through the worst of the
worst disasters.
55. When impure thoughts of jealousy, antipathy, anger
and revenge can make a person hateful and crimi-
nal, then why can’t pure thoughts make a person
patriotic, spiritual, humanitarian and progressive?
56. When with impure thought a person can be made
characterless, when a person can sell his or her
body, religion and humanity, why can’t pure thought
create a person of character?
57. If the seeds of hatred and dislike can be sown within
a person with the help of bad thoughts, why can’t
the flowers of love, kindness and affection bloom
with the help of pure thoughts?
58. When impure thought can be used to instigate a
person into crime and lawlessness to break down a
society, why can’t pure thought be used to awaken
the inner soul of a person to unite society?
59. Just as food is the basis for our physical growth,
 similarly thought is the basis for the growth of our
mind, wisdom, intellect and all other feelings.
60. Just as a person becomes malnourished with the
use of adulterated or imbalanced food, in the same
way, people become susceptible to illusions with
polluted, impure and imbalanced thoughts; and it is
this illusion of thoughts that is the root cause of cor-
ruption, hatred, crime and restlessness.
61. Our sorrow and happiness do not depend on others
but rather on our own thought.
62. Impure thoughts are the root cause of all problems
such as hatred, tension, crime, murder and suicide.
Impure thoughts are the reason for all kinds of 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 and
firm 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 to
tie his goat with is exhibited in museums but the
rope that was used to hang immortal martyrs such
as Bhagat Singh, Rajguru, Sukhdev, Ashfaq Ullah
Khan, and Ramprasad Bismil is not seen in any
museum, it is the misfortune of the nation. Because
by remembering the sacrifice of the martyrs the
self-respect of the people will awaken, and corrupt,
cunning and criminal people won’t be able to rob
the nation any longer.
LIFE
65. Each morning of life is a new birth for me and each
day is like one life for me. I will do today all those
things for which God has sent me to this world.
66. My life as well as my death – both should be
honourable.dhfrZ;ZL; l thofr. Live life not with
timidity and weakness but with self-respect and self-
knowledge. God has created you for great work.
67. Life is a celebration. Life is God’s greatest gift. This
body is the house of God, the residence of Shiva.
This body is the temple of God. This body is not to
be fought against. The soul is immortal, everyoung,
constant, indestructible, light, energetic, peaceful and
contented.
68. As long as there is life, a person should not become
lifeless. Keep moving towards your goal with de-
termination showing friendship to the happy, kind-
ness to the sad, love to the good and contempt to
the wicked. You will definitely get success one day
and will always remain happy in life.
DO NOT GIVE UP THE EFFORT
69. Often, the more developed a civilization is; the
more developed a civilization, person, society and
nation is, the lazier that civilization, person, society or
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nation becomes, and this becomes the cause of its
ruin. Hence, along with exaltation, the effort should
not slow down.
SERVICE
70. Without service, the intellect is not purified and with-
out purification of the intellect, the divine Lord can-
not be experienced. Hence, you should always be
on the lookout for opportunities for service.
SOCIAL WELFARE
71. Man remains more alert to others than about 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 our
welfare. Hence, before trying to improve the world,
improve yourself. First, become a good person then
you will automatically improve the world. Just as
shadow is the outcome of the tree; only if the tree
is there, we will get the shadow. Bring about your
welfare, and the welfare of the world will happen
on its own.
72. How will one who hasn’t quenched his own thirst
quench the thirst of others? How can a sleeping
person awaken others? How can a hungry individual
satisfy the hunger of others? Hence, before the
welfare of the world, first accomplish self-welfare.
First wake up yourself! Then awaken others!!
WORSHIP CHARACTER, NOT THE IMAGE
73. Worship character, not the image. Worship person-
ality, not the person. Let us not live life by merely
worshipping stone idols. Let us become worship-
pers of consciousness and awaken the flood of yoga
and patriotism in stone hearts.
WORK
74. Work is religion. Work is worship. Rest is a sin and
rest only occurs at the end of work. Your own work
is your own religion. Total dedication towards your
own work is the worship of God.
WHY CAN’T THIS HAPPEN?
75. When, for a paltry sum of money, people of our
own nation can become treacherous, can’t the
people of our country be made upright and honest
in order to protect the magnificence of our nation?
A handful of people are ready to sell the country
for a handful of money, betray the nation. But there
are thousands and millions of people who would die
for their nation rather than sell themselves. We have
to unite such patriotic people.
FROM ‘I’ TO ‘LOVE’
76. Where ‘me’ and ‘mine’ unites, there love, kindness,
affection and surrender is born, there service and
goodwill evolves by itself. In worldly relationships
where ‘I’ and ‘mine’ are joined, we would always
be ready to sacrifice for our close relatives. When
 ‘I’ and ‘mine’ gets united
with the country, the feel-
ing arises that this coun-
try is mine and what I am
today is solely because of
the country. It is then that
a person will become
ready to sacrifice his ev-
erything for the nation.
The life that is within me
is because of the trees
that grow on the soil of
this nation. This country
has given birth to me and the food and water of this
nation’s land has kept me alive. The nation has given
me wealth, power, property and respect. The tears
of the mothers, sisters, daughters, children and hu-
man of this nation are my sorrow, and the well-
being of the nation is my happiness. Even if one
person in the country is helpless, destitute, poor, hun-
gry or sick, then this pain of Mother India is my
sorrow, my pain. It is my duty or obligation, it is my
national responsibility, it is my service ethics to make
sure that not even one individual of my nation dies
of hunger or sickness.
WE MUST THINK LIKE THIS?
77. There is no permission for “No”.
78. I will follow the advice and orders of my teachers
and scriptures to my utmost capacity. This is my
work-culture.
79. Always set your frequency to positive mode be-
cause there is a constant flow of energy waves,
both positive and negative, from the universe. We
have to accept only the positive vibrations from the
universe.
80. Instead of thinking “What can I do by myself?”,
think “What can I not do by myself!” Nothing is
impossible in this world, everything is possible.
81. When corrupt, treacherous, criminal, and irrespon-
sible people can together rob the nation, why can’t
patriotic, 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 doubts
untruth or hatred. Always be positive! Always be
open to new ideas! Feel the connection with God
every moment! The Lord always gives us more than
what we can do, what we deserve and what we
do.
BE SENSITIVE
83. Emotion diminishes a person’s intellect and sensi-
tivity enriches humanity. Hence, be sensitive, not
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emotional. Sensitivity makes us aware of our re-
sponsibility and keeps us involved in self-duties and
national duties.
SELF-QUALITIES
84. Just as cold, heat, hunger and thirst are the qualities
of the body, honour-insult, happiness-sorrow and
profit-loss are the qualities of the mind. Similarly,
love, kindness, affection, respect, devotion, surren-
der, peace and joy are the qualities of the soul. The
qualities of the soul are your self-qualities. Wor-
shipping the Lord by doing your own work, while
keeping your self-qualities intact, will take you to
Samadhi and fulfillment. LodeZ.kk reH;P;Z flf¼a
foUnfr ekuo% (Gita 18.46).
LOVE
85. Love is not desire, it is worship. Excess of desire
kills love. Love is the highest degree of surrender
and belief. Love is the cooling shadow of purity,
affection and maternal feelings and an honour to
effort, courage, valour and self-respect. True love
is the one that parents have towards their children,
a teacher has towards his student and a patriot has
towards his nation. Others are just attraction, illu-
sion and false quenching of the body’s thirst.
GURU
86. Saints, guru and acharyas advise us while they are
living at a very high state of the intellect or are as-
cended on divine knowledge in a state that is free
from life. If we too connect ourselves with that state
of life consciousness then we will also say what the
saints are saying and our lives too will become com-
pletely transformed like the saints’.
87. Guru is one who awakens, connects you with the
eternal, tells you the direction, gives you what you
have lost, teaches you to call, introduces you to your
soul, shows you the way and finally, makes you like
him. However, remember that guru will just show
you the way; you will have to do the walking your-
self.
88. Someone asked a Sufi saint for his introduction –
What do you eat? What do you wear? Where do
you stay? The saint replied – I eat death, I wear
shrouds, and I stay in the grave.
FIND YOUR GURU
89. You truly see your guru when you become one with
the mind, wisdom, speech, behaviour and will of guru
or a saint, and live your life with divine conscious-
ness like him. This is why it is said, ¶lkèkwuka n'kZua
iq.;a] rhFkZHkwrk fg lkèko%A¸ Perceiving this body of
flesh and bones is not the complete vision. See the
soul inside the body.
CONVERSATION WITH GURU
90. Obtaining intelligence directly or indirectly through
study of books of the guru is a direct conversation
 with the guru. Each divine sound of the words in
the scriptures or written by the guru will ech in you
and you will feel that his life is speaking to you
through the scriptures or his words. Such self-study
transforms our life and makes us images of our guru.
RELIGION
91. Omnipresent and scientific truth is omnipresent 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 by
religion. I will not make religion a business nor will
I 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 such
as the Sikha (top-knot) and Sutra (thread) is also
conduct. Symbolic religion without observing the
established rule of conduct is nothing but illusion
and irreligion. Hence, become religious, not blinded
by religion.
93. I do not believe in conversion of religion. Religion is
nothing but good qualities which includes non-vio-
lence, truth, affection, service, control, and good
behaviour. All these qualities are present in all reli-
gions. Hence, there is no such thing as conversion
in religion. Religion is nothing but premium ideals of
a worthy life.
94. I do not think it is necessary to try and convert people
by establishing schools and hospitals because even
I have changed the lives of crores of people from
various classes and religions. I have given them
health, have given life to people who were very near
death but I haven’t changed the religion of even a
single person.
F OOD
95. Just as poisonous food causes frightening harm to
our body, similarly harmful thoughts too cause fright-
ening tension, sorrow, restlessness and incurable
diseases after entering our mind. Hence, if you want
to attain a superior personality, then be alert towards
your food and thoughts at every moment. The
amount of cruelty a person does on his body is prob-
ably not done by him on anyone else.
96. This body is the house of God, the residence of
Shiva. This body is the temple of God. Do not make
it a bar by drinking alcohol, a hospital by the intake
of tobacco, etc. or a graveyard or cremation ground
by eating meat, etc. Be conscientious about rituals,
frugality and wellbeing. Have pure, balanced and
complete food in time and make your body healthy.
WHY ONLY VEGETARIANISM?
97. Just as we have to live in this world, similarly other
living beings too have the right to live here without
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fear. If we cannot create any living being, then who
gave 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 them
because they do not have any weapons for their
security 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 then
they could have made us realize their pain and sor-
row. But what to do, these animals do not know
how to speak in human language and we celebrate
our joy by cruelly killing these mute animals who do
not desire anything and have not committed any sin,
and feel glorified in carnivorously tearing apart flesh
and eating it like dogs and wolves. There can be no
greater sin or crime than this. If you can lead a
vegetarian life without killing innocent animals, then
why are you continuing to kill them? Man is veg-
etarian by nature. The organization of the human
body 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. You
too can obtain the glory of standing with the front
line 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 or
walk with time is never forgiven by time.
100. By keeping six hours for sleep, one hour for yoga,
one hour for daily tasks, two hours for members of
the family, you should dedicate the remaining 14
hours to hard work. This is the best time-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.
 NATIONAL INTEREST IS ABOVEALL
1. There is no greater religion than duty towards the nation. There is no God greater
Unfortunately, even than the nation. National interest is above everything. I will not betray the nation
after 60 years of for my personal, political, economic and family welfare. I will contribute my body,
independence, we mind, wealth, life and vote for national interest.
cannot identify our POLITICAL AUTHORITY
2. To leave the authority of the nation in the hands of corrupt, dishonest, criminal,
country with one cowardly, weak, and foolish people is an insult to the country. Hence, come! Take
name, one language a resolution of 100% voting and stop corrupt and dishonest people from reaching
and one culture. the pinnacle of administration.
3. The political leaders of the nation have shown false dreams of progress and the
Now let this country religious leaders have given false consolations, thus exploiting the Indian people
of sages, Aryavarta, since ages. Now the time has come to move away from dreams, consolations and
remain Bharat. Do imaginations and see the present reality of the nation and religion. We have to adopt
not feel glorified by a healthy and ideal political religion along with transparency, scientific, religious
and spiritual thought and should come forward to stop the erosion of our aspira-
calling it by the tions.
symbol of slavery, INDEPENDENCE
India. 4. Independence without any direction makes a person, society and nation unre-
strained and thoughtless bondage makes a person frustrated. Hence, the eyes of
the mind should always be kept open in nature independence and administration.
The search for truth is only in independence.
NATIONAL LEADERSHIP
5. If the leadership of a country lacks valour, humility, transparency and farsighted-
ness, then the nation will never be secure. Today, unfortunately, cowardliness and
weakness have replaced valour, hypocrisy has replaced transparency, and mo-
mentary selfish gain and motive has replaced farsightedness. We have to change
this 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 for
communication, business, contact and culture. However, using the language of
another country as our national language is a tremendous insult and something to
be ashamed of. No civilized country in the world imparts education to its citizens
in a foreign language. We will make the national language, Hindi, and other Indian
languages such as Gujarati, Tamil, Telugu, Kannada, Marathi, Punjabi, Bengali,
Assamese, etc. the language of administration. We will impart science, technology
and management education in Indian languages and thus give right to the children
of the poor, labourers and farmers to also become doctors, IAS, IPS and scien-
tists.
VIEWPOINT
7. The society or country in which good people are not respected and honoured, and
the wicked are not insulted or punished is sure to be ruined.
viwT;k ;=k iwT;Urs iwT;kuka p foekuukA
=khf.k r=k izorZUrs nqfHkZ{ka ej.ka Hk;e~AA
(Panchatantra 3.192)
Hence, good people, truthful people and patriots should be given communal honour
while the wicked people and traitors should be rebuked in public or communal
places. It is only then that good people will increase in society and corrupt people
will decrease.
8. How can law-breakers be law-makers? When tainted people cannot even become
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 small clerks and officers, how can they become
MLAs, 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 wait
for something. Wish never gets fulfilled. Unfulfilled
desires lead to sorrow and give birth to the feelings
of anger and revenge.
10. If you do not oppose injustice or crime then please
understand that you are a supporter of injustice and
crime. You are as big a criminal as the person who
commits injustice, irreligion and crime.
11. I am not a person who will admit defeat or commit
suicide because of the corrupt systems and laws of
society. I am a warrior who will struggle to establish
truth, justice and dignity with my last breath and gain
victory. People who accept defeat are weak, cow-
ardly and timid.
FOUR SUPERPOWERS
12. Wealth power, people power, ruling power and soul
power are four superpowers. We want to increase
the soul power with the help of yoga and unite people
power and stop the exploitation of the nation’s wealth.
We want to make the country economically strong.
At the same time, we want to keep a check on the
ruling power and want to encourage good conduct,
dignity and traditions. This is because unrestrained
ruling power leads to wickedness in people power
and with misuse of wealth power, hatred, cruelty,
restlessness and anarchy spreads in society.
TWO FORMS OF POWER
13. When people-power and wealth-power increases on
the side of corrupt, dishonest and criminal people,
then there is hatred, crime, fear, terrorism, injustice,
exploitation and finally destruction of the nation or
world. When people-power and wealth power in-
creases in the side of good people, then service, good
will, brotherhood and love will increase, nationalism,
spiritualism and humanitarianism will get strength and
the nation will prosper and progress. Whenever asuras
got administrative control, property and power, there
was destruction, and demigods always used admin-
istrative control, property and power for th good of
mankind.
14. The glorious past of the nation is my pride. The na-
tion that does not take pride in its past and that is not
aware of it’s present problems, cannot create a golden
future.
15. I have as much love for my motherland as I do for
my mother, sister, daughter or teacher. My nation is
everything for me. If my nation did not exist, I would
not exist. My head is the Himalayas, my right arm is
Purbanchal or the lands of the east, my left arm
Paschimanchal or the lands of the west, and towards
my feet is the Indian Ocean. India is in me. I am
from India. I am India. I will make India the world’s
superpower an India that leads the world in spiritual,
social, economic and political ways I will make. This
is my vow.
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16. The nation’s honour
is my honour and
pride, and if the
country’s image or
the nation’s pride is
blemished in any way,
then it is my insult. I
will awaken the
nation’s self-pride and
will dedicate my life to
the good of the nation.
¶vkss3e~ jk"Vªk; LokgkA
bna jk"Vªk; bnUu eeA¸
This life is for the na-
tion. This is my holy vow and I will remove all traces
of those who betray my nation. If people ask me
why I talk about the nation, then I tell them that this
country is my own country and I express the sorrow
of my heart with my entire strength so that the self-
respect of the entire nation awakens. There are people
who do not speak for the nation, that is, even if there
is injustice and betrayal going on in the nation, they
remain silent. Such people do not respect the nation
and do not work for the nation. To such people, I
would like to say very clearly that if you do not love
this country, you have no right to live in this country.
17. Our culture, our values, ideals, social systems and
traditions are not so weak that we have to take help
from the philosophy of foreign thinkers such as Lenin,
Marx or Mao. Our Vedic socialism and spiritualism is
a balanced, all-encompassing and scientifically com-
plete philosophy. Indian philosophy emphasizes more
on others’ good rather than one’s own happiness.
Hence, we do not need any imported social, religious,
spiritual or political thinking. This is not arrogance
but self-pride. I am not against knowledge but, at the
same time, I am also not a supporter of ignorance.
This is a truth accepted by all that India’s Vedic phi-
losophy is the supreme philosophy of the world.
18. The rules, laws and democratic systems of the country
are being used less to punish the bad and criminal
elements and more to torture the good folks and 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 yoga
in order to kindle in them the religion of the nation. I
want to fill each one with the feeling of patriotism.
After self-development with the help of yoga each
morning, I want to fill myself with energy so as to
help the nation’s development. After self-awakening
with the help of yoga, I want to take ahead the holy
mission of national awakening. The question arises
in a number of people’s minds about the relationship
between yoga and the nation’s progress. So, I want
to make it clear that without self-progress, the nation’s
progress is impossible. Hence, by self-development
with the help of yoga each morning, we will be dedi-
 cated to the progress and prosperity of the nation the
entire day. Yoga and nationalism are not two different
philosophies but are two sides of the same coin!
20. THE CONDUCT OF CITIZENS AND LEADERS
THE SEVEN PRINCIPLES OF NATIONALISM
The seven principles of nationalism, valour, trans-
parency, farsightedness, humanitarianism, spiritual-
ism, and humility are the seven pillars or ideals of our
personal and national lives. These seven principles
are the main ideals to be followed for our self-duties,
national duties and work processes. The seven prin-
ciples form the benchmark for our citizens and lead-
ers. The person who follows these seven principles
is a true citizen of the nation. Only a person who
lives according to these seven principles can provide
leadership to the nation. It is with these seven prin-
ciples that we want to bring in a new revolution and
a new freedom to our personal life and national life,
and make India a world leader again by establishing
an ideal system in the country. We want to make 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, prosperity
and peace in the entire world. Each nationalist-minded
citizen and public-service providing leader should fol-
low these seven principles –
I. Nationalism: He, who always keeps the nation in
the utmost position, is a nationalist. He, who consid-
ers the first religion among all religions to be that of
the 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 those
who love their nation. Do not
love the person who does not
love his nation. In worship and
devotion, first comes the wor-
ship and devotion of the nation,
after that comes devotion to
God, 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 thoughts
and thinking, first comes the
thought of the nation; in work,
first comes the work of the na-
tion; in pride, he who keeps the
pride of the nation foremost is
a nationalist. In relations, the
first relationship or connec-
tion is with the nation. Even
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if the person who does not love the nation is a rela-
tion or family member, do not keep any relationship
with him. In cleanliness and health too, first comes
the cleanliness and health of the nation; in prosperity,
first comes the prosperity of the nation; and even in
progress, he who first makes an effort for the
progress of the nation is a nationalist. In education,
he who considers national education to be the best is
a nationalist. In languages, he who keeps the language
of the nation foremost in his life, conduct and
behaviour, is a nationalist. He, who loves his own
nation’s education, habits, culture, yoga, religion,
philosophy and spirituality, is a nationalist. He, who
is dedicated to building a clean, healthy, prosperous
and cultural India, to building a self-dependent coun-
try, a country that is free from hunger, poverty and
unemployment and has a 100 per cent compulsory
vote bank, with the help of a controlled population, is
a nationalist. He, who is resolute on the complete
progress and research on Indian treatment methods
– Yoga, Ayurveda, Yunani and Siddh, etc., is a nation-
alist. He, who loves the Vedic Indian knowledge, In-
dian food habits, Indian dress habits, India farming
and Indian traditions inherited from the sages derived
from Indian knowledge, that is, Veda, Philosophy and
Upanishad, etc., is a nationalist. He who loves Indian
sports, Indian arts and culture and India’s ancient
language, Sanskrit, all Indian languages and the na-
tional language, and considers the national language
to be above everything, is a nationalist. Even in enter-
tainment, he who believes in Indian entertainment
based 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 and
values and traditions, following which the nation at-
tains happiness, prosperity and well-being, and the
nation moves continuously in the direction of
progress. Our ideals of nationalism and national duty
are – Shri Ram, Shri Krishna, Chandragupta,
Vikramaditya, Emperor Ashok, Tilak, Gokhale,
Gandhiji, Netaji Subhash, Chattrapati Shivaji, Iron man
Sardar Patel, and Lal Bahadur Shastri, etc.
He, who does not use foreign products made with
zero-technology, is a nationalist.
II. Valour: He, who does not take even a moment to
take a decision for the welfare of the nation, and does
not fear anyone in taking or carrying out decisions
for the welfare of the nation, who does not get trapped
by superstition and lives his life with work, labour,
bravery, courage, enthusiasm, and self-respect, has
valour. When a person does not take the work related
to the good of the nation lightly and does it aggres-
sively, who takes rests only after every pure mission
that he takes upon himself has reached success with-
out being diverted by struggle, obstacles and insults
or being influenced by propaganda, such a person
has valour. He believes in doing today whatever has
 to be done tomorrow, he feels that if a task has to be that external religions, etc. do not become a threat to
done tomorrow why can’t it be done today, and if humanity is humanitarianism. Keeping faith in these
something hasn’t been done today, how can we think human values is humanitarianism.
that it will be done tomorrow? He believes in the VI. Spiritualism: He, who considers universal and sci-
philosophy of ‘If not now, never’, who never tires, entific values, ideals and traditions to be his religion,
never stops, and believes in rest only after work, who might or might not be religious but is never a
and¶vdekZ nL;q%¸ (Ved) and fanatic, who sees God in all humanity and every other
¶dqoZUusosg dekZf.k ftthfo"ksPNr§ lek%A living being including plants, and who dedicates his
,oa Rof; ukU;Fksrks¿fLr u deZ fyI;rs ujsAA¸ entire life to the service of all creatures and the world
( Yajurveda 40.2) and diminishes the sorrow of the world, is spiritual.
Live up to 100 years while working, that is the one He rises above narrow thinking and loves mankind
clear path of life. Work is worship. Work is the truth and looks upon the whole world as his family. He,
of life and this world. This entire creation is only an who always keeps the feeling of ‘Vasudevah
outcome of work. ¶LodeZ.kk reH;P;Z flf¼a foUnfr Kutumbakam’ in his heart, is spiritual. Spiritualism
ekuo%¸ (xhrk 18-46), Shri Krishna says, worship God and nationalism are not two opposing opinions spo-
ken in two different languages. On the other hand,
with your work. He, who considers
these two are necessary in equal respect for the com-
‘Karmanyevdhikaraste Ma Phuleshu Kadachana’ to
plete independence and self-security of every coun-
be his motto, has valour.
try and its citizens, According to worldly and national
III. Transparency: He, whose life is spotless, unstained
organization, we are the citizens of an independent
and pure, whose personal, family, business and so-
country and the protection of its freedom, unity and
cial life is based on the benchmark of the seven prin-
integrity is our moral duty. This is our national duty,
ciples, who does not lead a double life and stays alert
and along with this, if we look at things from the
about living a sinless life, such a person is skillful.
angle of global brotherhood, global peace and social
He, who does not have any difference between his
coexistence then we are all one and are the sons of
internal and outer lives, and has complete purity is
one God. Hence, we are all brothers and sisters from
transparent.
the point of view of being god’s children. This is our
IV. Farsightedness: He, who is farsighted, raises above
spiritual philosophy and spiritualism.
the caste, region, zone, religion, opinion, party, com-
VII. Humility: He, who is humble, serves others in an
munity, language, etc., and respects all communities,
extremely humble manner even after reaching the pin-
talks of the progress of his area or region, respects
nacle of power, property, luxury and knowledge, and
all religions and Indian languages, and while doing all
who always keeps the faith that this life and the en-
this, does not forget the national well-being, respects
tire world is the gift of the Lord. He is of the view
all Indian languages and foreign languages too for
that the master of this life and the world is one invis-
contact and communication but while doing all this
ible power, God, who is performing all my actions
keeps the national language above everything else.
Himself keeping me as a medium. This body-mind-
He who keeps the interest of the nation above every-
wealth-life belongs to God – one who lives with this
thing else is farsighted. A person who gives rise to
feeling is never arrogant of his work position or prop-
madness of regionalism, religion, regional languages
erty and such a person is humble. We have to live our
and spreads hatred amongst the countrymen, and
life like this and this is the truth of our life and world.
burns the nation for the interest of the region, is not a
farsighted person. Unfortunately, majority of our poli-
21. SPIRITUALISM
(Universal and scientific truths of spirituality,
ticians today go from street to street asking for votes
religion and culture)
in Indian languages and rule from the parliament in
A person who is completely dedicated towards the
English. Let us become farsighted and, leaving aside
life values and ideals demonstrated by the sages such
our petty political selfishness, keep the national inter-
as the eight yoga principles of yam, niyam, asanas,
est above everything else for which the coming gen-
pranayam, restraint of the sense organs (Pratyahar),
erations will remember us with pride as their ideal
resolution, meditation and Samadhi, and the entire
and as national figures.
Indian religious, philosophical, spiritual and cultural
V. Humanitarianism: We are humans before being Hin-
traditions, is spiritual, is religious. The five yams of
dus, Muslims, Sikhs, Christians, etc. and our father
non-violence, truth, asteya (not stealing the property
is the same, no matter by what name we call him.
of others), celibacy and asceticism demonstrated by
God has sent us to this world as a human being.
sage Patanjali and the five practices of purification,
Hence, our first and main religion is humanitarian re-
contentment, penance, self-learning and deep devo-
ligion. We all have, naturally, within our hearts the
tion into God have been accepted by me in the form
God-given qualities of love, kindness, affection, truth,
of the universal, scientific and global religion, spiritu-
non-violence, etc. Hence, humanitarianism, truth and
ality and culture and I am completely dedicated to the
non-violence are our main religious tenets. Ensuring

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 observance of ‘mansa, vacha and karmana’.Opposite
of yam and niyam such as hatred, untruth and steal-
ing, etc. can be considered a sin and a crime. India is
a country of extensive cultural traditions. Hence,
whatever is universal and scientific in all the various
religious, spiritual, cultural and communal traditions,
we consider as religion. However, I am not a fol-
lower of whatever is superstition, pretence, wicked,
inhuman and unscientific. I do not believe in such
traditions and hence I am religious, not irreligious.
Instead of being the worshipper, publicist and ac-
cepter of the symbolic aspect of religion, I consider
religion to be the superiority of conduct. I consider
the life values of non-violence, truth, love, kindness,
service, patience, forgiveness, purity, contentment,
etc., to be religion. I consider the tenets of non-vio-
lence and truth in all the holy texts such as the Vedic
scriptures, Quran, Bible and Gururgranth Sahib, etc.,
to be religion. No matter whatever religion, opinion,
group, community, etc., our personal hopes might
be based on, as a united nation, instead of being di-
vided by worshipping various gods, we should be-
lieve in the worship of the one Supreme power or the
Lord. The Lord has various names in various lan-
guages such as Hindi, Sanskrit, Punjabi, Arabic and
English, etc. Amongst all these names, I address God
by the name of ‘Om’ because this is the foremost
and most ancient sound of creation. This sound is
universal and scientific. There are many other forms
of ‘Om’ found in Indian philosophy and culture of
other countries, such as Amen, Omen, etc. Intensive
study and research on the scientific influences of ‘Om’
reveals that Om is a pure, scientific and medical word.
This is not a representative of any image, idol or reli-
gious tradition. In short, I believe in a lifestyle based
on nationalism, spiritualism, and idealism. I am not a
supporter of division on the basis of religion and 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 the
yogi brothers and sisters dedicated to nationalism:
1. Vegetarian
2. No personal agenda
3. Healthy
4. Capable
5. Dedicated
6. Non-political lifestyle
7. Commitment to spend at least 1-2 hours each
day for yoga and national interest.
The above-mentioned are mainly connected to our
personal life and conduct. If we do not give priority
to purity, and national thought in our personal life,
and if we ourselves are not healthy, capable, dedi-
cated and devoid of the obstinacy of politics, then
how can we fulfill the resolution of building a nation
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that is free from corruption, crime and exploitation.
Our head yoga teachers, deputy yoga teachers, co-
yoga teachers, workers and yoga practitioners will
stay within the framework of these seven modes of
conduct and will first bring purity, modesty, and ex-
pertise into their personal lives and will then take
ahead the mission of national character building. First
self-development and then we will offer everything
for development of the nation. First self-interest and
then the interest of the nation and the world – this is
our motto.
Non-political lifestyle means that a person connected
strongly with our mission of building a new India
will not represent any political party and will not give
any special support to any group either directly or
indirectly. Our political philosophy is – all party or no
party. That is, support the people that have 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 moral
support in a collective way through Yogpeeth to na-
tionalist and honest people, in the same way moral
support should be given to ideal persons, nationalist
politicians with character. ‘All party’ or ‘no party’
means that we do not represent any particular party
but we morally or emotionally support all the people
who are good in all parties. Hence, we are ‘all party’,it
means we have no connection with the corrupt people
in all the parties and that is why we are also ‘no party’.
Our opposition is not any party or person, but it is
theoretical and this is how it should remain. Any per-
son who is directly connected to any political party
cannot do complete justice to this mission. I am not a
representative or publicist of any political party. I am
a representative and publicist of national duty. We
should always remember that our complete person-
ality, our words, food habits and conduct is entirely
according to the tradition of the sages and for the
honour of this mission.
NATION-GOD
23. ekrk Hkwfe% iq=kks¿ga i`fFkO;k% (Atharva Ved 12.1.12)
Earth is our mother and we are her children. 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.
 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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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
 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
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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-
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-
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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.
 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
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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.
 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-
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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.
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
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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
 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-
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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,
 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
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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
 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
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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
 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~ A
èkeZlLa FkkiukFkkZ; lEHkokfe ;qxs ;qxs AA
(Gita)
Come! Let us all get together to destroy the demonic
forces; let us take away the strength and property of
corrupt, dishonest and criminal people and give power to
patriotic, honest and truthful people. Come! Let us all
take a vow together, a pledge together, a resolution that
we will remove this stain of corruption from the 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
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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
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
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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,
 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
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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
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
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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
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-
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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
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
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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-
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.
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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.
vks3e~ lekuks eU=k% lfefr% lekuh] lekua eu% lg&fpÙkes"kke~A
lekua eU=efHkeU=;s o% lekusu oks gfo"kk tqgksfeA
vks3e~ lekuh o vkdwfr% lekuk ân;kfu o%A
lekueLrq oks euks ;Fkk o% lq lgklfrAA
(Rig Veda 10.191.3-4)
31. When corrupt people are together then why don’t
good people unite and remove wickedness with bravery?
There is limitless power in organization. It is only 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 - ^^laxPNèoa
laonèoa la oks eukafl tkurke~** (Rig Veda 10.191.2)
32. There are two main powers in any organization –
people-power and wealth power. The success or failure
of any organization depends on these two. I invite you to
make the revolution of India’s self-respect successful.
Join this organization yourself first and unite other 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.
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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 duties
and joining the religion of yoga with the religion of the
nation, we have not done any opposing work and rather
have accepted yoga in a vast form. There is no doubt,
confusion, illusion or hesitation in my mind regarding the
duties of yoga and the nation. My intention and rules are
very clear and my intention is to bring unity and mo-
rality to divided India. Yoga means – to unite. I want to
unite the entire world with yoga as a medium. I want to
first make each person in the nation a yogi. When each
person in India is a yogi then he will be a youth of char-
acter; he will be a patriotic teacher or doctor; he will be
an aware farmer; he will be a thoughtful chartered ac-
countant; he will be a hardworking lawyer; he will be a
soldier, security person or policeman with tradition; he
will be a dutiful supervisor, worker or labourer; he will be
an energetic businessman; he will be a patriotic artist or
journalist; he will be a scientist dedicated to the good of
the nation; he will be a healthy, active and sensitive senior
citizen; he will be an intelligent and sensitive judge and
advocate because it is my clear opinion that there can be
no development of the nation without self development.
By doing and helping others do yoga, I will turn each
person into a good person. I will make a mother an ideal
mother. I will build such a foundation of tradition and
culture and prepare ideal mothers and ideal fathers through
yoga, so that children like Lord Ram and Shri Krishna are
again born here. When, with the help of yoga, a self-
realized person sees the society, nation, entire universe in
himself, he will not cheat anyone, he won’t hate anyone
because he will feel that cheating or lying to another is
cheating or lying to himself. It is because of self-confu-
sion that there is corruption, dishonesty, immorality, an-
archy, and insensitivity. With this yoga revolution, we
will establish the age-old tradition of the sages across the
globe and re-establish a kingdom of happiness, prosper-
ity, joy and peace.
 AN INTRODUCTION TO YOGA
1. Yoga Samadhi (Yogsutra—Vyas Bhasya 1.1) Yoga is Samadhi. Yoga is the spiri-
Yoga is Samadhi, 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 Yoga is the spiritual knowledge of making the soul pure and seedless. Yoga is a
philosophy of self- complete medical science. Yoga is the science of life. Yoga is the solution to all the
realization, and self- problems of individuals, societies, countries and the world.
knowledge. Yoga is 2. ^^leRoa ;ksx mP;rs** (Gita 2.48) You have the power within you to turn darkness
life philosophy. Yoga to light, sorrow to happiness, defeat to victory, unfavourable to favourable. You
is life management. 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
Yoga is self-control.
to check death. Simply go ahead continuously in life without getting diverted. On
Yoga is not merely e day you will definitely be successful – this is yoga.
physical exercise but 3. If you want to be free from Vishad-yoga (sorrow) and enter the 18 yogas men-
a complete lifestyle. tioned in the Gita including Sankhya, Karma and Gyan-yoga, then practise Pranyoga.
Yoga is the spiritual Pranyoga is the union of all yogas.
knowledge of mak- ASHTANG YOGA
ing the soul pure (THE EIGHT YOGA PRACTICES)
4. The eight yoga practices are Yam, Niyam, Asana, Pranayam, Pratyahar (restrain-
and seedless.
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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 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. ^^tUekS"kèkeU=ri% lekfèktk%
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
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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
 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,
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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~A
nSoha ukoa Lofj=keukxleÏoUrhe~ vk#gsek LoLr;sAA
(½Xosn 93-10).
This body is a beautifully crafted boat to help us
cross the ocean of existence. Self-realized people
and yogis sit on it and cross the sea of existence,
and undiscriminating people and those who indulge
in worldly experiences get trapped in whirlpools.
CELIBACY AND CHASTITY (BRAHMACHARYA)
39. To save life and mind from being torn apart in this
world full of subjects, Brahmacharya is the only 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.
 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
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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 virtuous
person and hope towards the wicked keeps the intel-
lect happy.
BREATH IS MEDICINE
54. izk.kL;sna o'ks loZ± f=fnos ;Rizfrf"Bre~ (Prashnopanishad
2.13). Breath is medicine. Breath is parents and mas-
ter. Breath is Vasu, Rudra and Aditya. Breath is the
Supreme lord Himself.
55. ^^;ksxf'pÙko`fÙkfujksèk%** (Yogsutra 1.2). The mind finds
it intriguing to remain in falsehood, imagination or
dreams. The mind either remains lost in the pains of
the past; in the agony, in the memories of the past or
in the worries about the future. The meaning of yoga
is to live in the present, where there are no troubles
or worries. In present there is creation. It is the
present that creates the past and it is the present that
lays the foundation for the future. Past and future is
without existence. Only the present exists. To live in
the present is to celebrate life. It is only when one
goes beyond the mind that the reality of the conscious
soul acquires a shape. Hence, the meaning of yoga is
to connect with one’s consciousness, centre or real-
ity; to recognize oneself and to recognize the Supreme
Lord existing within oneself; to see yourself in the
universe and the universe inside you. To expand one’s
identity from the confines of narrowness in all direc-
tions. I am in everything and everything is in me.
This expansion of ‘I’ is yoga.
 CULTURE
1. We have a glorious past that is 1,96,08,53,109 years 6. Only when there is no research on the knowledge of
old. ^lk izFkek laLÑfrfoZ'ookjk*(Yajurveda 4.14). We
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 7. Asceticism is not another name for running away.
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- 10. Independence does not mean indiscipline. Indepen-
phy, western culture and foreign
morals. The interest of the na-
tion lies in the culture and civili-
zation of our own nation.
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THE STRUGGLE OF CULTURES
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 cgqèkk
onfUr* (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 olqèkSo
dqVqEcde~ (Panchtantra 5.38).
ASCETICISM
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.
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%
 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.
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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; and
achieving circumstances of extraordinary sorrow is
hell.
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 after
death. Hence, accepting death in weariness of get-
ting scared of life or being hurt by the troubles or
betrayal of near and dear ones is foolishness.
25. It is the mind or ‘mana’ that should be killed or de-
stroyed. On destruction of the mind there will be a
new birth. You will gain a new vision and find a beauti-
ful world around you. And then you will feel the joy
of life. Life will become a celebration. The day we
understand life, that day life’s sadness will end.
THE EIGHT BENCHMARKS OF THE
TOUCHSTONE OF TRUTH
26. The eight evidences include that which is perceived,
inferred, compared, heard, traditional, reasoned, pos-
 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.
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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-
 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
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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
 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.
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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).
 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 80. The aim of life is not worldly pleasures, gambling,
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, 81. Everyone is able to get six feet of land to live, two
feet, kidney and urinary organs – these seven ele-
ments form the psycho-emotional body.
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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 rqA
cqf¼a rq lkjfFka fof¼ eu% izxgz eso pA
bfUnz;kf.k g;kukgqfoZ"k;kaLrs"kq xkspjku~A
vkResfUnz; euks;Dq ra HkksDrsR;kgqeuZ hf"k.k%AA (Kathopanishad)
Soul is the rider of this body chariot. Wisdom is the
charioteer and mind is the reins. The sense organs
are the horses that run on the roads of experiences.
The soul is experiencing with the help of the senses
and mind. One who has divine knowledge and holds
the reins-like mind firmly and steers the chariot away
from the roads of worldly pleasure and desires, and
drives on the roads of truth, restraint and good 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
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.
garments to cover the body, and two rotis to satisfy
hunger. The thirst of people are never quenched.
 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. ^^dqoZUusosg
dekZf.k ftthfo"ksPNra lek%** (Yajurveda 40.2)
82. m|kua rs iq#"k uko;kue~ (Atharvavaeda 8.1.6) – O
Man! God ahs created you to rise high, not to fall
low.
POPULARITY
83. A person will reach the pinnacle of popularity by 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. without any doubt.
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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%A
u oS r=k e`;Urs uks ;UèUre%AA
loksZ oS r=k thofr xkSj'o% iq#"k% i'kq%AA
;=ksna czã fØ;rs ifjfèkthZouk;de~AA
(Atharvaved 8.2.24-25).
You will not die, fear not. He who fears dies. He
who does not fear does not die. Make the strength
of the Supreme Lord your security shield. No power
on earth can defeat you.
SURRENDER
95. The abandonment of the Ego is surrender. Jealousy,
hatred, intolerance, wickedness, thirst, anger are all
divergences of arrogance. Hence, always live life as
a witness.
96. Never consider yourself to be master. We are all 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;qrA
fLFkrks¿fLe xrlUnsg% dfj";s opua roAA
(Gita 18.73)
O Teacher! My attachment has gone away with your
pure proximity. I am now available to my soul. With
your 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 in
my form and in my form I see your image. O Teacher!
O yogeshar! I will now follow your words completely
 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- hunt for religion, truth and goodness with the light of
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, studied the Constitutions of many counties. The laws made
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
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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,
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
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
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
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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 ,dkxzh
fØ;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-
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.
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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-
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
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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
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
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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
have been taught and are still being taught that we are the Maharshi Patanjali did not consider the vision of any
children of monkeys and not of mother earth or mother idol or image to be meditation. He says – the complete
India. This false evolution theory of Darwin is now being end of afflictions is obtaining God. Maharshi says – the
disregarded even by western scientists and we still go by aim of kriyayog is Samadhi, Sanbodhi, Swarupolabdhi,
this theory that erases our self-respect and identity. We and complete end of afflictions. He advices eight-fold
are the children of not monkeys but of sages such as yoga to clean the impurities of the intellect. Describing
Ram, Krishna, Gautam, Kapil, Kanad, Gemini, Brahma, the eight-fold yoga of yam, niyam, asana, pranayam,
Panini, Patanjali, etc. Even today history books give us pratyahar, dharana, dhyan and Samadhi, he says that with-
lessons that continue to enslave us. out observing these eight, it is impossible to obtain per-
We do have any respect towards our ancestors and sonal or global peace. Behind all the processes and reac-
only enjoy the songs of praise of foreigners. When talk tions of yoga of Maharishi Patanjali, there is one goal and
arises of the early scientists, we remember Einstein and that is removal of darkness and impurity. Doubts, illu-
Newton but forget great scientists such as Vishwamitra sion, obstinacy should break. After this you do not have
and Bhascaracharya. Before the time people even listened to go anywhere, all solutions will come to you. He talks
to talk of aircraft as if in a story, Maharshi Bharadwaj of obtaining fulfillment through restraint with the help of
wrote his text on aircraft and also knew how to build concentration of dharana, meditation and Samadhi, He
aircraft. When we discuss mathematicians, we read about speaks of the knowledge of the past and eternity with the
foreign names such as Pythagoras in book but tend to help of restraint and explains the way to concentrate in-
forget great Indian mathematicians such as Aryabhatta ward. He also teaches about akashman and parkaya en-
and Shridhar. It is a mockery that when a child joins the try. He also explains how to obtain fulfillments such as
MBBS course to become a doctor or the MD to special- Anima, Laghima, Garima, etc. Maharshi Patanjali also
ize, there is not even a single mention of the first fathers unveils the mysteries of physical science and universal
of Ayurveda, Maharshi Charak and the father of surgery, science.
Susrut. Maharshi Patanjali introduces us to the smallest mys-
No other country in the world has as much potential teries of nature. He discusses doubtful, doubtless,
as India. Even today, in the global level, great doctors, thoughtful, thoughtless Samadhi. He had a totally scien-
engineers, scientists, economists, thinkers, poets, writ- tific viewpoint. His path is one of truth, love, surrender
ers, etc. are the glorious children of India. Even in the and complete joy. He enables us to feel the accuracy,
business sector, people such as Laksmi Mittal have dis- destructibility and sorrow absorbing capacity of nature.
turbed the sleep of multinational corporations. There is He describes yoga as a science. He also tells of a definite
no lack of talent in our country. There has been a decline result for each yoga process. He considers the union of
in our self-confidence and self-respect. In the new year, gyanyog (knowledge), bhaktiyog (devotion) and karmyog
let us unite and move ahead on all sectors with full confi- (work) to yoga. He is not one-sided. He does not hold
dence and self-respect and increase the honour of mother any obstinacy. He travels through the spiritual with the
India. viewpoint of science. He does not chase you away, he
10. ONLY THE COMPLETE REMOVAL OF DOUBTS awakens you. He keeps you steady between battle and
AND AFFLICTIONS CAN HELP US OBTAIN GOD escape. I admire Patanjali because I find complete truth
The union of knowledge, work and devotion is in whatever he advices. No one has inspired me more
the completeness of yoga than Maharshi Patanjali, As the level of our conscious-
Maharishi Patanjali inspires us to leave our clutches ness will rise with yoga, the doors of the mysteries of
and become self-dependent. Scriptures, guru, tradition, yoga too will open for us. We should just move ahead on
beads, markings on the forehead, temple, mosque, mon- the road of devotion, and God himself will help us. I am
astery, gurudwara, church – these are all supports, myself a devotee and can see that truth is gradually get-
clutches. Maharishi Patanjali makes us truly religious and ting uncovered. The goal of all of us is obtaining com-
‘astik’. But he does not do any acting. He says, you your- plete truth, knowledge of self and search for reality.
self are the centres of religion. He does not divide religion 11. INDIAN CULTURE IS NOT AGAINST SCIENCE
into symbols. He motivates you to walk towards your According to Yajurveda, invention of science is
goal on your own. He asks us to remain constant in sor- also necessary for a happy life
row and joy, praise and insult, cold and hot, action and What are the reasons for greatness of cultures earlier
reaction, victory and defeat! Do penance! Practise self- to western culture, or Indian culture? This question arises
thinking! Move ahead on the road to self-knowledge with again and again in the minds of the youth of the nation.
penance, struggle, hard work and sincerity. Along with Some grown people in our nation ignores our tradition of
this, totally surrender unto god! This entire process will science and technology and considers only religion, spiri-
wash away the dirt from your mind! Your afflictions will tuality, chanting, penance, fasting and rituals to be an
wash away. Indian culture. When a youth does not go to the temple
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and apply tilak, the elders of the house say in a very hope- field and the agricultural field. This is because whatever
less and weary voice, ‘What to do, generation has changed is sown in the fields ultimately comes into the human
– children have forgotten culture, customs, traditions and field, that is, it comes into the stomach. The human body
only blindly follow western ways.’ is nourished by food grains and milk from animals that is
On the other hand, some learned people take pride in again formed from the grass they chew. The green revo-
deriding Indian religion, spiritual culture and sanatan tra- lution has had some bad effects on both the fields – agri-
dition as superstition, fraud and hypocrisy, and think they cultural as well as the body. With the bad effects of dan-
have become developed, and they joke about religious gerous chemicals, the fields are either barren or are in the
people as ignorant, foolish, etc. In the 40th chapter of process of becoming barren. With the entry of chemical
Yajurveda, it is written that the people for whom science products inside the stomach, there has been an onslaught
and technological progress is the only goal in life live in of terrible diseases such as cancer, diabetes, heart dis-
utter darkness; but in deeper darkness than them are those eases, high blood pressure, obesity, thyroid, kidney and
who live life only engrossed in devotion, rituals and spiri- liver diseases, etc. With the heavy use of chemical fertil-
tuality, ignoring everything else. izers, the land has decreased its fertility and at the same
It is further described in Yajurveda that to live happilytime, with the sexual prowess and fertilizers of men, in-
in this world scientific inventions are also necessary and fertility is increasing in women. If we take a look at the
for happiness and peace of the soul, spirituality in the total use of fertilizers in 2003-2004, the heart beats rap-
form of devotion, worship, meditation and Samadhi are idly as 16 thousand million 80 crore kg of chemicals had
also very necessary. That is in Indian culture, material- been offered to mother earth in just one year.
ism and spiritualism are believed to complement each If we divide this amount by India’s population, which
other. In the absence of study, understanding and thought, we consider to be 112 crore, then an average of 15 kgs
Indian culture is today only concentrated on temples and have been used per person. Approximately 1.25 kg of
holy places. This is not proper. Equal importance is given poison comes into a family every month, and affects ev-
to knowledge, science and worship in the Vedas. Indian eryone from babies to old people. The illusionary rumour
culture is not one-sided, it is multifaceted. that crop production is increasing because of urea and
Our ancestral sages were experts in geology, astrol- chemical fertilizers is being spread all over the nation pri-
ogy, surgery and philosophy. Our forefathers were fa- marily to satisfy selfish needs. The reality, on the other
miliar with all knowledges including aircraft science, tele- hand, is that the naturally produced insects in the soil are
phone, television, education and health, etc. Unfortunately, being destroyed because of excessive use of urea. Crop
after Mahabharat the downfall of Indian culture began. production increases because of the fertilizer that is pro-
With the passage of time, the description of religion and duced on their death and not because of urea. Urea on
culture was limited to the fulfillment of selfish whims mixing with animal dung produces a chemical reaction
and we limit our scientific religion to only external rituals.
that increases crop production. Try and use only urea
Today, it has again become necessary to rise above without any animal dung or leaves, and you will see that
obstinacy and selfishness and look at Indian tradition and even the crop burns out. Another shocking element be-
culture with the light of science, and this is the eternal hind these chemical fertilizers is that the manufacturers
truth that India and Indians were never against science get Rs 12 lakh to 622 crore each year in the form of
and our culture is totally for science. subsidy from the government.
The study and research of Vedic socialism, class sys- The government gives this subsidy to companies that
tems, Vedic education system, knowledge of ancient manufacture urea and other chemical fertilizers because
Ayurvedic tradition, Vedic agricultural tradition, Vedic it is expensive to make such fertilizers and the companies
mathematics, Vedic astrology and vastu shastra, etc. is sell them at low costs to the farmers. That is, the govern-
necessary. It is only by understanding and experiencing ment makes good the loss of these companies. If the
the complete foundation of ancient Indian culture and profit attained from fertilizers is given directly to farmers
civilization that we will be able to say with pride that then the necessary crop can be achieved with animal dung
Indian culture is better than western culture! fertilizers and organic fertilizers. This won’t lead to any
12. EARTH IS BECOMING BARREN WITH DANGER- shortage of food grains and the fields of mother earth
OUS CHEMICALS and the stomachs of human beings will also be safe. At
If the profit gained in the name of fertilizers is the same time, the crores of animal wealth being cut don
given to farmers then there won’t be any shortage each year will also be safe. If this happens then we will
of food grains in the country also be free from the sin of cow slaughter and the fields
In the Sanskrit language, the word ‘kshetra’ is used too will be safe from becoming barren. If only! If the
equally to denote both the body as well as agricultural minds and hearts of the policy makers of our nation were
field. In Hindi literature, the word ‘Khet’ or field is used a little more positive then every field in the nation would
instead. There is a deep connection between the bodily have prospered. (Compilation of writings published in
2005). ❀ 51
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1- VEDIC NATIONAL SONG
vks3e~&vk czãu~ czkã.kks czãopZlh tk;rkekjk"Vsª
jktU;% 'kwj¿b"kO;ks¿frO;kèkh egkjFkks tk;rka nksX/zh
èksuqoksZ<k¿uM~okuk'kq% lfIr% iqjfU/;ksZ"kk ft".kw jFks"Bk%
lHks;ks ;qokL; ;tekuL; ohjks tk;rke~A fudkes
fudkes u% itZU;ks o"kZrq iQyoR;ks u vkS"kè;% iP;Urka society. Just like the muskmelon flowers ripen get de-
;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; /khefgA
f/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, 8-
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- 9-
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
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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~A
mokZ#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
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;± djokogSA
rstfLouko/khreLrqA ek fof}"kkogSAA
vkss3e~ 'kkfUr% 'kkfUr% 'kkfUr%A
O Lord, protector of all! Protect both of us, master
and pupil. Give us the taste of joy. Impregnate us both
with strength. Let our knowledge burn bright for national
good. Let us never fight with each other, oppose each
other and learn and teach with extreme love. Let us 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%A
Lord! 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!
MORNING MANTRA
vks3e~ izkrjfXua izkRkfjUnza gokegs izkrfeZ=ko#.kk izkrjf'oukA
izkrHkZxa iw"k.ka czã.kLifra izkrLlkseeqr #nza gqoseAA1AA
vks3e~ izkrftZra Hkxeqxaz gqoes o;a iq=kefnrs;ksZ fo/krkZA
vk/kzf'p|a eU;ekuLrqjf'pnzktk fp|a Hkxa Hk{khR;kgAA2AA
vks3e~ Hkx iz.ksrHkZx lR;jk/kks Hkxseka f/k;eqnok nnUu%A
Hkx iz.kks tu; xksfHkj'oSHkZx iz u`fHkuZ`oUr% L;keAA3AA
vks3e~ mrsnkuha HkxoUr% L;keksr izfiRo mr e/;s vÞuke~A
mrksfnrk e?koURlw;ZL; o;a nsokuka lqerkS L;keAA4AA
vks3 e~ Hkx ,o Hkxok¡ vLrq nsokLrsu o;a HkxoUr% L;keA
ra Rok Hkx loZ bTtksgohfr l uks Hkx iqj ,rk HkosgA5A
EVENING SHIVSANKALPA MANTRA
vks3e~ ;TTkkxzrks nwjeqnSfr nSoa rnq lqIrL; rFkSoSfrA
nwjÂea T;ksfr"kka T;ksfrjsda rUes eu% f'koladYieLrqA1A
 vks3e~ ;su dekZ.;ilks euhf"k.kks ;Ks d`.ofUr fonFks"kq /khjk%A
;niwo± ;{keUr% iztkuka rUes eu% f'koladYieLrqA2A
vks3e~ ;r~ izKkueqr psrks /k`fr'p ;TT;ksfrjUrje`ra iztklqA
;LekUu ½rs fdapu deZ fØ;rs rUes eu% f'koladYieLrqA3A
vks3e~ ;suns a Hkwra Hkqoua Hkfo";r~ ifjx`ghree`rus loZeA~
;su ;KLrk;rs lIrgksrk rUes eu% f'koladyieLrqA4A
vks3e~ ;fLeUu`p% lke;twfa "k ;fLeu~ izfrf"Brk jFkukHkkfookjk%A
;fLe¡f'pÙka loZeksra iztkuka rUes eu% f'koladYieLrqA5A
vks3e~ lq"kkjfFkj'okfuo ;Ueuq";kUusuh;rs¿Hkh 'kqfHkokZftu boA
âRizfr"Ba ;nftja tfo"Ba rUes eu% f'koladYieLrqA6A
10- MANTRA TO BE SAID AT MEALTIMES
vks3e~ vUuirs¿UuL; uks nsáuehoL; 'kqf"e.k%A
iz iznkrkja rkfj"k Åt± uks /ksfg f}ins prq"insA
11- SANGATHAN SOOKT
vks3e~ la lfe|qols o`"kUuXus fo'okU;;Z vkA
bGLins lfeè;ls l uks olwU;kHkj AA9AA
O Lord! You are powerful, you build creation.Everyone
sings the Vedas to you, shower wealth on us.
vks3e~ la xPNèoa la on/oa la oks eukafl tkurke~A
nsok Hkkxa ;Fkk iwosZ latkukuk miklrs AA2AA
Walk with love, everyone become wise You too, like
your forefathers, carry out your duty well
vks3e~ lekuks eU=k% lfefr% lekuh lekua eu% lg fpÙkes"kke~A
lekua eU=kefHkeU=k;s o% lekusu oks gfo"kk tqgksfe AA3AA
Let everyone’s thoughts be the same, let the intellect
and mind be the same. I give knowledge constantly, let
everyone become good.
vks3e~ lekuh o vkdwfr% lekuk ân;kfu o%A
lekueLrq oks euks ;Fkk o% lqlgklfr AA4AA
Let everyone’s heart and resolution always be
tranquil.Let minds be filled with love, which in turn in-
creases happiness
12- SANKALPA MANTRA
This life of mine is for the nation. I take the resolution
that I will offer my body, mind, wealth and life in the
yagna of the nation to bring back the lost glory and fame
of Mother India. Acquiring self-power and patriotism with
the help of yoga, I take the resolution that this life of mine
is now for the nation. I take the resolution that by awak-
ening my self-quality and national responsibilities, I will
make India once again the world leader. l

OM

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❀ YOG SANDESH-ENGLISH ❀ 53
 GIVING VOICE TO
RESPECTED SWAMI RAMDEVJI’S
REVOLUTIONARY THOUGHTS AND
THE RESOLUTION OF
BHARAT SWABHIMAN (TRUST)
REVOLUTIONARY SONG
tkx mBk gS vkt ns'k dk fiQj lks;k vfHkeku!
tkx mBk gS vkt ns'k dk fiQj lks;k vfHkekuA
izkph dh papy fdj.kksa ij] vk;k Lo.kZ fogku&2AA
c<+rs vR;kpkj ;qxksa ls LokfHkeku fiQj tkxkA
nwj gqvk vKku lHkh dk tu&x.k&eu gS tkxkA
;ksx½f"k us vkt lquk;k] laLÑfr dk t;xku&2AA
tkx mBk gS vkt ns'k dk fiQj lks;k vfHkeku----
Åij fge ls <dh [kM+h gS] os ioZr ekyk;saA
lqyx jgh gS Hkhrj&Hkhrj] izy;adj Tokyk;saA
mu yiVksa esa nh[k jgk gS] Hkkjr dk mRFkku&2AA
tkx mBk gS vkt ns'k dk fiQj lks;k vfHkeku------
[kqyk 'kEHkq dk us=k vkt fiQj] og izy;adj tkxkA
rkaMo dh og yiVsa tkxs] og f'ko 'kadj tkxkA
rky&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 ouoklhA
pyk fo'o dks ;ksx&lw=k esa] cka/us ,d lU;klhA
'ka[k ukn dj jgk vkt fiQj] ^^Hkkjr&LokfHkeku**&2AA
tkx mBk gS vkt ns'k dk fiQj lks;k vfHkeku------
'kklu ds gSa uke is 'kks"k.k] iQSyk vfo'oklA
Hkz"Vkpkj vU;k; c<+ jgk] iQSyk gS vijk/A
tkx mBk Hkkjr dk ukStoka] tkxk fgUnqLrku&2AA
tkx mBk gS vkt ns'k dk fiQj lks;k vfHkeku------
(The nation’s slumber self-respect has again awak-
ened today; With the rays of the east has come a golden
chariot. Self-respect has once again awakened due to
increasing atrocity for generations; Ignorance has gone
away and everyone has awakened. Yogarshi has sung
today the victory song of culture.
Lovered with the snow this garland of mountains;
simmering inside are volcanoes of destruction. In these
flames can be seen the rise of India.
Today again, Lord Shiva has awakened, with each
rhythm 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 world
with yoga. Today, once again Bharat Swabhiman is
blowing the conch shell.
In the name of governance is spread exploitation
and disbelief; corruption and dishonesty is increasing,
crime is on the rise; the youth of India has awakened,
Hindustan is awake.)
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EARTH WILL ECHO TODAY WITH THE
SLOGANS OF SELF-RESPECT
vkt rks xwatsxh ;s /kjrh LokfHkeku ds ukjksa ls
Vdjk;saxh ;s vkoktsa ns'k ds igjsnkjksa ls
oans ekrje~-------------------4AA
fo'o xq: Hkkjr dks cukus] pys gSa eLr fnokus js
lsok] lerk vkSj esgur ds] xkrs gq, rjkus js
Hkkjr u;k cukus dks ge] LoxZ /jk ij yk;sa js
g¡lrs&xkrs xqtj tk;asxs] dk¡Vks ls vaxkjksa lsA
Vdjk;saxh ;s vkoktsa ns'k ds igjsnkjksa lsAA
oans ekrje~-------------------4AA
100 izfr'kr ernku djsxa ]s Hkz"Vkpkj feVkus dks
vc xk¡oksa dh vksj c<+saxs] ns'k dks LoLFk cukus dks
jk"Vªokn Lohdkj djaxs ]s ns'k dks ,d cukus dks
Hkkjr ek¡ dks eqDr djsxa ]s Hkkjr ds xn~nkjksa lsA
Vdjk;saxh ;s vkoktsa ns'k ds igjsnkjksa lsAA
oans ekrje~-------------------4AA
ugha tqMs+ gSa tks Hkh gels] vHkh oDr gS vkvks js
Hkz"Vkpkj feVkus dks vc] lkFk [kM+s gks tkvks js
ubZ vktknh ubZ O;oLFkk] u;k ifjorZu ykvks js
xwats iwjk ns'k gekjk] Lons'kh ds ukjksa lsA
Vdjk;saxh ;s vkoktsa ns'k ds igjsnkjksa lsA
oans ekrje~-------------------4AA
vuq'kklu dk ikB i<+k gS] ;ksx&/eZ viuk;k gS
Hkz"Vkpkj] vU;k;] dq'kklu] ftlus gesa lrk;k gS
Hkkjr dk LokfHkeku txk gS] fot; dk fcxqy ctk;k gS
eqDr djsaxs Hkkjr ek¡ dks] ikiksa vR;kpkjksa lsA
Vdjk;saxh ;s vkoktsa ns'k ds igjsnkjksa lsAA
oans ekrje~-------------------4AA
(Today the earth will resound with the slogans of
self-respect; these sounds will clash with the guards
of the nation…Bande Mataram
We move forward to make India a world leader; to
make a new India, to bring paradise to earth. Laughing
and singing we will cross over embers and thorns.
We will do 100% voting, make India healthy; 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.)
 LIVE FOR HINDUSTAN, NOT FOR HIN-
DUS OR MUSLIMS
fgUnw ds fy;s u eqlyeku ds fy;sA
thuk gS rks th;ks fgUnqLrku ds fy;sAA
vkilh erHksn geas thus ugha nsaxsA
ns'k u jgk rks ge dSls jgsaxsA
lkspuk gS gesa bUlku ds fy;sA
thuk gS rks th;ks fgUnqLrku ds fy;sAA
tkfr iaFk dk vkvks Hksn ge feVk;saA
,d gSa ge ,d ;gka cuds fn[kk;saA
,d gS ygw dk jax igpku ds fy;sA
thuk gS rks th;ks fgUnqLrku ds fy;sAA
;ksx dk nhi vkvks fey ds tyk;saA
ns'k vkSj lekt dks LoLFk (lqUnj) cuk;saA
xhrk ds fy;s u dqjku ds fy;sA
thuk gS rks th;ks fgUnqLrku ds fy;s-------
(Not for Hindus, not for Muslims; if you have to
live, live for Hindustan
Differences will not let live together survive, how
will we survive if the nation does not? We have to
think for human beings.
Let us remove the differences in caste and creed;
We are one and let us show that. The colour of blood
is the same for identification. Let us together light the
lamp of yoga; Let us make the country and society
healthy (beautiful). Not for Gita or Quran, if you have
to live, live for Hindustan.)
GET READY, COMRADES
gks tkvks rS;kj lkfFk;ksa gks tkvks rS;kjA
vxj ns'k ds dke u vk;s rks thou csdkjAA
gks tkvks rS;kj---------AA
vfiZr dj nks ru&eu&/u] ek¡x jgk cfynku oruA
mBs gq, ekFks ds lEeq[k Bgj uk ikrh gkjAA
gks tkvks rS;kj---------AA
dk¡i mBs /kjrh vEcj vkSj mBk yks Å¡pk LojA
dksfV&dksfV d.Bksa ls xwt¡ s ns'k dh t;&t;dkjAA
gks tkvks rS;kj---------AA
(Get ready comrades; if you are not of use to the
nation, your life is wasted. Offer your body, mind,
wealth; your nation is asking for a sacrifice. Defeat
cannot remain in front of heads that are raised. The
earth and skies are trembling, and raise your voice.
The victory song of the nation echoes from billions
of throats)
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LET MY MIND BE SWADESHI
esjk gks eu Lons'kh] esjk gks ru Lons'khA
ej tkma rks Hkh esjk] gksos diQu Lons'khAA
pêku VwV tk;s rwiQk¡u ?kqeM+ ds vk;sA
xj ekSr Hkh iqdkjs] rks Hkh y{; gks Lons'khAA
esjk gks eu Lons'kh] esjk gks ru Lons'kh------
tks xk¡o esa cuk gks] vkSj xk¡o esa [kik gksA
tks xk¡o dks clk;s] og dke gS Lons'khAA
esjk gks eu Lons'kh] esjk gks ru Lons'kh------
tks gkFk ls cuk gks] ;k xjhc ls fy;k gksA
ftlesa Lusg Hkjk gks] og phT+k gS Lons'khAA
esjk gks eu Lons'kh] esjk gks ru Lons'kh------
ekuo dk /eZ D;k gS] ekuo dk nnZ tkusA
tks djs euq";rk dh] j{kk ogh Lons'khAA
esjk gks eu Lons'kh] esjk gks ru Lons'kh------
djsa 'kfDr dk foHkktu] feVs iw¡th dk ;s 'kkluA
cus xk¡o LokoyEch] og uhfr gS Lons'khAA
esjk gks eu Lons'kh] esjk gks ru Lons'kh------
ru esa clu Lons'kh] eu esa yxu Lons'khA
fiQj gks Hkou&Hkou esa] foLrkj gks Lons'khAA
esjk gks eu Lons'kh] esjk gks ru Lons'kh------
lc gksa Lotu Lons'kh] gksos pyu Lons'khA
ejrs le; diQu Hkh] njdkj gks Lons'khAA
esjk gks eu Lons'kh] esjk gks ru Lons'kh------
(Let my mind be indigenous, my body be 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.)
 THE TIME HAS COME TO WAKE UP LET OUR HEARTBEATS, OUR BREATH
tkxus dk oDr vk x;k&3AA BE FOR THE MOTHERLAND
[kwu gS Lons'k ds fy;s] vku gS Lons'k ds fy;sA ns'k ds fy, th;sa lekt ds fy, th;saA live(Live for the nation,
vkc: dk ;s loky gS] tku gS Lons'k ds fy;sAA for the society; let
;s /M+dusa] ;s 'okl gksa] these heartbeats and
xjtrk rwiQku vkt bu fnyksa esa mB x;kA ekr`Hkwfe ds fy,AA our breath be for the
tks >d>ksj dj txk x;k&txk x;kAA xoZ ls lHkh dgsa] ,d gSa ge ,d gSaA nation.
tkxus dk oDr vk x;k------ Everyone says with
tkfr iaFk fHkUurk esa Lusg lw=k ,d gSaAA pride, we are one;
ekSr dh pquksfr;ksa dks lqu] ftanxh dHkh ugha #dhA lw[kZ jax dh NVk lIrjax gS fy,A castes and creeds are
dky dh djky 'kfDr ls] ftanxh dHkh ugha >qdhAA ;s /M+dusa] ;s 'okl gksa] different but love is the
tks toku ns'k ds fy;s 'kghn gks x;kA ekr`Hkwfe ds fy,A same; From billions of
ekSr dks ogh >qdk x;k&>qdk x;kAA ns'k ds fy, th;as lekt ds fy;s th;saAA throats, national duties
sound; with your
tkxus dk oDr vk x;k------ dksfV&dksfV daB ls jk"Vª/eZ xtZukA strength daily worship
ljgnksa dh oks igkfM+;k¡] >kad dj gesa fugkjrhaA fuR; fl¼ 'kfDr ls ekr`Hkwfe dh vpZukAAmotherland; Yoga is
;ksx 'kfDr dy;qxs lq/k gS /eZ ds fy,A the religion of this dark
yks lquks ogk¡ dh ?kkfV;k¡] xwatrh gesa iqdkjrhaAA ;s /M+dusa] ;s 'okl gksa] age.
bap&bap Hkwfe ge Lons'k dh cpk;saxsA In each person, na-
ekr`Hkwfe ds fy,AA tional devotion be
diQu cka/ iz.k ;s dj fy;k&dj fy;kAA ns'k ds fy, th;sa lekt ds fy;s th;asAA awakened; and join the
tkxus dk oDr vk x;k------ O;fDr&O;fDr esa txs jk"Vª HkfDr&HkkoukAindividual with the so-
ciety.
(The time has come to wake up; This blood is for O;fDr dks lekt ls tksM+us dh lk/ukAA Countless lamps
the nation, dignity is for the nation; this life is for the nk¡o ij lHkh yxs tUe Hkwfe ds fy,A are lit with a divine
nation. Today thundering storm has arisen in these ;s /M+duas] ;s 'okl gkas] lamp; Who can blow it
hearts, which has awakened everyone with its roar. ekr`Hkwfe ds fy;sA out, which burns even
in storms? With bright-
Listen to the challenge of death, life has never ns'k ds fy, th;sa lekt ds fy, ft;saAA ness, we move ahead
stopped. Life has never bowed down to the power of ,d fnO; T;ksfr ls vla[; nhi ty jgsA tearing apart darkness.
time. The youth that have become martyrs for the na- dkSu ykS cq>k lds] vk¡f/;ksa esa tks tysAA Live for the nation, live
tion, have made death bow down, bow down. rst iq¡t ge c<a+s leLr frfej phjrs gq,A for the society; let
these heartbeats and
The mountains in the horizon are looking at us; lis- ns'k ds fy, th;as lekt ds fy, th;saA our breath be for the
ten to the valleys there, they are calling out to us. We ;s /M+duas] ;s 'okl gksa] nation.)
will save every inch of our land, this is our vow.) ekr`Hkwfe ds fy,AA
O’ BRAVEHEART OF THE LAND, BEAR THE BLOW OF TIME!
WAKE UP! le; dh ekj lg ysukA Tokj dk Toj bUgha gkFkksa lsA
,s ohj /jk ds tkx tjkA O brave soul of the land, wake ugha #duk esjs lkFkhA tgk¡ ij l[r gks feêðh]
fprdkj dgk¡ ls vkrh gSAA up; where is the call coming Lons'kh jkx gh xkukA ogha mxuk esjs lkFkhAA
bl ns'k dh vku is feVus dks] from? Mother India is calling ugha >qduk esjs lkFkhAA Lons'kh jkx gh xkuk]
Hkkjr ek¡ rq>s cqykrh gSAA ;s dkys lkai iSjksa ls] ugha >qduk esjs lkFkhA
you to lay your life for her dig- fyiVrs gSa fyiVus nksA ;s eqf'dy pkj fnu dh gs]
Hkkjr dh /jrh LoxZ Hkwfe gS] nity. The land of India is para- ;s dkys n`'; vk¡[kksa esa] fot; ds xhr xkus gSaA
ve`r bldk ikuh gSA dise, its water is nectar; each fleVrs gSa fleVus nksA Hkys viuh gFksyh ij]
cPpk&cPpk gS Hkxr flag] child is Bhagat singh, sisters are tgu esa vkx dh yiVsa] vHkh ioZr mBkus gSaA
cgusa >k¡lh okyh jkuh gSAa Jhansi ki rani. mBk ysuk esjs lkFkhAA tys jguk e'kkyksa ls]
fiQj vkt fons'kh ywV jgs] Again foreigners are robbing Lons'kh jkx gh xkuk] ugha #duk esjs lkFkhAA
;g ns[k //drh Nkrh gSAA us, see how the hearts are beat- ugha >qduk esjs lkFkhA Lons'kh jkx gh xkuk]
,s ohj /jk ds tkx tjk------ ing. Today the country is get- Hk¡oj esa gS Hkys d'rh] ugha >qduk esjs lkFkhA
vkt xqykeh dh csMh+ es]a ting tangled in the nets of sla- fNM+h gS tax jkrksa lsA le; dh ekj lg ysukA
ns'k tdM+rk tkrk gSA very; That which we have deco- gesa rks ck¡/uk gS ugha #duk esjs lkFkhAA
vc rd ftls ltks;k Fkk] (Bear the blow of time, do not stop my friend; sing only
rated is being robbed con-
oks fur&fur yqVrk tkrk gSA indigenous tunes, do not bow down, my friend. This black
fiQj uk'k djsa ml nq'eu dk] stantly; let us again destroy that snake has encircled the feet, let it be there; these dark gazes
;g lkap gesa g"kkZrh gSAA enemy. There will be no poverty penetrate your eyes, let it penetrate. Pick up bales of fire on
,s ohj /jk ds tkx tjk------ in this nation, nor will there be this land, my friend.
bl ns'k esa uk daxkyh gksxh] unemployment; let the money of Even if your boat is in the whirlpool, battles have began
the nation remain here, let not in the night. We have to stop the force of the flood with
uk gh gksxh csdkjhA these very hands.
ns'k dk iSlk jgs ns'k es]a the torturers take it away. Now
This difficulties are for only four days, we have to sing
ywVsa u vR;kpkjhA India’s self-respect has awak-
the song of victory; What if we still have to raise mountains
vc ^^Hkkjr LokfHkeku** tkxk] ened, the voice is coming from with our hands now. Burn with torches, do not stop, my
vkokt xxu ls vkrh gSAA the skies, O brave soul of the friend; sing only indigenous tunes, do not bow down, my
,s ohj /jk ds tkx tjk------ land, wake up… friend.)

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List of indigenous products for daily use

Boycott foreign products
Adopt indigenous goods.
Product Foreign Indigenous Product Foreign Indigenous
Toothpaste/ Most toothpastes are made Danth Kanti, Dant Manjn
To become a special member of Bharat Swabhimaan (Trust), please fill up this form as directed, cut it here and submit it to the mentioned location.

Cold Coca Cola (Coke, Fanta, Rose sherbet, Badam sherbet

tooth from bone powder. Colgate, (Patanjali), Powder – MDH,
Drinks Sprite, Thums Up, Gold (Patanjali), Milk Lassi, but-
powder Hindustan Lever (Close Up, Vicco Vajradanti, Baidyanath,
Pepsodent, Cibaka), Aquafresh, Spot, Limca), Pepsi termilk, juice, lemonade, co-
Gurukul Pharmacy, Chais,
Amway, (Forhans), Oral B, (Lehar, 7Up, Mirinda, conut water, shake, thandai,
Neem, Anchor, Miswak,
Quantam, etc. Babul, Promise, etc. Slice), Teem, Citra, jal jeera. Rooh Afza, Rasna,
Colgate, Close Up, Promise, Ajay, Ajanta, Crush, McDowell Frooti, Godrej Jumpin, etc.
Pepsodent, Aquafresh, Monet, Royal, Classic, Dr.
Toothbrush Lipton (tiger, Green La- Tea – Divya Pey (Patanjali),
Cibaka, etc. Stock, etc. Tea and bel, Yellow Label,
Cheers), Brooke Bond Tata, Brahmaputra, Assam,
Hindustan Lever (Lux, Kayakanti Aloevera (Patanjali), coffee Girnar. Coffee – Indian
(Red Label, Taj Mahal),
Liril, Lifebouy, Denim, Nirma, Medimix, Neem, Nima, Geoffrey Phillips, coffee, MR.
Bath Soap Camay, Dove, Revlon, Jasmine, Mysore Sandal, Kutir, Polson, Goodricke, Sun-
Pears, Rexona, Breeze, Sahara, Himani Glycerine, rise. Coffee – Nestle,
Hamam, OK), Ponds, Godrej (Cinthol, Fairglow, Nescafe, Richbru
Dettol, Clearsil, Palmolive, Shikakai, Ganga), wipro, Infant Nestle (Lactogen,
Honey, dal water, boiled rice,
Amway, Johnson Baby, etc. Santoor, etc. food and Cerelac, Nestum, LPF,
fruit juice. Amul, Indana,
Colgate Palmolive (Halo, KeshKanti (Patanjali), milk Milkmaid, Nespray,
Palmolive), Hindustan Wipro, Park Avenue, Everyday), Glaxo Sagar, Tapan, Milk Care, etc.
powder
Shampoo Lever (Lux, Clinic, Sun Silk, Swatik, Ayur Herbal, Kesh (Farex), etc.
Revlon, Lakme), Procter Nikhar, Hair and Care,
and Gamble (Pantene, Medi- Nycil, Arnica, Velvette, In most icecreams, there Home-made ice cream, Kulfi,
Ice cream
care), Ponds, Old Spice, Dabur, Vatika, Bajaj, Nyle, is a layer of animal en- amul, Vadilal’s, milk food,
Shower to Shower, Head and trails. Walls, Kwality,
Lavender, Godrej, etc. etc.
Dollops, Cadbury, etc.
Shoulders, Johnson Baby, etc.
Hindustan Lever (Surf, Rin, Tata Sudh, Nima, Modi
Clothes Sunlight, Wheel, OK, Care, Sahara, Swastik, Salt Annapurna, Captain Akur Salt, Sandhya Namak
and utensil Vim), Ariel, Check, Henko, Vimal, Hipolene, Fena, Cook (Hindustan Lever), (Patanjali), Low sodium and
washing Revel, Amway, Quantam, Sasha, T-series, Dr. Date, Kissan (BrookeBond), iron – 45 Ankur, Tata, surya,
soaps, For woolen clothes – Gadhi. For woolen clothese Pilsbury, etc. Taza, Tara
powders Woolwash, Easy. Indigo – – Gentil. Indigo – Ujala,
and indigo Robin Blue, Tinapol, Sky- Ranipal, Nirma, chamko, Potato Uncle, Pepsi (Raffles, Bikano savouries, Haldiram,
chips and Laher, Kurkure), Fun Home-made chips, Bikaji,
lark, etc. Dip, etc. savouries munch, etc. etc.
Old Spice, Palmolive, Park Avenue, Premium, Vi- Tomato Fruti jam, apple jam, mixed
Nestle, Brooke Bond
Shaving Ponds, gilette, Erasmik, sion, Emami, Balsara, Sauce, jan (Patanjali), Home-made
(Kissan), Brown and
Cream Denim, Yardley, etc. Godrej, Nivea, etc. Fruit jam sauce. Indana, Priya, Rasna,
Polson, etc.
etc.
Shaving Gilette (7’o Clock), Topaz, Gallant, Supermax,
Blade Erasmik), Wilman, etc. Lazer, Esquire, Premium, etc. Most chocolates have Jaggery and peanuts, almonds
arsenic salt poison. are more healthy. Amla
Hindustan Lever (Fair and Kayakanti Aloevera, Kayakanti Biscuit,
Cream, Cadbury (Bournvita, 5 candy, Bel candy, Biscuit,
Lovely, Lakme, Liril, Neem, Kantilep (Pantanjali), Chocolate candy (Patanjali). Brittania,
powder and Denim, Revlon), Procter Borosil, Ayur, Emami, Vicco, Star), Lipton, Horlicks,
Nutrene, Eclairs, etc. Parle, Bakeman’s, Creamica,
cosmetics and Gamble (Oil of Olay, Boroplus, Borolin, Himani Gold, Sagrila, Indana, Amul,
Clearsil, Cleartone), Nyle, Lavender, Hair and Care, Ravalgaon, etc.
Charmis, Ponds, Old Spice, Nivea, Heaven’s, Cinthol Glory, Aquafina, Kinley, Bailey, Home-boiled water, Yes,
Water
Dettol, Nycil, Charlie, Velvete (baby), etc. Pure Life, Evian, Perrier, Ganga, Himalaya, Catch,
Johnson Baby, etc.
Wrangler, Nike, Duke, Cambridge, Park Avenue, etc. Rail-neer, Bisleri, etc.
Readymade Adidas, Newport, Puma, etc. Oxemberg, Bombay Dyeing,
Boost, Polson, Bournvita, Badam Pak, Chawanprash,
garments Ruff and Tuff, Trigger Jeans, etc. Tonic Horlicks, Complan, Spurt, amrit Rasayan (Patanjali),
Rado, Rolex, Swissco, Sico, Titan, HMT, Maxima, Nutramul, Maltova
Watches Protinex
etc. Prestige, Ajanta
Pens and Parker, Nicholson, Camel, Kingson, sharp,
Cello, Wilson, Today, Nestle ghee, all brands Param ghee, Amul ghee,
Rotomac, Swissair, Adgel, Clarified
pencils Natraj, Ambassador, Link, of ITC or Hindustan Deshi cow ghee, mustard oil
Rider, Mitsubishi, Player, Montex, Stic, Sangeeta, butter and
Lever (Patanjali)
Unibal, Pilot, Rollgold, etc. Luxor, Apsara, etc.
edible oil
Note: 1. Please inform us of any new products that you come across apart from the one listed above so that necessary correction can be made
in the next edition.
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2. Wherever you stay, a number of daily use essential items are made in nearby villages and small-scale industries. You use those products on
a priority and make the village self-dependent.

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Oath
I have studied the seven principles, seven ideals, five resolutions, five vows and the concise aims, philosophy and principles highlighted in Jeevan
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(Signature of applicant)
Special: To be noted
1. Apart from being healthy, dedicated, financially stable and educated, the applicant must follow the seven principles, seven ideals and five vows. 2. You
can submit this form to the district office of the local Patanjali Yog Samiti or Patanjali Yogpeeth, Haridwar headquarters. 4. To become a special member,
the two-yearly registration fee has been fixed at Rs 1100/- The draft should be made in the name of “Bharat Swabhimaan (Trust)” payable at Haridwar.
Please write your name, address and phone number behind the draft. 5. The registration fee for becoming a working member is only Rs 51/-, the receipt
of which can be got from the office or office bearers of the District-level Yog Samiti.
Concise list of rules for the members of Bharat Swabhimaan (Trust)
The aim of Bharat Swabhimaan is to bring the knowledge of self-qualities through Yoga, to make their body, mind and thought healthy, and
to build national character by purifying personal character – Our determined resolution is to build an India that is healthy, clean, prosperous, self-dependent,
and free from corruption, unemployment and poverty
Services provided to Special Members of Bharat Swabhimaan (Trust)
1. Free 7-day residential training will be provided under the direction of Param Pujya Swami Ramdevji Maharaj on national responsibilities through
Yoga. Special members will be given priority over working members and ordinary members. 2. All members of Bharat Swabhimaan (Trust) will be given
free daily or weekly Yoga training by yoga teachers trained at Patanjali Yogpeeth. 3. Under the scheme of ‘One family-One gift’, each family joined with
Bharat Swabhimaan will get an annual gift in the form yog Prasad. 4. By joining with Bharat Swabhimaan, you will get the opportunity to participate
to a large extent in all activities of an international organization, Patanjali Yogpeeth. 5. Special members will be given preference while nominating
candidates by Bharat Swabhimaan for its associated organizations.
Services given to working members of Bharat Swabhimaan (Trust)
1. Free 7-day residential training on national responsibilities through yoga will be given under the direction of Param Pujya Swami Ramdevji Maharaj
in Haridwar. For this, working members will be given priority over ordinary members. 2. All members of the Bharat Swabhimaan family will be given
daily or weekly yoga training by yoga teachers trained by Patanjali Yogpeeth. 3. By joining with Bharat Swabhimaan, you get the opportunity to
participate in a large way in all the activities of an international organization, Patanjali Yogpeeth.
Compulsory rules in short for applicants:
1. To become a member of the Bharat Swabhimaan (Trust), you should believe and follow the seven principles directed by Patanjali Yogpeeth, that is
nationalism, valour, expertise, farsightedness, humanitarianism, spiritualism, humility and vegetarianism, and should be healthy, financially stable,
without any personal agenda, dedicated, lead a non-political life and spend 1-2 hours per day for national well being Also should be able and ready to
contribute financially to national wellbeing according to your capacity. 2. Our special members and working members should practise yoga for 1 hour
everyday for their self-confidence. However, it is compulsory to attend the weekly yoga classes and monthly meetings. 3. Each special and working member
of Bharat Swabhimaan will observe all five vows including 100% voting, and will observe the concise aims, philosophy and principles, and will also
motivate others to follow these vows for national wellbeing. 4. Registration fee for special members: To become special members, a bi-annual registration
fee of Rs 1100/- has been decided. Draft should be in the name of “Bharat Swabhimaan (Trust)” payable at Haridwar. The name, address and phone
number should be written behind the draft. 5. To become working members, the registration fee is only Rs 51/-, the receipt of which can be collected from
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the office or office-bearers of the district-level office of Patanjali Yog Samiti. The discount for teachers will only be available for two years, i.e. till
December 2010.

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