Q: Baba ji tell us something about your past life
and family background?
A: This body was born to
illiterate parents although the whole country is my motherland, but still
people search for the birth place, this body was born in a village of Haryana
known as alipur. I got early education from the government school. At the age
of 9-10 years after reading about maharishi dayanand the thought process
changed and I moved towards yoga. I decided that I don’t have to study through
makaili education style, so I started studying in gurukul that just changed my
entire vision of life, There I studied
various shastras like vedshastra, vyakaranshastra and many other forms. This Patanjali
was initially started in 1993 from gurukul, I went to Gangotri. You can say
Haryana is physical birthplace but the spiritual birthplace is uttrakhand. In
1994 we elaborated it to other states like Gujarat. In 1995 we made a trust by
the blessings of our Gurudev Shankar dev ji maharaj at that time we had 1.25 acres
of land but now people from all around the world have donated thousands of acres
of land to patanjali, and we have received around 1000 crore rupees as donation
from the people, by which we laid the foundations of patanjali yogpeeth,
patanjali vishwavidyalaya.
Who is your inspiration in yoga?
A: My idol is maharishi
dayanand saraswati ji he is my guru. With age I read about the great people
like Chandrasekhar, Rajguru, Sukhdev, Ramprasad bismil, Mahatma Gandhi and
others. Then a balanced vision developed within that kranti dharma and shanti
dharma both are equally important.as this nature works on the principle of co-existence,
on one hand there is water while on other side we have fire too which is
equally important for life. In the same way prosperity and spirituality are the
basic elements of life and today we are working on that model. The swadeshi
model that we have is actually based on this principal, “sukhasya moolam dharma,
drarmasya moolam artha” meaning when we move forward in life when there is a
balance of dharma and artha. Poverty can’s develop dharma poverty can cause
adharma only. So dharma, artha, kama,moksha are the four truths of our culture.
that’s how we move forward.
Q: How did you start yoga in your life?
A: I was 9 years of age
when I started doing yoga, I read the books of arya samaj and its young brigade
called arya veer dal in my village after watching them I realized that physical
fitness is very important as I had a paralyzed body on the left side, my knees
used to stick to each other, stomach was fatty, you can say the whole body was
abnormal. Every child has this in his
mind that he has to be powerful. That’s when I started it just by reading in
books as I had no mentor at that point of time neither there were programs that
you can see on TV. Frankly saying there were no television sets in our village
at that time.
Q: Have you ever thought that patanjali will reach
such heights one day?
A: we have not done any
work to reach a milestone. In my childhood I had two principals “vikalp rahit
sankalp” and “akhand prachand purusharth” means if you have decided something
then you can’t betray from that and to complete that you have to give
everything whether it is physically, mentally, socially, economically, or politically
you have to put your 100% effort into it. So we followed these principals only
and our aim is infinity we don’t want anything for ourselves and we have
nothing to achieve on the other hand there is nothing that we haven’t achieved. So we aim on doing our best with the
resources that we have and for that firstly we prepared ourselves we can do
that only in two ways that is physically and mentally so i did purusharth when
I was in gurukul for 18 hours daily and now whatever we can do we are trying
our best and it has nothing to do with where would patanjali ,yoga, Ayurveda or
our country would reach, these all are the byproducts of our efforts . I say
yoga, seva .purusharth,sadhna, spirituality and charity are our ultimate goals.
Patanjali as a brand and as an institution is our byproduct.
Q: what is your opinion on the central government projects
of make in India?
A: See India is a very
capable nation, here is the capability of jal, jungle, jameen, jadi-booti, and
we have everything here. so by using and enhancing these capabilities we can
surely develop and I believe in make in India and made by Indians I work on
that aspect more, as foreign countries do not treat us as families for them we
are just a market where they want to make profit only.
Q: your kind opinion on swatch bharat abhiyaan?
A: India should be treated
respectfully in the whole world. When the people from all other countries come
here they often say that India is a very dirty country. Then we feel very
regretful. So if our country, our rivers are being cleaned then it will be a
proud thing for all of us. As Ganga is the soul of our culture. There is a
saying that God exists at the holy (clean) places and in dirty places the
devils exists. So swatch bharat should be the aim of every Indian. So we are
with modiji in this mission and are working as the brand ambassador.
Q: what is the culture of uttarakhand according to
you?
A: Jal ,jungle, jameen,
jawani, jadi-booti are the five powers of this land and yoga, adhyatma, dharma,
sanskriti, veda, old traditions, teerthatva, devatva, are the speciality of
uttarakhand. On one hand it is very spiritual as it is the devboomi the land of
god on the other hand it is so vast as there is the huge Himalaya there. We say
that India is our mother and our uttarakhand is the crown of our mother on her
head. Although there are four-dhams here, but haridwar is the spiritual capital
of India and we all are proud of it.
Q: Why do the tragedies like kedarnath occur in
this devbhoomi?
A: Devils are meant to
attack the land of god as simple as that. We as a human should not play with
the nature as it will act as invitation to the tragedies. God is not
responsible for these disasters it is just the karma of human beings that make
them face such incidents. The nature whether it is sun or the plants or the
land never harms us. It is only the human being who makes and destroys so
humans should generate the spirituality in them, devbhoomi has nothing to do in
that but the karma inhabitants of devbhoomi are responsible for such tragedies.
Q: How does the government is functioning in
uttarakhand?
A: I don’t want to comment
anything on political issues but I wish good luck for all the humans they
should move forward in their lives with a positive thinking, and do something
spiritual and creative. Law and order is equal for all of us. I wish everyone
can move ahead with full freedom not the freedom like the JNU. Today patanjali
has provided employment for more than 25000 people directly and indirectly they
are more than 1 lakh. So the politicians should support the institution like
patanjali , shantikunj or others like those, they should make their working process
smoother and should not act as an obstacle in their paths.
Q: what is your opinion on the cinema?do you watch
movies?
A: I have never seen any
movie, my heart is completely focused towards yoga, god, and nation “dil diya hai jaan bhi denge aye watan tere
liye,har karam apna karenge aye watan tere liye”
“sneh pyar ki tujhse bhagwan baandhi hai jeeven dor , dil mera laga he
rehta harpal teri or prabhuji harpal teri ore” when a human is attached to
god in every moment then all other things become secondary to him. We don’t
need anything to enjoy life or to go anywhere. Our work is our pleasure and
rest.
Q: Any message for the youth?
A: The most important
thing in life is our thought, destructive thought and destructive think process
is not good for us, so we should live with constructive and creative thoughts
and positive think process and we should make our mind towards creative works.
Even we were kids at some time and we are still young then we are living with
freedom. You should have control over the feelings and should not be slave of
our body we should have control over our senses which is the actual freedom.
Every individual has that power to change the whole universe. So I often say
that I am not a human being there is a universe hidden inside me. So we should
have a good frame of mind and do any work with our full strength.
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