Sandeep Deo - Yoga Guru to Swadeshi Warrior: The True Story of Baba Ramdev

Yoga Guru to Swadeshi Warrior

The True Story of Baba Ramdev

Yoga Guru to
Swadeshi Warrior

The True Story of
Baba Ramdev

Sandeep Deo
Translated by Swetha Rao Duggu

First published in India 2017

2017 by Sandeep Deo

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Dedication

Dedicated to my late grandmother Sunaina Devi, who imbibed in me the knowledge of Indian traditions through the stories of Ramayana, Mahabharata and Upanishad since I was 3 years old.

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Swami Ramdev:
A saint - A fighter

• How did Ramkishan become Swami Ramdev

Childhood

School education and life

Departure from home

Search for Gurukul

Life of Gurukul, a strict austerity

Ramkishan became Ramdev in Kalwa Ashram

Sympathy changed the direction of Acharya Ramdevs life

Journey from Haridwar to Gangotri

Yoga knowledge in Himalayas

The foundation of yoga revolution was kept in Kripalubagh Ashram

Ramdev became a hermit

• A childhood friend, who gave Swami Ramdevs dreams a concrete form

Saint fathers saint son

Completed his education in the Gurukul tradition

Balkrishn could find the dead sanjeevani because of his curiosity

Convener Balkrishn

• Patanjali became the center of yoga, Ayurveda, indigenous and Vedic knowledge

Yoga changed many lives

Patanjali provides doctor and medicine to Ayurveda

Swami Ramdevs life sketch

• The Bharat swabhimaan movement: The struggle for system change

Four stages of the movement and a different strategy in all of them

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The main agenda of Bharat swabhimaan movement was black money

Why did corruption become an important issue?

Indigenousnot only thoughts but also behaviour

Complete system change

• The quadrangular strategy of destroying the Bharat swabhimaan movement

Sonias kitchen cabinet became the solution to the vote bank

The beginning of the Bharat swabhimaan movement and its current status

The draft of janlokpal was created under the guidance of NAC

The beginning of pushing the Bharat swabhimaan movement at the backstage

Arvinds first betrayal to Swami Ramdev

The rally that made Team Anna national

The media boycott of the historical rally

Anna Hazares was apprehensive about the Anshan

The government that was silent about Nigmanandas death replied to one letter of Anna Hazare

The media corporate of Anna movement

A meeting between Team Anna and NAC was held before Anshan

The rally of 27th of February became the basis of the undemocratic action of 4th of June

• 4th of June: The black day of Indian democracy

That morning of 4th of June

The game on Anshan fixing was played to confuse the government

Meeting at the airport and Claridges hotel

An elected government converted Ramlila maidan to Jaliawalabagh

Was it a conspiracy to kill Swami Ramdev?

The shamelessness of the government and public outrage

• Cobweb of lawsuits

Swami jis backbone was attacked in the name of Acharya Balkrishn

RTI revealed the lies

The conspiracy to frame Swami Ramdev in the name of guru Shankardev

Attack on Swami jis family

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The conspiracies to frame Swami Ramdev but he got a clean chit

More than 1000 notices and 200 cases against Patanjali.

• Preparation of a political alternative

The confused opposition forced Swami Ramdev to give it a thought

Journey of 20 lakh kilometers and contact with 20 crores people

Thorns in the way of Bharat swabhimaan movement

Swami changed his moves for the August revolution

• No Modi, no BJP

Opposition of Modi in BJP

Swami Ramdev and Narendra Modi supported each other

Swami Ramdev and Narendra Modi came close with time

Baba converted the election into a mass movement

A yogis tireless efforts

Swami Ramdev played the role of Mahatma Gandhi and Jaiprakash Narayan

• Modi became the Prime Minister, the yogi returned to the spiritual world

The aim of establishing Achrayakul in every district

Formation of Vedic education board

Formation of ideal village

Drive for organic farming

Struggle for cows

Ramdev and Modi: Confluence of spiritual with political

Vow to keep Haridwar and Rishikesh clean

I am a saint, let me be one.

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T he May 2014 general election results was as per the public opinion. This was the first election of my life in which I wasnt just a voter but I also authored a book which was based on the collection of all the proofs and evidences from the courts against the busted allegations on Narendra Modi since 2002. When Ramdev began Parivartan Yatra in 2010 and Anna began Anshan in 2011, I was working for Nai Duniya as a senior reporter but as soon as I left the job in July 2012, Annas movement had somewhat faded but Baba RamdevsBharat SwabhimaanAndolan was still alive. While authoring my first book, I had a thought in mind to write a book on Baba Ramdev. I have closely witnessed the thick and thins of both the movements I mentioned above. The election results were declared on 16 May 2014, and within one month itself, I began working on the plot of this book and by June-July, I had completed the task of collecting the evidences.

To begin with I visited Patanjali Yogpeeth which is at Haridwar in 2014 for the very first time. There I met the main leader and in-charge of the Bharat SwabhimaanAnshan, Rakesh Kumar ji, he had read my first bookNishanepar Narendra Modi: Sazish ki kahani, thathyo ki zubani. This led to our friendship later. He was highly impressed by my work and introduced me to Baba Ramdev in January 2014. Swami ji was also quite impressed by my work and also appreciated it. Despite the fact that it was my first visit to Patanjali, the ambience was very familiar. When I shared my desire to write about Swami jis Parivartan Yatra, he said Swami ji and Acharya ji would never agree to it and then I told him that I was determined to write the book because I have covered the t entire movement very closely as a reporter but if he could help me with little documents it would be of a great help. He asked me, What kind of documents? I said I only needed information related to the dates of Swami Ramdevs journey and he agreed to provide that. The central in-charge Rakesh Kumar, Dr Jaideep, Dr Suman and the entire team helped me a lot in collecting the necessary documents. Apart from this, the personal secretary of Swami RamdevAjay Arya ji, the security in-chargeSudhir Dahiya ji, the personal secretary of Acharya Balkrishan Gagan ji and the media advisorSK Tijarawala, helped me a lot in obtaining information regarding relatives and acquaintances of Swami Ramdev and Acharya Balkrishn. Not only this, they also arranged my meeting with Swami Ramdev and Acharya Balkrishn so that I could take their signatures. I traveled a lot of times from Delhi to Haridwar; sometimes the purpose was fulfilled, sometimes it was not but I always got the support of this team. I am highly grateful to Swami Ramdev and Acharya Balkrishn because they gave me their valuable time.