Shedding the Baba Suit
Ramdev is , at best, a shrewd businessman who started his own brand of yoga and 'herbal' concoctions and has played upon the sentiments of a several thousand gullible folks to achieve his own selfish ends.
Any rational and scientific minded person would have seen through him as he made claims for curing HIV and Homosexuality, but of course, in the true spirit of Indian democracy, we do let quacks of all kinds build their duckponds. And now all this noise on TV, trying to turn this fellow into some sort of a hero!
This chap Ramdev is solely responsible for the so-called crackdown at Ramlila Grounds. You take permission for a yoga camp for 3,000 people and turn it into a political rally with 30,000 supporters, and then act surprised that the district administration wants to shut you down? The pack of wolves baying at Rajghat are an insult to the memory of the Mahatma... and to equate Ramdev's tricks with satyagraha, and the Ramlila ground incident with Jalliamwalla Bagh is absurd in the extreme.
It is Ramdev who should be held morally responsible for the Ramlila grounds incident, and the injuries to his people. If he really had nothing to hide, then why leap from the stage like a thief and a thug, and try to sneak away in women's clothes while his supporters engaged the police?
The Puri Shankaracharya is right when he says that Ramdev is a blot on the sadhu saffron.
A 'holy man' would have met the cops with dignity, accepted the warrant, told his followers to disperse with calm and urged the police to show resraint ... that is how a person with character and leadership is expected to be. A true leader's first thought would be the welfare of his followers. Here Ramdev showed how small he really is. Had Ramdev displayed true courage and dignity, he would have gained so much more respect, even from those who oppose him. But no, the so-called 'peaceful guru' actually willed violence to be done, so that he could claim 'martyrdom', and so this very obvious ploy - let your supporters sacrifice their lives towards your selfish cause.
Ramdev has shown that he is courageous only when surrounded by 'supporters'. There is far more to it than meets the eye, he was really afraid of being arrested, which brings to mind all those other accusations that Digvijay Singh has been making about 'disappearences' of key people in Ramdev's career path.
Manmohan Singh and his ministers had no business meeting Ramdev and giving him such importance in the first place. The man's 'demands' that 'people with black money should be given the death sentence' and such were absurd anyway, why appease him?
India doesn't need a psuedo- ramdev revolution. If the Government is really serious about bringing back the black money stashed away overseas, they will have to do something about it, or they'll be kicked out anyway through the ballot box.
Also, people who live in glass houses shouldn't throw stones, so here's a proposal. Let's have Ramdev investigated and let's find out whether he and his gang of 'followers' have no black money and have paid their taxes... Let's conduct scientific medical research and have Ramdev's claims of 'curing' HIV through ayurveda tested ...
It's a pity that the man didn't stick to Yoga and asans ... I know some people who believe that Ramdev's very good at Yoga, but now after watching their macho Guru running away in women's clothing, they're not very comfortable being advocates of Ramdev Baba's Salwar Suits.
Any rational and scientific minded person would have seen through him as he made claims for curing HIV and Homosexuality, but of course, in the true spirit of Indian democracy, we do let quacks of all kinds build their duckponds. And now all this noise on TV, trying to turn this fellow into some sort of a hero!
This chap Ramdev is solely responsible for the so-called crackdown at Ramlila Grounds. You take permission for a yoga camp for 3,000 people and turn it into a political rally with 30,000 supporters, and then act surprised that the district administration wants to shut you down? The pack of wolves baying at Rajghat are an insult to the memory of the Mahatma... and to equate Ramdev's tricks with satyagraha, and the Ramlila ground incident with Jalliamwalla Bagh is absurd in the extreme.
It is Ramdev who should be held morally responsible for the Ramlila grounds incident, and the injuries to his people. If he really had nothing to hide, then why leap from the stage like a thief and a thug, and try to sneak away in women's clothes while his supporters engaged the police?
A 'holy man' would have met the cops with dignity, accepted the warrant, told his followers to disperse with calm and urged the police to show resraint ... that is how a person with character and leadership is expected to be. A true leader's first thought would be the welfare of his followers. Here Ramdev showed how small he really is. Had Ramdev displayed true courage and dignity, he would have gained so much more respect, even from those who oppose him. But no, the so-called 'peaceful guru' actually willed violence to be done, so that he could claim 'martyrdom', and so this very obvious ploy - let your supporters sacrifice their lives towards your selfish cause.
Ramdev has shown that he is courageous only when surrounded by 'supporters'. There is far more to it than meets the eye, he was really afraid of being arrested, which brings to mind all those other accusations that Digvijay Singh has been making about 'disappearences' of key people in Ramdev's career path.
Manmohan Singh and his ministers had no business meeting Ramdev and giving him such importance in the first place. The man's 'demands' that 'people with black money should be given the death sentence' and such were absurd anyway, why appease him?
India doesn't need a psuedo- ramdev revolution. If the Government is really serious about bringing back the black money stashed away overseas, they will have to do something about it, or they'll be kicked out anyway through the ballot box.
Also, people who live in glass houses shouldn't throw stones, so here's a proposal. Let's have Ramdev investigated and let's find out whether he and his gang of 'followers' have no black money and have paid their taxes... Let's conduct scientific medical research and have Ramdev's claims of 'curing' HIV through ayurveda tested ...
It's a pity that the man didn't stick to Yoga and asans ... I know some people who believe that Ramdev's very good at Yoga, but now after watching their macho Guru running away in women's clothing, they're not very comfortable being advocates of Ramdev Baba's Salwar Suits.
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If Ramdev Baba had wanted, not one person would have been touched, and the sarkar would have had its mooh kala.
But he really acted like a thief trying to run away, because he thought he was being arrested for land grabbing in madhya pradesh [44 acres]
Runs thru the town
In his orangy gown
The public hearts he wants to win
Like the monk Rasputin