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A Yogic Revolution in India
A Yogic Revolution in India
KN RAO
From: "knrao"
Date: Sat Jun19 ,2004 7:08 a.m
Subject: [jyotish-list] Swami Ramdeos Mission 1
A yogi in India whom doctors may not accept is making big waves. Now read on.
Better than any shantis, the best one that are working now in some families in northern
India are the excellent yogic lessons, mixed with ayurvedic or, call it, simple herbal
prescriptions of Swami Ramdeo, that have been working almost like miracles.
Is a revolution taking place in India in reviving yoga on such a mass scale which is
stupendous ?
Almost every third man who comes to meet me talks of the miracles of the cures he
prescribes and demonstrates in his most popular television programmes.
The programme is broadcast regularly by the ASTHA television channel. He is clear in his
mission, aim and objective. What is available for the poor in India, he asks and makes his
lessons available to them. He is on a great mission. In his camps while in the front row
there are the paid participants, he allows the poor who cannot pay also to join it free.
I will narrate the first hand experiences of some people known to me intimately.
Yours,
K.N.Rao.
Jyotish-List@Puja.Net
From: "knrao" <k_n_rao@...>
Date: Sat Jun 19, 2004 7:10 am
Subject: [jyotish-list] Swami Ramdeos Mission 2
Mrs. A.Y. who has been coming to me with her husband and children for nearly twenty two
years for Vishnu Sahastranam recitation and knows so many stotras by heart told me the
other day about the benefits of Swami Ramdeos yoga lessons.
She is an insulin dependent patient of diabetes and has to take it twice a day in large doses.
Besides, she had difficulty in walking. She started doing the yoga lessons through the
television channels. Now she has reduced the intake of insulin considerably in terms of units
and is able to walk more than five kilometers at a stretch.
Is doing yoga properly and combining with recitation of OM etc. as Swamiji does, with a
sprinkling of spiritual lessons shanti or not ?
Yours,
K.N.Rao.
Jyotish-List@Puja.Net
From: "knrao" <k_n_rao@..>
Date: Sat Jun 19, 2004 7:49 am
Subject: [jyotish-list] Swami Ramdeos Mission 3
A neighbour of Mrs.A.Y. is very fat and did not know how to reduce her bulk and weight. It
was a great source of tension for her. She did theasanas shown on the television and took
ashwagandha leaves as instructed. She has reduced her weight by forty pounds and has
been maintaining that for many months now. ( Do not ask me whatashwagandha
leaves are. I do not know.)
Such cures working like miracles and reducing mental and physical tension is
the shanti one searches.
Yours,
K.N.Rao.
Jyotish-List@Puja.Net
Nishiji came on 17 Dec. 2004 and told me of the aunt of the boy she has employed. This
aunt of his, a woman living in Vasant Kunj, Delhi, had a very severe diabetes and gangrene
in the legs which was spreading. Two fingers of her leg had to be amputated and doctors
said that it could lead to dangerous
spreading of it.
The woman went just for three days to attend a camp in April 2004, to Hardwar of Swami
Ramdeo where she was taught some asanas andpranayama and given some herbs. There
has been a total reversal and there no are symptoms of gangrene even. Doctors proved
wrong totally. Miracle of yoga is what one had heard of but one is seeing them, and so
openly all around.
Yours,
K.N.Rao.
From: knrao <k_n_rao@>
To: jyotish-list@puja.net
Subject:[jyotish-list] Swami Ramdeos Mission 7
Date: Sat, 19 Jun 2004 14:00:46 IST
I have been recording such events all my life because of which I could write so
many books without missing facts. In the case of Swami Ramdeo it is easier to collect the
events because it has now become an every day story.
And these people coming to me and telling about it are looking so healthy , so cheerful and
so infectious in their enthusiasm to recommend the lessons of Swami Ramdeo all free to
everyone. These are true and verifiable stories of inner transformation which shanti should
do.
Yours,
K.N.Rao.
Jyotish-List@Puja.Net
From: "knrao" <k_n_rao@r...>
Date: Sat Jun 19, 2004 8:20 am
Subject: [jyotish-list] Swami Ramdeos Mission 8
If you come to Delhi or India and you find people folding their palms, joining them
and rubbing the fingers of both hands against each other do not be surprised.
It has now become a recognised cure for falling hair, dandruff etc. It also prevents
hair turning grey or if they have become grey, the further growth will be black, not
grey. It is what many have told me.
Do it for five minutes at least. The more the better. That is what Swami Ramdeo tells in his
televised programmes.
Yours,
K.N.Rao.
Jyotish-List@Puja.Net
From: "knrao" <k_n_rao@...>
Date: Sat Jun 19, 2004 8:22 am
Subject: [jyotish-list] Swami Ramdeos Mission 9
You may ask me what are my own personal experiences. Well for three days, I have been
keeping a carpet before my television and as soonSwami Ramdeos programme begins, I
spread it , lie down on it and do all those yogic exercises particularly those which are good
for diabetes and pain in legs.
The result, I have been feeling very energetic and my sleep is deeper now. There
is no pain in my legs. I will get my diabetes checked after a week to give to this
remedy a reasonable trial.
Yours,
K.N.Rao.
From: "knrao" <k_n_rao@...>
Date: Sat Jun 19, 2004 8:56 am
Subject: [jyotish-list] Swami Ramdeos Mission 10
Swami Ramdeo says , I am told though I have not heard it myself in these three days, that
allopathic medicines are poisonous and multi-nationals have a vested interest in a nation
of patients. He seems to be saying that with a real fire of conviction as I can see and notice.
I learn that he himself had suffered at one stage in his life. What happened is not known to
me. But I can collect the story. Someone says it was paralysis while others say it was a
stroke. After that his search for yoga cure and herbs became intense.
Now he wants to share it free with poor people and with a price with the affluent. His
ashram manufactures some of these herbal medicines which are available for purchase I
learn. That they are manufactured is clear from the television programme.
I heard him say in one programme that he was telling the ingredients for such
medicines so that people could prepare them in their houses as the ashram may
not have adequate quantities of such medicines. Also that he had no intention of
making money. If he had any intention, he says, he could become a billionaire
overnight.
There is an e-mail address also of his ashram
diyvayoga@rediffmail.com
Yours,
K.N.Rao.
Jyotish-List@Puja.Net
healthy thinking is what he encourages and preaches. It has been happening on a mass
scale now though for the first fifteen years as a yoga teacher he was confined to a small
ashram where people went to get cured free of cost.
His reputation spread slowly. Some non-resident Indian was taken there by a rich Indian
who had benefitted from Swami Ramdeos yoga lessons.
The non-resident India also benefitted and then asked Swami Ramdeo why should, what he
preaches and teaches, not reach masses. How ? The question was posed and the solution
was to get it shown through theASTHA channel. This is the story I have heard.
It is so heartening to see such quick transformation in so many so fast.
Is it not difficult to believe it ? But it is there for you to verify. Just as I was writing this
came RS who helps me with my computer and my publications. He told me that he and his
father had benefitted so much from these television programmes of Swami Ramdeo. His
father with his constant ailments has been improving fast.
I heard Swami Ramdeo repeat what we all know but he puts it pithily thus: there must
be Samaya (time) Sankalpa (resolution) and then comes Siddhi (fulfilment) of the
intended goals of yoga. And he clarifies, it does not demand more time than half an hour
per day.
Yours,
K.N.Rao.
From: knrao <k_n_rao@com>
To: jyotish-list@puja.net
Subject: [jyotish-list] Swami Ramdeos Mission 12
Date: Sat, 19 Jun 2004 23:51:53 IST
In the television programme between 8/30 and 9/30 at night today there was a feedback
also of the reduction of weight of those attending the camp.
The feedback was something like this.
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An interesting fact that came out today was that at least 6,00,00,000people watch it on
television everyday. Out of these how many unknown Indians would have reduced their
weight is not known. But Swmi Ramedo says how much burden of how many in India got
reduced cannot be estimated.
I have not worked on horoscopes of people who have reduced weight. Has anyone done it
astrologically or physically ?
Yours,
K.N.Rao.
TRIBUNE
A number of bureaucrats from Punjab, Haryana and Chandigarh besides politicians and
judges and top-level police officers also participated in the camp. In April, a similar camp
was held at Ludhiana. It is being held for the first time in Panchkula.
Though there was a lot of enthusiasm among the people in the morning, things went awry
because of a virtual traffic jam near the venue. Few traffic policepersons could be seen
before the starting of the camp and they, too, appeared only when the camp began.
Compared to the VIPs, for ordinary people, it was a hard task to get entry to the camp.
They had to pay Rs 250 to Rs 500 per ticket for different sections.
From : 108 knrao <knrastro@hotmail.com>
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Sent : Wednesday, June 23, 2004 4:35:30 PM
To : jyotish-list@puja.net
Subject:[jyotish-list] Swami Ramdeo Again 1
Let me narrate my history of diabetes.
1) When it was detected in 2000 it was, after fasting, 428 and after breakfast (called pp)
586. It was shocking as I had continued to work inspite of all this without feeling its physical
effects except that I felt sleepy often.
2) To cut a long story short I was on insulin for ten days after which I refused to take insulin
but through some walking exercise and medicine brought it down to 150 fasting and 200
after breakfast (pp) ofcourse with regular tablet in the morning and the evening.
3) Then with medicines both times it got stabilised at 110 before breakfast and 150 pp.
4) I have been taking the medicine as usual but doing the pranayama prescribed by Swami
Ramdeo. Today I took the blood test before breakfast and it was 69. I immediately took
some sugar. PP is 109.
Diabetes had affected me in many ways including my gait when I could not walk. Now after
the asanas he teaches, I am able to walk steadily. I walked, climbing down and up three
flight of stairs to see how much I could walk in a normal way. I did it with much ease than
ever in the last four years and walked more steadily.
As far as diabetes is concerned, it fantantastically under control.
Yours,
K.N.Rao.
23 June 2004
From : knrao <k_n_rao@rediffmail.com>
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Sent : Thursday, June 24, 2004 7:45:14 PM
To : jyotish-list@puja.net
Subject [jyotish-list] Swami Ramdeo again 2
Today when I heard Swami Ramdeo, he was mostly prescribing medicines for different
diseases. He started by saying that he would present before his audience a miraculous. He
referred to a patient ofcancer whom doctors had given only seventy two hours more. His
name disclosed was Hari Krishna Shastri perhaps. He said that in two famous cancer
institutes he was tested and no hope held out. He was given only seventy two hours of life.
He then came to the ashram of Swami Ram Deo was given a medicine which he took for
two days, felt better and found his tumour diminishing in size. After a month it had become
tiny. He now could do the pranayama prescribed by Swami Ramdeo. He did it regularly. He
has no trace of cancer left now.
Then he went to one of those institutes and got himself examined.The doctors could not
believe it and instead of giving him a medical report said that they would study it.
Yours,
K.N.Rao.
From: knrao <k_n_rao@com>
To: jyotish-list@puja.net
Subject: [jyotish-list] Swami Ramdeo: the other view 1
Date: Fri, 25 Jun 2004 23:51:07 IST
I have been watching the television programmes of Swami Ramdeo and his claimed cures
of diabetes. It is what some others too have told me. In my own case, there has been
some difference. But then I always wait for a period, sometimes, sufficiently long to see if it
can be accepted finally. I will be able to give my well formulated opinion after many
months.
A very brilliant doctor told me that if doing asanas and pranayama a diabetic patient is
reducing the calories in his body and also controlling his diet, what he is doing is effectively
what doctors prescribe.
It is not a cure of diabetes but control only, he says. It appeals to me. Then I will have to
examine the horoscopes of the people claiming to have been cured if there is some
astrological explanation also clearly or not.
Yours,
K.N.Rao.
From : knrao <k_n_rao@com>
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Sent : Saturday, June 26, 2004 12:02:36 AM
To : jyotish-list@puja.net
Subject : [jyotish-list] Swami Ramdeo: the other view 2
The doctor friend I referred to has given the instance of another yogi who was very much
talked of in India in the eighties of the last century and whose television shows in those
days, when we had no private television channels, were also popular. That yogi was famous
for what he called cure of diabetes and blood pressure through his yoga.
But privately, this doctor friend treated him for diabetes and blood pressure is what I know
and had known for nearly a decade till he died.
What about those who are claiming that they have been cured I asked the doctor and he
explained it.
Yours,
K.N.Rao.
An excellent yoga teacher of the Bharatiya Vidya Bhawan, Delhi and two out of his three
daughters, who all are yoga experts came to meet me today and I discussed with them
about the television programmes of Swami Ramdeo. These daughters have won many
prizes in yoga competetions and run their classes regularly.
They said that doing yoga under real guidance for modern age as is being done in Santa
Cruz in Bombay was the right approach. They pointed out some flaws in the lessons of
Swami Ramdeo and told of the complications some of these television lessons have been
creating. The father who is an excellent yogi corrected me and told me how exactly Kapal
Bhati pranayam is to be done. Then his daughter told me how she has helped people control
their diabetes through yoga.
In the meantime, the following news item which appeared in the Times of India also speaks
of this.
K.N.Rao.
SUNDAY, JULY 11, 2004
THE TIMES OF INDIA CITIES: CHANDIGARH
There's a sting in yoga tale
KS DHALIWAL
JALANDHAR: This is going retro with a vengeance. The centuriesold science of yoga is now a
fad storming the living rooms of a TV-ensnared India. To ape is human and that's just how
the portly, the sick and the plain inspired are beguiled by the miracles promised by the idiot
box yogis.
Suresh Vij saw an asana on TV. It looked good and promised more. "My knees used to pain.
The TV yogi promised relief and I practised it many months. The pain got severe. I had to
take to allopathy and even accupressure, but my condition only deteriorated."
Kanta Sharma from Central Town picked up a purported yogic cure for diabetes from TV.
The asana involved forward-bending. She was already a slip-disc patient and her condition
worsened. Parminder saw pranayam (yogic breathing exercises) on TV and followed suit.
Soon he developed hypertension and regular headache. It turned out that his sinuses were
already blocked and the pranayam he copied was dangerous for him.
According to professionals clinical application of various asanas of yoga requires a careful
screening of the person and then individual treatment. Pranayam, for example, is being
wrongly prescribed as a miracle cure for all ills. The professional advice is that there are
different types of pranayam depending on individual needs.
Gurbachan Singh, who has been teaching clinical yoga since 1978 is quite cynical about the
new-age gurus. "Most of these people have picked up their skills from Divine Life yoga
centres and have then begun to act as teachers themselves," he laughs. "Many come to us
for cures and then pretend to be experts."
Therefore get checked by some yoga expert how these varieties of prayanam and asanas
are to be done not to develop complications is their advice.
Yours,
K.N.Rao.
Editor, Journal of Astrology,