Just when I had thought that I had heard all sorts of Bull Crap, trust good old yoga prince of India, Baba Ramdev ( or should I call him HIS HOLINESS SWAMI RAMDEVJI MAHARAJ !! ) comes up with this. “Hindu guru claims homosexuality can be ‘cured’ by yoga”
Have been watching the evolution of the Ramdev phenomenon since the last few years, and needless to say, I have been darn impressed with the singular impact this guy has had over the brains of educated Indians celebrities and non celebrities alike. He started out with a single show on a religious channel and has now graduated to two 24 X 7 channels dedicated to him ( chanting out weird sounding shlokas with the widely available yoga exercises), with his ( read his trusts) assets including a $4.5 million compound in Texas to the multi million dollars his Patanjali Yog Vidyapeeth churns out by selling snake oil. (Proved as per a Govt. investigation report).
So far so good, had his gamut of expertise stayed within the realms of Yoga, no one complained (till you had more than one Television in your house). Problems started when good old Yoga prince started behaving like the ‘Mahesh Bhatt’ of Indian mainstream media. First there were talks of saving the multi billion dollars of black money stashed away in Swiss banks from the hands of pirates (which was unfortunately nothing more than a internet mail forward and cheap urban legend), then you have to watch him doing all sorts of mall opening functions, hobnobbing with B grade starlets and well past their prime yesteryear heroines.
So, what is the problem here? It is a simple problem Mr. Yoga Guru., you unfortunately have become a symbol, a symbol of India. You play with faith, the faith of millions of people you have fooled. As if fooling millions of people that rubbing finger nails would kick start a forrestation drive on your head wasn’t enough (A day doesn’t pass when I don’t see scores of people in my office and in public transport rubbing their nails, hoping for the hopeless, which is evident from their receding hairline and much earlier receded brains), now you say that homo sexuality is a disease.
A Disease?? Common gimme a break, do you even know what defines a disease?? You know what is a disease?? YOU are a disease. Your fooling around with people using Yoga as a base is a disease. It is because of people like you, that a Burger King or a Brittney spears makes fun of Indian Icons. It is because of people like you, that India is still regarded as a land of snake charmers and Tantriks.
Please give us a break, reserve you loud mouth and black magic to the boundaries of Yoga, and stick to the Aaj Taks and India TVs for exercising your PR skills . You have invaded enough souls, let the others rest in peace.
That’s swesome man!!!!
Seems like ur love for swamiji has no boundaries…
Forrestation Drive!!!
:D:D:D:D:D …..Crazy n Superb Thoughts… 
Jai (Gay) Ho!!!!!!!!!!!
Hey that’s so nicely written. My mom had asked me and rather forced me to do the kapalbhatis and anulom viloms. I agree they are useful but after his skewed gay views, i have totally stopped any form of yoga. And yyou have put it so nicely in words.
lol….
total post-mortem of the prevailing bullshit…
well expressed opinion on(ridicule for) Mahesh Bhatt , India TV, Aaj Tak, Ramdev…. all wrapped in one explosive post
and I lyk the ending…
I say why dont u try poetry as well… (if u havent tried yet that is)
The author whosoever has written is sick and needs to understand and interpret Baba Ramdev’s Message and his opinion about Gay an unnatural behaviour,unaccepted by the social norms which have evolved and reformed over a period of time. In Baba ramdev’s interpretation and any rationalists interpretation for that matter, a behaviour which reflects a gross deviation from the natural behaviour wiil be close to or akin to a phenomenon of disease.
Baba Ramdev has not invented Yoga nor claims that he is a Godman. He only emphasises the fundamental principal of existence of all beings i.e the breathing,working on the Oxygen (Prana) which is the most abused and most taken for granted.
As a student of yoga and a teacher and practitioner of its sister science, ayurveda, I am hesitant to level criticism at anyone, much less pass judgement on another. In this instance, I must make an exception.
Swami Ramdev’s actions have nothing to do with yoga or healing nor with the sanatana dharma (the eternal truth). His attempts to bring the sanctions of the criminal law against the life choices of others categorize him as an enemy of freedom and truth, willing for the sake of egotism to sacrifice the happiness and well being of millions on the altar of the god of self-aggrandizement.
Some notion of the Swami’s concept of and committment to promoting health might be had from his fraudulent claims of curing AIDS, cancer and – most egregiously – his promotion of a purported ayurvedic “medicine” labelled “Putravati,” supposed to help women to selectively give birth to sons.
Swamiji’s efforts to promote the marginalization of homosexuality and the dispossession of gay and lesbian people of their human rights may well win applause in the homophobic, misogynistic backwaters of the subcontinent’s countless villages. His condemnation of the peaceful methods of Mohandas Gandhi and the utility of non-violence in gaining India’s independence bloodlessly may play well to the right-wing rump of Indian reactionary politics, but he has revealed himself to a much wider world to be a charlatan and a poseur.
This is no man of God, and his reprehensible conduct is a disgrace to the sannyasin’s robe.
We are thankful to Ramdev.He is great.
this is totally rubbish, any sick mind will write like this,, you saty in peace wherever you are nobody comes to you and force you to rub you hands (you are suppose to rub something else) actually your mind is full of shit which you eed to clear, once you will understand what exactly life karma and the cycle of natural being you will understand the basic difference. Do you know it is only us human who make love to the same sex, i mean gays and lesbian wala love, yes it is a mental disorder and can be cured, be natural behave natural or rub you hands against your own shit.
baba ramdev may be considered as an incarnation of a great soul. he has infused hope and life in millions. let’s not disbelieve but believe in what he says and try to imbibe in our lives. let’s be positive and doing regular pranayam make ourselves free of diseases and lead a healthy and spiritual life.
Good debate.. seemingly comes to an end?? Or Baba has entered a new controversy..
I came across a very interesting post on homosexuality by Ach. Agyaatdarshan here on wordpress itself.
You all may like to have a look and give your views..
http://agyaatdarshan.wordpress.com/2009/07/18/happy-and-gay/
cheers!
Well If you ask me, I have been in the camps of Ramdev, And I think his teachings are great. I’m shocked to see an article like this. As an American, I have difficulty in understanding Hindi. But I brought his DVD in English. And I think he does have something special. This article is embarrassing.