So earlier, I had praised and had become a fan of Ramdev due to his mission of trying to spread yoga to the masses as a preventive measure to lead a healthy life. Ramdev however was in the news recently trying to file a petition against the HC judgement benefiting gay rights.
I do not like this. I believe Ramdev should not interfere. Homosexuality is part of life and has existed for centuries. What 2 people do in their private life and time should be of no concern to any one and anybody!
People who need to be censored are political goondas, people who encourage violence and criminals and rapists. Love is love, whether between a man and a woman or man and a man or a woman and a woman and that my friends is that!
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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.
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