By Shekar Ajekar
Daijiworld Media Network - Udupi (RD/CN)
Karkala, Apr 17: “WHO, UN, WTO, IMF, World Bank, and other such organizations are in the grip of America. The world cannot be reformed by them. Its only Yoga that can reform mankind,” said Yoga Guru Baba Ramdev.
He was addressing a public meeting at Amruta Bharati College grounds, Hebri here on Sunday April 17. The meeting was organized by Karkala taluk Patanjali yoga committee and Bharat Swabhiman.
“The public meeting held in Udupi was an excellent one in the entire south India. At a time when a family finds it difficult to educate their two children, it’s significant to educate thousands of students,” added Baba Ramdev.
“It’s through yoga that an individual, a society, can be reformed to create a new era in mankind. One who practices yoga cannot think evil because his or her mind is conditioned to think good always and is always enlightened,” he said.
“True growth is one wherein one individual need not die of hunger in disgrace”, he added and stunned the gathering with the statistics of Indians dying of hunger.
Baba Ramdev further said that India was self-reliant and colonial rulers had enslaved them. He took an oath to shun products of foreign origin.
Baba Ramdev expressed interest in opening a Patanjali Health Centre here as 2,000 centres are functioning across the country.
Organizing committee honorary president H Satish Pai, Vadiraj Shetty, Rajendra Chakkera, Vasant Shetty Chara, H Gurudas Shenoy, Dr Vasant Sarang, Dr Ravindra Hegde, Nithyanand Pai, Pramod Chandra Pai, and H Ramakrishna Acharya were present on the occasion.
Baba Ramdev also released a yoga CD during the programme. Thousands of people from across the taluk attended the religious discourse by Baba Ramdev.
Divya Dinesh Mallya held a live demonstration of yoga postures.