Baba Ramdev mesmerises Bihar Legislators through Yoga

Patna, Mar 21: Instead of engaging themselves in the endless political debates and also speculations, Bihar's Legislators today participated in a special yoga camp of Baba Ramdev at the state Legislative Council.

Exhorting the Legislators to be cautious about their health, Baba Ramdev advised them to practise yoga, be healthy and work for the development of Bihar.

He said several diseases, including cancer, parkinson, diabetes, and kidney disorder, could be successfully cured through Pranayam and practising different steps of the yoga.

Listening to the instructions of yoga guru in rapt attention, Baba Ramdev offered yoga tips to the Legislators and also demonstrated different steps by practising himself before the Legislators.

'' Intake of glucose and sweet food stuffs are not the reasons behind the diabetes instead stressful life lead to diabetes, '' he added. Baba also gave yoga tips to remain free from stress.

'' Balance in every function is the name of real life, '' said Baba Ramdev. He said excess of anything must be avoided in every arena of life, adding, '' even extra haemoglobin in human body is the symptom of disease. '' The yoga guru reiterated that through Pranayam people could become strong enough to fight the criminal elements. He said none needed to leave Bihar but the people gaining strength from yoga should scare away the criminals from the state.

During interaction, some Legislators accepted that they got much needed relief from different ailments, while others expressed their happiness in controlling their flab through yoga.

Continuing with his tirade against cold drinks, tea and double bread, Baba advised the Legislators to keep themselves away from these foodstuffs. He said cold drinks and tea were responsible for many ailment afflicting the peole. Expressing concern over the excess use of fertilisers in an attempt to boost the production of foodgrains, he said parts of these fertiliser were consumed by the people as their contents remained in the agricultural produce. Giving statistics on the scenario, Baba informed that on an average everybody was consuming 20 kg of fertilisers giving chance of different ailments affecting the people.

'' Always try to live in present, '' Baba said adding people spend ninety per cent of their time by either thinking about their past or about the future. He said this kind of approach was responsible for various kind of diseases and miseries.

In an indirect reference to recent visit of US president George Bush to India, Baba said the day would come when the whole world would have to follow and toe the line of India if people believed in their ancient culture and practice and yoga and Pranayam, which would ultimately bring prosperity and make the nation strong.

The Yoga guru expressed happiness over Chief Minister Nitish Kumar's announcement about introducing yoga in school curriculum. He also offered to open branch of Patanjli yoga pith in Bihar if the state governent and Opposition parties supported his proposal.

UNI