From doing child labour to becoming multi-millionaire, make way for high-performing personality Bhawarlal Arya

He is the one who stamped a prominent name for him in a Non-Hindi region in Karnataka and emerged even as a compassionate soul working for people around the nation.

It is necessary to put more light on the successes and journeys of a few people who, in more ways than one, go ahead in inspiring the world. Bhawarlal Arya is one such name. He was born in 1969 and started his journey as a child labour, but he went ahead in becoming a multi-millionaire. Today, most importantly, he is a compassionate soul and a high-performing personality across the nation. Since he came from a lower-income family group, his father helped him migrate to Karnataka to start work as a 12-year-old, where he did odd jobs to help his family financially. His honesty and smartness enabled him to work at a store owned by the boss under whom he did odd jobs. People from the Rashtriya Swayam Sewak Sangh would often visit this store, and hence later, Bhawarlal Arya started visiting their branches and working for them, which was disliked by his boss.

However, Bhawarlal Arya then left his job for a 22-days camp, which was organized by the Sangh. The camp changed many things in him, where he learned about India's revolutionaries like Bhagat Singh and Veer Savarkar. Outside the camp, he started working at a wholesale store in Bengaluru. Gradually he learned the Kannada language. Later, he started working in Kalyanpur under a businessman. For nine years, he understood the "ins and outs" of doing business, built great relations with the locals and better learned the Kannada language; he started his own business with an investment of a mere 30K. He struggled day and night in the textile industry and gradually grew his business. In 1990, he bought his own store and, with the help of his younger brother, built "Janta Textile."

A certain meeting with a man named Chunnilal Arya, who gave him the book "Satyarth Prakash," written by Swami Dayanand, changed many things for him, and he turned toward social work as well. He then passed on the business to his brothers and focused on social welfare work. This led him to get associated with several non-profit organizations. He worked relentlessly for people while he suffered from chronic asthma. Amidst this, he came to know about "Yoga Shikshak Shivir," a yoga teacher camp by Patanjali in Haridwar and struggled to be a part of the same. He dove deep into the world of Yoga, and that's when he decided to pass on the knowledge of Yoga among others to serve people and communities.

On the other hand, Janta Textile kept on growing as a brand. In 2008, Bhawarlal Arya managed the whole Yoga camp of Swami Ramdev in Hospet, Karnataka, where he kept travelling to each village and organized Yoga camps for them while also training other people to turn into workers and representatives. This helped Bhawarlal Arya become a dear student of Swami Ramdev, who made his name prominent in a Non-Hindi region. After that, Bhawarlal was made in charge of Patanjali Yoga Samiti and Bharat Swabhiman while also becoming a translator for Swamiji's teachings in Karnataka from Hindi to Kannada. Since then, he has become a part of many initiatives by Swamiji.

Later, the Kingdom of Bahrain, an NRI group, invited Bhawarlal to a Yoga camp. Besides that, he even did a camp in Thailand. So far, in the world of Yoga, he has taught over 10 lakh people, and more than 1100 people have organized Yoga camps. From 2005 to 2020, he road-travelled 10 lakh km by motorcycle and car. He has even inspired people to do blood donations, and himself has done blood donations 57 times until now.

His incredible works have earned him several prestigious awards and accolades, like Vijay Ratna Award from VRL Media's #1 Kannada Dainik Vijayvaani. He also earned the Karnataka Rajya Utsav award, Yoga Bhaskar award from Siddharudh Math, Yoga Ratna award from Sanskar Bharti, and Sewa Ratna award from Sangeet Bharti, to name a few. For his immense contribution to the world of Yoga, Swami Ramdev announced at the convocation ceremony of Patanjali University that Bhawarlal Arya would be honored by the President as an honorary doctorate.

Even today, Bhawarlal Arya helps students with scholarships and helps them pay their fees. He helps people start their businesses. In his father's memory, opposite Jodhpur AIIMS Hospital, he even cooperated in building a hall for patients to stay in Arogya Bhawan.

Bhawarlal Arya is a people's man and wants other youngsters and people around the world to understand how a life that is lived for others is a life worthwhile. People should put in rigorous efforts towards the betterment of others and spread the good among them, he says.