Left must apologise on Swami Ramdev issue - Pioneer Editorial.

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Left must apologise

The Pioneer Edit Desk

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Readers would easily recall that the New Year began with an unholy diatribe

launched by Communist Party of India (Marxist) member of the Rajya Sabha, Ms

Brinda Karat, against one of the most revered yoga and ayurveda experts of

contemporary India, Acharya Ram Dev, in which she accused his enterprise, Divya

Yoga Pharmacy, of adulterating medical prescriptions with human and animal

bones. For weeks thereafter, the Left-led chorus degenerated into calumny and

worse, all of which was geared towards a single objective: To run the indigenous

science of ayurveda and yoga down, and to proclaim its exponents and

practitioners as a bunch of ill-informed, unscientific right-wing reactionaries.

 

There was another subtext as well: If you want to guard your health, steer

clear of such " charlatans " . Not surprisingly, there were clashes between Left

cadres and the followers of Acharya Ram Dev and the entire country erupted in

protests since the people felt the Communists had affronted their belief in the

time-honoured tradition of ayurveda. It must, therefore, have been to the

considerable chagrin and embarrassment of the Leftists that, far from witnessing

a swelling of their ranks in their charge against the indigenous system of

medicine as they might have expected, even the Central Government that depends

on their support for survival, thought it fit to call their bluff by insisting

that Acharya Ram Dev's ashram conformed to good laboratory practices. Now, test

results at the Delhi-based Sri Ram Institute of Industrial Research as well as

Uttaranchal Government recognised institute at Hardwar have established the

point beyond all contention: There is no trace of animal or

human parts in the ayurvedic medicines manufactured by the Divya Yoga Pharmacy.

This leaves no room for doubt that Ms Karat and her party were seeking to gain

propaganda points against what they perceive as their true class enemy: The

Hindu faith. Their attempt to turn India's millions to the Left's one true

secular god, Karl Marx, has thus fallen flat on its face and Ms Karat and her

comrades would do well to apologise to Acharya Ram Dev whose reputation they had

assiduously sought to tarnish.

 

It has, since the controversy broke out, transpired that Ms Karat was misled

by a handful of disgruntled workers at Divya Yoga Pharmacy, Hardwar, who had

been handed " pink slips " . How far was it justified on her part to indulge in

character assassination of the Acharya based on nothing but cockamamie peddled

by axed employees of the pharmacy? Indeed, the Left's infantile jibes at Acharya

Ram Dev were symptomatic of deracinated self-proclaimed intellectuals who see

nothing right in their own, living tradition and seek, instead, to graft their

violent and constitutionally unstable credo - that is itself a product of

deep-rooted arrogance laced with cynicism - into a historically stable society.

Not surprisingly, the Indian Left has never been able to spread its wings beyond

two or three States. To the vast masses across the subcontinent-sized India, it

is the Communist ideology that smacks of an adulteration of the disagreeable

kind.

 

 

 

" Our ideal is not the spirituality that withdraws from life but the conquest

of life by the power of the spirit. " - Aurobindo.

 

 

 

 

 

 

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