आज राष्ट्र के समग्र विकास के लिए आवश्यक है ’आत्मनिर्भर’होना। यह शब्द आजकल बहुत ही अधिक विमर्श के केन्द्र में है। स्वाभाविक रूप से हमें सर्वप्रथम यह समझना होगा कि ‘आत्मनिर्भर’ का अर्थ क्या है? आत्मनिर्भरता न तो आत्मरति है न ही आत्ममुग्धता। इसका आशय आत्मसंकीर्णता या आत्म सीमितता से बिलकुल नहीं है। जहां तक मैं समझता हूँ कि इसका अर्थ है आत्माभिमुख विस्तार अर्थात् नाभिक स्थिर रखते हुए समूह सापेक्ष अनुशासित गत्यात्मक अस्तित्व ।

हम ब्रह्माण्डीय ग्रहों, नक्षत्रों के सौरमण्डल के अस्तित्व के उदाहरण से इसे समझ सकते हैं। सौरमण्डल में समस्त ग्रह एक नियत कक्षा में नियत गति से गतिशील रहते हुए पारस्परिकता के आकर्षण/विकर्षण से अस्तित्ववान् हैं परन्तु उनकी अपनी कक्षा की नाभिकीय/धुरी/एक्सिस कभी भी विस्थापित नहीं होती है। वे सभी ग्रह स्वयं में और समष्टि में अर्थात् दोनों में अस्तित्ववान् हैं। समष्टिगत अस्तित्व एवं व्यष्टिगत अस्तित्व एक दूसरे के पूर्णत: पूरक हैं, कोई विरोधाभास नहीं है। यही अवधारणा परिवार, समाज और बृहन्तर संदर्भ में राष्ट्र पर लागू होती है। भारत राष्ट्र के संदर्भ में यदि हम आत्मनिर्भरता एक वाक्य में कहें तो ‘वैश्विक नागरिक होने की दक्षता भारतीय दृष्टिकोण के साथ। इसको यदि हम विस्तार से विश्लेषित करें तो अनेक घटक आत्मनिर्भरता के हैं जिनमें अपनी मौलिकता को बिना विखण्डित किए सर्वसमावेशी होने का संकल्प होना चाहिए।

प्रथमत: विचार की आत्मनिर्भरता क्यूँकि विचार ही क्रियाशीलता का प्रेरक दिशाबोधक एवं परिमापक है। विचार का निमार्ण हमें अपनी संस्कृति के गर्भ से होना चाहिए। इस भू-भाग पर ऐतिहासिक काल-क्रम में जो हमारे पूर्वजों द्वारा जिन दार्शनिक तत्व-ज्ञान का उद्घोष हुआ और जिसके आधार पर हमारे सांस्कृतिक बोध की संपूर्ण शाश्वत यात्रा गतिमान है, उसकी पीठिका पर समसामयिक आवश्यकताओं के अनुरूप परिवर्द्धन परिमार्जन एवं परिष्करण करते हुए जो युग-धर्म की अनुभूति हो उस पर चलकर ही हम समग्र विकास की नींव रख सकते हैं। कुछेक मूल बिन्दु जो अन्य भौगोलिक सांस्कृतिक क्षेत्रों के मूल्य से भारतीय विचार एवं संस्कृति को भिन्न उत्कृष्ट धरातल पर ले जाते हैं उसमें प्रमुख है अभ्युदय एवं नि:श्रेयस का समन्वय अर्थात् अध्यात्मिक एवं भौतिक समृद्धि का संतुलन एवं एकात्म होना। हमारी संस्कृति में समस्त गतिविधियों के केन्द्र में ‘अध्यात्म’रहा है। भौतिक समृद्धि हो परन्तु शास्त्र-सम्मत् ढंग से अर्जित हो और उसका उद्देश्य/उपयोगिता परमार्थ हो। दूसरी प्रमुख विशेषता है वैचारिक विविधता एवं विमर्श की परम्परा को सम्मान। साथ ही प्रत्येक ब्रह्माण्डीय घटकों में समानता का बोध मूल तत्व-ज्ञान है। सुख-दुख में समत्व का भाव भी हमारे सांस्कृतिक मूल्यों की विशेषता है। निष्काम कर्म जो लोकसंग्रह भाव से आप्लावित हो और सिद्धि-असिद्धि में समान भाव रखते हुए कौशल पूर्ण कार्य-संपादन की अनवरत प्रेरणा देता हो। हमारी संस्कृति अभिमान नहीं बल्कि दिव्यतापूर्ण उदान्तता की समर्थक है। हमारे चिंतन में गहराई एवं विस्तार दोनों का समन्वय हो। हमारी संस्कृति यह प्रेरणा देती है कि जीवन में संघर्षों से पलायन कभी नहीं करना चाहिए बल्कि उससे अखण्ड पुरुषार्थ के साथ जूझने के सामथ्र्य सहित द्वन्द्वात्मकता से परे गत्यात्मक शान्ति को लक्ष्य मानना चाहिए। हमारी संस्कृति शान्ति का उद्घोष करती है परन्तु यहाँ शान्ति जड़त्व नहीं है, स्थूलमूलक प्रमादगत आलस्य जनित पलायन नहीं बल्कि अनासक्त सनातन गतिशीलता एवं कार्यशीलता से प्राप्त होती है। भारतीय दर्शन एवं चिंतन परंपरा भावुकता नहीं बल्कि बौद्धिकता के साथ-साथ भावात्मक सदृढता की अनन्य पोषक है। हमारा विश्वास है कि जीवन के हर क्षेत्र में तेजस्विता हो परन्तु सौम्यता के साथ हो। हमारी संस्कृति में परा एवं अपरा विद्या का अद्भुत संतुलन है। भौतिकता का आध्यात्मिकता से आप्लावन मूल तत्व है। भारतीय संस्कृति में आध्यात्मिकता का व्यवहार्य अर्थ है ब्रह्माण्डीय नागरिक/इकाई बनने एवं एकात्म होने का अनुभूतिगत सामथ्र्य और मानवीय मूल्यों की दिव्यता, उत्कृष्टता एवं अंतिम अभिधेय है। जीवन-कौशल, दक्षता एवं कला के साथ-साथ सामूहिकता का भाव, सहकार, करुणा, सौहार्द एवं आत्मवत् सर्वभूतेशु की अनुभूति एवं व्यवहारगत अभिव्यक्ति हमारी संस्कृति का पाथेय है।

ओ३म् सं गच्छध्वं संवदध्वं संवो मनांसि जानताम्।

देवा:भागं यथा पूर्वे संजानानाम् उपासते।।

समस्त आधुनिक मूल्यों एवं विश्व की समस्त चिंतन परम्पराओं के उत्कृष्ट मूल्यों के समुच्चय का बीज तत्व एवं विस्तार दोनों भारतीय दृष्टिकोण में अंतर्भूत है। आवश्यकता है कि काल के साथ उसमें आई क्रियान्वयन पक्ष की विकृतियों का परिष्करण, परिमार्जन एवं परिवर्द्धन - मूल नाभिकीय भावना को बिना विखण्डित किए हुए।

आज अनेक कारणों से हमारी वैचारिक नाभि का केन्द्र खिसक गया है। कोई भी राष्ट्र अपनी सांस्कृतिक यात्रा से कटकर मौलिक रूप से सशक्त नहीं हो सकता। देशकाल के अनुरूप उसमें परिमार्जन संभव है। स्वीकृति/अस्वीकृति/परिवर्तन भी पूर्णता में विश्लेषित एवं व्याश्यायित करने के बाद ही होना चाहिए न कि अज्ञान और तत्वहीन अन्धानुकरण में।

आज पूरी दुनिया में स्वतंत्रता (Liberty) समानता (Equality) एवं भ्रातृत्व (Fraternity) की आधुनिक मानवीय मूल्यों के रूप में बहुत ही महनीयता से चर्चा होती है। इन सभी का अधिक गहराई सघनता और विस्तार लिए हुए भाव हमारे वेदों, उपनिषदों एवं दर्शनों में अनुस्यूत है। हमारे दर्शन में न तो पश्चिम उदारवादी लोकतंत्र की तरह व्यक्तिगत स्वतंत्रता की अतिवादिता है और न ही साम्यवादी धारणा के अनुरूप सामूहिकता की आंधी में व्यक्तिगत संभावनाओं का नाश ही है बल्कि एक अद्भुत समन्वय है ‘व्यक्तिगत एवं समष्टिगत’मूल्य-बोध में। हमारी संस्कृति मूल स्वभाव में रहते हुए गुण-धर्म के अनुरूप अनासक्त होकर कर्मशीलता में ही मोक्ष (Liberatiion) प्राप्ति का उद्घोष करती है। जब हमारी शक्ति-सामर्थ्य से स्वत: स्फूर्ति लोक कल्याण प्रवहमान हो तभी हम मोक्ष (Liberation) की पात्रता रखते हैं। लोकसंग्रह का भाव - सामूहिकता का भाव बाह्य दबावों द्वारा थोपे जाने पर नहीं बल्कि भीतर से दिव्यता - विभूति विकसित करने से उद्भुत हो, इसकी पूरी निष्ठा से हमारा दृष्टिकोण वकालत करता है ।

आज के परिप्रेक्ष्य में हम शिक्षा, स्वास्थ, कृषि, उद्योग, भाषा, सामाजिक-राजनैतिक दर्शन एवं पर्यावरण प्रबंधन के क्षेत्र का भारतीय दृष्टिकोण से, जो हमारी ऋषि ज्ञान परंपरा से सनातन प्रवहमान है, आकलित करें तो भारत तो आत्मनिर्भर होगा ही साथ ही पूरे विश्व को विकृति से परे मूल प्रकृति में रहकर सर्वसमावेशी आत्मनिर्भरता का संदेश देगा।

शिक्षा के क्षेत्र में जो भी वर्तमान चिंतन पूरी दुनिया में है कि शिक्षा अवधारणात्मक समझ, भावात्मक एवं बौद्धिक विकास, समावेशी, जीवन-कौशल से जुड़ी, विश्लेषणात्मक, शोधात्मक एवं जिज्ञासु प्रवृति में वृद्धिकारक तथा सहपाठी विमर्श एवं मूल्यांकन पर आधारित होनी चाहिए एवं अपनी समूची सांस्कृतिक सावयव की विकास यात्रा से नाभिनालबद्ध होनी चाहिए। ये सारे महत्वपूर्ण घटक हमारी प्राचीन गुरुकुल परंपरा की शिक्षा पद्धति के अंश रहे हैं।

इसी प्रकार स्वास्थ्य क्षेत्र में रोग उपचार नहीं बल्कि संपूर्ण मानव सावयव (Human organism) के स्वास्थ्य-संरक्षण का बीज तत्व में हमारे प्राचीन दृष्टिकोण योग, आयुर्वेद, यज्ञ एवं प्राकृतिक चिकित्सा में रहा है। हमारे ऋषियों ने स्वस्थ होने का मानक रखा है ‘स्वयं में अवस्थित होना। मनुष्य सावयव के पंचकोशों (अन्नमय, प्राणमय, मनोमय, विज्ञानमय, एवं आनन्दमय) का परिष्करण आवश्यक है तभी हम विकृति रहित मूल गुण-धर्म युक्त प्रकृति में रहकर स्वस्थ रह सकते हैं। अपनी इस परंपरा से हटने के कारण ही हम शरीर के लक्षण आधारित उपचार की विधियों से जुडक़र अनेक विकृतियों एवं शोषण के शिकार हो गए हैं।

इसी प्रकार कृषि क्षेत्र में हम जैविक खेती से हटकर रासायनिक कृषि से जुडक़र जहां आहार के माध्यम से अनेक रोगों को निमंत्रण दे रहे हैं, वहीं मिट्टी, जल, वायु आदि पर्यावरणीय घटकों को भी प्रदूषित एवं मृतप्राय कर रहे हैं। उद्योग के क्षेत्र में भी हम स्वयं के भौगोलिक क्षेत्र के कच्चा माल एवं उससे जुड़ी तकनीकी से हटकर बाजार आधारित पूंजीवाद में उलझ गए हैं जिसने हमें आर्थिक, सामाजिक एवं सांस्कृतिक रूप से बहुराष्ट्रीय कंपनियों के मुनाफावाद का गुलाम बना दिया है। हम अपने शिल्प-ज्ञान को पिछड़ा मानकर आर्थिक रूप से एवं मूल आजीविका के क्षेत्र में भी पिछड़ गए हैं।

पर्यावरण प्रबंधन तो हमारी संस्कृति की आत्मा रही है। प्रकृति की समस्त जीवनदायिनी शक्तियों के प्रति श्रद्धा भाव हमारी जीवनशैली रही है। शास्त्रों में पर्यावरण से उतना ही प्राप्त करने का संदेश रहा है जितना न्यूनतम जिजीविशा के लिए आवश्यक हो। साथ ही प्रकृति के सभी अवयव हमारे लिए भोग्या नहीं आराध्या रहे हैं। हमारे वैदिक ज्ञान प्रकृति के समस्त घटकों में परस्पर सौहार्द एवं शान्ति के प्रबल समर्थक एवं श्रद्धापूर्ण विश्वास करने वाले रहे हैं।

ओ३म् द्यौ: शान्तिरन्तरिक्षँ शान्ति:,

पृथ्वी शान्तिराप: शान्तिरोषधय: शान्ति:।

वनस्तय: शान्तिर्विश्रे देवा: शान्तिब्र्रह्म शान्ति:,

सर्वं शान्ति:, शान्तिरेव शान्ति:, सा मा शान्तिरेधि।।

ओ३म् शान्ति: शान्ति: शान्ति:

भाषा किसी संस्कृति को अभिव्यक्त करने का प्राणतत्व है। जो राष्ट्र अपनी प्राचीन भाषा से कटता है वह अपनी समूची ज्ञान-यात्रा से वंचित हो जाता है। इसलिए उनका विकास सावयव (Organic) नहीं हो सकता है बल्कि आयातित एवं कृत्रिम ही होगा। अन्य भाषाओं का ज्ञान आवश्यक है परन्तु भाषा-ज्ञान का मूल मार्ग अपनी भाषा के सापेक्ष ही विकसित होना चाहिए ।

पूज्य स्वामी योगऋषि स्वामी रामदेव जी ने पूज्य आचार्य बालकृष्ण के सहयोग से उपरोक्त सभी क्षेत्रों में भारत राष्ट्र को आत्मनिर्भर बनाने के लिए योग, आयुर्वेद एवम् स्वदेशी उत्पादों के क्षेत्र में अद्भुत कार्य विगत तीन दशकों में किया है । अब पूज्य स्वामी जी ने यह संकल्प लिया है कि इन सभी अवधारणाओं एवं मूल्य बोध के साथ शिशु को प्रारम्भ से ही गढऩा होगा। शिशु की भाव चेतना का अंकुरण एवं विकास भारत की प्राचीन ज्ञान परंपरा से आप्लावित हो और उसका व्यक्तित्व पुरातन एवं नूतन का समन्वय हो। उसमें आधुनिक विज्ञान की पूर्ण समझ हो, तकनीक में दक्षता हो परन्तु दृष्टिकोण भारतीय सांस्कृतिक तत्व-ज्ञान से अभिसिंचित हो। भारतीय शिक्षा बोर्ड पूज्य स्वामी जी के इसी संकल्प को उनके अखण्ड पुरुषार्थ से ऊर्जान्वित होकर पूर्ण करने के सशक्त माध्यम के रूप में स्वरूप ग्रहण कर रहा है। आने वाला समय एक स्वस्थ सशक्त समृद्ध प्रज्ञायुक्त एवं आत्मनिर्भर भारत का होगा और भारतीय दृष्टिकोण की मानव जीवन-शैली ही विश्व-मानव-समुदाय का रक्षा-कवच प्रमाणित होगी।

Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi once again appealed to the countrymen to make India self-reliant. All of us know that till August 15, 1947, entire India including Pakistan, Bangladesh, Afghanistan and Iran was not only self-reliant but also a donner country. The meaning of bharat is known to all. ‘Bha’ means the country Bharat engaging in the sadhana of light. Apart from it, Bharat is capable of fostering all the human being. Rishi Vashishth has defined the meaning of the word ‘Bharat’ in the Ramcharitmanas written by Goswami Tulsidas—‘Vishva bharan poshan kar joi I Takar nam Bharat as hoi’ II  It means that the country which is capable of fostering the entire world is called Bharat. Because, Bharat itself means to foster everybody. In this meaning, Manu who is the root cause of entire human being has been called Bharat and the state ruled by him has been known as Bharat. Therefore, India has not only been self-reliant but has also been fostering the human being. The land with structure and natural beauty has always been ladened with food grain, flowers, plants, trees, forests, fruits, etc. That’s why, it has always been rearing others. The people who inherited power from the British devised whatever policies and rules of export-import, paved the way for others to loot money and resources. To hide this policy, wrong message was spread that India depends on Europe and US for food grains, medicine, industry and technology. For this, the form of industrial production was made as such that it has been called raw material. It was made available for selling in the market through processing. It was later known as production. The government made market for consumption through advertisement and facilities and concession. The idea of this production emanated from Europe. For this, traditional production was advertised at low level. Therefore, India was forced to purchase produces at skyrocketed prices to make Europe, Russia and America prosper. This process was called self-reliant. Therefore, dependency on others was defined as self-reliance. Later, the government started to spread message that India depends on others for important modern productions and industries.

It's the matter of satisfaction and happiness that Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi has taken pledge to change the situation and appealed to make self-reliant India. For this, he highlighted the importance of indigenous products and requested the people to adopt them. He appealed to the people to make ‘local’ to ‘vocal’. Because, the people are grappled with the word dominance on others. Therefore, they are enamored with foreign gospel.

In other words, the Prime Minister’s appeal will help indigenous producers and indigenous industry prosper. The people have no option but to depend on others due to wrong government policies. He also appealed to the people to adopt ‘make in India’. It’s policy step. Clearly, system of Divya Pharmacy has played an important role in providing edible items, medicines, cosmetics, etc to make the country self-reliant and developed. Whatever movements are going on in the country, are being run by saints, great personalities and top businessmen who are the very basis of self-reliant India. It’s a matter of debate that what will be the shape and the role of state in the self-reliant India? The national atmosphere arising out of mighty revolutionaries and great patriots made an impact that the people who had inherited power from the Britishers had no option but to declare states of India as ‘total sovereign democratic republic’ despite making ‘India Act 135’. They had to declare people of India as the decision makers and controllers. This was the result of hard works of revolutionaries and religious patriots. Therefore, the people of India prevailed in the constitution consisting of various foreign elements. Therefore, the regime of India was declared as representative institution. It’s another matter that archaic British judicial system prevails on our judiciary. This shackle will be broken once the people of India withdraw their nod.

In other words, our constitution makers gifted a unique constitution. But it seems that socialist faction of Congress was uncomfortable to this constitution. That’s why, they decided to make people of India  orderly and subordinate to state of India and amended the constitution. Most of the amendments were against the basic structure of the constitution. Therefore, the fundamental right of property was deleted from the constitution. They termed this amendment as necessary for welfare programme. Similarly, the constitution makers made arrangement in the Article 17 to intact Article 14-16. So that no community of India can be disrespected. Smt Indira Gandhi had amended it in 1976 to limit it only to particular communities. The people were free to disrespect to majoritarian class. Untouchability to a particular community was termed as an offence. This was against the basic structure of the constitution.

Similarly, in the emergency, the Indian states were declared as followers of a particular tenet. Therefore, their sovereignty was disintegrated. They were made poor followers of foreign tenets. But at the same time, they did it so cleverly that they started to appear attractive. The people must not cling to a particular tenet so that the states can represent them. But during emergency, the Indian states were declared as the states ruled by particular tenet. It is a matter of debate.

The Indian constitution believes that the Indian states are the representatives of people. Therefore, representatives elected by the people are called representatives. No particular adjective was given to them. Representatives are called representatives in the democratic set up inspired by Western Europe and USA. All the political parties deem themselves as representatives of their societies. In contrary, Soviet Union and its ideological imperialism Communist China have only party system to rule the nation. That political party declares to transform entire society and nation as per plans of their party workers. For this, they depend on political ideologue which prevails on the common society. It’s called ‘ideology’ which is nothing but an expansion of ‘theology’ means Christian panthvidya. Both the theology and ideology are tools to control society.

Being the staunch disciple of Stalin, Shri Jawaharlal Nehru started to make political parties as ideological. He succeeded in it and all the main political parties became political ideologue. Therefore, they became the representatives of few ideologies instead of people. Clearly, all these thoughts are unnatural which makes common people as subordinates to few ones. Nehru devised Stalin’s plans in the country. All the main political groups became ideologue due to Congress monopoly on education and communication system. They started to feel pride for becoming representatives of foreign thoughts. Therefore, the constitution declares states as the representatives of Indian people, whereas the political party terms itself as emancipator of the people.

It was an odd situation. In India, uddhar means emancipation of soul from slavery of mind and sense organs, accumulation of materials and longing for immoral enjoyment. Therefore, emancipation of only mean people was discussed. But since 1947, the Indian politicians started calling competition among the people over accumulation and longing emancipation. For this, a large number of people became subordinate to the chief leader. The internal competition among them was being termed as politics. It’s totally different from the representative politics as enshrined in the Indian constitution. Turning representatives into emancipators is nothing but making master into slave. Such type of politics has been in the practice in the country for the last 73 years. The political leaders don’t consider themselves as representatives of the society. They consider them as the representatives of such ideology which will emancipate the entire society. Therefore, it seems that the entire society is mean and the leaders are its emancipators. It’s totally contrary to the constitution. Therefore, the politics gets influenced by foreign ideologies.

The politics of self-reliant India will be according to the basic structure of the constitution. The elected leaders will be representatives of India in true meaning. They consider themselves neither emancipator nor servant. Because declaring someone as servant is nothing but politics of becoming master. The people of India require no servants. They need the representatives who can protect sanatan religion, sanatan culture, sanatan knowledge tradition, study, valour, prosperity of Indian tradition. 

Our Respected Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi Jee has appealed to the countrymen to become self-reliant and taken many decisions for economic self-reliance. This subject needs to be pondered over. There is a need for desired consciousness in the country in this regard.

The subject of self-reliant makes it clear that so far, we have been depending on others. Emancipation from dependence on abroad in some fields is being discussed. But this dependence exists for long time. Till August 15, 1947, we were self-reliant. Because, when the British used to rule half of India, then they used to make less contribution in trade. It has been said in the British record. They used to purchase our items at Rs one and sell their items at Rs 10. They used to misuse the administration. Despite, when they left the country on August 15, 1947, England incurred heavy loan to India. Clearly, we were not only self-reliant but also donor. We have always been donor. We made no effort to evaluate angus medicine data. Although the data has been presented to hide the truth of India. Despite, it shows that India has always been prosperous and donor country. 

Till 1860, India has been importer of pure gold. In a report published in Royal Statistical Society of London in 1856, it has been said that trade balance has been tilting towards India for the last 20 years. The foreign traders are compelled to give golden coins in exchange to India. The quantity of gold increases in the country. Trade and industry of India are so strong that all the foreign traders are not in a position to give their materials while purchasing Indian items. They have to give gold coins. Therefore, gold coins start to pour in India.

The corrupt officials of East India Company had been depositing Indian property to the foreign banks since 18th century as the Congress favored people during Congress regime used to deposit money in the Swiss Banks. Despite this, Britain incurred loan to India on August 15, 1947. There was strong demand of Indian clothes in the entire world including entire Europe, Arab region, Turkey empire and Western Africa. Angus Medicine himself has written it that till the beginning of 18th century, India’s GDP was unparallel in the world. What type of that India was? This India didn’t belong to August 15, 1947. This India belonged to neither August 14, 1947 nor 1922. This was the same India spanning from Iran and Afghanistan to Tibet and Indian ocean. This entire India has always been the most prosperous in the world since time immemorial. India has been self-reliant as well as donor for needy countries. India has the capacity to foster other countries.

Greece was considered as the part of Europe for the first time in 19th century to hide its meanness. It was habitat like frog near Aegean Sea (small part of Mediterranean Sea). Plato himself said that ‘Greek colonies are spread near Aegean Sea as ants and frogs near the pond’. In the first chapter of his book ‘The Geography Behind History published by Norton and Company from New York of USA in 1999, William Gordon East has cited this example. It mentions that even today, the people of US and Britain still remember it. But here in India, the people continue to chant pride of Alexander the great.
In fact, Europe’s historical background is about 1500 years. Earlier, there was forest and marshy in this region. Due to its geo structure and climate, European region has always been poor. For the first time in 20th century, the European people succeeded in arranging food stuff and clothes. It’s another matter that they have great emperors like Alexander and Napoleon. In 20th century, Queen Victoria became famous for her extramarital relationship with Mr Brown. Later, a film was made on their story. She was depicted as ‘Mrs Brown’. Watching the film, anybody can know that her status was not more than that of wife of a common landlord in India which can’t become self-reliant by imitating political ideologies of such kings and queens. Because there have been great emperors and queens here during prosperous periods. If we write their names, it will become a book. Therefore, it’s the need of hour to clarify that self-reliance means whether economical self-reliance or political, cultural. Spiritual and religious self-reliance. But if we focus on economic self-reliant, then we will have to remember that it’s not related to merely production. India has been self-reliant not on the basis of production. Apart from it, processing, conservation, interstate trade, inter-water trade, sea trade, management and coordination of market, means of transport, banking, truth in exchange, better management, safety for customers, peace, security, military security, strong empire, etc are also the inherent part of it.

It should be remembered that the entire India has not only been self-reliant but also prosperous and developed due geo-structure and climate. The divine land has always been capable for fostering others. The God has made it for this very deed. It has a great history. This prosperity has been since time immemorial. According to historical facts, after human development, the European people would use skin of trees and wool of sheep. They had no option but to depend on others due to poor geo structure and climate. Therefore, only lazy people follow the path of Europeans to make India self-reliant. Life of Patanjali Yogpeeth and Pujya Swami Ramdev Jee Maharaj and Pujya Acharya Balkrishna Jee Maharaj shows that they have not only made life of their own and their disciples and followers prosper and healthy but also became capable for providing healthy, pure, clean, and nutritious diets and medicines and cosmetics to the countrymen. The entire movement itself is his duty towards the nation and proof of prosperity, bliss, happiness and development arising out of self-reliant lifestyle.

It’s worth mentioning that we are talking about those self-reliant and prosperity which are not only economical. It is political. As long as the great emperors and queens have been providing shelter to moral of the society, India has been prosperous. Some sin people have been trying hard to distort it. Some people even adopted Islam religion to indulge in looting and devastating. But at the same time, this devastating was nothing in comparison to India’s mammoth prosperity. Because, India has a great history of development and prosperity which has been conserved by a great empire. It’s possible only through great commitment towards high level spiritual consciousness and sanatan religion. Now, many people who consider dharm as religion or majhab have taken birth in India. Truth is eternal. The sanatan religion is the result of universal yam-niyam and strength of sadhana of life value. India became prosper due to it. Patanjali Yogpeeth itself shows sadhana of life full of universal yam-niyam. It plays an important role in bringing prosperity which is entirely different from trade based on looting. Therefore, this trade has grown due to purity of edible items, medicines and cosmetics instead of boasting advertisement.

Sadhana of sanatan religion moves by knowledge of sanatan religious scriptures and life. State, social system, life cycle, trade and economy, etc are prosperous by discipline of sanatan religion. Therefore, chakravarti emperors and kingdoms have been in Indian tradition for thousands of years. That’s why, thousands of years old huge temples exist in India. In Europe, 1500 years old church has only one room. Moreover, the idol of Christ has been installed there recently. Armenia is the first Christian country in the world. There is the oldest church there. It is around 1500-1600 years old church. Priest Gregri has constructed it once in dream he saw that Jesus was putting hammer made of gold on the land. It was a simple house. A sprawling building was constructed there 500 years ago. But this so-called building also looks like the common temples of India. St. Peter Church is 42 ft long and 31 ft width and 23 ft high. Vrideshwar Temple constructed by Rajraj Chol consists of 13 stories. It is 66 meter high. Its top encrypted with gold weighs around 80 tonne. Tungnath Temple and Kedarnath Temple are 5000 years old. Tamil Nadu based Mahabalipuram Temple and Kamur based Mundeshwari Devi Temple are also around 2000 years old. Most of our jyotirlinga are over 2500 years old. Similarly, our forts and buildings exist here in the country. Spreading in 463 acre, Kangra Fort is 2500 years old. Similarly, Chittorgarh Fort is also 5000 years old. The Great Sisodia dynasty has been ruling there for 1300 years. Spreading in 700 acre, the diameter and length of this durg is 13 km and 5 km respectively. There are 7 doors and many sprawling temples in this. Similarly, Aamer Fort, Jaisalmer Fort and Gwalior Fort are also 1100 years, 800 years and 1500 years old. Fort and durg exit neither in England nor in Europe and other regions. There is 500 years old fort made by Usman dynasty. Similarly, Kent city based Davar Casol is 900 years old. It was reconstructed 700 years ago. It’s similar to that of small forts of India.

Similarly, highways and trade routes have been existing in India since time immemorial. In contrary, in European countries, there had been narrow roads. They started constructing highways only 100 years ago.

Everybody knows that most of the countries started wearing cotton clothes as India started exporting them. Around 150 years ago, they started cotton farming. Similarly, Europeans continue to import fruits like mango, banana, papaya, guava, etc. They were unaware of taste of black pepper, olive, hing, ajwain, tejpatta, ginger, ilaichi, etc. They had tasted neither khand nor sugarcane. But with reference to self-reliant and prosperity, talking about economic self-reliant is nothing but intellectual poverty. Sanatan religion and its follower states are the very basis of entire self-reliant and prosperity. Without political self-reliance, all the self-reliance are temporary and political self-reliant is not possible without spiritual consciousness and knowledge and prestige of sanatan religion. 

Positive news started to pour in over corona. I’s hoped that vaccines would be available soon for the people. The corona period has given two lessons to learn. The first lesson is that the people should not lose patience in disastrous and pandemic period and the second lesson is that the nearby things and relatives and friends provide shelter in case of emergency. The entire world has experienced this. Because due to lockdown, everything halted. Multinational companies started neglecting local products and the people left purchasing them at small shopkeepers. That local shopkeepers based at streets and villages came to rescue the people during the emergency. Given that, Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi Jee encouraged the people to change pandemic into opportunity through formula of ‘vocal for local’ and self-reliant India. He aimed at making 135 countrymen self-reliant so that they can move unitedly with the country in case of crisis. In his address, the Prime Minister also discussed the bhakti movement launched before the freedom struggle. He also hoped that the saints, rishis, acharyas must contribute in making India self-reliant as the bhakti movement had contributed in the freedom struggle.

It's said that whatever God does, does for goodness. Generally, we feel it during the incident happening around us. Probably, the God also wanted to do it in the guise of lockdown slapped during the corona pandemic. When the lockdown created new challenges before the people, then it gave an opportunity for the entire family to find a new solution to face them. Some people got disappointed. But at the same time, we have the best solution in the form of bhakti of God and strength behind it to overcome the crisis. The God has dispatched saints and spiritual teachers as his representatives to the land to convince the people about the bhakti and strength. It was impossible for the Prime Minister to forget the strength of bhakti during the pandemic. Probably, that’s why he appealed to the spiritual teachers to hold dialogue with their disciples for making India self-reliant. In fact, bhakti is a well known word in our religious system. This word emanates from ‘bhaj’ dhatu which includes worshiping and prayer of God. It means ‘to serve the people’. That’s why, bhakti movement played an important role in the cultural history of medieval India. It has also been called the silent revolution of that period. In this bhakti movement, many saints, social-religious reformers tried to set up ‘knowledge’, ‘bhakti’ and ‘coordination’ in the society. The bhakti movement had laid the foundation stone of the freedom movement in which the saints and the spiritual teachers played a tremendous role. Highlighting the bhakti movement in the cultural history of medieval India, the Prime Minister appealed to the saints to boost self-reliant India plan. We know that the saints and the spiritual teachers have also been playing an important role in making India self-reliant and giving the country new direction. It was the saints and the spiritual teachers who provided solutions during the crisis. The people felt that Param Shradheya Swami Jee Maharaj and Param Acharya Shri are not less than an incarnation on the sacred land of India. Probably, this earth had to face this pandemic in 2020, that’s why, the God dispatched Shradheya Swami Jee and Pujya Acharya Shri to this divine land. By doing tapasya for 30-40 years, they spread yog, Ayurved, indigenous, etc and linked them with the health revolution of the country. Had the revolution of yog, Ayurved and indigenous not been started, the country would have incurred huge loss. Due to daily yog exercise, people’s immunity remained intact. Many people were unaware of corona infection in their body. Therefore, at a time when the entire world is waiting for vaccines, coronil vati, svasari vati and anu oil gave a new lease of life to many people. In case of absence of daily used Patanjali products in the market, we could incur huge financial loss in the corona period.

If we separate political and economical contradictions, everybody believes that Patanjali Yogpeeth aims at making every Indian competent enough and reestablishing the rishi tradition of India. Param Shradheya Swami Jee and Pujya Acharya Jee launched the movement of yog, Ayurved and indigenous and associated lakhs of revered brothers and sisters with it. The movement itself is the finest example. They are facing many challenges in this movement. In 3-4 decades, Patanjali Yogpeeth has spread its wings like Patanjali University, Ayurved College, Yog Gram for natural treatment, Gramodyog, Gaushala, Cow research center, Gurukulam, Acharyakulam, Divya Pharmacy, Patanjali Food and Herbal Park, Prakram Suraksha, Patanjali Research Institute, Patanjali Herbal Park, etc. They remained firm in case of pandemic and provided shelter to the common as well prosperous people. Divine institution of yog, Ayurved and indigenous set up by Param Shradheya Swami Jee Maharaj was an initiative for self-reliant India and vocal for local declared by the Prime Minister. It proves that Shradheya Swami Jee has divinity as well as vision. Although Modi Jee never used word ‘indigenous’ in his address, thought of self-reliant and vocal for local are nearer to ‘indigenous’. It has been associated with freedom struggle in the name of indigenous movement. However, it had its own importance in pre-independence period. Now it has another role to play in the corona pandemic. 

In fact, India is a country of diversity. Different cities and states have special rituals. This specialty is seen in its language, diets, attire and local products. For example, in Uttar Pradesh, Varanasi and Lucknow are famous for sari and chikankari respectively. Similarly, Moradabad, Kanpur, Bhadohi and Agra are famous for brass utensils, leader industry, carpet and petha respectively. All these items have national and international recognition. Similarly, Surat and Maisore are famous for cloth and diamond and sandal respectively. All these items are quality products. It’s worth mentioning that there would have been some artisans who have been neglected. We have to be vocal for that local produce. Because when we will use them, then others will understand its importance and know about their artistry.  

Vocal for local can provide jobs to the local people and check migration. It can also make local quality products a national and international brand. It will be a journey from local to national and international. It’s not an impossible task because we have a pool of talent. The salon used to be there in the villages. The barbers used to sit in the streets. Carpenter, technician, etc were experts in their jobs. Porter used to prepare lamps in Diwali. The people used to take tea in the cup made of soil. We started to worship Ganesh idols imported from China. Movement of vocal for local and self-reliant India are nothing but an effort to reestablish such people and their products. The labourers, farmers, etc can be made self-reliant by setting up of micro, small and medium industries at various places in the country. Today, Patanjali Yogpeeth can be the best example in realizing the dream of vocal for local and self-reliant India. Remember, 3-4 decades ago, ghritkumari, amla, bel, turmeric, bitter gourd, etc were not important. Nobody would use giloya lying in the forest. Ayurved and Ayurvedic doctors were given no respect. It’s Patanjali Yogpeeth which made such types of products popular not only in India but also abroad. The farmers got better prices for their produce and the common people started overcoming diseases. The people working in ayurvedic medicine companies started getting fat salaries. Today, the countrymen are searching for ayurvedic value in every herb, fruit, vegetable, spinach, etc. Lakhs of tonnes of fruits, vegetables, medicinal herbs get decayed every year in the country. The Patanjali Yogpeeth not only utilized them but also provided global recognition. Today, Patanjali Yogpeeth is the finest example of self-reliant India in the country. It has set up an ideal model and successful record.