Baba Ramdev Age

Yoga Guru Baba Ramdev was born on 25 December 1965 in a Hindu family. He is 53 years old.

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Baba Ramdev Family

Ramdev was born to Ram Niwas Yadav and Gulabo Devi at Hazaribag Ali Saiyad Pur village of Mahendragarh district, Alipur, Haryana. Both of his parents were farmers, with Alipur being one of the poorest districts of Haryana.

Baba Ramdev Caste

His full name is Ramkishen Yadav. The Government included Yadavs in the Other Backward Classes (OBCs) category in the Indian states of Bihar, Chhattisgarh, Delhi, Haryana, Jharkhand, Karnataka, Madhya Pradesh, Odisha, Rajasthan, Uttar Pradesh, and West Bengal.

Baba Ramdev Guru

He was the student of Acharya Baldevji in Gurukul Kalwa and learnt yoga from Guru Karanvir, an Arya Samaji. Ramdev took sanyasi diksha and adopted the name Swami Ramdev from Swami ShankarDev Ji.

Baba Ramdev Biography

He claims he became paralyzed when he was two & half and was later cured by practicing Yoga. He studied Indian scripture, Yoga and Sanskrit in various Gurukuls (schools).

While living in Kalwa Gurukul in Jind district, Haryana, Ramdev offered free yoga training to villagers. Then he moved to Haridwar in Uttarakhand, where he practiced self-discipline and meditation, and spent several years studying ancient Indian scriptures at Gurukul Kangri Vishwavidyalaya.

In the late 1980s, Ramdev met Balkrishna, a person from Nepal at Gurukul Kalva in Haryana, and thereafter in Gurukul Khanpur. This led to a lifelong friendship, as Ramdev subsequently taught Balkrishna Sanskrit and Vedas after he graduated.

In April 2011, Ramdev called on the government to add punitive powers to the Jan Lokpal Bill, a bill to appoint an independent body that would investigate alleged government corruption.

Later Ramdev announced he would go on an anshan (hunger-strike) at Ramilla Ground in Delhi, on 4 June 2011, to pressure the government into rooting out corruption and repatriating black money.

Ramdev ended his fast on the ninth day, after being hospitalised two days earlier. Soon politicians from the BJP, Janata Party and Congress Party  praised his decision to end the protest.

Baba Ramdev Wife

He never got married. Yoga guru Ramdev said one of the reasons for his successful and happy life is bachelorhood.

Baba Ramdev Yoga

Soon Ramdev founded the Divya Yog Mandir Trust in 1995. In 2003, Aastha TV began featuring him in its morning yoga slot.

There he proved to be telegenic and gained a large following. Soon a large number of people, including celebrities from India and abroad, attended his Yoga camps.

He taught yoga to many celebrities like Amitabh Bachchan, Shilpa Shetty and in foreign countries including the United Kingdom, the United States, Japan.

Later he also addressed Muslim clerics at their seminary in Deoband, Uttar Pradesh. In 2017, a district court banned the sale of his biography, ‘Journey from God man to Tycoon.

In May 2018, Ramdev launched Swadeshi Samriddhi SIM cards in alliance with BSNL. Over a twenty year career, he became the face of Patanjali Ayurved, a company that he founded with his colleague (Acharya) Balkrishna.

Patanjali went on to become one of the highest grossing FMCGs in India.

Baba Ramdev Patanjali

Ramdev and Acharya Balkrishna in 2006 started Patanjali Ayurved, a consumer packaged goods company, based in Haridwar.

According to a company official, sales in early March 2016 were ₹4500 Crore (US$630 million).

According to a report by India Infoline (IIFL), at least 13 listed companies would be affected by Patanjali’s success including Colgate, Dabur, ITC and Godrej Consumer.

Acharya Balkrishna remains the CEO of Patannjali Ayurved with 95% shareholding and supervising its day to day activities, while Ramdev remains the face of the company and takes most of the business decisions