Although Assam Health Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma’s statement linking cancer and sins of past life drew nationwide outrage, yet the Minister on Friday got a sympathiser in Yoga guru Baba Ramdev.
“What Himanta Biswa Sarmaji has said on karmic action is correct if you see it in totality. However, his statements have been distorted. People had to bear what they do in life,” said the Yoga guru while interacting with a section of newsmen at Tezpur in Assam.
The Yoga guru said genetics as one of the reasons for diseases and said that genetics is basically related to Karmafal of individual. “Whatever a person gets in life—good or bad depends on Karmafal. Diseases occur basically due to three factors. First genetics, which is again Karmafal, second habits of the individual and environment,” said the Yoga guru.
“Hamare jiban me job hi hota hai…jaise ki gutkha khana…gutkha khana bhi to ek karma hi hai— are all karmas and due to this karma diseases takes place,” said Baba Ramdev.
“Everything is related to karma… even Mrityu is due to Karma,” said the Yoga guru.
It may be mentioned here that nationwide outrage followed particularly in the social networking sites after the Assam Health Minister recently linked cancer and accidental death of young people to sins committed in past life.
The political circle across the nation went abuzz in the social media criticising the statements of the Health Minister particularly in the present age of science and technology and the opposition Congress even demanded immediate termination of the Minister from health portfolio.
The Minister later issued a statement tendering his apology to the cancer patients who were hurt due to ‘mindless distortion of his statement by the media and few political desperados.