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No bath for 40 years!
YET ANOTHER? Acharya Vijay Ratnasundersuri
In a country strewn with god-men, here comes this one armed with a PR agency to propagate his thoughts. Well, it is not just this that is surprising about Acharya Vijay Ratnasundersuri. Said to have attained his diksha at the age of 19, Acharya Vijay is proud that he hasn't had a bath in the last 40 years (!), does not use electricity (Please note this Delhi Government), doesn't watch television, doesn't talk on telephone, has no interest in corporal love, washes clothes once in 10-15 days and has written as many as 200 books on working women, politics, cricket, social issues and media!
Acharya is strongly against sex education at schools too. "Why teach something that is taught naturally," he questions. His guru, Acharya Bhuvan Bhanu Surishwar Maharaj sahib encouraged him "to follow this path of serenity, simplicity and divinity," he says.
"My guruji asked me if I could do Purvachan, then why not write? These words woke me up and I began to write," states Acharya Vijay. It is only through reading he says he is able to acquire information to pen down books. "If you can see the invisible, you can do the impossible," he declares.
Acharya has a few "social reforms" to his credit, one of it pertained to removal of obscene posters in Ratlam, Madhya Pradesh, last year. Finally, the government passed an ordinance in this regard, he claims acclaim for it.
Three categories
According to him, there are three categories of people in the world. The first who want to achieve well, the second who want to do good, and the third that want to be good. "It is sad but true that the last category comprises only one per cent of humankind," he rues, adding, "man should only have needs and not desires."
Elaborating more on today's "deteriorating society and education system", he feels education imparted in institutions today only focuses on career development and not on character development. "What is the use of getting a degree when you are not being educated? Absence of character induces man to get hooked onto illegal activities," he says.
Well, this "social reformer" has just rounded up his padyatra from Ratlam to Delhi and Gurgaon and has plans to revisit.
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