Swami Ramdevji joins Parmarth Ashram for Holi celebrations - Rishikesh

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Swami Ramdev Babaji plays Holi with Pujya Swami Chidanand Saraswati ji during International Yoga Festival at Parmarth Niketan Ashram in Rishikesh, Uttarakhand, India. Baba Ramdev is a spiritual leader known for his contributions in yoga, Ayurveda, politics and agriculture. He is best known for popularising yoga among Indians through his mass yoga camps and televangelism. He founded the Patanjali group of institutions. Ramdev has more recently become a vocal advocate on Indian political issues. Rishikesh is a land known as the “home of the rishis.” Its alternate spelling of Hrishikesh refers to Lord Vishnu, as Lord of the Senses – it is, therefore, a land in which to conquer one’s senses, to conquer the call of desire, to become master of oneself. It is to this place which in the early 1940