“Gene environment interaction has a role to play. Most of these contain Indian classical music that creates a divine effect,” said Singhal, adding that the idea behind following the ‘sanskar’ was to elevate the baby’s intellectual, emotional and spiritual quotients.Īccording to toxicologist and former vice-chancellor of the Bundelkhand University, Prof SVS Rana, gene environment can affect the unborn baby. They also recite ‘mantras’, ‘Hanuman Chalisa’, ‘Durga Chalisa’, and listen to stories of valour of heroes like Shivaji and Maharana Pratap,” he said, adding that he even advised the women regarding what objects they should see and which ornaments, stones or metals they should wear. “In this, mothers are advised to practise different types of ‘pranayams’ (breathing techniques) in accordance with their choice of progeny. The second phase of the ‘sanskar’ is ‘Naadi Siddhi’, said Singhal. We provide the mother a diet plan that is nutritious and ‘satvik’ (vegetarian),” he said. “Thereafter, 37 weeks of gestation include diet suggestions to the expecting mother. “Since we set up the centre, more than a dozen couples from different sections of society have benefitted from our procedure,” he claimed.Īccording to Singhal, the process under ‘Garbh Sanskar’ begins three months before conception. There are many instances recounted when mothers were blessed with babies of their choice following the wisdom received from sages,” said Bharti, supporting his claim with several incidents mentioned in the Hindu mythology.Įxplaining further, he said, “In modern times, it is called genetic engineering, which has already proven its impact.”
“Garbh Sanskar exists in India since the ‘Vedic’ period. The process also includes a ‘Sanskar Vidhi’ - a three-stage ‘havan’ that is conducted over nine months. Under their programme, couples must adopt a regulated diet, drink medicinal concoctions and make yoga intrinsic to their lifestyle. In what seems to be their most striking claim, the ‘kendras’ also assure that they can “upgrade” and “repair” hereditary dysfunctional genes. Singhal said he received training from one of the eight ‘Garbh Vigyan Anusandhan Kendras’ functioning in Gujarat before he set up his own centre.Īs reported by the Livemint in May 2019, these ‘kendras’ in Gujarat advocate a programme based on Ayurveda that guarantees couples the ‘perfect progeny’. The tag line of their centre is: ‘Baby by choice, not by chance’. Las year in July, Bharti and Singhal (who is also an ‘Ayurvedacharya’) set up in Meerut what they describe as the first ‘Vedant Garbh Vigyan Evam Sanskar Kendra’ of western Uttar Pradesh. Their mother appears in the video and claims that the girls are intelligent and wise because she and her husband followed ‘Garbh Sanskar’ (a set of rituals / practices) before she conceived and during the course of her pregnancy.Īccording to these office bearers of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh, the video “exhibits the significance of ‘Garbh Sanskar’ - a science that has existed in the country since ‘Vedic’ times”. RSS officials, ‘Mahanagar Sanchalak’ Vinod Bharti and ‘Vibhag Prachar Pramukh’ Dr Neeraj Singhal, recently shared a video with hundreds of their friends and relatives on the social media in which two girls - eight-year-old Rashi and her four-year-old sister Kriya - are seen fluently reciting Sanskrit ‘shlokas’ and ‘mantras’.