It turns out Healer Baskar has a cult following online. He has over 65,000 followers on his social media pages and many of his videos have gone viral with 246,473 subscribers.
He gave himself the ‘Healer’ title after he received a certificate in acupuncture. Before that he was known as ‘Engineer Baskar.’ His talks, predominantly in Tamil, are popular. At The Heartfulness Centre he has his audience in splits over the course of his two-hour talk, as he advises, admonishes, reprimands and coaxes them with his ideas on healthy living and well being.
His advantage? He speaks the layman’s language, explaining complex theories pertaining to health in a manner that they understand. At the five-day residential camp, which is conducted once a month in Coimbatore, he gives advice on everything from marital relationships to agriculture. After he completed his civil engineering course in 1998, Baskar worked for about six months, but had to quit due to ill health. “Due to skin infection, eye problems, digestion issues and so on, I was under constant medical supervision, yet no medical practitioner could give a reason for my health condition. Finally, I was even administered anti-depressants and was out of action for three years,” says Baskar.
He says he finally decided to do away with all medicines and set out researching illness and health. “Spirituality was my guiding force and I learnt all kinds of therapies possible, and mastered yoga and acupuncture. Ten years ago, I started an institute for teaching yoga.” He says he was too shy to talk in public then, but he gradually gained confidence and began addressing larger audiences.
Over the past eight years, the 40-year-old has been talking on different topics for almost eight hours a day, both in India and overseas.
