Water/Thoughts on ayurveda.

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Dear

 

All elements in nature have a hidden or esoteric aspect. This aspect of water

has been superbly brought out in the book, "The Message from Water" by Masaru

Emoto. This book can be compared to the book, "The hidden life of plants".

 

A link to a synopsis of the book can be read here;

http://www.wellnessgoods.com/messages.asp

 

Science has to progress from the seen to the "unseen" to understand these

concepts. Today it is well known that the emotions emanating from us shape the

world. This has always been obvious but it took science a very long time to come

anywhere near it.

 

This time lag sometimes irks the spiritual minded who, through faith or

otherwise, already have access to such knowledge. Knowledge is more or less like

a jigsaw puzzle where just one or two moves may help the intuitive man grasp the

whole picture. Science has always hated such intuitive people often forgetting

that many important "inventions" in science have resulted from such intuition.

 

We know that the diagram for Benzoic Acid was derived from a dream where the

concerned scientist saw a snake in a dream chasing its own tail. Also we have

the case of an Indian mathematician (Ramanujam) who openly acknowledged that he

saw the results of many a puzzling equation solved in dream sequences.

Scientists also acknowledge the "flash" of brilliance whereby they are suddenly

presented with the solution to complex problems. All this denote a higher power

at work. Problems mostly arise because we don't give that higher power its due,

raising our own ego in the process. Today many frustrated scientists refuse to

acknowledge God. But then God, as he is widely perceived, is the source of all

knowledge. To deny God is like admitting the existence of the Ganges while

refusing to see the Himalayas.

 

Ayurveda has benefitted a lot from such intuitive knowledge but unfortunately

the student who undergoes ayurvedic courses in various colleges is not taught

how to sharpen his intuitive skills. Rather he devotes more than 50% of his

course period trying to learn the concepts of allopathy. After passing out he

has to go through an unlearning process to be a sucesfull vaidya.

 

You have rightly argued that we cannot totally reject modern concepts in

developing ayurveda and that a heterodox approach is to be cultivated. But to be

able to understand what amongst the modern concepts can actually benefit

ayurveda requires a thorough grounding in the core concepts of ayurveda. Only a

vaidya with a lot of experience behind him can decide on what to accept from

sciences that are not immediately related to ayurveda.

 

It is sad that person(s) belonging to a different school altogether are trying

to discourage true vaidyas on this forum. Such a situation has resulted because

ayurveda has been overshadowed by "systematic" thinking whereas it should have

depended on the sort of logic that gave birth to ayurveda in the first place. We

also have that logic emerging in modern science where scientists are

acknowledging that a problem may have more than one solution and some of those

solutions may appear to be conflicting while yielding the same result.

 

And lastly, we should see the results obtained from various modes of thinking.

Whether a particular mode is right or not depends entirely on whether it is able

to cure patients. If a system, however big, fails to cure then patients start

deserting it. We are seeing this phenomenon now in the case of allopathy as

patients are frantically searching alternative methods of treatment.

 

In todays episode of Swami Ramdev's programme on Astha channel, a patient

reported that he had been cured of a hip bone ailment purely by pranayama

exercises while he was advised hip replacement by modern doctors. He was not

telling a lie because a team of about 40 mainstream doctors had studied his case

and found his claim to be true. Such cures cannot be explained by modern methods

whereas to the orthodox it would come as no surprise because they know that the

prana shakti, once activated can do anything and everything. So you see it is

not entirely faith that drives the orthodox but faith backed by intuition,

evidence and experience.

 

Regards,

Jagannath.