Why holistic systems oppose modern medicine.

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Dear Anil & Divakara, Namaste. Thank you both for your enlightening response. I think much of the current resurfacing of interest in spirituality comes from facing personal horrors in the health front. We must thank allopathy for that!! Life is cyclical and errors lead us back to God through pain and suffering. As ayurveda went out of our lives the age old Indian concept of the practice of brahmacharya (celibacy;regulating the passions) too was shown the door. Modern medicine said sex was therapeutic and that more was better. Sattwic food too was declared non-nutritious and animal food was advocated. Animal serums were injected as vaccines thus contaminating our DNA structure and pushing animal like qualities into us. Processed foods and market produce replaced home grown vegetables and fruits. Mass production favoured the use of lethal pesticides. Chemical poisons replaced natural herbs. Parties and

orgies replaced pranayama. Consumerism fed exploitation and bred pollution. Freedom of the senses and not from the senses became the fad. In my childhood I had witnessed a critically acclaimed Bengali film on the life of a traditional ayurved. He watched helplessly as life giving principles were replaced with "scientific thought". People shied away from his advice on shunning greed and lust and leading a simple life for good health and longevity. The last straw was his own son deciding to study modern medicine blaming his fathers profession for the family's poverty. Old and haggard, but spiritually strong the ayurved became a recluse occasionally pondering about the host of life sapping diseases that would grip mankind if natural laws were flouted. The people continued to ignore him and laughed at his outdated theories. The last scene showed the healer studying his own pulse to determine how much longer he had to live and suffer the

crticism his village folk showered on him. The film itself was prophetic as it was made sometime in the early 60's. I wish the film surfaces again. Now similiar films are being made in Hollywood. In the times of Lord Chaitanya there lived in Jagannath Puri a devotee called Achyutananda. He was an Indian Nostradamus and made many prophecies about the future. One of them is very appropriate for our current subject; "In the Kali Yuga (Iron Age)," he wrote 500 years ago, "will emerge a group of people who will know nothing about disease nor of cure but will be revered as doctors". In Oriya, to quote his exact words, "Roga na janibe, nidana na janibe, baidya bolaibe". His prophecies are famous in Orissa as the "Achyutananda Malika". I personally do not blame the doctors. On the net it is the professionals who usually feed me the issues and also the solutions. It requires a tremendous

effort to break out of this mess. And the effort has to come from the consumers of "health care", the common people. Regards,Jagannath.

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Dear Anil & Divakara,

 

Namaste. Thank you both for your enlightening response. I think much of the

current resurfacing of interest in spirituality comes from facing personal

horrors in the health front. We must thank allopathy for that!! Life is cyclical

and errors lead us back to God through pain and suffering.

 

As ayurveda went out of our lives the age old Indian concept of the practice

of brahmacharya (celibacy;regulating the passions) too was shown the door.

Modern medicine said sex was therapeutic and that more was better. Sattwic food

too was declared non-nutritious and animal food was advocated. Animal serums

were injected as vaccines thus contaminating our DNA structure and pushing

animal like qualities into us. Processed foods and market produce replaced home

grown vegetables and fruits. Mass production favoured the use of lethal

pesticides. Chemical poisons replaced natural herbs. Parties and orgies replaced

pranayama. Consumerism fed exploitation and bred pollution. Freedom of the

senses and not from the senses became the fad.

 

In my childhood I had witnessed a critically acclaimed Bengali film on the

life of a traditional ayurved. He watched helplessly as life giving principles

were replaced with " scientific thought " . People shied away from his advice on

shunning greed and lust and leading a simple life for good health and longevity.

The last straw was his own son deciding to study modern medicine blaming his

fathers profession for the family's poverty. Old and haggard, but spiritually

strong the ayurved became a recluse occasionally pondering about the host of

life sapping diseases that would grip mankind if natural laws were flouted. The

people continued to ignore him and laughed at his outdated theories. The last

scene showed the healer studying his own pulse to determine how much longer he

had to live and suffer the crticism his village folk showered on him. The film

itself was prophetic as it was made sometime in the early 60's. I wish the film

surfaces again. Now similiar films are being made in

Hollywood.

 

In the times of Lord Chaitanya there lived in Jagannath Puri a devotee called

Achyutananda. He was an Indian Nostradamus and made many prophecies about the

future. One of them is very appropriate for our current subject;

 

" In the Kali Yuga (Iron Age), " he wrote 500 years ago, " will emerge a group of

people who will know nothing about disease nor of cure but will be revered as

doctors " . In Oriya, to quote his exact words, " Roga na janibe, nidana na janibe,

baidya bolaibe " . His prophecies are famous in Orissa as the " Achyutananda

Malika " .

 

I personally do not blame the doctors. On the net it is the professionals who

usually feed me the issues and also the solutions. It requires a tremendous

effort to break out of this mess. And the effort has to come from the consumers

of " health care " , the common people.

 

Regards,

Jagannath.

 

 

 

 

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