Sunday, 31 August 2014

Modern ayurveda - 1

In one of the very first introductory sessions one of our lecturer warmly welcomed ‘welcome to the museum..whatever you read, learn is all history, which has very minimal relevance to your life and future’ I was shocked. What am I doing here?

And all these years we have been taught the atmosphere is composed of carbon, oxygen, nitrogen and hydrogen. Human body consists of 206 bones, there is blood, lymph, muscles, brain, spine, heart, lungs in it.  That’s what science is all about, that’s how we have been taught. Suddenly you are being told that this universe or prapancham is composed of 5 mahabhutas. And you have thri doshas, 7 dhatus in your body. I was bewildered, confused.