The plot to murder ayurveda surfaces again. Part - 1

 

The plot to murder ayurveda surfaces again.  Part - 1

The team that wants to allopathize ayurveda is back with a bang. Led by the same Kishore Patwardhan they have reached the British Medical Journal (BMJ) this time with the backing of a strong allopathic lobby that earlier publicized them through the Indian Journal of Medical Ethics. Patwardhan is by no means an ayurvedic scholar. He has not understood ayurveda.

The group led by Patwardhan has already laid bare its intentions. It is not focused on results. It is focused on changing the process such that the convenient way can be introduced.

By saying that ayurveda is "steeped in tradition" this movement clearly wants to make ayurveda "scientific". Now what is wrong with that? I would like to point out the fallacy; the scientific and evidence based medicine that has caught this group's fancy has rendered the whole world irreversibly sick and is the third largest killer as per official statistics; the first if all factors are considered.

It has also corrupted humanity that is reflected in the chaos that has engulfed the world. Every mind has been rendered a criminal mind, including that of the physician. This is how the system has corrupted itself to the core.

There is urgent need to look beyond the current faulty paradigm and look at what ayurvedic philosophy has to offer.

Ayurveda looks at the elements; space, air, fire, water, and earth. These constitute everything that is manifested. These elements have qualities that enable all objects to appear, retain their form, perform their functions, and disintegrate and disappear when the objective is fulfilled. These qualities (of the elements) are the focus of ayurveda.

Ayurveda looks at the qualities of the mind; dullness, activity, and calm and composedness. It details how these states of mind holds or disturbs the body as these mental states are channeling their own energies through the vast energy body that exists within and extends outside (as the aura) the physical body that is behind all processes.

Ayurveda looks at the life force that is gifted to all life forms. This is beyond genetics as here the intelligent energy is being referred. The blueprint of life does not rest in matter but in a form of invisible energy. When this life form leaves (it is indestructible) we witness complete cessation of activity that is termed death. Then the life force within microorganisms takes over to decompose the body and revert to the original elements.

Ayurveda looks at the source of it all. It comes from a vastness that cannot be comprehended. It is completely detached, has no wish or need, and pervades everything.

But somehow (this part is beyond all argument, nobody has really found the answer though the seeking is global) that vastness wishes to manifest. From it emerges the golden egg or hiranyagarbha. This is the cumulative potential energy. From this potential emerges the kinetic force in the form of space, air, fire, water and earth. Everything in this world is but various compositions of these elements.

For ayurveda everything is mind and energy. It looks at health from this angle. This science requires a very calm and meditative mind to which dawns intuitive knowledge. To that mind nature reveals itself. Therefore the adage, physician heal thyself. Unless the physician is perfectly healthy in body and mind, she or he will find it very difficult to unravel the intricacies of ayurveda.

This is observed in many of the tribal practitioners who are completely dependent on their intuition for treatment. This is what shamanism is about. The shaman connects to the universal mind and obtains solutions.

This is why the genuine ayurveds and all traditional forms of healing respect life and life forms. Through the manifested world they have a glimpse of what is behind it all. This is why the ayurveds say, jaha pinde taha brahmande; that is, the microcosm reflects the macrocosm. The entire universe moves according to the same laws. The worst crime ever possible is to go against and disturb these laws.

If you disturb the human being you disturb the whole world. Are we not witnessing it currently? The world has currently lost all sanity and vicious crimes have become commonplace.

I will be very blunt in my assessment of the current call for making ayurveda scientific;

• These practitioners want to practice the most convenient system of medicine that is allopathy. Just club symptoms into a disease name and devise a protocol of drugging regardless of the impact on health and wellbeing
• They want to eliminate symptoms and pretend it is a cure, the easiest path ever
• They want to prescribe allopathic drugs with all the attendant benefits
• They want to bask in the glory that allopaths enjoy
• They want a share of the medical pie
• They want the protection provided to allopaths
• They have absolutely no regard for the human being, or for that matter the life forms

To this the modern doctors add another reason. They know that allopathy is no longer tenable. The boat has sunk. If they can allopathize ayurveda they can rule again for some time. They can also further distort the science to their hearts content.

I really don't understand why the Patwardhan group have to publicize their demands. The ayurveds desiring to follow this path are already doing it. Maybe what they want is legitimacy.