Nekozuki - you're cracking me up! That's the best laugh I've had for ages.Originally Posted by nekozuki
You're telling a highly respected saddhu who represents the tradition that made scientific discoveries about 5,000 years ago which the West are only now just catching up with, to watch the Discovery Channel! This is priceless stuff!
Look, I'm assuming that you claim that you're a Hindu. If that is the case, then you might do well to go back to your own source literature, the Vedas. There you will learn that your ancient forefathers knew far more about the natural universe than the West will ever know.
This is because the West has set up its "science" in an objective way - in other words, it rules out the observer from the experiment.
The ancient rishis learned a lot from studying nature, and they put these findings into the Vedas. But they also learned even more from going within themselves to the "inner universe" that is within all of us, and seeing nature from that perspective.
The rishis who compiled the Vedic teachings put themselves (or their Self) in the middle of the scientific enquiry, rather than cutting themselves (or their Self) out of it. That gave them a much more holistic, and therefore, truer view of the universe than the Western scientist has, peering down his microscope in a laboratory.
By this more holistic method of enquiry, the Vedic sages discovered so much about astronomy, astrology, natural medicine and they even discovered mathematics - the same mathematics is used all around the world today and called 'mathematics' because it was first taught in 'maths', or yogic hermitages.
And especially as a health worker, you would do very well to read the works of Dhantanvari in the Atharva Veda: http://www.sacred-texts.com/hin/av/index.htm
Dhantavari was the discoverer of ayurvedic medicine, and all preventative (so-called complementary) medicine today is based on ayurveda.
By using the objective, scientific approach to medicine, the West has once again got it wrong. Never before has so much money been spent on healthcare in the UK and the US, and never before have the hospitals of those countries been full to overflowing with the ill and weak.
Your mission - if you choose to accept it - should be to read Dhantanvari and then start converting your healthcare colleagues to the advantages of ayurveda.
You will learn far more that way, and by meditating on what you read, imho, than you'll ever get from the Discovery Channel!
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