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The Timeless Wisdom of Āyurveda in the Modern Age

Āyurveda is the ancient therapy of medicinal plants, over five thousand years old. It operates on principles distinct from later systems like homeopathy or allopathy. A core tenet is aligning with nature; consuming foods out of their natural season causes harm. The therapy focuses on enhancing the body's inherent resistance power rather than solely attacking germs, preserving beneficial bodily existences. Modern lifestyles, characterized by prolonged sitting and immobility, generate diseases like deep vein thrombosis, which correlates to the ancient condition Vāta Rakta. This sedentary reality, from computers to long flights, acts as a silent killer. Āyurveda addresses such conditions by thinning the blood and regenerating vitality, aiming for a cure by addressing root causes rather than offering mere temporary relief. The fundamental theory is that disease arises from going beyond nature in lifestyle or diet. Therefore, the path to health is to abide by natural cycles, using herbal compositions derived from the earth to restore balance and resistance without harmful side effects.

"Food which goes beyond nature or against nature will harm you."

"The therapy of Āyurveda is totally based on the immune system."

Filming location: Jadan, Rajasthan, India

This is the therapy or the medicines which are prepared by those medicinal plants, as called Āyurveda. Why is it so required in this modern age? Whenever we think back for the last 5,000 years, when our Lord Rāma existed, there was a crucial problem with Lakṣmaṇa, the brother of Rāma. He was treated by Sanjīvanī Bhūti, suggested by a particular doctor of that time. That was an herb. So, we see that Āyurveda is rather old, more than 5,000 years back, because it was used at the time of Rāma. The existence of Āyurveda is thus more than 5,000 years old. Now we come to the second part. As time went on, another pathy came into existence called homeopathy, some 300 years back. After that, we come to the existence of medicinal science, what we call allopathy, the latest science. We must think of one thing: no chemical has come up directly on the earth; it is being extracted from some herbs, fruits of the winter season, and so on. According to what Āyurveda says, whenever we are treating a person by Āyurveda, we say that you should not do it this way. You should not take this type of food. Why? Because food which goes beyond nature or against nature will harm you. For example, you can get mango today also in the winter season, but it's of no use because it should be taken in summer, as this fruit is given by God in summer only. Though you are getting it today, you will get infected by that mango. Another principle: the therapy of Āyurveda is totally based on the immune system. Whenever we take allopathic medicine or any kind of medicine into our body, we are not thinking that we are just giving our body to get immune to that. The resistance power—we can cure a patient in two manners: by curing a disease, or by just enhancing the resistance power of that patient. If we enhance the resistance power, the harmful germs, bacteria, or virus cannot attack that patient because his body can resist. So this is what our Āyurveda says: there are two ways. We can kill the germs—that is the first theory. Another theory is that we get to improve the resistance of our body. Whenever we improve the resistance, that particular disease cannot harm us. That is the base of Āyurveda. In Āyurveda, we are based on that. We are just creating your body to get resistance from those types of germs. We don't want to kill those germs because whenever we are killing the germs, it might be that those germs which are required in your body are also destroyed. Whenever we take these types of chemicals, both of these existences in our body are the main resistance power. They exist to protect from other kinds of germs, viruses, and infections. So we must consider this. Āyurveda starts from the very beginning. We can't say from how many years we are getting this Āyurveda. A lot of persons like Lord Dhanvantari, Caraka Sāhab, Suśruta came on the earth, and they have delivered the derived derivatives of our Āyurvedic medicines. Now I came on the earth, and I am also trying to get some composition of the herbs to cure those types of patients. It is well known that Āyurveda works very slowly. Whenever a patient thinks that he will take an Āyurvedic medicine, it will work somewhat slowly. Now I am telling you, there are two types of disease. Suppose you are getting loose motion or a headache. These types of events are called temporary diseases, and we get very good, or the best, results from allopathy on these temporary diseases. Sometimes you have a headache, sometimes you have cough and cold, sometimes you have loose motions. In that case, we get an immediate remedy by the allopath. But suppose it is a patient suffering with TB, a patient suffering with cancer, a patient suffering with AIDS, a patient suffering from asthma—these types of patients have an absolute disease in their body. Whenever we are supposed to cure those diseases by allopathy, we get certain side effects. We say he will be cured of that particular disease. He may be cured, but you will find that another disease has occurred in his body. For example, if you take medicine to stop loose motion, you will stop the loose motion, but you may get nausea and vomiting. So this is a side effect of the allopath. You are treating for one thing, but you are again generating a new thing. And that new thing will also become very crucial for you. Now we come to Āyurveda. It is totally based on our lifestyle also. We say you should do yoga, you should walk at least three kilometers a day, you should avoid some oily and spicy foods, you should take very little oily and fats in your diet. These are all said by the allopath, homeopath, and Āyurveda. All the doctors are saying it this way. They are warning us: this will create a cholesterol buildup; this will create another problem in your body. You take ghee, you take fat, you get some vitality in your body. But the second part is you may get a problem of high blood pressure or higher cholesterol. Whenever we think on Āyurveda, it is totally based on going on smoothly. Our lifestyle should go slowly and smoothly, then we can consider that your life may not require any kind of medicine. But it's not possible in this age because everyone wants to go fast and fast. Life is very fast. Now it's not to be stag anywhere. We have to fast all together. I am also fast, you are also fast, all the listeners are also fast. They want everything fast in their life. So that's why the type of disease they are experiencing is making them change their lifestyle. What our ancestral people, some 200 years back, 300 years back—they were not having this aeroplane. They were not supposed to go by this fleet. Now, one thing that comes up in this modern age: in 1936, a patient was declared in France that a patient traveling by a flight becomes a patient of deep vein thrombosis. Deep vein thrombosis means a clot occurred in your leg, and it rotates in your body. Whenever it coagulates, a lot of blood clots coagulate. They become so stiff that they can't be digested by your blood, and that will be rotated to different parts of your body. It can move to your heart; it can move to your brain. This deep vein thrombosis is now a reality. Previously, it was said that in our Āyurveda, we say this disease is called Vāta Rakta. And it happened to a person who was always horse riding, who was always sitting like a king. Now we are all like a king because now you are also sitting, I am also sitting. Some 150 years back, we were not allowed to sit like this way. We were allowed to stand only. We were not allowed to sit on like this way. Persons used to go to their shop on feet, but now they are going on motorbike, they are coming back by the motorbike. They are mostly doing their job by sitting. And what is this? USA, UK, all those universities, or those medical sciences are saying that a person sitting more than four hours in a particular position is called an immobile person. What is the definition of immobile? A lot of persons are asking me, "How are you calculating a person is an immobile?" A person sitting more than four hours in a particular position or in a particular aspect. If you are sitting on a chair and you are sitting more than four hours a day in the same position, it means that you are an immobile person. And you may cause, you may have DVT formation in some future days. It's not so possible to say whenever it will occur; it may occur today. Now, the flight of those who are frequent flyers, long-haul flights—those who are taking 14 hours, 16 hours—almost in that flight, you will see that people are just taking some whiskey, just taking some wine, and they are getting sleep. And the position up to 14 hours or 10 hours, they will be in the same position. They will wake up only when the air hostess says that you are landing right now. We are saying, "Landing on Jeddah, you are on the Jeddah." Then you will say, "Wake up." Otherwise, you will get sleep. You will not wander in the flight. This is a practice, so they have declared that those who are making regular flights, those who are regularly going on long-haul flights, they may have DVT. The latest research? Not only that, but those persons who are sitting before a computer, who are sitting more than four hours, they also have this problem. So now, this is the age of the computer. We are in the 21st century. Everyone is living, I think so. Everyone has got a computer at home. Everyone is going through the internet. Everyone is going to do their work on the computer. They are making their accounts. They are making their letter correspondence. Everything we are just giving by emails; we are not dispatching the letters right now. We are not giving them to the postage; we are just mailing those things. So, this computer, whenever we are sitting before the computer, we are having this type of problem. Can we remove this one from our part of life? No. Can we not sit before the computer? No. Should we not go to the USA? No. Say, "Yes, I'll go." Then you will go. Then you have to take a flight of at least 14 hours. You have to go on by flight, then you have to take a flight for ten hours, fourteen hours because we want to go everywhere. We want to do a lot of things in a very small time. That's why we are going through computer, so we have to sit before computers. And it is said that DVT is a very silent killer. It's a very silent killer. You will not die at the very same time. It will create, it will take a lot of time. Say you are starting to sit before a table, if you are starting to sit before a chair, and you are starting to make your work before a computer, then it will take some time. It will not develop instantly. Say today you have seated, and you will get a problem? No, it will take some time. The clot will coagulate. It will take a lot of time, say one month, two months. But whenever it will coagulate and rotate from there, where will it go? It may be such a crucial way that it may go to your brain, and your brain becomes a failure. It may damage some of your hands, legs. It might give you some type of, you can say, paralysis. You can say heart attack. A lot of diseases can be developed by that. So this is a very, you can say, latest, what is in our age we are saying. It is a latest disease, more crucial than cancer, more crucial than AIDS, and more crucial than TB and all that, tuberculosis. It is a very crucial disease. Now, another one. Now we are utilizing this: tight pants, tight underwear, tight jeans pants. These tight jean pants in males, especially in males, are causing infertility in men. These tight pants and this tight underwear, wearing this type of clothing, it becomes declared that those persons who are wearing the tight pants, those persons who are wearing tight underwear and sitting more than four hours before a computer, become infertile. It is worldwide amazing data. 70 to 80% of males suffer from this. Those who are wearing tight pants, those who are wearing tight underwear, and sitting more than four hours before a computer are absolutely infertile men. It is research data. It is amazing research data. 70 to 80% of males suffer. Now, we see we are going through a bus. There also, we are sitting more than four hours. You are going through a train, there also you are sitting more than four hours. You are going to work in a bank, there also you are sitting for more than four hours. So, everywhere now we are seeing that 90 percent of the public are busy. They are busy on their work by sitting apparatus. They have got this apparatus. What they have got? Sitting apparatus. While going to their office, going by car, that is also being seated. It is a phenomenon, or it is our lifestyle. So this is a disease which is caused by our lifestyle. This is not a disease which is given by God. This is a disease just by our lifestyle, because nowadays everybody wants to do their work fast, they don't want to stack, they want everything to be get remedy right now. For that, whenever we are considering, say, in allopath, they have such medicines. They are saying some heparin, warfarin. These types of salt, they have what are the latest derivatives invented by medical science? What they are saying is that we can thin the blood, and when the blood is thin, there is no chance of a new clot formation. But what about a clot already existing in our body? They don't have any remedy. They can't destroy the clot. It is a disease to those persons who are admitted to the hospital, met with an operation. If an operation is more than one hour, then at that time, whenever they are giving the anesthesia, our blood flow will become very little. That time, this disease also occurred in the body. Some pregnant women, those who are after pregnancy or before pregnancy, both the ways, this particular disease may occur in ladies also. This may occur in those patients who have lost their leg or everything. They are sitting on a chair always. That type of person, they also make this type of problem. They also become suffering with the DVT. So, whenever we are thinking about this, the medicine for a deep vein thrombosis, because it's a problem, a worldwide problem. You go to Nigeria, the Tribune newspaper is declaring a lot. You go through the website, the Yahoo News, they are declaring every time about DVT. So, this is crucial. A lot of medical, this patient.co.uk of United Kingdom, they have got their own opinions about the DVT. Now, in India, we are thinking—we are not thinking for new—we are not accepting these words. They say cancer is a new disease; we are not accepting a word. They say tuberculosis is a new disease; we are not accepting the words that AIDS is a new disease. We are saying it was always on the earth. It was always on the earth. And Āyurveda has such knowledge that we can cure those types of crucial diseases. We have got medicines for AIDS also. I have made a medicine, and I am treating some patients with AIDS. Still, I am not claiming that the patient becomes HIV negative. But they put on weight. They are getting something. Whatever the problem, whatever the side effect by the AIDS was occurred on those persons, that was removed from there. Now they are well. They are just simply living their life. They have got put on weight; that is the main thing. So we have, we are not accepting in India, say, Āyurveda. It does not accept that this is a new medicine, a new disease, or that we are giving you a new medicine, because all the herbs, all the shrubs, all the vegetables that have come into existence on the earth of this type of herbs is not now, it was from before Rāma. Before Rāma, from which period it has got existence on the earth, that we can't say. But it says from the birth of the earth, these type of herbs are there, these type of vegetables are there, these types of diseases. Well, also, all these diseases, they are not new, but we are saying the name of these diseases. We are saying, say, cancer. In our Āyurveda, it is being deliberated a lot of back, some 500 years back, 700 years back, and we were treating those persons. Now, say this is a challenge to the person of deep vein thrombosis, and they have no medicine. They could not find out in medical science. Homeopaths say that they can destroy a clot. Now we have invented, we have just got some type of herbs mixed together, their nature, their action on our body is, and that proves that we can destroy the clots. Means we have got a medicine against the deep vein thrombosis. We can conquer the deep vein thrombosis, but what we are saying is, is it a disease? No, because whenever it will occur, it will not give you a lot of time when the blood will coagulate. It will not give you a lot of time. You can't go to the hospital, or you can't make a treatment. So we should have to take it as a protector, because every day we have to sit before the computer, so we are not saying that it's a medicine. We are saying that we should protect our body from deep vein thrombosis. Every day we have to go and sit on the chair, so any thrombus in our body will also be destroyed, and the new thrombus will not come in existence in our body. If we take that type of protector, it will protect our body from all these types of events, from all these types of deep vein thrombosis, and also the thrombosis itself there in our body will also be destroyed. There will be no thrombus in our body. Second thing, what is the difference between a young and an old? Whenever we consider that a person is 60 years old, we are saying that he is old. A person is 25 years old, we are saying that he is young. So what is the basic difference? What do you mean by saying a person is old and a person is young? The blood, the blood flow of a person at the age of 25 is fast in his body. But in a 60-year-old person, the same blood's density will be increased. The density of the blood will be increased, and it will go somewhat slower than in the younger. So whenever this type of event occurs, say your blood becomes, the density of the blood becomes higher, meaning the blood is thick. Now, what will happen? If the density at the age of 24—a person, either ladies or gents, both persons have got such type of body evacuation that all the nerves, all the veins become fulfilled. At the age of 24, there will be no generation of any kind of veins after 24. This is a phenomenon of our body. So the blood is going through the blood vessel. At the age of 60, if the blood becomes thick, if the blood density becomes higher, then there will be less space in our veins. And that space creates a lot of problems. Because we can't make an infinite vacuum anywhere on Earth. We can't make an absolute vacuum anywhere. God will not allow anything to get vacuum. There will be no vacuum in your body. Where there was blood, now there will be air, now if you are at the age of 60. So basically, what is the difference? The thin blood of a person denotes that he is young. The thicker the blood of a person, we say that he is old. If a person always maintains thin blood, it will never occur to go to old age. Because the one thing is the basic difference: the blood is thicker in a younger person than in an old person. If both the bloods are thin, if the old person also has the same type of thin blood, it means there will be no vacuum. It means there will be no air in his body, meaning he will not be old. We can't say that he is an aged person; we'll say he's also a young... There is no variation of, there is no factor of the age. This is a factor of the blood rotation. So this also denotes that we require our blood should be thin. If it is thin, then it properly goes on through our veins, the blood pressure, cholesterol, the other active, vital parts of our body, what they require will be nourished by our blood, and it will be nourished properly because the blood has got full speed whenever our blood is thin. So this DVT protector, it has got such characteristics, what we are saying, what we have been discussing about deep vein thrombosis, for that, whenever we have produced a medicine, that medicine also works like that, that it is thinning the blood. When thinning the blood, means what? See, if a person at the age of 35 started to take, started to take this protector, he will never be aged, will never be old. Though after 25 years, if we take regularly, he will not be an old person. Your senescence will not show. Like that, that he's an old person, we can't say that he's 60 years old because his charm will be there because the blood flow is normal. Another one, say vitalizer. We are seeing a lot of persons sitting on the chair before the computer, and it is being worldwide damaging data that 70-80% of males suffer. Through this one, they become infertile. So, to stop that infertility, we have mixed some vitalizer. What the vitalizer will do is it will create an umbrella to not spoil the sperm, or it will start to regenerate sperm very fast. This is a phenomenon of the vitalizer. But now we are thinking about a person at the age of 75. He is a very old person in our family. He can't go out. His body does not permit him to go out. He is always wandering at home. He is just simply doing his own work only. He is not now going on the business. He is not going to look after his business, look after his office and all that. He is always sitting at home. That type of person does not have any kind of disease. Say he is not having cancer, he is not having TB, he is not having anything. At the last stage, we are saying the person has gone. Now the old person has died. Because his activities, what? More than 12 hours he's sitting, and more than 10 hours he's sleeping. Out of 24 hours, what is the aged person doing at home? He's sleeping, either sitting, either sitting. Then he's sitting before television; he's seeing the television at home because he doesn't have any work. He's not going to the office, so what can he do? He can just see television. Those types of people, whenever they are supposed to die, whenever we are meeting together, we say, "He has died." So what? What happened? The time has gone. What was there? Something? Any problem? No, no, it was absolutely nothing. But there was something: chest pain, and he has died. He did not suffer. No, no... We need to take him to the hospital. We were supposed to take him to the hospital, but on the way he died. What is that? Everything was fine with that guy. He does not have any cancer. He does not have any AIDS. He does not have any tuberculosis. He does not have any severe disease, why did he die? We are saying, "God has given such a breath to his body. Now it has finished. God has taken his body to that kingdom. Now he is not on the earth." No, he is also dying by this deep vein thrombosis at last stage, because it is an unidentified disease, and what I said, that it's a very silent killer. That old guy, and I think so, an old guy sitting at our home, he's, though he's not doing anything, though he's not to say he's supposed to be supporting any of our business, but his guideline is required by the young. His guideline is required by the family members. Say, how has he spent his life? What are the ups and downs of life? How should he go through a bad period of life that could be deliberated by our older persons, aged persons who are at our home. We don't want to say that they should die early; we are not happy. Suppose a person having 87 years, and if he dies even his son is also just weeping. Why? Because he doesn't want to lose his father. But we are not considering over there, say, what happened with that guy, though, so that he has died. We are saying it was a last breath. We are saying there was such a breath only. We say the time has come. Are we saying that God has given something to get up from the earth? No, it is absolutely due to deep vein thrombosis. In the last age, in old age, when a person died, it means he died from deep vein thrombosis because he is immobile now. He sits for more than twelve hours, or he sleeps for more than ten hours. He just watches television; he cannot go out. We have a practical experience with our medicine. For those persons who were getting their shaving done while sitting on a sofa or at a table, we started his medicine, and after forty-five days we found that old man is going to the bathroom, to that particular wash basin, to have his shave. What does it mean? The enthusiasm or the energy comes in such a manner that a person aged eighty-five, who was not going to stand, is now getting his beard shaved before a wash basin. Previously, what was he doing? He was just sitting on a chair or sofa and having his shaving done there. So, what does it mean? It is regenerating a person. Now, the side effects. Whenever we talk about Āyurveda, we are giving medicine to an arthritis patient, we are giving medicine to a rheumatic patient, and then we say, "Do not take any kind of sour item." Why? Because this is against nature. In Āyurveda, we think based on this nāḍī jñāna. We say this is nāḍī jñāna. Through the nāḍī, we can observe three things: the air circulation in your body, the acid circulation in your body, and the cough circulation. The first is air. In our Āyurveda, is that called vāta? The second is acidity, the acid formation in our body. Our body naturally forms some acid. That is called pitta, pitta in our body. And another one is cough. Cough means this cough, cold. How much is the proportion of the cough higher? If the proportion of air in your body is higher, if the proportion of acid is higher, then we say that he is a patient. That person is suffering from any kind of disease. The disease is observed in three manners in Āyurveda by the Nāḍī Jñāna. In medical science, there are many tests. They can observe everything by tests. But in our Nāḍī Jñāna, as it is very old, we think that Āyurveda is the father. Homeopathy is the elder brother, and medical science is the younger son. This younger son is doing well in the market. The younger son gives a very fast result in the market, though it is also a son of Āyurveda, because Āyurveda consists of all kinds of herbs. Directly, homeopathy abstracts from there, and chemical science gets everything from reactions. They react the herbs with certain chemicals or with certain other herbs to make new medicines. This is a therapy. So we say Āyurveda, the father in medical science. Homeopathy, the elder son, and this one, allopathy, is the younger son. We are not thinking, we are not seeing, that this is all our family. We are not saying that medical science is separate from Āyurveda because it is a part of our family. Also, who is doing well? He is doing well in surgery. He is doing well in temporary diseases, what I call loose motion, sir, malaria, and all these types of small diseases, or a disease for a very short time. In that case, allopathy works well. But for a particular disease, or to cure a disease, say now we think very globally, we find that many people—not thousands, but millions—are suffering from asthma. Why? Because of pollution. Due to pollution, these asthma rates are growing higher and higher throughout the world, not in India only. It is throughout the world. They give certain steroids to get relief from asthma. They are not saying that they can cure asthma in an asthmatic patient. They give some pumps. They give some of these types of medicine which have steroids. What are the steroids doing? They are just damaging our bones. They are damaging our pelvis bones. It has been declared also by them: you just get rid of this asthma by this medicine, but become very friendly with pelvis bone disease in the long run. If you take steroids for ten years, you will get a problem in your pelvis. You cannot walk frequently, you cannot move frequently, because what they are doing, they are not thinking over a relief which gives you a relief. A medicine to a patient gives a relief, but it should give such a relief that the patient should not have that disease in his body. It should not be stopped. What, basically, is the ideology, the difference in medical science and in Āyurveda? In Āyurveda, we think to cure a patient. Suppose a person comes to us saying, "I have a headache." Now, what will the shopkeeper do? Give you aspirin. You take an aspirin, and you will not have a headache. But whenever you visit an Āyurveda doctor, he will consider why you got it. So what have you eaten? What have you taken in your food? What did you eat yesterday? Why did it occur so in your brain? Why does the headache come in your body? Means, what are we thinking to remove? We are thinking to know why it happens so in your body. Whereas allopaths say, "What? You are having a headache? Just simply take one medicine, simply take one pill, and you will get rid of it." So what is the side effect of that pill? They are not considering it absolutely. Your headache will be removed within ten minutes; you get aspirin, your headache will be removed within ten minutes. What will happen in the evening after four hours? After four hours, that is not known to that shopkeeper. The shopkeeper has given as per the doctor. The doctor has given you aspirin. What is the side effect? They are not considering whether it will damage your intestine. They are not considering. They have taken care of just the event that your headache is now over. You came to that person, "I have got a headache," and you get a remedy from the headache. In Āyurveda, we are thinking, "Why did the headache occur? Why did it happen?" We are thinking, "What have you done that the headache comes in your head? What have you taken in your food that causes you headache?" So this is a change. This is a theory of Āyurveda, the basic difference. The medical science, but whenever we are thinking and what we are suggesting, is that a person having a temporary disease should go to medical science, should not come to Āyurveda. Because we are basically based on a person to give him such a life manner. We give such a medicine which can cure that person from that disease. We believe we can cure that person. We are not intending to give you just temporary relief. We are not just giving a medicine to make you a temporary relief. In Āyurveda, we are sure because it is meant by man. It is delivered by man. It is assorted by man. It is on the earth for man, because everything on the earth is given by God for mankind. So we extract all these herbs from the earth, from the soil, from this natural earth. So all these herbs are natural, given by God. Because God knows that whenever He started to send persons on the earth, it was known to Him that they would become patients, or they would have some type of problem, because they will go beyond nature. There, the person will go beyond the nature on the earth and become, having some crucial disease. God has given a particular cycle of the nature: what to eat, at what time. That is suggested by God by giving us the particular crop at that time. We get mango in summer only; we cannot grow it in the winter. Because God has given the fruit to eat in summer only. But whenever God gave existence to mankind on the earth, God also knew that they would go beyond nature. They will go beyond my nature, and they will become patients. They will suffer with many diseases. That is why God has created many medicines; He has given them on the earth. Now, it is not simply the medicine or the medicinal plant. The leaves of those plants do not have written that this is a plant for asthma. This we have to find. Because God was thinking that the person should do work, they should find out. Say, what herbs will work on the asthma? What herbs will work on tuberculosis? Any medicinal plant does not have any writing, say, there is nothing written on the leaves that this is particularly a plant for asthma, or this is a particularly plant for constipation, not like that. The person has to find out, so many persons say, "Find it," these types of herbs and shrubs. In the last, say, five thousand years back, six thousand years back, now the composition: whenever we are mixing twelve types of herbs, suppose we want to cure a person, an asthmatic person, then we have to mix twelve herbs which are selectively noted by some granthas of Āyurveda that this type of medicine, this type of herbal medicine, will work on asthma. Now, whenever we are mixing this type of twelve herbs, there will be a cumulative effect by mixing those twelve herbs. Are we just thinking that we have made a thirteenth? The twelve herbs, whenever mixed together, that may, that makes a thirteenth herb. That is called a cumulative effect on the body. Whenever mixed together, what will the effect be on your body? Whether it has got a reaction on your body by producing acid? It has got a reaction on your body by producing more air. It has got a reaction on your body, producing more cough. That is the main, basically, this, our Āyurveda is based on these things. Whenever we are producing any medicine, we have to think that the medicine should be neutralized. Means there should be very little side effect. But a person goes beyond nature, because we are thinking what? We are just giving you the medicine which can regenerate in your body to get more resistive. Your body will be more resistant, then it can fight with the other germs. It can fight with the other bacteria. They can fight with the viruses which are harmful to our body. This is the main base in Āyurveda. They say many products, asthma... we are thinking it should not be healed, it should not be treated as a very temporary disease, because asthma is a purely disease? Whenever we think about an asthmatic patient, we think that he is purely having a particular disease of asthma. We should not provide him this type of pumps; we should not provide him any kind of steroids, because steroids... In Āyurveda, these types of steroids are not available, and we should not have them in our śāstra. Also, in Āyurveda śāstra, it has been provided there that these types of events or these types of products should not be mixed in any kind of medicine to give our patients. Now, another one says, "Now, thinking globally, we are going this side effect of the chemical science." That is not being said by me; it is being observed by many persons throughout the world. Many doctors have admitted that we are having this kind of side effect. Now this is the right time, as it is very old—our Āyurveda is very old—so we can adopt this in this modern age with some modernization. So what type of modernization? Because the herbs are the same, we can change the composition of the herbs. The quantity of the herbs in a particular medicine can be changed to get a new result. That is always being trialed by many doctors, many inventors of Āyurveda. Āyurveda is still going on. Many persons are said they are teaching Āyurveda, and some, some persons, they have just started to learn Āyurveda. What is Āyurveda? Still, it is a matter of learning because you can have this type of permutation and combination. A combination of the medicine is a lot of combinations that can be made. And whenever we start to make many combinations, then we get that some medicines are formed which are having very good side effects. Like this, our DVT protector: whenever we mix together all these aspects, we found that those persons who wanted to lose their weight, they have lost the weight miraculously, because we have made the medicine for deep vein thrombosis. And what is working? They are just losing their weight. The patients are losing their weight. One of the patients called me, "I was an acute, constipated patient. Now I do not have a constipation problem." So we have made this medicine for the DVT protector. We have made it for deep vein thrombosis. But now, what they are saying is that this is meant to solve the problem of constipation. It was not in my mind to make that, because my main motto was to serve the people by this particular thing: I want to save those people who are working before the computer, because in this age, it is not possible to say that I will not sit before a computer. Even the President of India or the President of the USA, they all have to sit before a computer because this is a modern age. So I started to produce this medicine. Then I did not have this. This was in my mind, that a person can have loses weight? A person can become unconstipated, the constipation will be removed. So many... One person says that, "I got memory enhanced." One person says that, "I am getting sleep very well." One person says that, "I got absolutely..." Blood pressure control means all are related with the different thrombosis. One person is saying that, "I am getting sleep well." One person is saying that, "My cholesterol is less." One person he says that, "I have got blood pressure control." It means the conclusion is, what a lot of disease was occurred by deep vein thrombosis. The deep vein thrombosis can protect these type of medicines, these type of problems also a person, because we are just getting the opinions from the patients, what you are thinking about our medicine? Say one person is saying that I got memory enhancement. One person is saying, "I got physically fit." One person is saying, "I got enthusiasm." One person is saying, "I got rejuvenated," like that. So, many good side effects. What I want to tell you is, in medical science, I told you that you have a headache. You take an aspirin, and that will damage your intestine. But in Āyurveda, we have made a medicine given to a person. Is it so that a person is saying that, "I can, I got control my cholesterol"? Is it good or bad, whether to control cholesterol is a good sign or bad? A person is saying that, "I am losing my weight. I was too heavy. Now I am getting my weight loose." So what do you think about that? Is it a good sign or is it a bad sign? Has anything bad occurred with that guy? A person is saying that I was constipated. Now he is saying that I have got a bowel problem. I am not having any kind of problem of constipation now, whenever I started this medicine. What do you think? Is it a good sign or bad? These are the side effects, so side effects means, what, the good side effect or the bad side effect? But suppose it, if we are going beyond the nature, if we are going beyond the nature, then we are thinking that. The Āyurveda says, say, you are what we are thinking that you are. If you are suffering by any kind of disease, it means you have gone beyond nature. That is our fundamental theory: that you have adopted something by your lifestyle, in your food, or in any kind of habit beyond nature. And you got this problem, you got that disease. If you go beyond the nature, you will get a problem, you will get a disease. You become a patient if you go beyond this nature. So if we are giving, we are providing any kind of medicine to a patient, we are just saying, go through your life while taking our medicine. Do not go beyond the nature. What we are saying is that precaution: you should not eat, you should not eat while taking this medicine for your, this particular for disease, you should not eat, and you should eat this one. So what we are suggesting is that which is beyond nature. If it is beyond nature, we are warning you. We are just saying, "Do not take it." We are giving it to you as a precaution. But if it is not beyond the nature, we are saying, "No, you can take it." So there is not any such type of, in our case, in our Āyurveda, we are not saying there are such type of restrictions that while taking a medicine you should not take like this way, you should not take it like this. We are simply saying that you go through the nature. You should abide by the rules of the nature. You should accept everything given by the nature. Do not go beyond the nature. This is our restriction? We do not have any restriction. We have restriction? Please, do not go through beyond the nature. If you are accepting the nature, if you are just delivering your life through the nature, by the nature, or as per nature, you will never have any kind of problem. This is what our Āyurveda says. Now, many diseases on the earth, in the male, in the female, both. God has given two types of persons on the earth: male and female. The male, they are also having many kinds of problems; females, they are also having many kinds of problems. They kind of, the irregular irregularity, appearance of a lady in his, by his body, is become suffering with the leucorrhea. It is also a very crucial disease if you are not working properly, if you are not working, if you are working too much, if you are working very little, if you are not utilizing your body in a proper manner, you will have leucorrhea. This is also a problem given by God, so this, this particular medicine, they do not have any medicine in allopathy. Whenever we think about the prostate, which occurs in mankind at the old age, there is a problem in the urinary bladder. There is a problem in the urinary section that where there is inflammation, it occurs throughout the world. It is not a disease which occurs only in India. It occurs in Britain also, it occurs in the USA also, it occurs in Australia also, everywhere. The percent of this type of disease are there? Anything, whenever we are thinking, or all these type of disease are just when occurred? Why? Because we are going beyond the nature, nothing else. The prevention we can have, prevent this type of disease by making just adopting ourselves through nature, accepting all the goods given by nature at the time when it requires, what the fruit, what the vegetable, what the grains we are getting by God, on which time, that is the main thing we should accept the same thing. We should not take. You are here, you have got cold storage. You can get everything whenever you require it from the cold storage, but it will give you some bad effect because it is beyond nature. So, Āyurveda is totally based on, if we are not going beyond the nature, you will not be a patient. The disease cannot come. The disease, your body will not allow, because your body will have such type of resistance power in your body that this type of events or this type of horrible disease cannot enter in your body. Your body will resist them if you will properly take the particular vegetables, that particular fruits, particular grains, and if you spend your whole day, your whole the day. This particular lifestyle should be such that you should wander three kilometers a day. You should go to pray. You should go to... How much time are you standing in a kitchen? You should not sit more and more whenever you are sitting on the chair. You must stand up after every half an hour, and you should wander and wander at least one hundred yards. Then you will never have this deep vein thrombosis, but we cannot because, whenever doing work on the computer table, we are seeing that, no, I will just finish this work, then I will go for toilet. Now I will finish these two files, then I will go to have my lunch. No, I want to finish this one, then I will go to meet my brother. Why? That is because your lifestyle totally depends on what you deserve. To do everything fast, you are not going to the toilet, you are not going to take your food. Your lunch is waiting for you, and you are, what are you saying? "I will finish the two files, then I will go." This is what, this is our lifestyle. We have to change it. If we change it, we will not suffer from any kind of disease. If you cannot, then you must take medicines. No, there is no alternate way. Either you go through nature, or you go beyond nature, get infected, and you can get many diseases in your body, so you have to take some medicines because it is your lifestyle. It is on you whether to go to the toilet first or to finish your two files of work first. It totally depends on you. Nobody is supposed to tell you that you must do this first, you must go to the toilet. But you must know that nature has given a phenomenon, the indication that now you should go to the toilet. But now, you have, you are not abiding the regulation of God, what God has given: now you go to the toilet. Now you are not abiding the rule, and you are saying, "No, I will just finish two files, then I will go to toilet. I will just finish two files. I am not supposed to go on the priority basis." But the priority was what nature has given you: the priority to go to the toilet. But now you have got the priority to finish the file. This is your lifestyle. If you are maintaining your lifestyle in this way, as per your wish, then you must have many diseases, and for that you should have to take medicines. Now, it is on our part, say we have got Āyurveda, we have got homeopathy, we have got medicinal science. Nowadays, it has become, or a naturopathy, some color therapy, some therapy by the flowers, also some sujog therapy, many therapies are occurring in the market, and I am not saying that any therapy is bad. You can be cured by any therapy, but we can wonder one thing, we can deliver one thing. That Āyurveda, it is very safe. It does not harm very little. It has got side effects, but all good, good side effects. It does not have any bad side effects. Āyurveda, the ninety-nine medicines were suggested in Āyurveda Śāstra, either a proprietary medicine made on this made by any scientist of Āyurveda that will not harm you, the ninety-nine medicines are safe. The one percent, I cannot say one percent, there is a side effect. There might be a side effect of some certain in such type of patient which are already having this type of another crucial disease having a side effect of more acidity, more air in the body, anything like that, but we have observed ninety-nine percent it is safe. Whereas in medical science, we are thinking that almost one percent of medicines are safe. Ninety-nine percent of medicines are unsafe. They are well in surgery, where in the operation theatre, this medical science is very well. Because they can just give you anesthesia, they can give you such types of events. They have got modern apparatus by which they can get surgery. But whenever we are treating a patient, as per the medicine, the person should come to, or the person should go on to, Āyurveda. Āyurveda is a part. Āyurveda is just the thing that we are taking every day, and we are seeing every day on the earth. These green leaves, this root, grass, this type of grass is working on another thing. Everything on the earth, every tree, every herbal tree, every herb, every serpent has got a fundamental characteristic. They have the characteristic to cure you from any kind of disease. Nothing is waste on the earth. Even the grass that has got the ability to stop inflammation, it is not wasted. Even the grass on the earth, we are saying it is a... it is a... what is of no use? No, it has got a use. Everything given by God on the earth is useful. We should know that: what is the character of that particular leaf, particular root, particular plant? Where can we apply it? What can we apply it for? How can it work? How can we prepare a medicine for what type of disease, that should be known, and that is the books or the Śāstra, which is called Āyurveda. Nothing else. Āyurveda is simple. It is simply saying the application of the herbs, the application of the serpents, the application of the vegetables, the application of the roots, the application of the stem, everything on the earth, whatever has got anything that is given in the Āyurveda Śāstra. That we can read through Āyurveda says that nothing is wasted on the earth.

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