Fevers : Simple fevers are due to cold, getting wet in the rain, walking long in the sun, wearing wet clothing for a long time, moist weather, change of seasons, carelessness concerning diet, etc. Premonitory symptoms include fatigue without labor,…
There is a natural affinity between male and female. Male gets impulse from the woman. Bankim Chandra writes up the women of his times in golden prose. We may compare the women of his day and ours. Rabindranath Tagore wrote…
Aryan Civilization can be divided into five ages: prevedic, vedic, upanishadic, mahabharat, and present. The Nibid Mantra was prevedic, and in it there is no mention of varnasram or division of society into four classes. The first mention of such…
The Santa Scripture says the spirit is libido. What roams in Brahma is spirit, libido, or surat. The ‘Setaswatar Upanishada’ says: That which, with ectoplastic body -like a sunbeam-. promised and egoed, sufficient in its own purity and power, and…
As to which is better, meat diet or vegetable, we shall not decide just now. Let us first inquire into the elements of which food is composed. Our body can be compared with a steam engine. Without fire and…
Rabindranath Tagore said, “The mental world and the outer world are different. How can we conceive these two worlds? The mental world always carries with it an urge to create something, in the outer world, and unless this manifestation comes,…
We quote from some wonderful stories in the Sri Chaitanya-Charitamrita. They are fairly recent. Sri Madhabendra Puri went on pilgrimage to Brindaban. Brindaban filled him with joy, and tears of gladness streamed down from his eyes. He then went to…
Ayurveda says that balance and unbalance of the five primary elements plus consciousness are the root causes of health and disease. The five primary elements are traditionally called earth, water, air, fire, and ether. Consciousness upholds these elements in the…
Food and activity are the main sources of health. Where these are improper, disease comes. Untimely eating, eating in excess, eating stale and unsuitable foods are some of the improprieties of diet. If a week man subjects himself to laborious…
Treatment is needed for illness. No acute symptom of disease should ever be neglected. Just as a small seed can produce a mammoth tree, so an acute symptom like a common cold can become the cause of tuberculosis. It is…
Human beings are said to be the most superior creatures of the world, and their objectives are said to be four-fold: righteousness, prosperity, satisfaction of carnal desire, and liberation. If you examine the daily behavior of men and women, you…
There is a mythological story about the origin of Ayurveda. According to that story Brahma was the first incarnation, and it was he who first discovered Ayurveda. Then his disciple Daksha discovered further Ayurvedic truths. Then came the two Aswini…
Ayurveda is one of the main parts of the Veda. Originally it came from the Atharva Veda. By reading this Veda, we can know what is good and bad for longevity, the root cause of disease, how disease can be…
Like a blazing sun in a cloudless sky, Ayurvedic Science came to light in the age of the Aryan Seers. These rishis spent much of their time in meditation and then worked over the realizations thereof. They were essentially truth…
According to Ayurved the body in balance is in health. Balance means a balance of the three elements: bayu, pitta, kaffa. Unbalance or predominance of any one of the three may bring disease. If the unbalance fails to touch or…
According to Charak’s delightful story, the ancient wise men of India one day assembled at the foot of the Himalayas with the purpose of ridding men of disease. They decided to send one Bharadwaj to heaven to learn medicine from…
The Santa Scripture says the spirit is libido. What roams in Brahma is spirit, libido, or surat. The ‘Setaswatar Upanishada’ says: That which, with ectoplastic body -like a sunbeam-. promised and egoed, sufficient in its own purity and power, and…
Men of the Vedas and Upanishadas realized the sound Om; those of the Ramayana and Mahabharata realized Rarang and Shohang. Recently we have had many teachers who speak of new realizations. We call them the creators of the new order.…
Responsibility grows from services, and there are many ways to serve. Wherever men expand and establish themselves, they have been serviceable to their environment. Where they give peace and happiness, they are most serviceable and become as gods. Service…
The universe is truly mysterious. Sir James Jeans realized this and quoted a few lines from Plato. He did not support Plato in toto, but when he could not make out the workings of the universe, he came to respect…
In this world we see that everyone more or less is suffering from some ailment or other. Some are susceptible to colds, some can’t stand heat, some are prematurely gray or their teeth loosen, and some have poor eyesight, etc.…
We want to discuss some sages and seers of ours living between the fifteenth and twentieth centuries. Kabir was born in Benares. He lived from 1398 to 1448. His father, Niru, was a weaver and a Mohammedan. Kabir never left…
When we follow religion, we are being religious men. We should admit this truism. There are very few men in this world who do not pray to God in their crises, whether He hears them or no. At a critical…
In an upheaving sparks of beauty shot forth from the bosom of the Beyond, each shooting energy becoming a finite bubble on the infinite ocean of Cause. The bubbles were vast, and their shooting energy had a double motion; one…
The war-drum beats. Any moment now the fighting may begin. The immortal sons of the earth are marching forward, torch in hand, toward the smoldering fire. They will not stop till everything is massacred. No death, no pain, no tears,…
Charles Darwin was born in 1809, in England. He thought of evolution in a new way, in a way no other scientists had been able to do. His two famous books were the ‘Origin of Species’ (1859) and the…
In the Bhagavat Gita Lord Krishna describes devotion. He says: “The man who dedicates his thoughts and deeds to Me, whose faith is like Gibraltar, and he the same, not discontent, not thinking ‘mine’ and ‘me’ who makes no sore…
We see with our eyes and hear with our ears, but how do sight and sound arise? One life energy flows throughout the world, and there is nothing lifeless. Man has life. Even a grain of sand has life. A…
The birds’ sweet songs make the happy morning. Who does not love to hear them? Who will lie drowsing in his bed till after the sun has risen? Light is life, dispeling dark and gloom. When sky is tinged with…
Health And Energy: On September 3, 1939 war broke out among England, France, and Germany. We want war to be abolished; yet we cannot avoid it. It has been with us since the beginning of civilization. When war protects our…
A century ago Lord Minto, Viceroy of India, remarked, “Bengalees are tall, stout and robust-built like wrestlers. I have not seen such a race anywhere.” Without going into the question of whether or not this remark applies to the rest…
The condition of the normally healthy man may be called health. Consciousness and vibration are the forces of creation. They emerge from their evolving centre and spread in the world around. When at last their movement is stopped, new means…
We have been worshipping Maheswar, Brahma, and Vishnu from ancient times. It has been said of Siva (Maheswar): “Worship Mahesh whose colour is like the snowy mountain’s, whose forehead shines like the full moon, whose look is as sparkling as…
The twentieth century is full of isms. Whether communism is good or democracy is good no one can say definitely. But almost everyone agrees that men should live cleanly and purely. If there is no love in the heart, there…
The poet Hem Chandra wrote: “See the sun and stars circling above your head- just as they were doing when we were free. That Arjabarta still exists : The Vindya Mountains still stand high; The Ganges flows as e’er it…
Scientists have zealously investigated the beginnings of the human race but have not come to any one conclusion. They are however of the same opinion in at least one respect, that Aryans, Mongolians, Dravidians, Negroes and Semites all appeared at…
The Body : Every man desires a happy and long life in which to enjoy this beautiful world. Few are concerned with pleasures that will come after death. Some men get pleasure in this life, however, sacrificing for others pleasure.…
The Arctic Region was not always cold. People lived there. Some thousands of year ago it become cold. The struggle of the people to stay alive and thrive resulted in a spiritual enlightenment that may be called the Aryan Religion.…
We can see our country through the Vedas. Brihaspoti has said, “The three Vedas are good for the wicked ones.” Atharvaved and Sanghitaved are two of the Vedas. Brihaspoti spoke of three. Charbak discarded the Vedas altogether, but we can’t…
There was a science of Ayurved from immemorial times in our sub-continent. The science of Allopathy grew up after Ayurved; we would like to discuss it first. Hippocrates, the founder of Allopathy, was born in 460 B. C. He…
The dead don’t wake. The sleeper does. Even Khumbakarna, who used to sleep for six months at a stretch, woke up, and when he did, he stayed awake for the other six months of the year. That is probably as…
There are four different systems of medicine : Allopathy, Homeopathy, Unani and Ayurved. Ayurved is the oldest and probably the mother of the others. Hippocrates was the father of allopathic medicine, but Hippocrates, and after him, Aristotle and Pythagoras, were…
Our mind is our guiding star in all we do and that mind that mind is itself the product of an evaluation, of forces-both inner and outer, of our innermost glowing point as it spreads its light in the…
