HEALTH AND DISEASE: A YOGIC PERSPECTIVE by Swamiji

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HEALTH AND DISEASE:

A YOGIC PERSPECTIVE

Yogamaharishi Dr

Swami Gitananda Giri Guru Maharaj

Modern medical

science enumerates some nearly 4,000 diseases and disorders of the body and

mind in modern medicine and psychology. Yoga views this vast proliferation of

diseases as a natural outcome of the stress and strain created by desire

fostered by modern propaganda and the abuse of the body condoned on all sides

even by religion, science and philosophy. Add to this the synthetic “junk foodâ€

diet of modern society and you have the possibility of endless disorders

developing…even the extinction of man by his own ignorance and misdeeds.

Yoga, a wholistic,

unified concept of Oneness, is termed in Sanskrit “Adwaitam†or non-dual in

nature. It suggests happiness, harmony and ease. Dis-ease is created when

duality or “Dwaitam†arises in the human mind. This false concept of duality

has produced all of the conflicts of human mind and the vast list of human

disorders afflicting man. Duality-disease-is the primary cause of man’s

downfall. Adwaita Vedanta, Yoga, and other wholistic concepts return man to his

pristine, whole nature. Anything other than a Yoga concept leads only to human

disorders.

All diseases,

maladies, tensions, are manifestations of divisions of what should be man’s

complete nature, the Atman or Self. This Self is “Easeâ€. A loss of “Easeâ€

creates “Dis-easeâ€. Duality is the first insanity, the first disease, the

unreasonable thought that “I am different from the whole…. I am unique. I am

me.†The ego is a manifestation of disease. Only a distorted ego could feel

alone, suffer from “the lonely diseaseâ€, in a Universe, a Cosmos totally filled

with the Self. It is of some interest to note that one of the oldest words for

man in an Indian language is “Insanaâ€. Man is “insaneâ€. A return to sanity,

“going sane,†is the subject of real Yoga Sadhana and Yoga Abyasa. Yoga

Chikitsa is one of the methods to help insane man back to the path of sanity. A

healthy man or woman is known by the term-Yogi.

Because man has

failed to maintain a unified view of himself in respect to Ultimate Reality, a

harmonious blend of his personality in relationship to his hidden universality,

he is anything but a Yogi. He can be described as a Rogi suffering from Roga,

disease; a Bhogi, a seeker of Bhoga, hedonistic pleasure, and if he survives

this role as either or both he can be considered little more than an “old

Phogi†in his latter years. Good health, the absence of disease, involves a

universal philosophy of life, an appropriate Unified Style of Living, and where

necessary, proper, wholistic treatment for disorders which may arise as the

result of past Karma. Indeed, it may be necessary to understand the role that

one’s personal Karma plays in the onset of human disorders and the ultimate

alleviation or cure of these disorders.

Modern science has

failed to meet the demands of the needy of the world, whatever that need may

be. Indeed, there is every evidence that man is much more ill than at any time

in the past and this is especially true with chronic disorders, which have

plagued us with crippling, refractory conditions that seem to defy the wisdom

of science and modern discoveries. Perhaps it is time to look to the East,

especially India,

who already has proved to the world to be the mother of religions and

philosophies and re-discovers the use of our Vedic Sciences of Ayurveda and

Yoga Chikitsa. Ayurveda once employed Yoga-like technique as a part of its

method of treatment. Yoga Chikitsa has drawn heavily from the science of

Ayurveda. Ayuryoga, a coined term, would indicate a re-blending of the two,

into Ayur Chikitsa of Yoga Chikitsa. In recent times, Ayurveda has been

recognized by the World Health Organization as a practical medical system and

Yoga Chikitsa has recently been accepted by the Government of India, Ministry

of Health, as an indigenous Medical System. Together these two ancient Indian

Sciences could alter the course of human suffering and more so, human

evolution. While man suffers in mind and body, he distorts the Universe in

which he lives through his view. Happy, healthy man would create a heaven here

on earth.

Yogacharya Dr.Ananda Balayogi Bhavanani Chairman : Yoganjali Natyalayam and ICYER Hon General Secretary, Pondicherry Yogasana Association 25, 2nd Cross,Iyyanar Nagar, Pondicherry, South India-605 013 Tel: +91-413 - 2622902 / +91-413 -3203314/+91-413 -2241561 Mobile: 9842311433 Website: www.icyer.com www.geocities.com/yognat2001/anandahttp://youtube.com/profile_videos?user=yognat2001 & p=r

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Thats an excellent explanation!!! Such a nice thought correlating Dwaitam and disease. How true!!! Makes me wonder What a Great Thinker Swamiji is!!!--- On Sat, 27/6/09, Yogacharya Dr.Ananda Bhavanani <yognat2001 wrote:

Yogacharya Dr.Ananda Bhavanani <yognat2001 HEALTH AND DISEASE: A YOGIC PERSPECTIVE by Swamiji Date: Saturday, 27 June, 2009, 10:13 AM

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

HEALTH AND DISEASE: A YOGIC PERSPECTIVE

Yogamaharishi Dr Swami Gitananda Giri Guru Maharaj

Modern medical science enumerates some nearly 4,000 diseases and disorders of the body and mind in modern medicine and psychology. Yoga views this vast proliferation of diseases as a natural outcome of the stress and strain created by desire fostered by modern propaganda and the abuse of the body condoned on all sides even by religion, science and philosophy. Add to this the synthetic “junk food†diet of modern society and you have the possibility of endless disorders developing…even the extinction of man by his own ignorance and misdeeds.

Yoga, a wholistic, unified concept of Oneness, is termed in Sanskrit “Adwaitam†or non-dual in nature. It suggests happiness, harmony and ease. Dis-ease is created when duality or “Dwaitam†arises in the human mind. This false concept of duality has produced all of the conflicts of human mind and the vast list of human disorders afflicting man. Duality-disease- is the primary cause of man’s downfall. Adwaita Vedanta, Yoga, and other wholistic concepts return man to his pristine, whole nature. Anything other than a Yoga concept leads only to human disorders.

All diseases, maladies, tensions, are manifestations of divisions of what should be man’s complete nature, the Atman or Self. This Self is “Easeâ€. A loss of “Ease†creates “Dis-easeâ€. Duality is the first insanity, the first disease, the unreasonable thought that “I am different from the whole…. I am unique. I am me.†The ego is a manifestation of disease. Only a distorted ego could feel alone, suffer from “the lonely diseaseâ€, in a Universe, a Cosmos totally filled with the Self. It is of some interest to note that one of the oldest words for man in an Indian language is “Insanaâ€. Man is “insaneâ€. A return to sanity, “going sane,†is the subject of real Yoga Sadhana and Yoga Abyasa. Yoga Chikitsa is one of the methods to help insane man back to the path of sanity. A healthy man or woman is known by the term-Yogi.

Because man has failed to maintain a unified view of himself in respect to Ultimate Reality, a harmonious blend of his personality in relationship to his hidden universality, he is anything but a Yogi. He can be described as a Rogi suffering from Roga, disease; a Bhogi, a seeker of Bhoga, hedonistic pleasure, and if he survives this role as either or both he can be considered little more than an “old Phogi†in his latter years. Good health, the absence of disease, involves a universal philosophy of life, an appropriate Unified Style of Living, and where necessary, proper, wholistic treatment for disorders which may arise as the result of past Karma. Indeed, it may be necessary to understand the role that one’s personal Karma plays in the onset of human disorders and the ultimate alleviation or cure of these disorders.

Modern science has failed to meet the demands of the needy of the world, whatever that need may be. Indeed, there is every evidence that man is much more ill than at any time in the past and this is especially true with chronic disorders, which have plagued us with crippling, refractory conditions that seem to defy the wisdom of science and modern discoveries. Perhaps it is time to look to the East, especially India , who already has proved to the world to be the mother of religions and philosophies and re-discovers the use of our Vedic Sciences of Ayurveda and Yoga Chikitsa. Ayurveda once employed Yoga-like technique as a part of its method of treatment. Yoga Chikitsa has drawn heavily from the science of Ayurveda. Ayuryoga, a coined term, would indicate a re-blending of the two, into Ayur Chikitsa of Yoga Chikitsa. In recent times, Ayurveda has been recognized by the World

Health Organization as a practical medical system and Yoga Chikitsa has recently been accepted by the Government of India, Ministry of Health, as an indigenous Medical System. Together these two ancient Indian Sciences could alter the course of human suffering and more so, human evolution. While man suffers in mind and body, he distorts the Universe in which he lives through his view. Happy, healthy man would create a heaven here on earth.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Yogacharya Dr.Ananda Balayogi Bhavanani

Chairman : Yoganjali Natyalayam and ICYER

Hon General Secretary, Pondicherry Yogasana Association

25, 2nd Cross,Iyyanar Nagar, Pondicherry, South India-605 013

Tel: +91-413 - 2622902 / +91-413 -3203314/+91- 413 -2241561

Mobile: 9842311433

Website: www.icyer.com

www.geocities. com/yognat2001/ anandahttp://youtube. com/profile_ videos?user= yognat2001 & p=r

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