[Minutus] Homoeopathy & Suffering.

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Dear Doctors,

 

I think Venkat's comments, that homoeopathy is not as popular as it deserves to

be or that in some parts of the world it is not practised properly indicates

that God wants people to suffer, may have some basis.

 

In this connection I would like to recount an incident in the life of Swami

Brahmananda, the first President of the Ramakrishna Mission. In his time the

famous homoeopath of Bengal Dr M Bhattacharya was very much devoted to the

Mission. Unfortunately Dr Bhattacharya's wife passed away untimely leaving the

doctor devastated. He was so heartbroken that he wanted to donate his

homoeopathic pharmaceutical factory to the Mission and take to the life of a

monk. The senior monks of the Order took this request of his and presented it

before Swami Brahmananda hoping he would sanction the same and the Mission would

have a ready made tool to serve the needy. But Swami Brahmananda flatly refused

the order stating that Dr Bhattacharya was suffering from temporary detachment

and would regret his decision later. No amount of persuasion by both Dr

Bhattacharya and the monks could prevail on the Swami.

 

Years later the personal attendant of the Swami, Swami Apurbananda, asked

Brahmanandaji the real reason for his adamant stand on the issue. This was

because Swami Apurbananda knew that the Swami was very much interested in

homoeopathy and occasionaly practiced it himself with great success.

 

Swami Bramhanandaji's reply was very strange. He said, " You see, every person

has to suffer from the consequences of his present action and also his karma,

i.e. actions from previous births. Homoeopathy has the power to go against

karma, so it cannot be sanctioned! " . What a tremendous compliment this is for

homoeopathy coming from a spiritual giant like Swami Brahmananda, considered to

the the spiritual heir of Sri Ramakrishna himself !

 

That karma is a major factor behind many incurable diseases has been

acknowledged in a recent book on cancer by one of the famous oncologists of

India. The curious thing is that his statement has not sparked off any debate.

 

Another interesting fact is that the Ramakrishna Mission has recently received a

huge donation to start a homoeopathic college and hospital by a NRI allopathic

physician. I really don't know why the Mission has kept the project in the

backburner.

 

Regards,

Jagannath.

 

Ps: I am a newcomer to this group so probably I may be chastised for saying this

but still I would request all the revered members to kindly delete the tail end

of the messages so that the discussion board does not look so clumsy. Often it

becomes difficult to discern between the messages and the previous mails.