When I was a boy, I used to have severe attacks of a special kind of sinusitis. Acute, throbbing pain at a spot slightly above one or both of the brows on sunrise is the symptom. It persists till the sun reaches the zenith, and thereafter would vanish gradually. Next morning, the same thing repeats itself.
I approached my Uncle, who was a Vydyan ( A practitioner in Ayurveda) He woke me up early in the morning before sunrise, and applied the extract of a kind of leaf with lime on the nail of my right big toe.
I waited for the throbbing pain to appear as usual, but it never came again. I asked my Uncle what the wonderful medicine was and he showed me a climber with pale green leaves. He squeezed the leaves with a little of fresh lime and pressed out the greenish yellow fluid.
How on earth did he know the exact leaf out of the millions of kinds of leaves which would cure my ailment? The ache was on the left brow, but the medicine was applied on the right toenail. There are other simple, surprising cures for many other diseases like kidney stone, tonsillitis, diarrhoea, warts, and even rabies. These are closely guarded secrets handed down from generation to generation.
These cures were certainly not discovered by the trial and error method. The only answer is that, in intuitive powers and in the level of consciousness, the ancient man was far superior to modern man. They lived very close to nature and their worries and cares were fewer. Ancient people applied their conscious minds on fewer matters and their unconscious minds were almost in constant contact with the Universal Consciousness. The Universal Consciousness is the storehouse of all knowledge and wisdom, and ancient people had little difficulty in divining cures for common ailments from nature.
The ancient man lived in nature with few or no gadgets for making life comfortable. He survived by his absolute dependence on nature. The universe is the source and origin of all wisdom, and being a part of it, he inherited such wisdom in abundance. So, the fact that such and such herbs are cures for such and such ailments entered his mind intuitively without the application of the logic of the conscious mind.
As man distanced himself from the lap of divine care and love, he gradually lost contact with the wisdom of the universe. And modern man, urbanized and sophisticated, eating tinned and canned foods, using wheels rather than legs for locomotion, thinking constantly of material pleasures, shutting himself in the cage of inhibitions and egos, is a miserable person.
When did man lose his communion with Nature?
Probably when he settled down and started agriculture. But for millennia thereafter, he maintained his touch with nature, though in diminishing degrees. Modern urbanized man lives by the dictates of his logical conscious mind rather than by the wisdom of nature and the intuition of his unconscious mind.
Sages of ancient India knew of the spiritual degradation faced by man owing to his settled life. So, many of them withdrew into the lap of nature, to pristine forests, and lived exactly as the primitive man lived and attained amazing spiritual heights. Modern man might think that the stories of their supernatural attainments in spheres as varied from spirituality to poetry are exaggerations.
I approached my Uncle, who was a Vydyan ( A practitioner in Ayurveda) He woke me up early in the morning before sunrise, and applied the extract of a kind of leaf with lime on the nail of my right big toe.
I waited for the throbbing pain to appear as usual, but it never came again. I asked my Uncle what the wonderful medicine was and he showed me a climber with pale green leaves. He squeezed the leaves with a little of fresh lime and pressed out the greenish yellow fluid.
How on earth did he know the exact leaf out of the millions of kinds of leaves which would cure my ailment? The ache was on the left brow, but the medicine was applied on the right toenail. There are other simple, surprising cures for many other diseases like kidney stone, tonsillitis, diarrhoea, warts, and even rabies. These are closely guarded secrets handed down from generation to generation.
These cures were certainly not discovered by the trial and error method. The only answer is that, in intuitive powers and in the level of consciousness, the ancient man was far superior to modern man. They lived very close to nature and their worries and cares were fewer. Ancient people applied their conscious minds on fewer matters and their unconscious minds were almost in constant contact with the Universal Consciousness. The Universal Consciousness is the storehouse of all knowledge and wisdom, and ancient people had little difficulty in divining cures for common ailments from nature.
The ancient man lived in nature with few or no gadgets for making life comfortable. He survived by his absolute dependence on nature. The universe is the source and origin of all wisdom, and being a part of it, he inherited such wisdom in abundance. So, the fact that such and such herbs are cures for such and such ailments entered his mind intuitively without the application of the logic of the conscious mind.
As man distanced himself from the lap of divine care and love, he gradually lost contact with the wisdom of the universe. And modern man, urbanized and sophisticated, eating tinned and canned foods, using wheels rather than legs for locomotion, thinking constantly of material pleasures, shutting himself in the cage of inhibitions and egos, is a miserable person.
When did man lose his communion with Nature?
Probably when he settled down and started agriculture. But for millennia thereafter, he maintained his touch with nature, though in diminishing degrees. Modern urbanized man lives by the dictates of his logical conscious mind rather than by the wisdom of nature and the intuition of his unconscious mind.
Sages of ancient India knew of the spiritual degradation faced by man owing to his settled life. So, many of them withdrew into the lap of nature, to pristine forests, and lived exactly as the primitive man lived and attained amazing spiritual heights. Modern man might think that the stories of their supernatural attainments in spheres as varied from spirituality to poetry are exaggerations.
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