... life is abandoned as hopeless by the doctors. 404) Distrust of the curative power within us was our physical fall from Paradise. Medical Science and a bad heredity are the two angels of God who stand at the gates to forbid our return and reentry. 405) Medical Science to the human body is like a great Power which enfeebles a smaller State by its protection or like a benevolent robber who knocks his... arranger. 385) Disease is needlessly prolonged & ends in death oftener than is inevitable, because the mind of the patient supports & dwells upon the disease of his body. Page 474 386) Medical Science has been more a curse to mankind than a blessing. It has broken the force of epidemics and unveiled a marvellous surgery; but, also, it has weakened the natural health of man and multiplied individual... divine health in us to cure and prevent diseases; but Galen and Hippocrates & their tribe have given us instead an armoury of drugs and a barbarous Latin hocus-pocus as our physical gospel. 394) Medical Science is well-meaning and its practitioners often benevolent and not seldom self-sacrificing; but when did the well-meaning of the ignorant save them from harm-doing? 395) If all remedies were really ...
... enrayé . Yet if it is T.B. of intestines, what is there but spiritual action that can do anything? Medical [Science] can only act in such a case if it changes its philosophy. On that I shall send you an article from the Presse Médicale which may throw some light. In France fortunately medical Science is beginning to open its eyes. January 25, 1937 Is today's poem surrealist? If I am going... dyspepsia. It is all right for a few days, but to make it a rule kills the stomach. Here I agree with R's principle of reeducating the stomach and intestines. But all that is only a standpoint. If the medical Science does not admit it, I don't insist. And we shall give some assimilable form of cod-liver oil. No objection to that— Lastly, he must be given some sedentary work. But he has his classes ...
... it by a remark of Sri Aurobindo 's. SRI AUROBINDO: Doctors are bound to differ. It seems to me that medical science has developed much knowledge but in application it is either an art or a fluke. Satyendra and Purani agreed with the remark and said that as regards application medical science was not exact as yet. Nirodbaran observed that this was so because of individual variation. SRI AUROBINDO:... contagious disease. He says it is hereditary. What a great relief this will be! I myself haven't found it contagious. Take also the question of diet. They are changing their ideas constantly. Some day medical science will become exact. Then Satyendra brought in the question of the unscrupulousness and incapacity of private practitioners and held that medical practice should be under State control. SRI ...
... with my own hands plague-infected rats. PURANI: Medical men sometimes build up their theories and then try to fix facts to them. SRI AUROBINDO: The difference between medical science and proper science is that in medical science one negative instance doesn't disprove the theory, while in proper science a single negative example will throw out a whole theory and the scientists will have to begin work... that there is something in the blood—some infection, even though the culture is negative. SRI AUROBINDO: Then why is it negative? Can the case be septicaemia even if it is negative? If it can, medical science is not very exact. NIRODBARAN: It may be septicaemia. Sometimes one has to make repeated examinations. For instance, in T.B. one has to search for the bacillus plenty of times. PURANI: Even ...
... life is abandoned as hopeless by the doctors. 405—Distrust of the curative power within us was our physical fall from Paradise. Medical Science and a bad heredity are the two angels of God who stand at the gates to forbid our return and re-entry. 406—Medical Science to the human body is like a great Power which enfeebles a smaller State by its protection or like a benevolent robber who knocks his ...
... Aphorisms Aphorism - 400, 401, 402, 403 400—Man was once naturally healthy and could revert to that primal condition if he were suffered; but Medical Science pursues our body with an innumerable pack of drugs and assails the imagination with ravening hordes of microbes. 401—I would rather die and have done with it than spend life in defending myself... discover Nature's direct all-powerful remedies? 403—It should take long for self-cure to replace medicine, because of the fear, self-distrust and unnatural physical reliance on drugs which Medical Science has taught to our minds and bodies and made our second nature. We cannot counteract the harm done by mental faith in the need for drugs by any external measures. Only by escaping from the ...
... into the physician's practice, and the conceptual scheme expanded to accommodate them. As a result, the school of Ayurveda has a breadth and depth that could be unparalleled in the history of medical science. This also made it possible for Ayurvedic physicians, or vaidyas, to develop, over thousands of years, an extremely Page 143 complex and complete science of haematology and pharmacology... of tridosha. The focus of Ayur vedic nutrition is on the interaction between the person and the food and the directly observed and experienced reactions that occur. Though Ayurveda is a medical science, its application is not limited to the physician. An understanding of the rudiments of Ayurveda is an important part of traditional education, and the physician's role is merely to be an expert ...
... informed that P has got boils, ringworm and other privileges all over his body and he is scratching himself and wiping the dishes with his busy fingers. This, I believe, is objectionable according to medical science as well as to common sense? You had better interview him and insist on his taking some kind of treatment, also your good advice. What? SRI AUROBINDO May 20, 1937 There are plenty... miracle. If these are not 0.P., they ought to be. Quite awfully fine. Gaudeamus igitur. 153 The bakery servant's ulcer is varicose ulcer. Rather difficult to heal, for according to medical science the first step in treatment is rest of the parts affected. But since it is not bad, we may hope to cure it. About the risk, Mother has taken the responsibility. Mother was told it was a wound ...
... consciousness, and as they are not obliged to do any work they recuperate themselves. All their normal functions are suspended during sleep, so they get rest. There are various theories of sleep in medical science. Sri Aurobindo : I do not know what it is physiologically, but it is a condition of Tamasic withdrawal into the inner consciousness. It is likely that as the normal functions are suspended... to take extraordinary care. (After an interval of silence during which the Mother came and departed for meditation, Sri Aurobindo himself continued). It seems the doctors are born to differ. Medical science has developed much knowledge but in application it is either an art or a fluke. Disciple : Perhaps it has not attained exactness in its application because of individual variation. Sri ...
... efficacy was not confined to his Ashram: telegraphic offices all over India will bear witness to the daily flashing of appeals for help in various illnesses, including those that often defeat medical science, and then messages of thanksgiving for relief and remedy by spiritual means. No, Sri Aurobindo, the Yogi of the Supermind descending into the outer as well as the inner being and bringing a divine... would be no utter supernormality but carry for all its profound import and exceptional mode some semblance of the common passage to the stillness and the shadow. Page 434 What medical science would try to describe as physical causes are, therefore, far indeed from being any contradiction of the thesis that Sri Aurobindo did not pass away as a result of them. And this thesis, we may ...
... On Thoughts and Aphorisms DISEASE AND MEDICAL SCIENCE To be cured is good, but to avoid being ill is better. The Mother Aphorism - 386, 387, 388, 389 386—Disease is needlessly prolonged and ends in death oftener than is inevitable, because the mind of the patient supports and dwells upon the disease of his body... body. How absolutely true! Page 321 387—Medical Science has been more a curse to mankind than a blessing. It has broken the force of epidemics and unveiled a marvellous surgery; but, also, it has weakened the natural health of man and multiplied individual diseases; it has implanted fear and dependence in the mind and body; it has taught our health to repose not on natural soundness ...
... us instead an armoury of drugs and a barbarous Latin hocus-pocus as our physical gospel. 399—Man was once naturally healthy and could revert to that primal condition if he were suffered; but Medical Science pursues our body with an innumerable pack of drugs and assails the imagination with ravening hordes of microbes. 400—I would rather die and have done with it than spend life in defending myself... discover Nature's direct all-powerful remedies? 402—It should take long for self-cure to replace medicine, because of the fear, self-distrust and unnatural physical reliance on drugs which Medical Science has taught to our minds and bodies and made our second nature. In fact, very often the answer comes to me in English because it comes to me from Sri Aurobindo. When I read, I listen, and ...
... to his Ashram: telegraphic offices all over India will bear witness to the Page 117 daily flashing of appeals for help in various illnesses, including those that often defeat medical science, and then messages of thanksgiving for relief and remedy by spiritual means. No, Sri Aurobindo. the Yogi of the Supermind descending into the outer as well as the inner being and bringing a divine... adventure of his death would be no utter supernormality but carry for all its profound import and exceptional mode some semblance of the common passage to the stillness and the shadow. What medical science would try to describe as physical causes are, therefore, far indeed from being any contradiction of the thesis that Sri Aurobindo did not pass away as a result of them. And this thesis, we may ...
... for Law was a sheer desperate venture. For, my education had been non-scientific by deliberate choice. I did not like cutting human bodies dead or alive, besides other unaesthetic adjuncts of Medical Science. Further, people dubbed my ambitious project a Don-Quixotic adventure because of my young age and inadequate financial resources to cope with a long six-year course. But that I should go abroad... answer would I give? Before starting, however, I thought I must take a bath. I felt even like praying a little. As soon as I sat down, my eyes closed and something startling happened of which my medical science had not dreamt even. I saw the upper pan of my body suspended in the air for a few seconds and the lower part non-existent. Frightened like a child, I opened my eyes and the thing vanished! In ...
... Chlorodyne, and didn't let you know, the danger was signalled. Of course, in any case, the condition was hopeless, but who knows? How can you believe that when everything is explained according to medical science? There is no place left there for Mother's Force or any force except Valle-Force. Valle said D.L. would have passed away two or three days ago, but glucose, oxygen and injections kept her up... the experience can't go on. [After a long report of K's medical case:] Have women a substance equivalent to men's seminal fluid which is said to be the basis of physical energy? Our medical science is silent about it. You really don't want me to deliver to a doctor a lecture on physiology or genetics? Nonsense! October 28, 1936 Guru, now I remember it was not exactly স্তব্ধতা ...
... Even so, he said, “It is somewhat like confessing a murder.” I am before Mother's story rather like Darwin before his iguanas. “Come now, is it possible?” And what will the biologists say, and medical science, and...? Yet there is no doubt. For nineteen years, without quite understanding what it all meant, I listened to Mother, Sri Aurobindo's continuator, describing her experiences. Then, one day in... 68.289 Surely! You can even have the experience materially if ... if death is brief enough not to give the doctors time to declare you dead! Needless to say, Mother had little esteem for medical science: “I am an atheist of medicine,” she said to me, laughing. And we are reminded of Sri Aurobindo: We laugh at the savage for his faith in the medicine man; but how are the civilised less su ...
... another possibility. But what is fantastic (when we have the guts to go through all those layers) is that we suddenly realize that all those inexorable "laws" confining us – the laws codified by medical science, mathematics, physics – are all an immense... illusion. They have no reality! At a certain depth or cellular PURITY (once we have reached the origin of cellular life free from all its coatings... something quite extraordinary with the body (in fact, maybe with all life), which is that the obstacle IS the lever: To find a wall, to know there is a wall, is to be able to break through it. Medical science and biology have "codified" the obstacles – they have crystallized and made the obstacles into laws – Page 102 while they are only means. They are levers. If there's a wall, it means ...
... science based on the Greek, did not tend to correct this state of things; it only added another imperfect system to the existing one. To a country thus circumstanced Western civilisation came with a medical science which, recovered from its old stagnation, was making immense strides, with a vastly superior pharmacy, an ever bolder & more subtle surgery and organised & living grasp of sanitation. When the ...
... charities are but the first tardy awakening in the conscience of a robber. Selfishness kills the soul; destroy it. But take care that your altruism does not kill the souls of others. Medical Science has been more a curse to mankind than a Page 102 blessing. It has broken the force of epidemics and unveiled a marvellous surgery; but, also, it has weakened the natural health ...
... method—a method is necessary for realising everything. And if the illness has succeeded in touching the physical-physical, well, you must follow the procedure needed to get rid of it. This is what medical science calls "the course of the illness". One can hasten the course with the help of spiritual forces, but all the same the procedure must be followed. There are some four different stages. The very first ...
... full and sufficient data. The voice of the scientist and the expert will be loud in the land and guide mankind to the earthly paradise. A perfected society; health universalised by a developed medical science and sound hygiene; everything rationalised; science evolved, infallible, omnipotent, omniscient; the riddle of existence solved; the Parliament of Man, the Federation of the world; evolution, of ...
... demonstrably false. On the other hand it is possible for the doctor to have felt a force working in him and guiding him or he may see the patient improving with a rapidity which, according to medical science, is incredible. The patient may feel the force working in himself bringing health, energy, rapid cure. The user of the force may watch the results, see the symptoms he works on diminishing, those ...
... failure or decadence. At the end of the fast one can even resume at once taking the normal or even a greater than the normal amount of nourishment without any transition or precaution such as medical science enjoins, as if both the complete fasting and the feasting were natural conditions, alternating by an immediate and easy passage from one to the other, of a body already trained by a sort of initial ...
... supramental sign is an almost incredibly swift, a well-nigh irresistible influence on not only mental movements and vital turns but certain bodily processes. Many things accounted impossible by medical science get accomplished. And these "miracles" differ from the results of occult-spiritual practice such 21. SABCL Vol. 29, p. 699. Page 132 as many Yogis ...
... is needlessly prolonged and ends in death oftener than is inevitable, because the mind of the patient supports and dwells upon the disease of his body. This is an absolute truth! 386—Medical Science has been more a curse to mankind than a blessing. It has broken the force of epidemics and unveiled a marvellous surgery; but, also, it has weakened the natural health of man and multiplied individual ...
... salvation, I asked him, "Are you really sure it will be conclusive? That one operation is enough and the disease won't come again?" He almost got angry! He thought I was... ( laughing ) an atheist of medical science! Anyhow, he left. Once he arrived there, they immediately told him that as the disease was affecting both sides, both sides would have to be operated on: they would perform the first operation ...
... knowledge or the false pretensions of the practitioners of occultism cannot be a valid argument against the existence of the occult. Were it so, the same argument could be used, for instance, against medical science. Among the occultists in pre-scientific times were some of the greatest savants, e.g. among the true alchemists, who as an acknowledgment of their lifelong labour now get a tiny footnote in the ...
... distinguish a dead body from the same body which was living a moment before ? How to know that life has indeed ebbed away and the body has passed into the state of absolute death? Here, too, medical science finds great difficulty in pronouncing unequivocally. Indeed, some of the common signs and symptoms of death as ordinarily listed are: Cessation of breathing and of the beating of the ...
... new manifestation, but the human body is not plastic enough and offers resistance; this is why the number of incomprehensible disorders and even diseases is increasing and becoming a problem for medical science. The remedy lies in union with the divine forces that are at work and a receptivity full of trust and peace which makes the task easier. 18 November 1971 Those who want to progress ...
... with the material life, and if one were initiated into the true way of living, one would be able to transform physical existence. If the body is considered as the tabernacle of the Lord, then medical science, for example, becomes the initiatory ritual for service of the temple and doctors of all categories are the priests who officiate in the different rituals of the worship. Thus, medicine is truly ...
... consequently, doctors are soldiers of the great and noble army fighting in the world for the conquest of Truth. Page 154 If we take the human body as a tabernacle of the Lord, then medical science becomes the ritual of worship and doctors the priests who officiate in the temple. Thus considered, the medical career is priesthood and should be treated as such. A broad mind, a generous ...
... prolonged and ends in death oftener than is inevitable, because the mind of the patient supports and dwells upon the disease of his body. How absolutely true! Page 224 387—Medical Science has been more a curse to mankind than a blessing. It has broken the force of epidemics and unveiled a marvellous surgery; but, also, it has weakened the natural health of man and multiplied individual ...
... demonstrably false. On the other hand, it is possible for the doctor to have felt a force working in him and guiding him or he may see the patient improving with a rapidity which, according to medical science, is incredible. The patient may feel the force working in himself bringing health, energy, rapid cure. The user of the force may watch the results, see the symptoms he works on diminishing, those ...
... understanding his diseases and bolstered by his leisure time and insatiable curiosity, western man has used the tools of modern science to probe the mysteries of living matter. Over the last century, medical science has come increasingly to focus on the basic structure of protoplasm. The human body has been examined in increasing detail -— even the inside of what had been considered the smallest unit of life ...
... even "finally left" it long ago without my dying—at least I seem to myself to be alive still. You will add sarcastically: "There are many more things in heaven and earth etc. than in your medical Science!" Do tell us about a few of them. I absolutely refuse. The Kundalini business also seems a mystery to me. I read somewhere that the soul sojourns in the brain! Heard of it? Now for ...
... to pronounce on such a matter—I do not really know what is or is not permissible in Bengali laghu guru. To an uninstructed mind your observations seem to be just. So R throws overboard all medical science by refusing to recognise the validity of blood-tests in syphilis etc.? He claims to have a homeopathic science of his own! Heredity main factor? and the history of a contraction, chancre ...
... us will have the fate of the Pandavas, 25 unless the Divine is prepared to carry us all himself—barring the ladies! What the deuce has sex to do here? Don't be too medical. Because medical science says that their physiological apparatus is more suitable for the psychological attitude of self-abnegation which is also the essential desideratum for yoga. That's the only thing for which ...
... difficult to get it back in its entirety but we can recover it to a great extent. In this respect we have lost many of the faculties of primitive men. Disciple : There is something in medical science which supports the view. You gave out now that there is a consciousness in the cells. It is found that when food is taken, it is absorbed by the cells when the substance in the stomach is in a ...
... the injury was, we had to make all sorts of movements of the injured limb to verify mobility, etc., by moving the joint this way, that way, up and down. These movements have special terms in medical science: abduction, aduction, etc. So I wrote to Him: "Abduction is quite all right." Then He noted in the margin, "Abduction of a joint, sir? What's this flagrant immorality? What happens to the joint ...
... long life was due to the early state of mankind. . . PURANI: There was no economic struggle then. SRI AUROBINDO: Apart from that, their habits were vigorous and natural. What, according to medical science, should be the marriage age? NIRODBARAN: Twenty or after. Of course, there is again another school. One famous authority says that early marriage is good and very healthy. After twenty the bones ...
... jamming me from all sides. I was cramped for space. As I tried to get out, I suddenly discovered a passage and rushed out." This is the description of his condition. What interests me in this that medical science doesn't know so many things—for example, the exact cause that starts the labour pain: why should it start at the end of a particular month? The doctors can't find any scientific reason. SRI ...
... diseases have, but we still will not have eradicated the forces of illness, which will simply use something else, another agent, another virus, once their present vehicle has been exposed. Our medical science touches only the surface of things, not the source. The only disease is unconsciousness. At a later stage, when the inner silence is well established and we are capable of perceiving mental and ...
... new manifestation, but the human body is not plastic enough and offers resistance; this is why the number of incomprehensible disorders and even diseases is increasing and becoming a problem for medical science. The remedy lies in union with the divine forces that are at work and a receptivity full of trust and peace which makes tithe task easier. 5 Thus, on 3 December, on the obstreperousness ...
... "And cured she was, the woman." Mother ended her story amid our uproarious laughter. Page 106 7 Mother's Remedies Sri Aurobindo observed: "Medical Science is well-meaning and its practitioners often benevolent and not seldom self-sacrificing; but when did the well-meaning of the ignorant save them from harm-doing?" Mother did not have any ignorance ...
... the subject of immortality. A similar motive has pushed man to go in for medical pursuits, including a hygienic way of life. The effort for overcoming sickness, disease and death through medical science is going on all over the world. Many eminent scientists are engaged in untravelling this mystery. At our end, we have put ourselves in the hands of the Mother and Sri Aurobindo to help ...
... the subject of immortality. A similar motive has pushed man to go in for medical pursuits, including a hygienic way of life. The effort for overcoming sickness, disease and death through medical science is going on all over the world. Many eminent scientists are engaged in un raveling this mystery. At our end, we have put ourselves in the hands of the Mother and Sri Aurobindo to help us ...
... being, from a lack of receptivity to the divine forces. When you cut yourself off from the energy and light that sustain you, then there is this depression, there is created what medical Page 313 science calls a "favourable ground" and something takes advantage of it. It is doubt, gloominess, lack of confidence, a selfish turning back upon yourself that cuts you off from the light ...
... disharmony in the being, from a lack of receptivity to the divine forces. When you cut yourself off from the energy and light that sustain you, then there is this depression, there is created what medical science calls a "favourable ground" and something takes advantage of it. It is doubt, gloominess, lack of confidence, a selfish turning back upon yourself that cuts you off from the light and divine ...
... instructed to take a particular kind of bath as a treatment by Mahatmaji. He was against using medicine. Disciple : What would happen in case of Appendicitis ? A British surgeon, Medical science, etc. may be necessary. 30-6-1924 Sri Aurobindo : What became of the resolution in the A.I.C.C.? Disciple : It seems Mahatmaji has climbed down. Sri Aurobindo ...
... “human”? We are equipped with telephones, telegraphs, planes, and so on – a scientific, controlled, and indisputable way; every justification not to search for the key. And to top it all off, a medical science that offers every opportunity to die from its cures. But where is Life in all this? 2 The Revolt of the Earth Has no one, then, ever found the key? There was Socrates: ...
... but a little too strong an emotion, a little fatigue, some dissatisfaction or any shock whatsoever is sufficient to scratch it as it were and the slightest scratch allows any kind of intrusion. Medical science also now recognises that if you are in perfect vital equilibrium, you do not catch illness or in any case you have a kind of immunity from contagion. If you have this equilibrium, this inner harmony ...
... Mother, each of its parts and the connections between the parts were in a permanent state of crisis, an uninterrupted, apparently catastrophic state of emergency which, according to the norms of medical science, was a deadly state of illness. This was not all the time outwardly noticeable. The graph of the Mother’s health went up and down — usually a brief ‘up’ and a long, dreadful ‘down’ — and at one ...
... full and sufficient data. The voice of the scientist and the expert will be loud in the land and guide mankind to the earthly paradise. A perfected society; health universalised by a developed medical science and a sound hygiene; everything rationalised; science evolved, infallible, omnipotent, omniscient; the riddle of existence solved; the Parliament of Man, the Federation of the world; evolution ...
... For, with a pill weighing 1/200,000 of an ounce, LSD not only releases the human consciousness from its common bounds but also expands it to an extent which seems infinite. We thus pass beyond medical science and even psychotherapy into profound parapsychology and impinge on the realm of metaphysical values. Two questions of extreme significance arise: (a) What is the bearing of psychedelic drugs ...
... science. Anatomy and physiology, of course, are sciences. There are plenty of allopathic doctors who consider homeopathy, Nature-Cure, Ayurveda and everything else that is not orthodox "medical science" to be quackery. Why should not homeopaths etc. return the compliment? I have put down a few comments to throw cold water on all this blazing hot allopathism. But all these furious disputes ...
... disharmony in the being, from a lack of receptivity to the divine forces. When you cut yourself off from the energy and light that sustain you, then there is this depression, there is created what medical science calls a 'favourable ground' and something takes advantage of it. It is doubt, gloominess, lack of confidence, a selfish turning back upon yourself that cuts you off from the light and divine energy ...
... disharmony in the being, from a lack of receptivity to the divine forces. When you cut yourself off from the energy and light that sustain you, then there is this depression, there is created what medical science calls a "favourable ground" and Page 55 something takes advantage of it. It is doubt, gloominess, lack of confidence, a selfish turning back upon yourself that cuts you off from the ...
... health in us to cure and prevent diseases; but Galen and Hippocrates and their tribe have given us instead an armoury of drugs and a barbarous Latin hocus-pocus as our physical gospel. 395—Medical Science is well-meaning and its practitioners often benevolent and not seldom self-sacrificing; but when did the well-meaning of the ignorant save them from harm-doing? Page 323 396—If all ...
... comes here twice a year to give a check-up to all who take part in the physical education program and all the children. He is an extremely honest and sincere man who believes in the mission of medical science. Each time he comes, I write something in his diary on the day of his departure (his whole diary is full of things I've written—they usually appear in the Bulletin or somewhere). On that very ...
... in material life—if one had the initiation into the true way of living, one could transform physical existence. Page 207 If we consider the body as the tabernacle of the Lord, then medical science, for example, becomes the initiatory ritual of the service of the temple, and doctors of all kinds are the officiating priests in the different rituals of worship. Thus, medicine is really a priesthood ...
... subconscient; and suddenly, one fine day, a tiny little incident, and it comes back, formidable: "The doctor said this... such and such a doctor said this—the Doctor with a capital D said this," or "Medical Science said this," and the cells begin to panic—a frightful hypnotic power. No, it's an interesting subject... ( laughing ) I seem not to be taking your misfortune seriously (!), but it's a very i ...
... end, but the patient was cured, or else the opposite case, in which he was counting on the patient being cured and he left his body; but especially the case (the more interesting one) in which medical science declares that you are incurable, and you get cured—whether he has observed cases of this sort and whether he can give examples. Of course, Page 211 without jargon, simply describing ...
... forms! It's as if, yes, a humorist, a caricaturist, even, were constantly making the subtle representation of what goes on materially. And I think that's what people see when they have what medical science calls "hallucinations," when they have a fever, for instance. But I already knew this because I once had such a high fever that I was in the state in which, according to doctors, you "go off your ...
... manifestation; but the human body is not sufficiently plastic and offers resistance. This is why the number of incomprehensible disorders and diseases is increasing and becoming a problem for medical science. "The remedy lies in union with the divine forces which are at work and in a confident and quiet receptivity that facilitates the process." November 18, 1971 "Those who want to progress ...
... there exists a characteristic biologically determined life span or maximum age limit which appears to be absolutely binding on the species concerned. Thus, for man, the development of medical science and the widespread institution of hygienic measures have for their limited though highly laudable aim the increase in the average life-expectancy; but they cannot in any way push back what ...
... Messner's determination to climb Everest "by fair means" would lead him to an exceptional achievement with one fellow climber: the first ascent of the mountain without the use of oxygen (something medical science said was "impossible"); and in 1980, Messner accomplished the first solo ascent, also without oxygen, by the seldom climbed northern route through Tibet, the route taken by Mallory. In ...
... astrology). Apart from the vedangas, we find in the Vedic literature four other sciences and arts which have come to be known as upavedas. The Upaveda of Rig Veda is Ayurveda, the famous medical science of India; the upaveda of Yajurveda is Dhanurveda, the ancient science of archery and warfare; the upaveda of Samaveda is Gandharvaveda, the science and art of music; the upaveda of Atharvaveda ...
... were the symptoms which indicated that one has taken exercise to the half extent of one's capacity. Exercise was also used by the ancient physicians as a modality of treatment, like in modem medical science. For some of the diseases certain exercises were prescribed but exercises could be prohibited altogether in other specific cases. Ayurveda strongly advised to exercise in right measure. ...
... contact with unicorn horns, bezoar stones, mandrakes, or ' powdered mummies — all such treatments were no doubt regarded by physicians at the time as specifics with empirical sanction. But today's medical science recognizes that whatever efficacy these treatments may have had — and the records indicate that the results were often surprisingly in line with expectations — was probably related to the power ...
... dare say there are very potent drugs which we don't have... There are plenty of allopathic doctors who consider homeopathy, Nature-cure, Ayurveda and everything else that is not orthodox "medical science" to be quackery. Why should not homeopaths etc. return the compliment? Let me quote one or two glaring instances of his ignorance: 1) He said to X that the thyroid gland is at the back of the ...
... not of internal discharges which seems self-contradictory in self as a phrase. I can understand habitual loss of semen or weakness in retention due to past misuse, but what is this? Does your medical science shed any light? have you had any experience in treatment of such things so as to give me a direction for this distressed traveller towards headlessness? What? March 19, 1937 I am afraid ...
... vibration in her sleep which made her feel that something had gone wrong with Sri Aurobindo. She came in immediately and found him lying on the floor. Her intuition and good general knowledge of medical science made her suspect a fracture. She rang the emergency bell. When we other doctors came up, we saw Dr. Manilal examining Sri Aurobindo's injured leg. The Mother was sitting by Sri Aurobindo's side ...
... patient V has, to our surprise, recovered. Our medical authority says that castor oil seeds are highly toxic and that 10 seeds are the extreme limit. This chap took more than three times 10! Is medical science mistaken or has your Force worked or is it the antidote or cow dung given by some villagers that did the miracle? Sri Aurobindo: Perhaps it was Force + the cow dung that Page 133 ...
... full and sufficient data. The voice of the scientist and the expert will be loud in the land and guide mankind to the earthly paradise. A perfected society; health universalised by a developed medical science and a sound Page 431 hygiene; everything rationalised; science evolved, infallible, omnipotent, ominiscient; the riddle of existence solved; the Parliament of Man, the Federation ...
... patient V has, to our surprise, recovered. Our medical authority Says that castor oil seeds are highly toxic and that 10 seeds are the extreme limit. This chap took more than three times 10! Is medical science mistaken or has your Force worked or is it the antidote of cow dung given by some villagers that did the miracle? Perhaps it was Force + the cow dung that did it. You know the proverbial C ...
... strong vibration which made her feel that something had happened to Sri Aurobindo. She went quickly to his room and found him lying on the floor. Her intuition and her considerable knowledge of medical science made her suspect a fracture. She rang the emergency bell. A.B. Purani, who was on the ground floor below preparing hot water for Sri Aurobindo's bath, ran up to find the Mother at the head of the ...
... India to describe such situations faced in real life. Page 120 curiously enough, it was accompanied by a joy and, at the same time, a fear. What is this condition, I wondered. My medical science had never said that such things were possible and yet it had happened, at once, without any preparation or notice. As soon as I sat down, as if the thing was ready to catch me. Now mind you, see ...
... from its identification with the body? How can we not then fear the unbearable agonies of a dying physical body?" No, even for the unspiritual ordinary people an assurance is there. For, medical science testifies that most patients die in a state of coma or semi-coma in which they have lapsed into physical unconsciousness. As the supply of oxygen to the brain becomes increasingly reduced, the ...
... The voice of the scientists and the experts will be loud in the land and guide mankind to the earthly paradise. A perfected society; health universalised by a developed Page 156 medical science and a sound hygiene; everything rationalised; science evolved, infallible, omnipotent, omniscient; the riddle of existence solved; the Parliament of Man, the Federation of world; evolution, of ...
... s recovery, and there were also the details of the working of the Ashram. To the amazement of the attending doctors, the Mother showed a surprisingly close - if intuitive - knowledge of medical science. When the orthopaedic surgeon came from Madras to examine Sri Aurobindo, the Mother "put many intricate questions to him on various possibilities, the prognosis, lines of treatment, etc ...
... symbol 345-6 at meditation and pranams 349-50 begins the Balcony darshan 361ff Sri Aurobindo's accident 398 prays to Sri Aurobindo 399 24 April becomes a Darshan day 400 knowledge of medical science 400 friendship with mosquitoes 401 trance moods 402 (cf 18, 23, 136, 773) eyes at the back of her head 402 spiritual intervention in the War 404ff to pro-Nazi sadhaks 414, 423 avowal ...
... a transitory finite object would indeed be nothing short of a spiritual tragedy. There is again a very misleading notion prevalent among educated people and somewhat reinforced by modern medical science that sex is a "necessity like food and sleep and that its total inhibition may lead to unbalancing and to serious disorders." Sri Aurobindo exposes the extreme imbecility of the notion in the following ...
... should have defied decomposition for over 100 hours, and reposed "in a grandeur of victorious quiet, with thousands upon thousands having darśan of it?" 81 Neither everyday experience nor medical science would give even half that much time as the outside limit for a body in the tropics to resist decomposition after death. And then, - the sustained glow, the supernal calm, the gracious mien! Did ...
... Nowadays even a layman will understand Sri Aurobindo's remark: "Nature is not so mechanical, she is a conscious being. If you try to circumvent her in one way she circumvents you in another." Let the medical science but come up with a new drug to combat a disease, Nature confounds it by confronting it with a more virulent, more resistant strain. Page 161 For every new and potent remedy there ...
... full and sufficient data. The voice of the scientists and the experts will be loud in the land and guide mankind to the earthly paradise. A perfected society; health universalised by a developed medical science and a sound hygiene; everything rationalised; science evolved, infallible, omnipotent, Page 178 omniscient; the riddle of existence solved; the Parliament of Man, the Federation ...
... new manifestation, but the human body is not plastic enough and offers resistance; this is why the number of incomprehensible disorders and even diseases is increasing and becoming a problem for medical science. The remedy lies in union with the divine forces that are at work and a confident, peaceful receptivity which makes the work easier. Blessings. 18 November 1971 * * * Those who want ...
... Krishna and Kamla have four daughters. Uma, the eldest, who retired as a Lt. Colonel from the Army Medical Corps two years ago, is now working in the Auroville Health Centre. She and her doctor husband have not joined Auroville as yet. He is working in the Pondicherry Institute of Medical Sciences and they have two sons who are studying in the Sri Aurobindo International Centre of Education. Deepti... had not yet finalized the scheme for payments to the wives of prisoners of war and widows of those killed in action. Kamla’s father was Major General A. N. Sharma, who was the retired Director of Medical Services of the Indian Army. Her eldest brother, Major Som Nath Sharma, won the highest gallantry award of free India in 1947 posthumously during Pakistan’s attack on Kashmir. Another brother, Lieutenant... Chief of the Army Staff. It was quite a distinguished army family indeed! Their two families were long known to each other and Krishna knew Kamla when she was studying medicine in the Lady Hardinge Medical College in New Delhi. They got married soon after her graduation and both retired from army service in 1976 after which they moved to Pondicherry with their family. The following are some questions ...
... Consciousness and Power Yoga in the Veda, Upanishads, the Bhagavadgita, the Yoga Sutra, Yoga and Yogic Research; New Paths of Yoga Yoga and Knowledge of Sciences and Arts, Yoga and Medical Sciences, Yoga and Technology Yoga, Religion and Morality, Yoga and Collective Life, Yoga and change in the world-conditions: the idea of Cosmic Yoga, Yoga and the New World... But in the past, -Yoga has largely been and more particularly so in the middle past, life-negating. On the other hand, modern education is science-based; and in science and technology, there is the affirmation of Life and of Life in Matter. Science-based education is thus life-affirming education. If, therefore, Yoga is to be relevant to modern education, it will have to cease to be life-negating... Purposes of New Education In our own times, there is a crisis in the field of knowledge. With the advancement of Science, there has come about an accelerated process of accumulation of knowledge of Facts and also the manipulation of Facts. But it has also come to be realised that Science cannot give the knowledge of Values. And yet, it is increasingly felt that the knowledge of Values is even more important ...
... charioteer in the field of Kurukshetra. If we consider the spiritual history of India and also its history of dynamic activities that built up great edifices of mathematics and natural sciences, medical sciences, numberless philosophies, teeming dharmashastras, profusion of literature, art and architecture, and powerful administration and sys tem of governance, we shall find that these great ... refrain from making any metaphysical propositions, including those regarding material ism. The argument that science can deal only with matter is also being over passed. The development of life sciences, psychological sciences and humanistic sciences has shown that what is important in science is the scientific method but not the unsustainable assumption that this method can be applied only in the domain... utility of matter and substance. The Indian tradition speaks of sixty-four sciences and arts, and it catered to the education of women in such a liberal way that we still speak of great examples of Lopamudra, Gargi and Maitreyi . In the courses of study, apart from the study of the Veda, which was in itself a great science and art of living, emphasis was laid on comprehensive training of all that ...
... charioteer in the field of Kurukshetra. If we consider the spiritual history of India and also its history of dynamic activities that built up great edifices of mathematics and natural sciences, medical sciences, numberless philosophies, teeming dharmashastras, profusion of literature, art and architecture, and powerful administration and system of Page 386 governance, we shall find... refrain from making any metaphysical propositions, including those regarding material-ism. The argument that science can deal only with matter is also being overpassed. The development of life sciences, psychological sciences and humanistic sciences has shown that what is important in science is the scientific method but not the unsustainable assumption that this method can be applied only in the domain... utility of matter and substance. The Indian tradition speaks of sixty-four sciences and arts, and it catered to the education of women in such a liberal way that we still speak of great examples of Lopamudra, Gargi, and Maitreyi. In the courses of study, apart from the study of the Veda, which was in itself a great science and art of living, emphasis was laid on comprehensive training of all that ...
... to embark on this new departure in self-treatment, I was much encouraged by some remarks I read in a book by Lawrence E. Lamb, MD, entitled Get Ready for Immortality. Dr. Lamb is the Chief of Medical Sciences with the USAF School of Aerospace Medicine. In talking about arthritis, he says 'It is common to say that these joints become worn out. The theory of wear and tear, however, is in conflict with... pathological situation in some detail, using some medical terms, but only where absolutely necessary to give the build-up of the visualization I wanted. The information I needed I obtained from Gray's Anatomy (35th edition) and some other text books all in the local reference library, and I cleared up some doubtful points with the help of medical friends who were sympathetic to what I was trying... of the pelvis showing both hip-joints Healing by visualization and concentration T he trouble in my hips had been evident for a long while. It was during a complete medical check-up just before I left the Royal Navy in 1965 that the orthopaedic specialist first told me there were signs of arthritis developing in my right hip, and to a somewhat lesser extent in the left ...
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