In Physic, things of melancholic hue and quality are used against melancholy, sour against sour, salt to remove salt humors.
The Lord hath created medicines out of the earth, and he that is wise will not abhor them.
Our lives are not in the lap of the gods, but in the lap of our cooks.
I went to Kerala in India, to learn Ayurveda, which was fantastic.
Life is not merely to be alive, but to be well.
My soul is dark with stormy riot: directly traced over to diet.
Science of yoga and ayurveda is subtler than the science of medicine, because science of medicine is often victim of statistical manipulation.
Stomach: A slave that must accept everything that is given to it, but which avenges wrongs as slyly as does the slave.
The body must be credited with an immense fund of know-how.
Indigestion is charged by God with enforcing morality on the stomach.
The clothing is moving, the external version is moving. Whether the internal version is moving or not it is a different matter. It is good to practice Ayurveda, it is good to worship the Gods and Goddesses, it is good to do bhajans. Of course, depending on what your own personal development is, that will determine how, in what way and how well you will be able to connect to that tradition and bring it to life inside yourself.
Anyone who believes that anything can be suited to everyone is a great fool, because medicine is practised not on mankind in general, but on every individual in particular.
Life (ayu) is the combination (samyoga) of body, senses, mind and reincarnating soul. Ayurveda is the most sacred science of life, beneficial to humans both in this world and the world beyond.
So Ayurveda is a bunch of techniques and theories and practices that have been accumulated over many centuries in a way that we think about Ayurveda. But the Ayurvidya is the Shakti that has inspired the development of Ayurveda. It's inspiring the spread of Ayurveda into many other countries. And has to posses an individual before that individual can actually act as a vehicle for healing energy to move into the world.
A physician is obligated to consider more than a diseased organ, more even than the whole man - he must view the man in his world.
Ayurveda is not just about nutrition or herbology, it has a unique tool for diagnosis, diagnosis of understanding the human constitution is different from person to person. Each one has a unique metabolic system.
Foolish the doctor who despises the knowledge acquired by the ancients.
Happiness for me is largely a matter of digestion.
A good digestion turneth all to health.
The commercialism of yoga, the commercialism of Ayurveda, the commercialism of guru-ism, is difficult. It's difficult because it confuses, it confuses the general populations as to what this is all about, but yet those of us who are trained within a certain tradition, who trained from the ancestral gene bank, so to speak, it is fine, it's not bothersome at all because we must live.
