Volume 20, Issue 4

By Dharmpal Bhatt, Dr. S.P.S. Jaijania - Jan 15, 2013

Each age of mankind has its own illuminations and discoveries to make. While the cycles of time may move them out of sight for a while, often we return back to these lost truths that had been hastily discarded or summarily dismissed. Now that we return to a new age of longing and finding, it is natural that man's gaze will turn towards all that has been left behind and rediscover the old in terms of the new. If Āyurveda bears the pride of a unique legacy, it must also bear the burden of re-examining its old truths in the light of modern methods, so as to validate them in the language and through the methods that modern mind understands, since it is conversant with these alone. The article below is a good example how formulas are being examined and validated through modern statistical methods.

By Soumitra Basu - Jan 15, 2013

The concept of health and the discipline of healing evolved to serve life. It is life per se that is the raison d’être of existence. That is why health and healing are the noblest of all disciplines pursued by the human being. And that is also why health and healing cannot be isolated subjects, mechanically pursued by an objective mindset. The concept of health is not only linked with our physical, emotional, social and cognitive development, it is also linked with the higher-order pursuits of existentialism, metaphysics and philosophy and our deeper pursuits of true religious experience and spirituality. The basic tenets of health therefore can be linked at multiple points of the spectrum of consciousness in the quest for Truth. It would be interesting in this context to understand the significance of health in consonance with the experiential concept of Reality as perceived in the spiritual heritage of India.