A Thought on Medicine
There seems to be an ongoing quarrel and competition in the world between the allopathic establishment and alternative medical practitioners, each party claiming successes and trying to sweep their failures under the carpet. All this does not serve the diseased for whom medicine are meant.
Let us investigate the roots of medical systems and not the results, so that we really understand fundamentally, rather than empirically and effectively, how medicines cooperate with the systems and wisdom of the body. If a shaman, for example, applies particular rituals, even if he often fails, let us try to understand and/or investigate the energetic streams of the invisible world which he tries to involve on a level more subtle than physical matter. What is the actual effect of vibrations produced when pronouncing mantras? How do the energies of life and health travel along meridians or along nādīs? When we understand the basics, we can further elaborate and evolve our systems, both in cooperation with all possibilities nature offers, and in harmony with the karmic path of the patient’s individual soul. The best medicine however, are applied on the causal side rather than on the diseases, which are but unavoidable consequences of “bad” causes, because this is how nature cures and purifies our mind. This causal or rather preventive medicine is known by the general term of “ethics,” i.e. living in harmony with the workings of the universe, and in sympathy with each other.
(Taken from: Culture Transcending Education from a Theosophical Viewpoint)
