A Revolutionary Approach to Medicine

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A Revolutionary Approach to Medicine

Interesting now that I live in Veteran’s Administration and I interface quite a bit with the Department of Defense, a statistic … I was in a meeting not very long ago and someone from the Department of Defense said, “Do you know this, health in this country is an issue of national security”, and I though for a minute, “What is he talking about?” Right? 80% of people that walk into a recruitment office for the armed services doesn’t even qualify to be considered for service. 80% because of their health status. The dominant medical paradigm is what you are describing which is we have a disease that we have to fight. It is revealed in the language that we use. Antibiotics, anti-psychotics, anti, anti, anti. The concept that disease sits over there and the job of medicine is to fight that battle and win.

This whole concept and this approach to modern medicine has come because you need to understand … When the thought of medicine, when the thought of developing some kind of medicine and the system of medical treatment, their problem was only with infectious diseases and contagious diseases. How to treat the plague. How to treat the small pox. How to treat this. Nobody ever thought the diabetes or hypertension or a cardiac problem, they never even considered those things that did not exist in their radar. IN their radar, only infectious diseases did exist. That has to be handled in a war footing, no question about that, because it is a war. An infection means there is an invasion from another organism upon our own system and you have to use chemical weapons. You can’t shoot them.

This whole medical system evolved from the need to handle infectious diseases, contagious diseases which were taking a huge toll on populations in those times but today we have come to a place where people are on self-help. That is they manufacture their own diseases, they don’t wait for any infection to happen to them because now they are on self-help. They need another system of medicine. Another way to approach it completely which is a shift we are struggling to make right now. I must tell you this experience.

We have a Yogi Hospital in our Yoga Center in India. We called it Yogi Hospital. We did not want it to grow too much because we don’t want it to turn into hospital full time. We are a spiritual center so we keeping it low key. Once I came here and a few doctors, American doctors were interested. They traveled to India. They came and stayed there for three days and after three days one of the well Indians came and told me all the medical doctors are up in arms, they want to leave. I said, “What happened?” They said it is best that you meet them off. Then I said okay and I went to meet them. Then I said, “What is the problem?” They said, “You said there is a hospital. Where is a hospital? There is no hospital here.” I said, “Right now there are about 60 and odd patients”, they said, “Where is it?” Their idea of a hospital is that there must be beds, you must treat sick well and everybody should be … You should treat them so well they would not want to become healthy.

“Where are the patients?” I said, “They are all in the Garden. I put them to work. We gave them the treatment and medication and therapies but rest of the time, I put them to work. Whatever they can do, they must do. Above all, they must sit and work, barefoot and bare hands in with the soil. Just being in touch with the planet because … Just a drop of this planet, you are forgetting that. What you call is my body is just a piece of the planet, isn’t it?” If you lose connection with the source will you not get disorganized? There are specific scientific ways of doing that. If you cannot do any of those things, at least just let them walk in a farm barefoot, work, do something, you will see at least 60-70% of them have just come out of their problems. Just like that. Just being in touch with this.