Nikolay's question:
If a pill cannot change a person's Karma, will Ayurvedic remedies and treatments be of any good? The way I understand it, if they help it is only for some time. Or are there Ayurvedic treatments that can change Sanskaras by working with the physical body?

Thank you for your question Nikolay.

The answer turned into a small article.

In fact, the only thing that Ayurveda and medicine have in common is that they both deal with health. However, they are fundamentally different in their approach. It is like comparing kids playing ball in the backyard and the English Premier League soccer. All they have in common is just the size of the ball.

First of all – when speaking of the materials used for preparations, Ayurveda and medicine are different in the same way as healthy food and chewing gum. The first is digested by a body and benefits a person, whereas the latter can be chewed forever to no avail. Well, there will be some result – a damaged digestive apparatus. Ayurveda only uses natural components, in contrast to medicine where the vast majority of drugs are of artificial, chemical origin.

The main principle of Ayurveda is that all of nature is whole, integral, and linked together, created by Brahma (The Creator). Humans, being a part of nature, are also integrated into nature. This means that when a person eats the right natural food for his Prakrti (Ayurvedic constitution) this food will be digested by the person and turned into body cells because the organism sees the food as having the same nature as the organism, as it was designed by The Creator when it came into being. The food is alive, and the organism understands it, accepts it and interacts with it. In other words, the cells of the organism understand the food cells and know what to do with them. The food cells help the body cells in their work. Natural elements turn into plant cells and become a part of their living structure, so the human organism can assimilate them. Being, in fact, a type of correct human food, Ayurvedic preparations find the problematic place of the organism on their own and help cure the problem by interacting with the organism. Furthermore, the plants are happy to be eaten by humans because that allows them to fulfill their God-given purpose or Dharma. This way they evolve and become a part of a being of higher consciousness, such as a human (at least, humans are supposed to be of higher consciousness). Thus, everything happens in accordance with the holistic design of The Creator. Drugs, on the other hand, are artificial and dead products and, for that reason, they cannot be assimilated by the organism. Moreover, human cells do not understand the drugs and see them as aliens and aggressors. It is kind of the same as if two different people or a person and a robot were communicating. Upon their intake into the organism, the drugs violently penetrate the cells by breaking intercellular membranes. These membranes are the means for all processes of exchange. After this, the membranes take a long time to recover or, in the majority of cases, do not completely recover at all. However, when the organism is given natural, living products these membranes open and close on their own.

By the way, I found out something very interesting today. It turns out that small iron chips are added to many products, especially to ready-made dry breakfasts and children’s food. Yes, yes, this is actually happening. The extraction of these chips by a magnet has even been shown. This is said to be done in order to provide the organism with the necessary amount of iron. As if the organism did not know what amounts of what elements it needs... In reality, the human organism produces all the necessary substances on its own. Actually, a person cannot digest iron in its pure, lifeless form, just as it cannot digest other artificial substances, vitamins etc. However, if the same iron is absorbed by a plant and becomes a part of the plant it will be easily assimilated into the human organism. It is the same old story – “we tried our best – you know the rest”. Yoga says for a reason that ignorance is the most awful and the only sin.

Second – this example is a great illustration of another fundamental difference between Ayurveda and medicine. In Ayurveda, the person and nature are seen as a united, integral whole. Therefore, nature is our friend, not our enemy. Nature is there to help people, provide everything people need for life and everything they need to reestablish balance or so-called health. People, on the other hand, are simply required not to harm nature because nature does not need any help. Nature was created by God and it is not up to people to perfect nature. We do not have the same capacity for that, you know.

At the same time, medicine sees a person as some kind of an unfinished product that needs to be constantly perfected, protected, saved and guarded. Supposedly, without medicine people will die out in agonizing pain and cramps the next thing tomorrow. Without medicine, people are thought to always be threatened by calamities of the extremely hostile, evil and dangerous nature. As if all nature thinks about is how to destroy people, periodically sending them horrible viruses and microbes (by the way, the same viruses and microbes are constantly and quietly present on our bodies and inside us). If that had been true, mankind would have been destroyed ages ago, a second after coming into existence. Nevertheless, people have been around for millions of years which is a proven scientific fact. Ayurveda exists just as long. People and Sanatana Dharma, encompassing Ayurveda, were created by God at the same time. And how old is modern medicine? A century, two… Who should be saving who?

Third, Ayurveda sees the person as a consciousness sealed in a body, the body being a reflection of that consciousness. The body and the soul are one. After all, Ayurveda was created by God and is on a completely different level. That is why it considers factors totally unknown to medicine. Ayurveda is based on the knowledge of Gunas, Bhutani, Prana, Doshas, Dhatu, Shrotas and many other things that I talk about in the Ayurveda lectures. That is why Ayurveda is so strikingly effective. In contrast, medicine sees the person as an accidental collection of different organs completely unrelated to each other, occasionally making mistakes and, therefore, needing constant medical help. In addition, every organ is assigned a different doctor – a gynecologist, a dermatologist, a proctologist etc. They have dismantled humans into parts and cannot put them back together. Medicine does not cure the patient – it is fixing the thermometer that indicates when a person is sick. Although, to take it a step further, a disease is not an enemy that needs to be fought. A disease is a means for the self-regulation of the organism. What people perceive as a disease is actually not a disease – it is a way for the body to self-cleanse and survive; it is our friend. Fighting is futile; it is like fighting your own organism. Furthermore and most importantly, a disease indicates that something in our life is wrong and needs to be changed fast. I will talk about this in the course called “What Are Diseases and Why Do They Occur” beginning on the 6th of September.

I am not condemning medicine or the doctors. Condemning something or someone is equivalent to cursing at the mirror. Our life is the reflection of our consciousness. Medicine reflects the collective consciousness of the bulk part of people living today. But Ayurveda is not meant for the majority of the masses.

Ayurvedic remedies and procedures are the embodiment of the Vedic knowledge, far surpassing the frame of reference available to medicine and built on laws of the world controlling all the processes in the universe, including human health. For this reason, they work on all levels of human existence. By regulating the condition of the physical body they also influence the subtle body and, finally, the causal body where Sanskaras are located. Moreover, the very act of turning to Ayurveda indicates certain changes in the consciousness of a person. Therefore the results. I must add that the results occur only when real Ayurveda is applied, not some replica presented as Ayurveda (in my practice, I quite often have to deal with the consequences of this). Besides, Ayurvedic preparations and procedures are a part of the process of getting rid of the causes of diseases. In Ayurveda, utmost importance is given to the correction of the way of thinking and, as a result, of the way of life because that is where the causes of all diseases are to be found. Ayurveda does not cure diseases; it removes the causes of the diseases and makes the diseases disappear. If a person is generally living the right way of life, in the vast majority of cases, Ayurvedic preparations are enough to eliminate a disease. This is confirmed by my more than 20 years of experience working in Ayurveda.

Be healthy!