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Soul needs a healing touch
Mind-body-spirit is one and staying well means addressing all three to achieve life?s balance, writes Renuka Narayanan.
"Hearing Sama Veda chants or reciting the Hanuman Chalisa can reduce the growth of cancer cells by 55 to 60 per cent," says Dr Hari Sharma. He’s professor emeritus and former director of Cancer Prevention and Natural Products Research, Ohio State University College of Medicine and Public Health at Columbus, Ohio.
A member of various international and national professional societies, the good doctor is also a Fellow of the National Academy of Ayurveda, ministry of health and family welfare, Government of India.
"Ayurveda is the constant expression of one’s happiness," avers famous speaker Deepak Chopra, urging the recognition that the body is its own pharmacy. "Ayurveda is the science of reality as that is expressed in embodied life," adds Dr Robert Svoboda of Bastyr University, Seattle.
He is the first Westerner to graduate from a college of ayurveda and be licensed to practice the ‘science of life’ in India. He was tutored in yoga, jyotishvidya (astrology) and tantravidya (occult) also by his mentor, aghori sadhu Vimalananda.
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Listening to them intently were nearly 550 participants in the international ayurveda conference that wound up on Sunday at an ayurvedic resort at Mahabalipuram, right next to the inspiring Shore Temple.
"The point of this labour of love," say organisers Kalpana and Sampath of Punarnava, the Coimbatore based ayurveda company, "is to rescue ayurveda from its present commercial dilution and clue in the Indian ayurveda community about global trends and communicating their unique skills to an unhealthy world."
As if to underscore the seriousness of the gathering, the healer whose talk is most attended and of whom students and physicians demand a second dose is Dr KP Muralitharan. He graduated from Kottakal Aryavaidyashala 25 years ago and roots ayurveda firmly in Adi Shankara’s philosophy of Advaita (nonduality), making the link between the Jivatma (individual soul) and the Paramatma (Cosmic Soul/God). The message: mind-body-spirit is one with the One and staying well means addressing all three to achieve life’s balance.
