Insights from Indian Wisdom

May all be Happy. May all be free from diseases.

May all experience the Bliss.

Let none partake of any suffering.

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The mind, the soul and the body — the three constitute the three poles (supporting the human structure). It is their combination that maintains the living beings. Everything depends en them for its subsistence.

Charakasamhita

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He alone can be considered to be healthy whose dosas, power of digestion, and functioning of dhatus and malas are in a state of equilibrium and whose soul,

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mind and senses as well as organs are free from morbidities.

Sushrutasamhita

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Good health is the very root of all the Purusharthas (motives of effort): dharma (righteousness), artha (wealth), kama (desire for enjoyment) and moksha (liberation). The diseases cause damage not only to them (Purusharthas) but also to the well-being and the very life (of human beings).

Charakasamhita

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That alone can be considered to be a medicine which brings about good health. That alone can be considered a physician par excellence who can alleviate a patient's suffering.

Charakasamhita

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A medicine not well identified is as dangerous as a poison, or as a deadly weapon or as fire or as thunderbolt. The medicine well identified (with regard to its name, form and its efficaciousness, etc.) is as efficacious as nectar. Charakasamhita ***

Even a pungent poisonous drug, if properly (processed and) applied becomes a medicament par excellence. Even an efficacious medicine can take shape of a poisonous drug if not properly (processed and) applied.

Charakasamhita

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A person attending on patients is endowed with four fold virtues: acquaintance with the line of treatment, the requisite skill (for timely action), emotional regard for (the well being of) patients, and purity (cleanliness).

Charakasamhita

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A person attending upon (surgical) patients should have a sense of love free from scornful disposition towards patients; the requisite strength and expertise in alleviating the ailments; should have regard for the instructions of physician; should have an untiring zeal to serve patients.

Sushrutasamhita

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A person attending on patients should be lovingly vigilant, pure (clean), skilful, and wise.

Ashtangahridaya

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One desirous of being a physician — the wise person, should make an earnest effort to attain expertise (in the science of life) so that he could become a bestower of life to human beings.

Charakasamhita

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All the observations made by the sage Vyasa in all the eighteen Puranas may be-summed up in the two statements: to do good to others is a virtuous act and to afflict others is a vicious one.

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