The healing force is within ourselves..
Understanding the spiritual principles of Ayurveda is the key to healing. Without this, any effort to find our peace, our joy, our balance,
will remain without result. We must understand that our nature is more complex than we may imagine, and that our efforts made in a horizontal
plane are not effective if the vertical dimension is ignored. The real cure for the disease and the liberation from conditioning of the mind
become possible when the real cause is identified, accepted and assimilated into the consciousness.
Ayurvedic knowledge is not ordinary. It comes from the Vedas (Sanskrit "Veda", "???" = "knowledge"), which are perhaps the oldest writings on
the planet today. They date back to early Indian civilization and are the first literary documents showing the Aryan race. Inspired by these
texts, Ayurveda, was developed over time and organized in its own system of knowledge that refers to the spiritual healing.
Charaka Samhita, one of the oldest collections of Ayurvedic texts, is the primary collection of Ayurveda recognized in India today. In his text,
Charaka sustains that the primary cause of disease is the loss of faith in the Divine. In other words, when people no longer recognize the
presence of divinity in the universe, including in themselves, this vision creates a gap. Inevitably, this emptiness causes a sort of suction
or suffering which leads the individual towards the lost state of Unity. Thus, suffering is manifested as discomfort or spiritual disease of
a spiritual, mental, or physical nature and it becomes the mechanism for returning to the Divine Self. As long as we see disease as an
obstacle, or as a “negative” element that needs to be eradicated, we fail to see the teaching behind it and the great opportunity of Self
discovery that it contains.
Ignorance of our Divine nature creates in most of us a sort of amnesia, when we forget that the force is in us and that we always have the
choice, even during times when everything seems hapless. How many times during a depression or a negative state we didn’t let ourselves be
carried by the destructive forces, forgetting totally that we could and should at any time change the frequency and vibrate with optimistic
thoughts and visions?
Given its Vedic nature, Ayurveda is based on the principle of Karma, the rule of absolute justice in nature. In this sense, an action
generates an effect similar to the action. What we give to the world, it’s what we get from the world. If our actions are violent, we will
also experience violence. If we give love, love will be returned to us. In this sense we must keep in mind that actions have a various nature.
An action can be of a physical or subtle nature. It is physical when I use my locomotive organs. It is subtle when I have a thought or a desire. Even if at a physical level we might not express anger, if deep inside our background is crowded with thoughts of anger and frustrations, our reality has great chances to be filled with all sort of conflict situations.
Energy becomes what it thinks. Obviously, if we are caught in the wheel of Karma and we perpetually live the results of our actions while we
are generating others, we have very little space to notice this reality. We usually see the events of our lives, the relationships with others,
the nature of our work, and so on, as external elements that have nothing to do with our internal condition. The reality is that we are the
core of our life experience. We are the creators of our lives; the subtle fields (values, ideas, energy) are the roots of our physical
existence in its many forms of manifestation. The soul, the subtle body, which passes from one life to another and which grows and learns
through various life experiences, is projecting our earthly life with all its predispositions and situations. However, this remains only
a theory as long as we do not take the time to verify its truth within us.
