When diet is wrong, medicine is of no use.
When diet is correct, medicine is of no need.
--From the Charaka Samhita, one of the most ancient and venerated Ayurvedic textbooks.
According to Ayurveda, food is more than food. Food is medicine, yet it is more than even medicine; it is life itself. Whatever we eat actually becomes us—in body, mind and spirit. Our food and how we prepare and enjoy it repre...
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Foreword:
My purpose in studying Indology is utterly selfish. It satisfies my curiosity, it thrills and excites me to take a look at distant past through the mists of antiquity. However, my purpose of writing about it is an endeavour to bring forth decorous aspects of the vast legacy of thought that the scholars of the bygone era left for their posterity. "Yogakshema
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