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Why does Ayurveda prescribe medicines with non-veg ingredients when meat is forbidden in Vedic culture? https://www.thespiritualscientist.com/why-does-ayurveda-prescribe-medicines-with-non-veg-ingredients-when-meat-is-forbidden-in-vedic-culture/ https://www.thespiritualscientist.com/why-does-ayurveda-prescribe-medicines-with-non-veg-ingredients-when-meat-is-forbidden-in-vedic-culture/#respond Mon, 19 Apr 2021 19:00:08 +0000 https://www.thespiritualscientist.com/why-does-ayurveda-prescribe-medicines-with-non-veg-ingredients-when-meat-is-forbidden-in-vedic-culture/ Answer Podcast Answer Podcast Hindi   Transcription: Neelam Kuldeep Mohan Mataji (Muzaffarnagar) प्रश्न: जब वैदिक संस्कृति में माँसाहार वर्जित है तब कभी-कभी आयुर्वेदिक दवाइयों में मांसाहार घटकों का प्रयोग क्यों किया जाता है? उत्तर: सर्वप्रथम वैदिक संस्कृति में माँसाहार वर्जित नहीं है। कुछ विशेष परिस्थितियों में उन्हें लेने की छूट दी गई है किन्तु जो...

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Transcription: Neelam Kuldeep Mohan Mataji (Muzaffarnagar)

प्रश्न: जब वैदिक संस्कृति में माँसाहार वर्जित है तब कभी-कभी आयुर्वेदिक दवाइयों में मांसाहार घटकों का प्रयोग क्यों किया जाता है?

उत्तर: सर्वप्रथम वैदिक संस्कृति में माँसाहार वर्जित नहीं है। कुछ विशेष परिस्थितियों में उन्हें लेने की छूट दी गई है किन्तु जो लोग आध्यात्म की खोज में हैं, उनके लिए माँसाहार विशेषतः वर्जित है।

जहां तक आयुर्वेद का प्रश्न है, ज्ञान की इस शाखा का उद्देश्य आध्यात्मिक नहीं है। इसका सम्बंध चिकित्सा से है और इसका उद्देश्य भौतिक है। तकनीकी दृष्टिकोण से आयुर्वेद एक उपवेद है, अर्थात वेदों के अधीन। इस मायने में उसका वेदों से कुछ सम्बंध अवश्य है। चरक संहिता में यह स्पष्ट रूप से कहा गया है कि आयुर्वेद और उसके सिद्धांत उन लोगों पर लागू नहीं होते हैं जिनका लक्ष्य आध्यात्म हो।

वैदिक संस्कृति में जहाँ भौतिक स्तर पर धर्म, अर्थ, काम, मोक्ष की बात की जाती है, ठीक वैसे ही आयुर्वेद स्वास्थ्य सम्बंधित सिद्धांतों के बारे में बताता है। इन सिद्धांतों के अंतर्गत आता है रोगों की रोकथाम तथा औषधियों द्वारा चिकित्सा। आयुर्वेद का केंद्र बिंदु लोगों का भौतिक जीवन होता है। आयुर्वेद नास्तिक दर्शन पर आधारित नहीं है। इसमें आत्मा और भगवान का उल्लेख है, किन्तु ऐसे विषय उसका केंद्र बिंदु नहीं है। आयुर्वेद का यह उद्देश्य नहीं है कि वह लोगों को आत्मज्ञान कराए।

अतः जिनका लक्ष्य आध्यात्मिक है, उन्हें यह समझना चाहिए कि आयुर्वेद के सिद्धांत आध्यात्म के सिद्धांतों के अधीन होने चाहिए। आयुर्वेद के सिद्धांतों को आध्यात्म के सिद्धांत से स्वतंत्र और उच्च नहीं समझना चाहिए। भगवद्गीता 15.15 में कृष्ण बताते हैं- ‘वैदेश्च सर्वैरहमेव वेद्यो’- सभी वेदों का ज्ञान मुझ पर आकर समाप्त होता है। अंततः आयुर्वेद का उद्देश्य भी हमें कृष्ण की ओर ले जाना है। वैदिक शास्त्रों में, ऊंचे और निचले, दोनों स्तरों के सिद्धांत बताए जाते हैं।

आयुर्वेदिक सिद्धांत काफी हद तक सात्विक हैं, लेकिन उनका उपयोग दोनों प्रकार के लोग कर सकते हैं, जो सत्व से ऊपर हैं और जो सत्व के नीचे हैं। जो लोग सतोगुणी नहीं है, यानी रजो और तमोगुणी हैं, वे लोग सम्भवतः माँसाहार करते हों और ऐसे लोग ऐसी दवाइयां भी ले सकते हैं जिनमें माँसाहारी घटक हों। आयुर्वेद में माँसाहारी दवाइयों को लेने की अनुमति है। अब यदि हम किसी परम्परागत आयुर्वेदिक चिकित्सक के पास जाऐं जिनका आध्यात्म की ओर रूझान है तो वे माँसाहारी दवाइयों के शाकाहारी विकल्प भी हमें अवश्य बताएंगे। यदि हम किसी व्यावसायिक दृष्टिकोण वाले आयुर्वेदिक चिकित्सक के पास जाऐं जिसका आध्यात्म की ओर रूझान नहीं है तो वे देखेंगे कि क्या उपलब्ध है, क्या सस्ता है, क्या सुविधाजनक है और वे शाकाहारी तथा माँसाहारी दवाइयों में अधिक भेद नहीं करेंगे। ऐसे व्यवसायिक दृष्टिकोण रखने वाले चिकित्सकों के साथ बात करने पर हमें सम्भवतः ऐसा प्रतीत हो कि आयुर्वेद में अकसर माँसाहारी दवाइयाँ दी जाती हैं। किन्तु ऐसा नहीं है कि आयुर्वेद में अकसर माँसाहारी दवाइयाँ दी जाती हैं। अधिकतर दवाइयाँ माँसाहारी नहीं होती और शाकाहारी विकल्पों के बारे में आग्रह करने पर ऐसे विकल्पों के बारे में जाना जा सकता है।

अब प्रश्न यह उठता है कि आयुर्वेद में दोनों प्रकार के विकल्प क्यों हैं। ऐसा इसलिए क्योंकि आयुर्वेद न केवल ऐसे लोगों के लिए है जिनका लक्ष्य आध्यात्मिक है अपितु साधारण समुदाय के लिए भी है जिनका लक्ष्य आध्यात्मिक नहीं है। जिनका लक्ष्य आध्यात्मिक है उन्हें यह ध्यान रखना चाहिए कि आयुर्वेद के सिद्धांत आध्यात्मिक सिद्धांतों के अधीन हैं, उनसे परे नहीं।

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Question: Does science come from spirituality or is it made by man?

Answer: Science, as a body of knowledge, is clearly a human product. If we consider scientific books, they are written by human beings. Scientific concepts (such as gravity), their explanation and their mathematical postulation have also come from human beings.

Spirituality is the study of the totality of reality, whereas science is the study of a subset of that reality. Science studies the physical reality and especially the measurable parameters within physical reality. If we consider total reality as a big circle, then physical reality is a small circle within that big circle and science studies that physical reality. Therefore, in that sense, we could say that science is the subset of spirituality.

However, it is also true that science studies certain things and spirituality studies certain other things. They both have their own focus. Spirituality is the study of consciousness and its source. Unless there were consciousness, there would not be the longing for understanding and we would not search for anything. The animals have existed for millennia, but animals did not develop science, and neither did they question as to why things exist or how things work. Why? Because we humans have a longing to understand and that longing essentially is for spirituality. That longing comes because the soul in a human body has developed consciousness by which he can think about such topics whereas animals simply think about their immediate need. For example, instead of Newton, if the apple had fallen on the head of a monkey, it would have simply picked it up and ran away. But when the apple fell on Newton, he asked the question, why does the apple fall? Although human beings too have a biological drive (just like the monkey), we also have a spiritual drive. Spiritual drive is basically the drive to make sense of things and to understand what-is-what? That desire to understand things, led to the theory of gravity, and further led to the development of science.

Hence, study of science and the development of scientific knowledge, ultimately comes from our longing to understand and know If we were simply insentient matter like a table, then just like a table does not understand anything but simply exists, similarly we too would have understood nothing. In fact, a table does not even understand that it exists. It exists without understanding that it exists; but we have consciousness and hence we seek spirituality.

Therefore, spirituality is the study of the totality of reality and science is study of subset of reality. If spirituality is defined as our longing for higher understanding, then that longing for higher understanding can lead us to spiritual understanding. But that longing can also lead to scientific understanding. Therefore, science is created by human beings, but the reason it is created by human beings is because humans have a longing for understanding and that longing for understanding comes from our spiritual nature.

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