20/05/2014
"seemless by all means of limit is the freshness you instill in me ...."
Recently , about a couple of months ago i'v been into the habit of blogging and been in fb for years...any topic that catches my attention , it sparks me to write about . Had a heated argument with one of my friend when he put a rather depressive or i say negative comment regarding his collegiate education. What annoyed me so much was that ever since his admission into the college, an Ayurvedic Medical College to be specific, he accuses of losing his vocabularies in english ! I am not surprised by that coz iv heard this from many of em, even i have said it many of a times (but i realised later...the truth).
I dont want to go into the body of those comments, its not what i want to add up here in my blog. Its about what i got from my college, what i made up from bams(bachelor of ayurvedic medicenes and surgery) rather, contrary to what that hapless guy argued with me, venting out his anger out at me(he argues him to be on the right side when he has not done anything fruitful, ha has not even tried !)...lazy pug !
The entry into college was rather on a dissapointing note, losing the battle for MBBS and succumbing to the indecisiveness of choosing between engineering and what i call this then a (pseudo)medical course! I thought then that only physics, chemistry and biology were genuine subjects, which I later realised was wrong. Indian sages have their own galaxy of subject each of which are genuine ! One such science was Ayurveda. But you dont come in touch with Ayurvedic science just by studying a bams course, its a part of our paternity, not just a science. It has been passed on to generations to generations by gurukula system, but only certain families held on to it, which made those families as authentic ambassadors of Ayurveda. No ayurvedic student has the jest or zeal to know his science, whose secrets lie not in the texts but in our sub and un conscious minds ! Its a philosophical science mind you !
The first day in college was horrible, when i came to know that the human body was made of three dosas, namely the vata, pitta and kapha ! The way the teacher expressed that thing was even more terrifying...
"vayoo pittha kaphascheti traayo dosa samaasatha...''
....it was my first introduction into the world of sanskrit literature. The only other word i knew in sanskrit then was "hari sree ganapathaye nama'' which used to be whispered in a childs ear as a part of ceremony called ''ezhuthiniruthuka'', meaning making the child sit for writing, usually done in temples as a part of durga pooja !
The logic of ayurveda baffled me, coz i thought the world was made of atoms and molecules , and ayurveda brought in the concept of pancha maha bhootaas ! To read the astanga hrudaya sootrasthaana was like reading a science fiction text book, i thought these charaka and susrutha dudes imagined or like kekule got the molecular shape of benzene ring in a dream with a snake catching its own tail, these people might have shaped the idea of human anatomy and physiology using their imaginative skills, but its just a sarcasm remember ! They are geniuses in their own right , who paved way for a new , viable medical system strong enough to compete with the modern allopathic stream.
AYURVEDA HAS GOT ITS OWN WAY !!!
But when i went into some rural areas, where agriculture was the mainstay(still), i found out that the same logic of bringing out flowers and fruits out of a fertile land based on seasonal variations, Ayurveda treats the body in the same way, by pouring medicated oils over ones body ! The concept garbha sambhava or the four factors needed for pregnancy to happen is compared to agriculture, namely rtu(season), kshetra(feild), ambu(water) and bheeja(seed). The Ayurvedic and Agrarian logic does not differ much according to me !
Obviously during my study days, library was one of my frequently visited place, coz most of the time i was restless ! Our library according to me has enough supply of literary and medical fuel. I relished reading the biographies of Swami Vivekananda, Works of Sachithananthan, a malayalam author and certain modern medical books. I dont know what they mean by the term modren ? I frequently visited libraries just to see the books , to me library was the garden and i was the sole butterfly there shifting from books to books. Initially i wandered everywhere around the garden, but when i had enough supplies of honey from medical books available at home, when i went from first to second to third professions, i could be seen mainly staring at books kept at the right corner of our library, which happened to contain mainly literary books.
I was indeed attracted by the poetic verse of Astaanga Hrudaya and some of its verses are like my favourite songs or logos or mottos. I usually sing them out, makes me feel good. But Charaka impressed me more as a medical work. Damn, Charak is the standout performer among all acharyas.
Studying anatomy using chaurasias three volumes was a challenge in the beginning but i soon mastered it. Physiology was fun with colour full 3d illustrations of Gerard.G.Tortora !
Our college had enough teaching faculties and when I was there , there were 3 Ph.Ds who taught there who were also veterans. The college had enough mix of acadamecians and clinicians as teachers. But when i joined college , as a part of student politics, which was led by Students Federation of India famously called SFI, teachers were alleged to fail students intentionally, and that created a war like situation between students and teachers, which then affected academical development of college. Few of the students were able to concentrate in studies, those who were genuinely interested and those who were not interested in politics, others mainly boys went behind politics and students union. The union slowly started losing its cluthches over the students and academics gradually started to prosper with our college producing 100% pass percentage . It was awful earlier ! Nobody was interested in attending the classes or the clinics, and other extra curricular activities were given more importance, like sports, arts , everything other than academics. I never saw a genuine seminar held in my college, but i had my own intellectual interactions with a selected of my friends regarding Ayurveda, and with teachers too.
But i never stood back from any of the responsibilities of college activities, i even conevened the college publication division, distributing medical books and records for the students. I was always active and found out my own innovative ways to curb monotony and boredom, to provide food for my intellect !
The interactions with teachers were fruitful and house surgency was a perfect finish ! The two months training at a government allopathy hospital, one for surgery and one for ostetrics and gyneacology was an eye opening practise about how serious and simple the medical profession is , given that you know ! Otherwise its an enigma !The herbal garden in our college has more than 80 drugs and i almost studied dravyaguna vijnana there with live plants before me, with the hepled of my friend who passed before me. It was so fun, to be in that "tapovan" , i say ! Such a calm and peace energy, seen in temples !
So if any of you smart ass fellas argue about not receiving adequate colllegite education, blaming the institution, for your procrastination, for you ignoring time, for you not adapting to situations, for you expecting to be feed with a spoon ( when the food is on the table !), remember there where enough exposures into the practical ayurvedic feild while at college , but noboby took the initiative to lead others, to that yearned state of mind, there were individual efforts, but they were ignored,their words were given no value, and you paid for it eventually !
You yourself are responsible for your fate, you will even blame the country for not providing enough job oppurtunities , or not giving adequate salaries. You dont understand in the first place. You dont work hard.
And you pay for it ! Talent does take you no where, luck does not assisst you, not if you are PREPARED !!!
Be positive
KP .
"seemless by all means of limit is the freshness you instill in me ...."
Recently , about a couple of months ago i'v been into the habit of blogging and been in fb for years...any topic that catches my attention , it sparks me to write about . Had a heated argument with one of my friend when he put a rather depressive or i say negative comment regarding his collegiate education. What annoyed me so much was that ever since his admission into the college, an Ayurvedic Medical College to be specific, he accuses of losing his vocabularies in english ! I am not surprised by that coz iv heard this from many of em, even i have said it many of a times (but i realised later...the truth).
I dont want to go into the body of those comments, its not what i want to add up here in my blog. Its about what i got from my college, what i made up from bams(bachelor of ayurvedic medicenes and surgery) rather, contrary to what that hapless guy argued with me, venting out his anger out at me(he argues him to be on the right side when he has not done anything fruitful, ha has not even tried !)...lazy pug !
The entry into college was rather on a dissapointing note, losing the battle for MBBS and succumbing to the indecisiveness of choosing between engineering and what i call this then a (pseudo)medical course! I thought then that only physics, chemistry and biology were genuine subjects, which I later realised was wrong. Indian sages have their own galaxy of subject each of which are genuine ! One such science was Ayurveda. But you dont come in touch with Ayurvedic science just by studying a bams course, its a part of our paternity, not just a science. It has been passed on to generations to generations by gurukula system, but only certain families held on to it, which made those families as authentic ambassadors of Ayurveda. No ayurvedic student has the jest or zeal to know his science, whose secrets lie not in the texts but in our sub and un conscious minds ! Its a philosophical science mind you !
The first day in college was horrible, when i came to know that the human body was made of three dosas, namely the vata, pitta and kapha ! The way the teacher expressed that thing was even more terrifying...
"vayoo pittha kaphascheti traayo dosa samaasatha...''
....it was my first introduction into the world of sanskrit literature. The only other word i knew in sanskrit then was "hari sree ganapathaye nama'' which used to be whispered in a childs ear as a part of ceremony called ''ezhuthiniruthuka'', meaning making the child sit for writing, usually done in temples as a part of durga pooja !
The logic of ayurveda baffled me, coz i thought the world was made of atoms and molecules , and ayurveda brought in the concept of pancha maha bhootaas ! To read the astanga hrudaya sootrasthaana was like reading a science fiction text book, i thought these charaka and susrutha dudes imagined or like kekule got the molecular shape of benzene ring in a dream with a snake catching its own tail, these people might have shaped the idea of human anatomy and physiology using their imaginative skills, but its just a sarcasm remember ! They are geniuses in their own right , who paved way for a new , viable medical system strong enough to compete with the modern allopathic stream.
AYURVEDA HAS GOT ITS OWN WAY !!!
But when i went into some rural areas, where agriculture was the mainstay(still), i found out that the same logic of bringing out flowers and fruits out of a fertile land based on seasonal variations, Ayurveda treats the body in the same way, by pouring medicated oils over ones body ! The concept garbha sambhava or the four factors needed for pregnancy to happen is compared to agriculture, namely rtu(season), kshetra(feild), ambu(water) and bheeja(seed). The Ayurvedic and Agrarian logic does not differ much according to me !
Obviously during my study days, library was one of my frequently visited place, coz most of the time i was restless ! Our library according to me has enough supply of literary and medical fuel. I relished reading the biographies of Swami Vivekananda, Works of Sachithananthan, a malayalam author and certain modern medical books. I dont know what they mean by the term modren ? I frequently visited libraries just to see the books , to me library was the garden and i was the sole butterfly there shifting from books to books. Initially i wandered everywhere around the garden, but when i had enough supplies of honey from medical books available at home, when i went from first to second to third professions, i could be seen mainly staring at books kept at the right corner of our library, which happened to contain mainly literary books.
I was indeed attracted by the poetic verse of Astaanga Hrudaya and some of its verses are like my favourite songs or logos or mottos. I usually sing them out, makes me feel good. But Charaka impressed me more as a medical work. Damn, Charak is the standout performer among all acharyas.
Studying anatomy using chaurasias three volumes was a challenge in the beginning but i soon mastered it. Physiology was fun with colour full 3d illustrations of Gerard.G.Tortora !
Our college had enough teaching faculties and when I was there , there were 3 Ph.Ds who taught there who were also veterans. The college had enough mix of acadamecians and clinicians as teachers. But when i joined college , as a part of student politics, which was led by Students Federation of India famously called SFI, teachers were alleged to fail students intentionally, and that created a war like situation between students and teachers, which then affected academical development of college. Few of the students were able to concentrate in studies, those who were genuinely interested and those who were not interested in politics, others mainly boys went behind politics and students union. The union slowly started losing its cluthches over the students and academics gradually started to prosper with our college producing 100% pass percentage . It was awful earlier ! Nobody was interested in attending the classes or the clinics, and other extra curricular activities were given more importance, like sports, arts , everything other than academics. I never saw a genuine seminar held in my college, but i had my own intellectual interactions with a selected of my friends regarding Ayurveda, and with teachers too.
But i never stood back from any of the responsibilities of college activities, i even conevened the college publication division, distributing medical books and records for the students. I was always active and found out my own innovative ways to curb monotony and boredom, to provide food for my intellect !
The interactions with teachers were fruitful and house surgency was a perfect finish ! The two months training at a government allopathy hospital, one for surgery and one for ostetrics and gyneacology was an eye opening practise about how serious and simple the medical profession is , given that you know ! Otherwise its an enigma !The herbal garden in our college has more than 80 drugs and i almost studied dravyaguna vijnana there with live plants before me, with the hepled of my friend who passed before me. It was so fun, to be in that "tapovan" , i say ! Such a calm and peace energy, seen in temples !
So if any of you smart ass fellas argue about not receiving adequate colllegite education, blaming the institution, for your procrastination, for you ignoring time, for you not adapting to situations, for you expecting to be feed with a spoon ( when the food is on the table !), remember there where enough exposures into the practical ayurvedic feild while at college , but noboby took the initiative to lead others, to that yearned state of mind, there were individual efforts, but they were ignored,their words were given no value, and you paid for it eventually !
You yourself are responsible for your fate, you will even blame the country for not providing enough job oppurtunities , or not giving adequate salaries. You dont understand in the first place. You dont work hard.
And you pay for it ! Talent does take you no where, luck does not assisst you, not if you are PREPARED !!!
Be positive
KP .
