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Experience, Listening, Clinics and Theory !

Experience, Listening, Clinics and Theory !

By Dr.Prasanth.K.P.

Not everybody is blessed with skills, like sachin or lata mangeshkar or messy, but these people are not the only successful people. The difference between them and other succesful people are talent, sheer talent. They posses such abundance of talent that nobody in the world cannot ignore them ! You people must very much be aware of the uproar created in the fb page of sharapova when she said that she did not know who sakhin was ? But keeping talent aside , its not the only factor that has given them the position that they are now, its also about some attitude that plays the key, its role is more than even hard work.

During a chat with my senior doc , who said when doing some arithmetics that even though I may be a good doctor (that which is he is aware of !) , I cant do certain things like writing it out, or do an extempore, he admits to have stage fear ! But I said its all about the doer –watcher phenomenon, when you are said to possess a talent at something you can be the doer and watcher at the same time, got my idea ? That is you can be aware of what you are doing, for example, even though Sachin may have a coach, from childhood, he needs no help of a coach ( an external watcher, observer, analytic supplement etc..) to correct his flaws or train, he can do without it,, its because of the cliché format followed that he “seems to have” a coach, he is in auto-pilot mode when on ! That part of the observation was proved by neuro scientists when they observed Neymar’s brain while on game, when they realised that he was literally on auto-pilot when on field. That’s the doer – watcher phenomenon I mentioned, being on auto pilot.

But that was my perception, my seniors take on that, pretty simplified, lay manly expalnation I say which every one would understand , is that , what you say the doer watcher , is nothing but the mistakes learned out of doing that helps you to get aware of what you do. It is impossible for any body of any quanta of talent to gain in confidence without experience. What ever type of genesis you may belong, as long as you are a theoritician, you cannot gain practise in the clinical field. That’s where I openly challenge the so called “purists” who demand a 100% ayurvedic system, to come out into the clinical arena. They are in their own cosy-comfotable field set up by their thoughts , that being in that gives them some sort of intoxication, they seldom venture into clinical side. What’s the use of such people ?

I share before you the difference that separates a person with a strong theoretical basis and one with a moderate theoretical basis but has got a strong base and is strong on the clinical side. Both of them say A and B, participates in a seminar on the application of takra dhara, that too presented before a scientific community of astronomers. A was a purist who knows nothing other than Ayurveda, he speaks only in Ayurvedic language, but B is a clinical person, who knows to speak the language of lay man ( other wise you are out in clinics !) . B knows about the value of A’s knowledge, which B lacks, so speaks for an hour or two with A, where A tells all about what he has prepared to present to B. B listened to it , and included majority of what A said in their conversation, but understood the practical side that the listeners were a scientific community, so presented in their language. But B clearly knows A was the better lot ! To his luck B got recognised by a scientific community and got the 1^st prize but A who got all the knowledge was ignored totally as the judges never heard of any tri dosas or ayurveda ! What a contardiction. The same is the case with our soceity. Nobody knows Ayurveda, but every body knows about a pain killer, an aspirin, an injection, a surgey, a by-pass, see how popular is allopathic medicine in the masses ? If you go on spitting slokas , you are gonna get alieanated from the soceity and the sience of life too ! DiD you get my point ? Here, as far as Tamil Nadu is concerned the Ayurveda IQ is literally zero, you say Dhara, Kizhi, they will scratch their heads ! You say aceclofenac gel, than they get you ! Such is the attitude of the patients. Be practical, speak the language of the patients, these Ayurvedic texts were not meant for students and researchers, but for the rogi’s or diseased persons !

Being a listener is one of the main traits in gaining knowledge. Know that empty vessels make more sound, was not a joke proverb ! Those who know, know that only while listening to others that they get to know, knowledge is in you, to such people and they do respect that knowldege.

So when you hear from the mouth of a vedanti, that “AHAM BRAHMASMI” or “TATTWAMASI”, don’t laugh, how I can be god ? It’s the knowledge present in you that they specify, not a stone sculpture holding a flute in his hand, bearing a peacock feather in his head. Don’t get disillusioned !

Good luck ye fellas !

Have a great day and an awesome weekend !! :) :) :)