Acharya Ratnananda (Pitaji) was a renowned Vedic Scholar from Bangalore, India. His educational background - a mix of acadamic studies at a Christian Institution, and ancient scripture study at home - gave him a clear and enlightening sense of both Eastern and Western thought. Pitaji was the father of Gurudev Sri Sri Ravi Shankar.
“Disease” means “lack of comfort”, and medicines are given to get back the comfort. The ways of getting back this basic right are varied and dissimilar in the Eastern and Western medicine. Eastern medicine is more ancient than its Western counterpart. India and China are the pioneers of many traditional, preventive and curative medicines/methods, which are time-tested, logical and scientific. A few other systems like Egyptian medicine and Greek medicine were mostly empirical and could not stand the test of time and science. Hence, they gradually faded away.
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