aharishi’s Vedic Approach to Health has its source in the eternal Vedic Wisdom, and is therefore the oldest existing health-care system in the world. It is the same system of health enjoyed in the ancient Vedic Civilization. In recent decades, this eternal knowledge of life has been brought to light by Maharishi, who has formulated it into a perfect system for all aspects of individual and collective life.

Modern medicine is oriented around the treatment of disease, but today iatrogenic illness—disease produced as a result of medical treatment—is recognized as a health hazard of global proportions. Maharishi’s Vedic Approach to Health goes far beyond the treatment of disease, for it offers a science and technology capable of unfolding perfection in life, using technologies that are completely free from harmful side effects.

Perfection is the state of perfect health, the state of normal life. Anything less than perfection requires the Vedic Approach, to unfold a perfect life in fulfilment. In his book Enlightenment to Every Individual and Invincibility to Every Nation, Maharishi explains that health means Wholeness, and perfect health, therefore, is the state of one established in the holistic basis of life:

Maharishi here describes a healthy individual as being not only free from disease, but one who lives the total potential of life, who breathes the Cosmic Reality, and who enjoys perfection in every undertaking. Such an individual enjoys the fruit of all knowledge, which is the ability to know anything, do anything, and not make mistakes.

Maharishi’s Vedic Approach to Health, therefore, is that system of knowledge and technology that can lift any individual to the supreme status of life, awakening him to his own Cosmic Potential; and it is capable of raising every society to a level of life in which there is no sickness, no crime, no mistakes.)

The 40 Areas of the Body’s Inner Intelligence

In his Vedic Science, Maharishi describes 40 qualities of intelligence that are the structuring dynamics of self-referral consciousness, the administering intelligence of the universe. These 40 qualities of consciousness are embodied by the 40 branches of Veda and the Vedic Literature. (see What is Vedic Knowledge? and Veda and the Vedic Literature in Human Physiology.)

Professor Tony Nader, MD, PhD, working under Maharishi’s guidance, has discovered that these 40 fundamental qualities of intelligence, found in the 40 branches of Veda and the Vedic Literature, are also the fundamental ingredient and essential constituent of the human physiology.

In the chart below, we see the different qualities of intelligence, along with their corresponding aspect of the Vedic Literature, followed by the aspect of the physiology to which each corresponds.

The 40 Approaches of Maharishi’s Vedic Approach to Health

Perfect health can only be achieved through a holistic approach that takes care of every aspect of the human physiology. Every aspect of the body has a quality of inner intelligence associated with it, and it is only the lack of integration between the physiology and its inner intelligence that creates weakness and disease. Maharishi’s Vedic Approach to Health, therefore, enlivens all of the 40 qualities of intelligence—the 40 structures of Natural Law—that are at the basis of the human physiology.

Maharishi’s Vedic Approach to Health maintains the balance between the body and its own inner intelligence; between the inner intelligence of the individual and the collective consciousness of society; and between individual and collective life and their Cosmic Counterparts. Any system of health care that does not directly address these 40 fundamental areas is necessarily incomplete and potentially damaging.

Holistic Health, Total Health

The territory of Natural Law ranges from the infinite field of the unmanifest to the infinite field of the manifest; from the holistic value of infinity to the holistic value of infinity is the total value of Natural Law, which includes all the diversified values of the different Laws of Nature within its holistic value.

That is why health, which is defined as WHOLENESS, is structured in both HOLISTIC and SPECIFIC values of Natural Law in a fully integrated and balanced state.

Unless the knowledge of this total field of Natural Law is considered, holistic health will not be available, and total health—total balance—will always be lacking.

The use of the modern scientific approach to health has demonstrated the limitations of modern medicine. Medicine-oriented health care alone is not enough to offer perfect health. Health care should take care of the holistic value of health, and also of all the specific values that constitute health:

* Physiology
* Intelligence at the basis of physiology
* Influence of the environment
* Influence of buildings in which one lives or works
* Influence of the distant environment: Sun, Moon, Planets, Stars
* Influence of collective health on society creating a disease-free, healthy, enlightened society

The effectiveness of Maharishi’s Vedic Approach to Health lies in its ability to utilize the total intelligence of Natural Law at the basis of the human physiology—to utilize that holistic value of Natural Law which structures the physiology and integrates the functioning of all aspects of body and mind. As a result, thought and behaviour become spontaneously more in harmony with Natural Law, which is the basis of good health.

Maharishi’s Vedic Approach to Health proceeds on the road of balance between the holistic and specific values of Natural Law. It starts from any level of imbalance and, eliminating imbalance, arrives at the level of balance—integration of mind, body, behaviour, and environment.

A perfectly healthy person lives in the state of enlightenment, with the natural ability to spontaneously use the total organizing power of Natural Law to accomplish any goal without strain. Ill health is fundamentally due to the violation of Natural Law caused by lack of knowledge of Natural Law. Lack of knowledge of Natural Law weakens the individual and creates stress in society.

Maharishi‘s Vedic Approach to Health promotes individual and collective health through knowledge of Natural Law with all its expressions in material creation. It brings life increasingly into accord with Natural Law.

When the total intelligence of Natural Law is fully awake in every part of the physiology, then Maharishi’s Vedic Approach to Health enjoys fulfilment. In this balanced state of health there is perfect synchrony between the functioning of every individual cell and holistic functioning of the whole body, and between the intelligence of the individual parts of the physiology, the holistic intelligence of the physiology, and Cosmic Intelligence, which manages the whole universe. With this complete integration, all thought and action are spontaneously in harmony with Natural Law and the individual naturally enjoys good health.

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