Swami Sadashiva Tirtha - The Ayurveda Encyclopedia

The yurveda Encyclopedia

Natural Secrets to

Healing, Prevention & Longevity

Swami Sadashiva Tirtha

Technical Editor:

Dr. R.C. Uniyal

Contributing Editors:

Dr. S. Sandhu, Dr. J. K. Chandhok

The Ayurveda Encyclopedia: Natural Secrets to Healing, Prevention & Longevity

by Swami Sadashiva Tirtha

(Author of Bhagavad Gita for Modern Times: Secrets to Attaining Inner Peace & Harmony)

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Table of Contents

Gastritis

Wasting

Dedicated to my beloved baba, His Holiness 1008, Sri Sri Srimat Swami Narayan Tirthaji Maharaj, without whose Divine silence and blessings, this book could never have been written or published.

treya Punarvasu: Author of the Charak Sahit

(In memory of the Christmas in Montreal, 1952)

Who are Thou, Magnum Marvel

Hanging in the cross-bar of cruelty?

Veneration to Thee!

Does the soul of Eternal Pathos-Stalled

in the body of man

Role Defiance to Death?

A man never Thou art.

The petty strip of a loin-cloth

shies to bring Thy body bare to all eyes

But is forced to slip off Thy slim waist;

Thy arms wide apart,

Thy bellowing feet locked together,

For Thy palm and Thy soles to get

Teethed in canine hooks.

Thy sores drain Thy red hot blood.

And, what eyes are Thine!

Wide and Large azure pools,

Half-lid but flowing

The tears of mercy sublime

That roll down Thy sturdy cheeks

To mix up with Thy blood

And drench the arid bosom of Earth-with

the elixir of graceful piety.

And, here Thou art lofty- alone

Ignoring ignorance of Soul.

Thy golden curly locks

Spray the Spree of love sincere;

The crown of thorn about Thy head-Meant

to mean the message of Envy-Beams

luster of halo to clouds

As also to gloom and the glum;

And Thou stickest fast As the scare-craft of Sin and the Devil.

Memory hits at the glimpses old.

I get to have seen Thee before-sometime

and somewhere else.

Pray wait till I may gather up.

Well perhaps Thou are the One