On Apr 5, 2005, at 10:31 AM, rudra_joe wrote:
It is very interesting. Is it enslaving? There's a good bit of choice involved. Much of it is moral choice.
I am of the opinion that much of it is "spin".
If you were a Vaidya of high repute, if someone approached you and said "we want to revive the science of Ayurveda and make it available to the world" you'd probably bite. And bite they did, until they realized their secrets were being sold, their formulas mass-produced as the most expensive rasayanas on the planet and their therapies were priced for the wealthy, affluent and famous. And it was watered down for the western mindset, things that would offend were removed and it was packaged and sold.
Oh and then they slapped the name "Maharishi" on front of it.
It's business and a money making scheme. It has nothing to do with "purity of the tradition" or rescuing Ayuved.
Ayur-greed.
