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Planning to get married in Goa? www.weddingsetcgoa.com Making your 'dream wedding' possible ------------------------------------------------------------------------ TOO TRUSTING! BY TARA NARAYAN http://goanobserver.com/a-foodie-wonderland.html MY TCA friend Shrikant Barve tells me that he screened at least a 100 names of Ayurvedic practitioners on websites to see if one of them would be willing to participate in the Ayurveda seminar. After asking 22 questions, all of them refused and finally he found Ratnagiri’s Vaidya Bhide who said he’ll come to Goa, no questions asked. Ayurveda is a khandani parampara or practice and both his and his wife’s families have been steeped in it for generations. He studied at the Jamnagar Ayurveda College (one of the best) and has won honour and awards, and I’ve no doubt that this vaidya is for real (he makes his own herbal medicines and you may find them in three of the major pharmacies in Ratnagiri). He agrees that just as there’re fraudulent Allopathic doctors there’re fraudulent Ayurveda doctors; when money is the sole driving force in life there’s bound to be more or less corruption and adulteration of mind and body, heart and soul (to put it in holistic perspective). People seeking relief for a health problem should be discerning vis-à-vis Ayurveda. What you get from big-time Ayurveda companies with name and fame may be questionable, for Ayurveda products are not traditionally meant to be mass-manufactured; “If you visit one of the factories you’ll see more red pumpkin than aonla going into chavyanprash!” Chavyanprash is a bestselling tonic of Ayurveda fame and I dare say every kid in urban India is made to eat a tablespoon every morning! I rather like the Dabur version myself…call it an Indian gooseberry jam in the best sense of the word. Except that if there’re more red pumpkin than aonla in chavyanprash it may not be as great a vitamin-C rich tonic food as the claim, and that’s also cheating (if any of the Ayurveda authorities would like to do something about it)! Ayurveda is not a miracle, it’s a science, says Vaidya Bhide, and it doesn’t have the drawbacks of Allopathy (where almost all medicines today are inorganic in nature because they’re synthesised and can, therefore, do more damage than good). He quipped, “We’re all organic, Mother Earth is organic…but even our diets are not organic anymore!” How incompatible and contradictory our modern-day urbanised and industrialised lifestyles are! This is to say, make the connections, my friends, and do it quickly. If you’re asking me, my bottom line is: If we heal Mother Earth in thought, word and deed, then we heal ourselves ditto. Shrikant Vinayak Barve Convener: We Love Ayurved 9403175973 Send free SMS to your Friends on Mobile from your Yahoo! Messenger. Download Now! http://messenger.yahoo.com/download.php
