Yoga of Perfect Sight

Synthesis

Our aim is to create a new type of doctor to relieve the sufferings of humanity and to manifest health and happiness and perfect eyesight. They will be guided by their intuition and their knowledge will be based on the synthesis of all the systems of medicine.

Along with the evolution of man's intelligence, medicine has also evolved. At first the means of evolution were sense faculties and intuition and that discovery of medicine was called Ayurveda or Indian Medicine. Then the intellect discovered various diagnostic instruments, such as microscope, x-rays, ophthalmoscope, etc., since the knowledge through sense perception was found insufficient by the rational mind; this discovery of medicine was called Allopathy or Modern Medicine. Hahnemann observed that the lifeforce was affected in sickness and he evolved Homeopathy. Bates noted that the mind was under a great strain in most of the eye troubles and physical ailments, and he developed relaxation methods. Thus each system covers a part of the complex medicine and attempts to bring out its highest possibilities. A synthesis of all of them largely conceived and applied will result in the integral system of medicine. But they are so disparate in their tendencies that we do not easily find how we can arrive at their right union. An undiscriminating combination will create confusion. The synthesis we propose must seize some central principles common to all which will include and utilize in the right place and proportion their particular principles. The source of life is Life Energy which pervades the universe and descends from the Unknown summit. Its flow in the organ or organs of the body is disturbed by strain due to any reason. In the case of visual defects the strain immediately appears when there is an effort to see. The normal eye functioning normally never makes an effort to see, it functions like other sense organs without any effort on its part. So when there is an effort to see, the nerves of the eye and mind are under strain. To relieve this strain a triune process is to be adopted. This process is based on three principles: —

1. Elimination:—Elimination of toxic matter and had habits and wrong use of the organ.

2. Stimulation:—Stimulation of the vitality of the organ by certain methods.

3. Relaxation of the mind and nerves by relaxation exercises.

We will detail this triune process later on. It is a fact that every system of medicine has developed a part of this triune process and a harmonious combination of all of them will yield wonderful results to root out the sufferings of humanity and man will enjoy perfect eyesight. Hence to achieve great success the integral knowledge of medicine is essential in its basic principles, but the proper sense of integration and efficiency will develop in a physician more and more by the evolution of the Spirit in him.

This spiritualised doctor of the future will prove to be a physician par excellence, integrating all the systems of medicine harmoniously. In the diagnosis and treatment of patients he will be mainly guided by his intuition though he may also make use of modern scientific instruments to express the phenomena in scientific terms. His methods of treatment will be simple and harmless and will bring quick recovery, even in many so-called hopeless cases. His very presence will radiate peace and healing force and his patient will be conscious of him as a saviour.

A lady patient aged thirty-five had developed insomnia and total night blindness. The doctors of Orissa failed to give her any relief. This patient was treated through the triune process and was completely cured in a month's time. A boy whose eyesight had failed for distance and near gained normal vision in about two weeks' time. Almost all cases developing defective vision or blindness can be greatly benefited by the integral system of medicine though Dr. Bates' system of relaxation plays a very important part in the treatment. It is such a thing that should be taught to our students in the medical institutions. The old rut ought to be replaced by the integral system of medicine.