Sri Sri Ravi Shankar: “Aushadhi Jahnavi Toyam” means medicine is sacred, like the water from the river Ganga. When you drink water from the river Ganga (Ganga jal), how do you feel? You drink it with a feeling of purity, and with faith. That is the difference between regular water and Ganga jal. When you drink with faith, then the water becomes teerth (sacred water). A medicine should be taken with this same feeling, then it will work effectively. It is not just popping a pill into your mouth and drinking water.
‘Vaidyo Narayano Harihi’, means that a doctor should be seen as a form of Lord Narayana.
There are two meanings for this verse. One is that the true doctor (healer) is Lord Narayana and the true medicine is the water from the river Ganga.
The other is that a medicine should be considered as sacred as the water from the river Ganga, and a doctor should be seen as a form of Lord Narayana.
For protecting your health, good habits are needed. The mind also plays a very big role here. If we want to be free from bad habits, our mind should be pleasant and we should have faith.
Our ancestors have said that for a disease to be healed, three things are needed: Good habits, good thoughts and medicine. In addition to taking the medicines, the mind should be kept pleasant and peaceful and we should have faith.
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