CÁLCULO DE SECCIONES Y DIMENSIONAMIENTO DE PROTECCIONES

which anabolism, catabolism and metabolism found an easier access than våta, pitta and kapha.

It was only our ignorance that instead of feeling proud of our tradition, culture and knowledge, we lapsed into self- degradation. The word 'cakra' puzzled us, but with the word 'system' we developed so much familiarity and affinity that we started calling ourselves systematic, while the purpose behind the quest for knowledge in the ancient as well as in the modern times was the sameñrealization of truth.

Instead of the Ayurvedic principle: praj¤åparådho hi sarvarogå ƒå≈ mμulakåraƒa≈¹ (CARAKA), we started feeling it more scientific to say: 'stress is the main cause of all diseases'. Now is the time to give up prejudice and ignorance, and to adopt the truth.

For example, the imbalance of endocrine system causes stress which, in turn, causes a number of complicated diseases like heart disease, hypertension, depression, obesity and diabetes, Similarly, the imbalance in skeletal system causes arthritis (of more than a hundred types) and a person falls prey to a host of muscular disorders. In short, any imbalance in the internal system is disease, while a balanced internal system means a healthy body.

With the direct and indirect experiments of yoga on millions of people we have found that by practising mainly eight pråƒåyåmas properly for a definite period with determination all our eight cakras or eight systems get fully balanced. As a result we enjoy a healthy life with yoga. At the same time, we gradually dispense with the necessity of taking externally the chemical salts or hormones in the form of medicine, because all those chemical salts and hormones we start getting internally in a balanced quantity.

Instead of being a pigeonñhole treatment like allopathy, yoga is a complete concept of health. Barring emergency medicine or surgical treatment, yoga is the best form of therapy covering all other areas 1. Compare :

buddhyå vi¶amavij¤å≈ vi¶ama≈ ca pravartanam/

praj¤aparådha≈ jån∂yån manaso gocara≈ hi tat //

(CA. ›ÅR∫RASTHÅNA 1.109) dh∂dhætismætivibh涢a¨ karma yat kurute'shubham /

praj¤åparådha≈ ta≈ vidyåt sarvado¶aprakopanam //

(CA. ›ÅR∫RA. 1.102)

of medicine. In some complicated ailments, if yoga is combined with Ayurveda, the treatment becomes extremely effective.

Along with this health aspect, the spiritual aspect of yoga is immensely vast. Though the main aim of yoga is the attainment of samadhi (transcendental trance) or the attainment of svarμupa (selfñrealisation) or the realisation of the Supreme Truth, yet in this journey of attaining samådhi through yoga the hurdles (diseases) in the way are removed automatically, which means that the elimination of disease through yoga is only a bye-product of yoga. We should never forget that the main aim is samådhi. These thoughts on yoga are not merely intellectual acrobatics, or a dream, blandishments or assurances; they are the reality of the experiments of yoga. I am fully assured that in the days ahead the whole world will shed away its prejudices and will adopt yoga in a big way, and yoga will help build a peaceful, healthy, sensitive and prosperous nation and world. There will be complete development with the co-ordination of science and spirituality, materialism and spiritualism.

Yoga will awaken a sense of duty toward self as well as the nation.

The world will march forward on the path of welfare of self as well as of the whole world. An individual will emancipate himself from the surrounding confusion of many 'isms', such as casteism, communalism, provincialism, linguism, Marxism, Maoism and Manu-ism, etc., and will adopt nationalism and humanitarianism, and India will establish herself as the supreme cultural, spiritual, economic and social power of the world. The agitated mind is the breeding ground of fear, hatred, greed, discontent, ignorance, anger, lack of restraint and all negative thoughts. When the mind of a person will become calm through pråƒåyåma and meditation, the fear, illusion, violence, crime and corruption rampant in the society, nation and world will also disappear, and with the inclination toward worship the indulgence into desires will also be controlled. The only solution to emancipation from epicurean extremes is this yogic way of life. If we want to put an end to this formidable age of the globalisation of violence, crime and lasciviousness, it is possible only by propagating yoga on a worldñwide scale, otherwise nobody can save us from total havoc and perdition.



Whereas the symptomatic and the systemic treatments form the pillars of the medical science based on modem medical systems, Yoga and Ayurveda is a science of eradicating all diseases by bringing about a balance in the system. Barring malaria, tuberculosis, etc., medicine is administered in allopathy to maintain the disorders and diseases like hypertension, diabetes, asthma and thyroid, etc. There is no permanent cure of these diseases in allopathy whereas diseases like B.P., thyroid and asthma are cured through yoga and natural lifeñ style. It we divide pråƒåyåma in two parts : 1. pre-anuloma-viloma, and 2. post-anuloma - pre-anuloma-viloma, in the first part the bhastrikå, kapålabhåti and båhya- pråƒåyåma procedures make our reproductory, excretory, digestive and skeletal systems comprehensively healthy and balanced, and in the second part the anuloma - viloma, bhråmar∂, udg∂tha and praƒava pråƒåyåmas endow us with complete health by fully balancing our circulatory, respiratory, nervous and endocrine systems. Many people are sceptic about it that in allopathy there are different medicines for different diseases, then how can all the diseases be cured simultaneously through yoga by practising mainly eight pråƒåyåmas and a few yogic procedures? It is quite natural for a common man to have this doubt in his mind: why should there be same yoga for people having different ailments? To resolve this doubt we have to understand physiology and psychology properly and also do a scientific analysis of the effects of procedures of yogic science.

All of us may have different bodies, but in spite of having distinct bodies and minds, the internal system of our bodies, our endocrine glands, our reproduetory organs, our physical body right from mμulådhåra cakra to sahasråra or brahmarandhra and our etheric body formed of the mind, intellect, psyche and ego, etc, are one and the same. All of us have the three do¶asñvåta , pitta and kapha in the texture of our body. The mind of all of us is constituted of three guƒas (qualities)ñ sattva (goodness, purity), rajas (passion, activity) and tamas (inertia, ignorance). There is very subtle distinction between men only at the level of D.N.A. and impressions (sa≈skåras). The difference at D.N.A. level is meant to give a distinct identity to each individual, and the difference at the level of impressions is on the