Posts tagged vaidya

by Rebecca Tolin on January 18, 2015 I used to think sesame oil was for cooking — until I met Doctor Kulreet Chaudhary, the Maharishi Ayurveda expert and neurologist who has remade my relationship with the aromatic liquid. “There’s nowhere we won’t put oil!” she once said, and as her patient, I attest. Parts of…

This was what was given to me as a title for an article exploring, I suppose, a question or even a dilemma over the personal profit from and the impersonal aspect of practicing Ayurveda as our service (seva). Of course, I immediately went to Charaka and his Code of Ethics for the impersonal answer and…