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This post was originally made by me at my blog gandhijiyb.blogspot.com . It seems equally relevant here, as well. Hence I am re-posting here. Gandhiji wrote to an Ayurvedic physician, Vallabhram Vaidya, on 28th June 1942. From the context of the letter, we get an impression that the doctor was seeking Gandhiji's help for getting Government's monetary support to promote AyurvEda. Source of the letter: Vol. 83 of Collected Works of Mahatma Gandhi: BHAI VALLABHRAM, I have already told you that Ayurveda cannot be saved either by money or by State help. Would the State be able to revive Ayurveda even if it gave thousands of rupees every month to the purveyers of indigenous tonics? Hundreds of people have laid down their lives to spread allopathy. Allopathy by itself is not expensive but the doctors and the chemists have made it so. You have not seen their books giving the formula and cost of each important medicine. The cost price of Bayer’s Sarsaparilla is one and a half pice b...

ybrems This post, I have made, originally at my blog on Gandhiji. It seems more relevant to AyurvEda. Hence, I am re-posting it here. Gandhiji wrote to his son dEvadas Gandhi, on Jan. 1, 1945. Source: Vol.85 of Collected Works of MahatmA Gandhi. CHI. DEVDAS, Having written my first letter to Rajaji I now write this to you. Do not at all worry on my account. I am paying for my sins. I had too much of Ayurveda and I suffered. And now I am slowly throwing off the poison. I have therefore grown very weak but I am watching the developments. Hook-worm and amoeba, my old enemies, won’t leave me. All this is but flushing out the poison that I had taken. I do not know what other suffering is in store for me. I shall go on doing as God dictates. You should not worry. Ramdas[1] has come. And now Nimu[2] too. ybrems 1. Gandhiji and Swami Vivekananda has one thing in common. 'I am paying for my sins." Vivekananda called this "my karma". 2. Gandhiji: "I shall go on doing ...