THE WAYS OF TRADITIONAL AYURVEDA
Evolution of Traditional Medicine: All traditions have a tendency to slow down or get into a self made cocoon when faced with new cultures, and Traditional Knowledge (TK) is no exception. Traditional Medical Knowledge (TMK) was evolved through countless generations of human life on the lap of Mother Earth. Drinking and eating from her lap and sleeping on her lap, humans found ways to get out of own limitations as a being on the lap of Mother Earth, which is a virtual melting pot of countless billions of diverse beings and non-beings, interacting each other in ways known as well as still unknown to knowledge traditions, both ancient and modern. Though modern knowledge is only an offshoot of traditional knowledge, modernity refuses to accept the inter-linkages but utilize traditions covertly and overtly whenever there is a need and opportunity.

The River of Knowledge from Lord Danwanthari, Saints Charakan, Agasthyar, Sushruthan and Countless Saintly Shamans:
Maintaining health and vigour was a major concern of humans, and it still is a major concern of people around the world. Along with spirituality deep rooted in mysticism, a joyous wondering about the unfathomable wonders in the lap of Mother Earth, India was also the home of countless intellectuals like Lord Danwanthari, Saints Charakan, Agasthyar, Sushruthan and countless saintly shamans who closely watched the human body and mind and its imbalances and what is offered by Mother Nature to correct these imbalances. What we find today as Ayurveda is nether monolithic nor static, and it not a creation of a single master but a diverse collection of knowledge concerning health, generated by many visionaries, practitioners and even ordinary grand mothers who fully depended on the Mother Earth to repair and rejuvenate the imbalanced body and mind. Mother Earth gives everything and it takes back everything to create new. We are not really producing anything new but we make tall claims about our modern science and technology. What we term as production is mere shaping, reshaping, mixing, distilling, extracting, diffusing, fusing etc of materials from the depths of the body of Mother Earth.