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Sanskrit shlokas roll off his tongue as easily as scribbling a
prescription comes to a physician. He is not a phirang Sanskrit
pandit.
A family medical practitioner back home, American Dr Barry Charles
is currently in India to propagate the cause of Maharshi Mahesh
Yogi's Vedic approach to health, popular in the United States of
America.
Dr Charles is a member of the board of trustees of the
International Association of Physicians for Maharshi Medical
Colleges and president of the Maharshi College of Vedic Medicine
recently licensed in the United States of America.
He firmly believes in shattering the myth that modern medicines is
responsible for longer life expectancy and strongly advocates Vedic
health care system.
"Heyam Dukham Anagatam" (Avert the danger before it arises) he
recites a Vedic saying and says modern medicine providing temporary
relief is dangerous. "It is a vicious cycle, it tempts patients for
relief today and quietly injects the seed for disease tomorrow
through its side-effects," he says.
Recent research in the US revealed that one hundred million
Americans - one-third of the population - are sick with chronic
aliments despite its most sophisticated health care system m the
world. Since India believes in aping the West, if doctors do not
take proper care now they will shortly he faced with hundreds of
millions of chronically sick Indians, he cautions.
A physician in family and preventive medicine for the last 24
years, his association with the system began as a student with
Transcendental Meditation (TM). After he was convinced of the
effect, he started prescribing it to his patients.
"Ved and Vedic literature is in the body. This fact has been
scientifically proved. The entire approach is holistic,
spiritual," he says.
How does he find to ask a country where Ved originated to follow
and adapt it for better health? "Odd. But I enjoy it," admits
this doctor with cheerful disposition and expresses bafflement as
to why doctors in India are not running after the system which is
very much their own.
Dr Charles can read and write Sanskrit, a universal language, a
language of nature. "If nature had a language it would be
Sanskrit," he adds with reverence.
Talking on how Ved affects the human system, he is also quick to
add that even the way the house is placed or the side the entrance
is facing plays an important role in healing. So taken up is he by
Vastushastra, the ancient art of constructing houses, that he has
his house built with its entrance facing the east and it has a
Bhramasthan, an open centre in the house.
"No, I am not superstitious. I can feel peace the moment I enter
the house. And many have complimented me on my house," says the
proud owner.
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