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TRUE HOLISTIC HEALTH KNOWLEDGE
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"In these turbulent and mechanical times, majority of
IN THIS ISSUE mankind is sick in body, mind and soul. Whereas millions of
dollars are being spent on health care, far too many of us
1. Human Body’s Intelligence ................................... 3
suffer from obesity, high blood pressure, ulcers, backache,
migraine, arthritis, stroke, cancer and so on. The list is
2. We Need Healthcare Centers,
endless. Allopathic drugs compound the diseases and
Not Disease-Scare Hospitals .................................9 increase our miseries. They are as good as poisons.
Health is more complex and indeed more simple than the
3. The Game................................................................11
allopathy would have us believe. We only have to turn to
mother nature, and true health, energy and peace would
4. Born To Serve - Dr. Merwan Bhamgara follow. Alternative Medicine, which should be actually termed
(1928-2008). ...........................................................18 as Integrative Medicine, pursues spiritual calm, emotional
peace and physical fitness. It is a holistic concept, where
5. The Power of Your Subconscious Mind .............21 one must take responsibility for his own health.
Life comes only once. True health, can help us enjoy life
6. You are Better than You Think ............................23 and pursue our ultimate goal of salvation. The rule of health
is very simple. “Cure your nature, and nature will cure you.”
7. Drink of the Devil - Coffee... .................................24
Please try to understand the message.

With divine love...


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HUMAN BODY’S INTELLIGENCE to clot and the bleeding vessels to constrict, arresting blood
loss. This friend of man could become his own enemy if used
Man should have been extinct like the dinosaurs long on a long-term basis, as happens in clinical heart failure!
ago if what we hear today about drugs, preventive screening The renin-angiotensin - aldosterone system was another
of the apparently healthy population and technology keeping boon to the hunter gatherer man in the forest, who did not
people alive on this planet were to be true. The latter were eat extra salt in his food. This prevented his blood pressure
operational, at best, for little over half a century. from falling to shock levels after injury and bleeding. In the
Many studies have been looking at the reasons why we last ten thousand years, the same system has become our
are still here despite the absence of modern hi-tech medicine curse, with lots of salt added to our diet, resulting in a novel
being available to our forest dwelling ancestors over disease, high blood pressure! In Nature, extremes are
thousands of years of their existence on the planet. detrimental. Whereas low sugar-high sugar, low blood
Evolution of man does not simply follow the native Darwinian pressure-high blood pressure, and low cholesterol-high
laws. Environment, in addition, has a lot to do with our cholesterol are all bad, constant fluctuations of all these
evolution. That is seen in many other species as well. One parameters are a must. Stationary levels obtain only after
example would suffice. There is a type of butterfly that death! The story of man’s immune system being able to cope
demonstrates an interesting response upon fleeing from a with adversity is also based on the experience of any hostile
killer reptile, when pregnant. Upon Its escape, it tries to so environment through genetic mutation. History of man in
mutate the offspring’s genes that it enables the foetus to the New World is a good example. When Europeans landed
develop much larger wing span, making it possible to get on the American continents the virgin population of that
away from danger more effectively. The mother butterfly landmass did not have any immunity against the diseases
simultaneously mutates the genes of its offspring in the the Europeans were heir to, like small pox, More Natives
womb to be able to smell the enemy scent from a longer died due to such scourges than to the European guns.
distance, by enhancing the child’s olfactory mechanism! The Medical world is learning the hard way the need to
Similar evolutionary changes, based on our environment, respect this capacity of the body and not to interfere too
kept us going for so long without the assistance of any hi- much too soon with modern gadgets and powerful drugs,
tech stuff. Let us call this the intelligence of the body. Time hurting the native wisdom of the body and its in-built
was when man lived in the forests, and the causes of death protective mechanisms. Some examples would reveal the
were primarily senility or predation. To keep man going despite secret. Our present mind set of "a pill for every ill" and "quick
injury in the likely event of an attack by larger animals, genetic fixes" has to give place to our understanding that there is a
mutation helped to develop the sympathetic system. This could self-regulatory compensatory phase inside the human body
keep one going in an emergency, say bleeding, by for every single alteration or accident!
redistributing the circulation to supply blood to the vital organs Studies of sex workers in Nigeria and San Francisco have
in preference to the non-vital parts and also to help the blood shown that there are many of them in the trade, on a regular

God heals and the doctor takes the fee. I am dying with the help of too many physicians.
– Franklin – Alexander the Great
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basis, housed in the designated areas having "good little, if any, autoimmune diseases. East Africans form the bulk
business", who keep very good health, despite having more of American blacks. In America they live in a much cleaner
than 50% of their clientele with either full blown AIDS or, at environment without exposure to killer germs like malaria,
least, the presence of the virus in the blood or semen! But filaria and others found in Africa. The one hundred-fifty odd
the sophisticated classes of sex workers who operate from genes situated in the long arm of the ninth chromosome,
five-star outfits do not enjoy this immune protection! The exclusively looking after antibody production against invading
same calamity befalls the hapless victim of accidental germs, at times, feel jobless in their new clean surroundings!
exposure to AIDS virus! Oxford University has embarked They could unwittingly manufacture antibodies against body's
on studies of the Nigerian prostitutes and the healthy ones own cells, resulting in a very high percentage antibodies
from San Francisco to see if some sort of vaccine could be against body's own cells, resulting in a very high percentage
produced from the knowledge gained from such sex of killer autoimmune diseases in American blacks of East
workers. African origin! Strange are the ways of Nature!
Children of migrant workers in Dakshina Kannada district Another glaring example appears in a study of the death
of Indian Karnataka state on the west coast, originally from rate variations in grievously injured soldiers in the Vietnam
Northern Karnataka, whose parents do not have lucrative jobs War vis-a-vis the Falklands War. Whereas helicopter
to give them good food, mostly live on makeshift dwellings on evacuations and immediate blood transfusions and warming
the road side literally eating from the dirt, and resist most of were very common during the Vietnam War, during the wintry
the communicable diseases much better than their cousins in war in the Falklands those facilities were absent and the
clean and rich households! Extra clean surrounding might wounded soldiers were sometimes left to fend for themselves
endanger children's heaalth by exposing them to new risks for long stretches of time in the cold! Curiously, the per capita
from ordinarily innocuous germs. Epidemics of viral death in the two groups showed that a much larger number of
appendicitis in British primary schools are one such example. them survived the wounds in Falklands compared to Vietnam!
Caucasians exposed to falciparum malaria are likely to One would not easily believe this, but this is the bitter truth.
die most of the time, if not properly protected by drugs for While the body's compensatory mechanisms, discussed
prevention, as they have not been exposed to this germ above, helped wounded bleeding soldiers on the South
earlier. This is due to the lack of racial immunity. Similarly, American Island front, effectively, the cold weather helped
when Europeans first come to third world countries they lower the basal metabolic rate thereby lessening the demand
usually are not able to tolerate the drinking water that we all for oxygen to the tissues. In Vietnam, the early human
take without any harm. intervention with blood transfusion enhanced bleeding by
Hostile environments make us acquire the capacity to displacing the clot and reducing vasoconstriction, the
genetically produce immunity against many adverse situations. warmed up body increases the oxygen demand! This kind
The same mechanism could work against us under special of mistake occurs many times in some other disease in the
circumstances. East Africans living in East Africa have very intensive care settings.

Our best bet is still prevention. The mind needs to be cleansed daily as does the body.

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Physiological heart failure is another good example. With We Need Healthcare Centers,
its onset, the sympathetic system remodels the heart and
redistributes circulation, but chronic stimulation makes the Not Disease-Scare Hospitals
same system destroy the heart muscle and enhance failure. If
Yes! The need today is for Holistic Health centers where
we use blocking drugs at the beginning to knock off the
only PREVENTION OF DISEASE is emphasized. We have
sympathetic system patients could die, but later use of the
enough Disease-Care and Disease-Scare hospitals—no more
same drugs, when the body's own protective mechanisms are
of them, please! We now need more Holistic Health Education
exhausted, as in clinical heart failure, could save a lot of lives!
centers where, childhood onwards, we learn about right ali-
One could go on and on. Every single intervention by man at
mentation, right type of physical exercises, right ways to think
the wrong time ends up killing more people than saving them.
and act in life, right ways to relax the body and thereby the
It is high time that many of the hi-tech early interventions
mind, so on and so forth. We need centers where people learn
are properly and meticulously audited in the field before
about prevention of pollution of the body as well as the mind;
being sold in the market. One would be shocked to know
where people learn about non-addiction to food, besides non-
that this does not happen most of the time because of the addiction to narcotics, whether mild such as brews of tea,
hype and greed. Newer interventions are touted as the new
coffee or cocoa, or strong such as marijuana and LSD. We
avatar of life-saving-Gods in technological form and are let
need centers where people can be educated to care for and
loose on gullible and demanding patients. It is better to look after in the right way—the natural way—their precious
remember the dictum that while it is the bounden duty of the
possessions of the physique and the psyche, which are God-
medical profession to do its best for the suffering humanity, given gifts to mankind. But the education in such centers will
even when knowledge in that field is inadequate, it is a crime not cultivate the wrong type of self-centeredness. Here people
to intervene in the healthy segment of the population with will also learn to give maximum of whatever they possess or
newer technology or untried drugs, with the fond hope and are endowed with, especially money and riches. A poet has
assurance of averting long term danger when the latter said, “Ceasing to give, we cease to have.” LIFE CONSISTS OF
interventions are not properly audited in that setting. GIVE AND TAKE, IN WHICH, GIVING IS AS IMPORTANT AS GET-
Times change and knowledge is bound to change, but TING—PERHAPS MORE IMPORTANT. Some people have the
wisdom lingers on. addiction to accumulation of as much wealth as possible! They
The prayer of a wise physician of yore, Sir Robert become WEALTHOHOLICS, which is a soul-destroying disease.
Hutchinson, reveals it all : And the Bible has rightly said, “What will it avail thee, if you
God give me deliverance from : get the whole world but lose the soul?” Philanthropy and be-
• not letting the well alone, nevolence are a part of natural cure of all ailments; and both
• treating suffering humans as cases, and are very relevant in prevention of ailments as well. “CARING
• making my treatment worse than his suffering! FOR OTHERS AND SHARING WITH OTHERS OUR GOD-GIVEN
– Dr. B.M. Hegde BOUNTIES” IS AN IMPORTANT PRESCRIPTION IN NATURE

The seed of every single disease is first sown in the mind. Treat the underlying cause, not the effects.

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CURE. The word WEALTH, after all, derives from WEAL, which THE GAME
means “GENERAL GOOD,” or “WELFARE OF THE COMMU-
NITY.” The ordinary meaning of wealth as “personal property” Most people consider life a battle, but it is not a battle,
came in later on. The original meaning was always synony- it is a game.
mous with COMMON-WEALTH! Our Holistic Health education It is a game, however, which cannot be played
centers will aim at evolving human beings into HUMANE successfully without the knowledge of spiritual law, and
beings—kind, compassionate, forgiving and giving. the Old and the New Testaments give the rules of the game
CONCLUSION with wonderful clearness. Jesus Christ taught that it was
We have seen that Nature Cure is based on laws that are a great game of Giving and Receiving.
eternal, as also universal in their applicability—applicable "Whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap"
to all the species of fauna, in the past, present and future. This means that whatever man sends out in word or deed
We have also seen that Nature, or Divine Intelligence, resides will return to him : what he gives, he will receive.
in each and every cell of our body and performs all If he gives hate, he will receive hate, if he gives love, he
functions—obvious as well as miraculous, known to us or will receive love, if he gives criticism, he will receive
unknown to us, anabolic as well as catabolic, but always
criticism, if he lies, he will be lied to, if he cheats, he will
life-sustaining or health-restoring. Most of us, including
be cheated. We are taught also that the imaging faculty
physicians, agree that Nature performs all functions. Who
plays a leading part in the game of life.
else but Nature—by whichever name one may prefer to call
"Keep thy heart (or imagination) with all diligence, for
Her, it doesn’t make any difference as long as one attributes
the same qualities to this Intelligent Power, which we call out of it are the issues of life"
Nature! Yet while speaking of “all functions,” the function This means that what man imagines, sooner or later
of health-restoration is excluded—due to ignorance or due externalises in his affairs. I know of a man who feared a
to some selfish motive. The heart beats and circulates blood, certain disease. It was a very rare disease and difficult to
the lungs inhale and exhale air, the digestive system digests get, but he pictured it continually, and read about it, until
and assimilates food, the excretory systems excrete wastes, it manifested in his body, and he died, the victim of
and all other systems discharge their duties—the same way distorted imagination.
as they used to do some millions of years ago; Nature has So, we see, to play successfully the game of life we
been performing these functions from time immemorial, and must train the imaging faculty. A person with an imaging
there is absolutely no possibility that She will not continue faculty trained to image only good brings into his life "every
to do so ad infinitum. Nature Cure is relevant in modern times righteous desire of his heart" - health, wealth, love, friends,
and will remain relevant till mankind inhabits the earth—no perfect self-expression, his highest ideals.
doubt about it! The imagination has been called "The Scissors of the
– Dr. M. M. Bhamgara
Mind," and it is ever cutting, cutting, cutting, day by day,
Major risk factors for most of the diseases are hatred, The only logical way to fight disease is to augment the
jealousy, ego, anger and destructive hostility. power of the patient’s body to resist diseases.
– Dr. H. P. Pickevil- M.D.
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the pictures man sees there, and sooner or later he meets fill, something you are to do which no one else can do."
his own creations in his outer world. To train the There is a perfect picture of this in the super-conscious
imagination successfully, man must understand the mind. It usually flashes across the consciousness as an
workings of his mind. The Greeks said :"Know thyself." unattainable ideal– "Something too good be true."
There are three departments of the mind, the In reality, it is man's true destiny (or destination) flashed
subconscious, conscious, and super conscious. The to him from the Infinite Intelligence which is within himself.
subconscious is simply power without direction. It is like Many people, however, are in ignorance of their true
steam or electricity, and it does what it is directed to do, it destinies, and are striving for things and situations which
has no power of induction. do not belong to them, and would only bring failure and
Whatever man feels deeply or images clearly is dissatisfaction if attained.
impressed upon the subconscious mind, and carried out For example : A woman came to me and asked me to
in minutest detail. "speak the word" that she would marry a certain man with
For example : A woman I know, when a child, always whom she was very much in love. (she called him A.B.)
"made believe" she was a window. She "dressed up" in I replied that this would be a violation of spiritual law,
black clothes and wore a long black veil, and people but that I would speak the word for the right man, the
thought she was very clever and amusing. She grew up "divine selection," the man who belonged to her by divine
and married a man with whom she was deeply in love. In a right.
short time he died, and she wore black and a sweeping I added, "If A.B. is the right man you can't lose him and if
veil for many years. The picture of herself as a window he isn't you will receive his equivalent." She saw A.B.
was impressed upon the subconscious mind, and in due frequently, but no headway was made in their friendship.
times worked itself out, regardless of the havoc created. One evening she called, and said, "Do you know, for the last
The conscious mind has been called mortal or carnal week A.B. hasn't seemed so wonderful to me." I replied, May
mind. be he is not the divine selection - another man, who fell in
It is the human mind, and sees life as it appears to be. love with her at once, and who said she was his ideal. In
It sees death, disaster, sickness, poverty, ad limitation of fact, he said all the things that she had always wished A. B.
every kind, and it impresses the subconscious. would say to her.
The super-conscious mind is the God mind within each She remarked, " It was quite uncanny."
man, and is the realm of perfect ideas. She soon returned his love, and lost all interest in A.B.
In it is the "perfect pattern" spoken of by Plato. The This shows the law of substitution. A right idea was
Divine Design : for there is a Divine Design for each person. substituted for a wrong one, therefore there was - loss or
"There is a place that you are to fill and no one else can sacrifice involved.

Give people a cure and they will be healed for a day. A healthy life style reduces the risk of disease to the
Teach them the cause and they will be healthy for a life time. extent possible.
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Jesus Christ said, "Seek ye first the Kingdom of God the loaves and the fishes," for He taught that every man
and His righteousness, and all these things shall be added had the power to bless and to multiply, to heal and to
unto you," and he said the Kingdom was within man. prosper.
The Kingdom is the realm of right ideas, or the divine She said, "What shall I do next?"
pattern. I replied, "Follow intuition. Have you a 'hunch' to do
Jesus Christ taught that man's words played a leading anything, or to go anywhere?" Intuition means in-tuition,
part in the game of life. "By your words ye are justified or to be taught from within. It is man's unerring guide.
and by your words ye are condemned." The woman replied : "I don't know–I seem to have a
Many people have brought disaster into their lives 'hunch' to go home, I've just enough money for car-fare."
through idle words. Her home was in a distant city, and was one of lack and
For example : A woman once asked me why her life was limitation, and the reasoning mind (or intellect) would have
now one of poverty and limitation. Formerly she had a home, said : "Stay in New York and get work and make some
was surrounded by beautiful things, and had plenty of money. money." I replied "Then go home – never violate a hunch."
We found she had often tired of the management of her home, I spoke the following words for her : "Infinite Spirit, open
and had said repeatedly. "I am sick and tried of things. I wish the way for great abundance for – : She is an irresistible
I lived in a trunk," and she added : "To-day I am living in that magnet for all that belongs to her by divine right." I told
trunk." She had spoken herself into a trunk . The her to repeat it continually also. She left for home
subconscious mind has no sense of humour, and people immediately. In calling on a woman one day, she linked up
often joke themselves into unhappy experiences. with an old friend of her family.
For example : A woman who had a great deal of money Through this friend she received thousands of dollars
joked continually about "getting ready for the poor-house." in a most miraculous way. She has said to me often, "Tell
In a few years she was almost destitute, having people about the woman who came to you with eight
impressed the subconscious mind with a picture of lack dollars and a hunch."
and limitation. There is always plenty on man's pathway : but it can
Fortunately the law works both ways, and a situation only be brought into manifestation through desire, faith,
of lack may be changed to one of plenty. or the spoken word. Jesus Christ brought out clearly that
For example: A woman came to me one hot summer's man must make the first move.
day for a "treatment" for prosperity. She was worn out, “Ask, and it shall be given you, seek, and ye shall find,
dejected, and discouraged. She said she possessed just knock, and it shall be opened unto you”
eight dollars in the world. I said, "Good. We'll bless the In the Scriptures we read :
eight dollars and multiply them, as Jesus Christ multiplied “Concerning the works of My hands, command ye Me.”

A healthy life style does not prevent death but might In the unlikely event of a disease, recovery is faster
postpone premature death. and complete in those who follow a healthy life style.
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Infinite Intelligence, God, is ever ready to carry out great success, told me he had suddenly erased all fear
man’s smallest or greatest demands. from his consciousness by reading a sign which hung in
Every desire, uttered or unexpressed, is a demand. We a room. He saw printed in large letters this statement :
are often startled by having a wish suddenly fulfilled. “Why worry? It will probably never happen.” These words
For example : One Easter, having seen many beautiful were stamped indelibly upon his subconscious mind, and
rose-trees in the florists’ windows, I wished I would receive he has now a firm conviction that only good can come
one, and for an instant saw it mentally being carried in the into his life, therefore only good can manifest.
door. I will deal with the different methods of impressing the
Easter came, and with it a beautiful rose-tree. I thanked subconscious mind. It is man’s faithful servant, but one
my friend the following day, and told her it was just what I must be careful to give it the right orders. Man has ever a
had wanted. silent listener at his side-his subconscious mind.
She replied, “I didn’t send you a rose-tree, I sent you Every thought, every word, is impressed upon it and
lilies!” carried out in amazing detail. It is like a singer making a
The man had mixed the order, and sent me a rose-tree, record on the sensitive disc of the phonographic plate.
simply because I had started the law in action, and I had to Every note and tone of the singer’s voice is registered. If
have a rose-tree. he coughs or hesitates, it is registered also. So let us break
Nothing stands between man and his highest ideals all the old bad records in the subconscious mind, the
and every desire of his heart but doubt and fear. When records of our lives which we do not wish to keep, and
man can “wish without worrying.” every desire will be make new and beautiful ones.
instantly fulfilled. Speak these words aloud with power and conviction : “I
I will explain more fully the scientific reason for this, now smash and demolish every untrue record in my
and how fear must be erased from the consciousness. It subconscious mind. They shall return to the dust-heap of
is man’s only enemy - fear of lack, fear of failure, fear of their native nothingness, for they came from my own vain
sickness, fear of loss, and a feeling of insecurity on some imaginings. I now make my perfect records through Christ
plane. Jesus Christ said : “Why are ye fearful, O ye of little within the records of Health, Wealth, Love, and perfect self-
faith?” So we can, we must substitute faith for fear, for Expression.” This is the square of life. The Game completed.
fear is only inverted faith, it is faith in evil instead of good. Man can change his conditions by changing his words.
The object of the game of life is to see clearly one’s Any man who does not know the power of the word is
good and to obliterate all mental pictures of evil. This must behind the times.
be done by impressing the subconscious mind with a “Death and Life are in the power of the tongue.”
realisation of good. A very brilliant man, who has attained – By Florence Scovel Shinn

A happy mind is the best tonic for health. Radiant health is a choice.

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BORN TO SERVE His home was a welcome haven to anyone eager to


learn and explore the marvels of Naturopathy. He instilled
DR. MERWAN BHAMGARA in us a sacred, reverent respect for our wondrous
(1928-2008) environment, which humanity repeatedly destroys,
Few have measured up to Emerson’s immortal desecrates and devastates for paltry and mercenary gains.
definition of SUCCESS, Dr. Merwan Bhamgara was one of He hammered out relentlessly and ruthlessly, how we
those rare men who lived these thoughts with simplicity, abuse our bodies with repeatedly wrong diet, scant heed
grace and utmost humility. He was the man who laughed to rigorous regular exercise, and by foolishly flouting the
often and much, he won the respect of intelligent people concept of a disciplined life. To him, sleeping and rising
and the affection of children, he earned the appreciation early during the Brahma muhurta hours to start the day
of honest critics, he appreciated beauty and always found with serenity and fully charged intellect, was the only way
the best in others. He left the world a bit better by scores to live. Dr. Bhamgara’s most remarkable trait was that he
of healthy human beings, by his beautiful garden which only preached what he himself practised religiously and
he often tended personally and by fervently advocating scrupulously. His own rigorous exercise routine at 80 and
Naturopathy not just as a therapy but as a way of life. To meticulously regulated diet, was a source of inspiration,
him the knowledge that even one life breathed easier which many of us have emulated (in varying degrees) and
because of him, spelt true unanimously affirmed that he made an integral part of our daily routine.
was ‘Born to Serve’. Dr. Bhamgara’s frail yet fit body, bore eloquent
I shall be eternally grateful to my friend Meher Bharucha testimony to the rewards of a Naturopathic life style. He
for introducing me to Dr. Bhamgara in his lovely home at was a repository of amazing intellectual and emotional
Rye Woods, Lonavala. As we travelled together in train. I strength and boundless compassion, which he gave freely
pictured a grave, impressive and famous personality, and fully to all who sought it sincerely. Discipline,
whom I would approach with a bit of dread and awe. But consistency and faith, grounded in concrete factual proofs,
my first glimpse of him, proved to be contrary. As we made him an ardent and active champion of Naturopathy,
entered his bungalow, I saw a lean energetic man with a which he lived and breathed, every moment of his life. He
radiant childlike smile, proceeding towards us with a fought cancer and even cured himself, largely with holistic
distinct bounce in his step, we were greeted with a warm, remedy.
brotherly hug. What struck me instantly was his extremely His clarion call was humble and deep attitude of
approachable manners despite winning national and supreme gratitude to nature, for the millions of magnificent
international accolades as a renowned scholar and bounties showered on us, from birth to death. He never
practitioner of Naturopathy. missed a singly opportunity to reveal and reiterate, ‘Instead

The body works as a whole. The body knows how to be well.

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of being grateful and repaying Nature for her countless THE POWER OF
blessings, we ignorantly abuse not just our environment,
but our own bodies and yet Nature comes to our rescue to YOUR SUBCONSCIOUS MIND
Forgive and Heal.’ 1. Think good, and good follows. Think evil, and evil
The greatest and only tribute we can pay to this noble follows. You are what you think all day long.
soul, is to comprehend and implement the basic principles 2. Your subconscious mind does not argue with you. It
accepts what your conscious mind decrees. If you say,
of Naturopathy in our own daily existence, to make the
"I can't afford it," your subconscious works to make it
world cleaner and purer for posterity. Personally, I bless
true. Select a better thought. Decree, "I'll buy it. I accept
him everyday, for making me aware and live by the simple it in my mind."
truths of health and hygiene, which have worked wonders 3. You have th power to choose. Choose health and
with my physical, mental, emotional and intellectual well- happiness. You can choose to be friendly, or you can
being. choose to be unfriendly. Choose to be cooperative,
Serving and supporting him for years with utmost care joyous, friendly, lovable, and the whole world will
and dedication, was Mangala Behn, the wind behind his respond. This is the best way to develop a wonderful
Wings. A silent, sincere worker, she stood by Dr. Bhamgara personality.
like the steadfast Rock of Gibralter. 4. Your conscious mind is the "watchman at the gate." Its
chief function is to protect your subconscious mind from
Dr. Bhamgara has left indelible footsteps in the Health
false impressions. Choose to believe that something
and Hearts of hundreds, who thanks to his vast knowledge,
good can happen and is happening now. Your greatest
embraced Naturopathy as a cleaner, energetic, tension- power is your capacity to choose. Choose happiness
free way to a healthy, harmonious, peaceful living. He has and abundance.
not only touched, but radically transformed umpteen lives 5. The suggestions and statements of others have no
by creating a spiritual Holistic Renaissance. power to hurt you. The only power is the movement of
God bless his gentle, loving soul, your own thought. You can choose to reject the thoughts
He played a vital, pioneering role, or statements of others and affirm the good. You have
In making us all alert and aware, the power to choose how you will react.
Of Nature’s grace and constant care, 6. Watch what you say. You have to account for every idle
In healing both our body and mind. word. Never say, "I will fail, I will lose my job, I can't pay
the rent." Your subconscious cannot take a joke. It
Treasured moments, memories,
brings all these things to pass.
And selfless, he leaves behind.
7. Your mind is not evil. No force of nature is evil. It
– Firoza Bharucha depends how you use the powers of nature. Use your
mind to bless, heal, and inspire all people everywhere.
More and more studies in conventional scientific Time has come for mankind to depend more on our
disciplines have affirmed the fact that faith does heal. immune system rather than on antibiotics.
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8. Never say, "I can't." Overcome that fear by substituting YOU ARE BETTER THAN YOU THINK
the following: "I can do all things through the power of
my own subconscious mind." You have a body that functions marvelously, a mind
9. Begin to think from the standpoint of the eternal truths full of resources you haven’t even begun to tap. You have
and principle of life and not from the standpoint of fear, abilities you never exploited. Spiritually God made you only
ignorance, and superstition. Do not let others do your a little lower than the angels.
thinking for you. Choose your own thoughts and make With all this, you may think yourself inferior. Many of
your own decisions.
the world’s greatest and most successful individuals have
10. You are the captain of your soul (subconscious mind)
and the master of your fate. Remember, you have the had feelings of inferiority similar to yours. Inferiority
capacity to choose. Choose life! Choose love! Choose feelings are very common, and usually prove only that you
health! Choose happiness! have enough intelligence to aim high.
11. Whatever your conscious mind assumes and believes With the use of three Golden Keys, you can become
to be true, your subconscious mind will accept and bring the kind of person you were meant to be. These are :
to pass. Believe in good fortune, divine guidance, right
1) Thought : Substitute a pleasant, constructive thought
action, and all the blessing of life.
– Dr. Joseph Murphy for every unpleasant idea that enters your mind.
2) Writing : Write down the qualities you want to achieve
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DRINK OF THE DEVIL - COFFEE inexpensive, easily obtainable, socially acceptable and
potentially addictive drug.
The Arabs, who first used coffee almost 800 years ago, The primarily active ingredient of coffee is of course,
called it ‘kahuha’ or power. Dark and mysterious it was caffeine - a white, crystalline alkaloid which acts as a
dubbed ‘the drink of the devil’ by religion, medicine and stimulant. Coffee also contains other stimulants like
politics, and was said to inspire sedition and rebellion. trigonellin (an element in nicotine) as well as aromatic oils
And yet it spread through the Islamic countries and into and acids. The action of caffeine has been well documented.
Europe as a favoured drink of writers and aristocrats. By It stimulates the entire nervous system, acting directly in
the 18th century coffee plantations had sprung up in the the brain. It increases pulse rate, blood pressure and the
tropics. As prices dropped, it became the favoured beverage speed of respiration. The liver releases a stored glycogen
of all classes in the world. as glucose which raise the blood sugar level, giving a sense
Coffee is today a major world agricultural product and is of high energy and suppressing appetite. All the organs are
almost a universal beverage. Millions of acres of fertile land activated, including the kidney, bladder and the peristalsis
are devoted to its cultivation (a legacy of colonialism) and of the colon. Coffee is also proven to heighten the senses.
the economies of a number of Third World Nations are The association of coffee with the lives of academicians,
completely dominated by it. One percent of all international writers and scientists is perhaps true as coffee stimulates
trade is in coffee! the forebrain, accentuating appollonian impulses and
But despite its popularity, coffee is not a beverage nor a helping one through the punishing pace of life in an
food. It is drunk neither to quench thirst nor to supply any industrialised world. But when the blood sugar level returns
nutrients. It is not even a bean or a legume. Coffee is the to normal - more often it drops below normal - the person
fruit of a semi-tropical evergreen which bears a flower (said turns tired, jittery, depressed and is unable to concentrate.
to be like an orange flower, with a jasmine fragrance). Its The only solution is yet another cup of coffee...
fruit is called ‘cherry’ and the bean inside the cherry is used Caffeine toxicity weakens the organs. Energy, efficiency
to make coffee. One tree on an average bears 2,000 cherries and creativity the ‘positive’ effects of coffee - can all be made
- equal to only one pound of roasted coffee. available to the body through a good diet and an integrated,
The coffee bean is one of the most complex, naturally satisfying life style. Natural living can act as a powerful
occurring flavours, composed of over 500 volatile stimulant without side effects !
compounds. It is this combination which gives coffee its A habitual coffee-drinker can expect physical and
bitter, astringent flavour. A combination of niacin, vitamins, psychological withdrawal symptoms like headaches, hot
minerals, caffeine and tannic acid, coffee, is a powerful flashes, palpitations of the heart, constipation, extreme
physical and mental stimulant that increase thirst and fatigue, depression, radical fluctuations of mood and an
deprives the body of nutrients. It can be called an inability to concentrate. But accompanied by a proper diet

To believe that doctors and hospitals are needed for The drug lobby is heavily financing medical education
keeping the health of the population is plain rubbish. and doctors are brain washed right from the day that they
– Denis Burkitt enter medical school.
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and exercise a person can get deaddicted and regain mental
and physical energy within just two weeks. One even gets
more restful sleep after the ‘cold turkey’ period. 1) Adequate but not exessive sun-shine.
According to the yin-yang theory, some foods are dominated
by expanding energy (yin) and some by contracting energy 2) Fresh pure air.
(yang). People are drawn to an extreme yin substance such as
meat, fish, eggs, salt and overcooked grains and vegetables. 3) Pure water, neither less nor more.
Thus, to deaddict oneself, one has to eliminate excessive yang
elements from the diet and introduce milder yin ones such as 4) Proper diet - balanced and nutritive and good
steamed vegetables, salads, fresh fruits. Also the need for the habits.
artificial lift which coffee gives is due in part to the lack of natural
stimuli of exercise, fresh air and sunshine. Outdoor activity has
5) Adequate exercise.
the same physical and mental effects as coffee. 6) Occasional fasting-only on pure water.
The tannic acid in coffee is excellent for tanning leather
and also cleanses dirty, greasy kitchen floors, stainless-steel 7) Cleanliness and good hygiene, cleanliness is
tables, deep fryers and any grease-covered surface. It also next to godliness.
kills rats. But the human body is not geared for such drastic
cleansing and coffee only corrodes it, sapping the energy 8) Adequate rest and sleep. Eight hours' sleep.
within. Decaffeinated coffee is probably more harmful than
the straight stuff as the decaffeinating process involves 9) Good - elimination, internal as well as external
soaking the beans in a toxic, chlorinated solvent. It therefore - evacuations-too.
cannot be treated or termed as either ‘natural’ or ‘healthy’.
If you are yet tempted to drink a cup of coffee, try water-
10) Strict avoidence of all foreign substances
sufficient fruits. They fill you up and do not drain you. including tea, coffee, tobacco, alcohol, drugs
Note : The favourite food for rate is the coffee bean. When and foodless foods.
instant coffee is manufactured, hundreds of rats get crushed
along with the bean.
In Nature Cure, there are only five doctors.
Maybe the producers will try and tell you, that this is good 1) Dr. Diet
for you! Without paying for it, you are also getting rat protein
and rat calcium. 2) Dr. Quiet
Dr. Vijaya Venkat & Associates
Tel.: 2436 1672 / 2432 0788 3) Dr. Cleanliness
Medicine has been commercialised and is the victim of all the 4) Dr. Merryman
market forces thus making modern medicine prohibitively expensive
and doctors greedy. 5) Dr. Exercise
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We have taller buildings, but shorter tempers,


Wider freeways, but narrow viewpoints,
We spend more, but have less,
We buy more, but enjoy less.
We have bigger houses and smaller families,
more conveniences, but less time,
We have more degrees, but less sense,
more knowledge, but less judgement,
more experts, but more problems,
more medicine, but less well ness.
These are the times of tall men, and short characters,
steep profits, and shallow relationships.
These are the times of world peace
but domestic warfare,
more leisure, but less fun,
more kinds of food, but less nutrition.
It is a time when there is much in the show window,
and nothing in the stockroom,
a time when technology can bring this letter to you,
and a time when you can choose
either to make a difference - or just hit delete.
– From Love Stories of a Different Idea
A Cap Guide, Penang - Malaysia

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