Hindu Medicine c7.207

c7.207

In teaching man to regard his physical and psychic organism as the perfectly functioning vehicle of the divine life-spark within, medicine works in unison with theology and philosophy. Medicine provides man with a necessary and adequate instrument toward the most highly valued experience, that of the very essence of reality. The primary dignity of medical knowledge centers in its metaphysical aim to provide a sound physical basis for the realization of divine truth; and to help man to attain the status of the enlightened, the sage and the saint, while complying with the demands of secular life. Thus medicine aids man in bringing to maturity the quiescent germ of divine being in his perishable body. Only by caring for his mortal inheritance is man able to arrive at the realization of his highest potentialities.