from the institute, we rarely saw each other, but after another meeting in the winter of 2003, I realized that I needed just such a comrade-in-arms, who combined knowledge of medicine and Vedic culture and possessed literary gift.
Since March, he has been actively involved in the work on the book, and we completed it in six months. Andrei wrote almost all the parables and stories and carried out a thorough literary editorial, so I felt that he deserved to be a co-author of this work. He is currently working as a doctor at the Dhanvantari Center and continues with me to prepare for publication the volume "Fundamentals of the Ayurvedic Nutrition System", which our creative team expects to complete by February 2004.
I am sincerely grateful to Alexander Pavlovich Tseiko and his wife Svetlana Pavlovna Shin, because thanks to their support this book was able to be published.

Chapter 1.
Part 1.
Ayurveda (lit. - "science of life") is part of the Vedic culture of the ancient Aryan civilization of Bharata-Varsha or Ariyavarta, which existed many millennia ago. At one time, this culture covered a number of countries and had a beneficial effect on the entire planet.
By studying the ancient manuscripts that have come down to us, one can appreciate the breadth of outlook and the greatest wisdom of people who lived in the Vedic era. When the Western world became acquainted with the Vedic canons, its idea of ​​ancient people as primitive savages was completely debunked. Now we know that the ancient Aryans consciously avoided technocratic development, because they understood that it was not able to give people happiness - on the contrary, it could destroy the entire planet. Therefore, the motto of the Aryans was: "Live simply and think sublimely."
Modern civilization, on the contrary, is very proud of its achievements in the field of technology and electronics. Giant cities have been built in which it is so convenient to live and work. Multi-storey buildings are filled with a wide variety of appliances. We travel by car and train, and huge airliners allow us to reach any point on the planet in just a few hours. We easily communicate with people who are hundreds of kilometers away. Fully automated technological lines of plants and factories make it possible, without much physical labor, to produce an unprecedented amount of products. But at what cost have we achieved all this? What did we pay for all that material comfort that we are so proud of?
Today our civilization is reaping the monstrous, destructive fruits of its irresponsibility. Created a terrible weapon capable of a few days destroy all life on the planet. Forests have been almost completely cut down, rivers and seas have turned into sewers, the air is poisoned by chemical waste from enterprises and cars, and more and more animals and birds are included in the Red Book.
Honesty, openness, kindness, modesty and mercy gave way to terrible vices. The world is saturated with hypocrisy, envy, greed and pride; hatred and enmity are tearing humanity apart. As a result, hitherto unknown, deadly diseases appeared. It is not surprising, therefore, that in this century the interest of the West in the East has grown, especially in Oriental medicine, which has preserved the living roots of Vedic culture. A return to the sources of ancient knowledge at the beginning of the third millennium gives hope for the healing of our sick society.
Aryans indicate in their canons that civilizations perish, as a rule, not as a result of cosmic catastrophes, global natural disasters and wars, but because everyone begins to think only about themselves, only about taking, not giving to others. But the basic principle of harmony is the exchange of energies. Only he opens people's hearts to love and makes the world happy...
Ayurveda, being not so much a medical as a philosophical system, was not given to some chosen nation or individual people - it was brought as a gift to all Humanity. Universal and quite flexible, Ayurveda contains algorithms that can be applied anywhere and at all times. But this does not mean that knowledge should be imparted mechanically. It has to be adapted to certain geographical, climatic, cultural and social conditions in accordance with the Vedic principle of transferring knowledge desha-kala-patra ("place-time-circumstances"). What is the basis of the knowledge that is being discussed here?
An integral part of Vedic culture, Ayurveda is based on the Sankhya philosophical system, which describes in detail the structure of the material world and its laws, on Jyotisha Shastra, which includes astronomy, biocosmorhythmology, astrology, and on Vedic naturopathy (natural methods for the prevention and treatment of diseases).
Sankhya (lit. "calculus") is a philosophical direction founded by the ancient sage Kapila. It is associated with the enumeration of the first principles and in a sense resembles modern physics. (although the latter did not discover all the laws mentioned by Sankhya). Illustrating the saying "New is well forgotten old", this section of Vedic knowledge contains, for example, a description of Einstein's famous formula "E = mc2".
Sankhya studies mainly the structure of various objects of the material world. Its essence is stated in the 13th chapter of the Bhagavad Gita: maha-bhutani ahankaro buddhir avyaktam eva ca indriyani dashaykam ca panca chendriya-gocarah icchha dvesah sukham dukkhim sanghatash cetana dhritih etat kshetram samasena sa-vikaram udahrtam ("Five main elements: ego, the mind, the unmanifested, the mind and the ten senses (indriyas), the five sense objects, desire, aversion, joy, suffering, totality, signs of life and beliefs - all this constitutes the field of activity and its interaction "(13.6-7). According to the Vedic teachings, the objects of the material world are based on 24 elements. In his philosophy, Kapila muni (muni - as contemporaries called the most revered sages - ed.) explores in detail each of them and their interaction.
In this system of knowledge, matter initially has the form of energy, which, under the influence of the will of Brahma, “condenses” into matter, creating the whole variety of objects of the Universe visible and invisible to our eyes. Each is based on five components of this world, the so-called "gross" material elements or elements (maha-bhutas), which are:
• "earth" (prithvi), which is the principle of the structure or solid state of matter (energy packed into matter),
• "water" (jala) - the principle of interaction or the liquid state of matter,
• "fire" (agni) - the principle of energy release from matter (unpacking of energy) or plasma state,
• "air" (vayu) - the principle of the movement of matter or the gaseous state of matter, and finally,
• "ether" (akasha) - the substance of space, a kind of analogue of such a concept of modern science as the physical vacuum or the physical field of matter.
In addition to these material elements, there are also more subtle (field) components of matter, the main ones among which are feelings (indriyas), mind (manas), intellect (buddhi) and false ego (ahankara). Today, most scientists do not recognize them as elements of matter proper, but, at best, consider them nothing more than the result of brain activity. However Kapila describes them as an independent component of Nature. Considering the Universe as a single living organism, arranged like a human body, he derives the concept of the identity of the macro- and microcosm. Every action in the Universe has a cause and effect (property of the "fire" element). Each point of the Universe contains information about the entire Universe (property of the element "ether"). As below, so above (property of the element "air"). All objects of the Universe are inextricably linked with each other (property of the element "water"). The energy of the Universe, passing from one state to another, never disappears (property of the element "earth").
Jyotisha-shastra shows the connection of a person (microcosm) with the outside world (macrocosm). "What happens above, happens below." In its astronomical section, the distances to various planets of our solar system visible and invisible to the naked eye are surprisingly accurately calculated, their orbits and rotation speed around the star are described. According to the Jyotisha Shastra, there are eighteen planets in the solar system, and not ten, as modern astronomy believes. And although the Jyotisha Shastra also refers the Moon with some large asteroids to independent planets, nevertheless, the knowledge of the ancient Aryans, who lived five to ten thousand years ago, seems incredible. Without modern large telescopes and space stations, they were able to learn about the existence of Uranus, Neptune, Pluto and even Proserpina, the most distant planet in the solar system, discovered only a few years ago. In addition, they indicated the coordinates of about five million stars (currently about 14 million are known) and the orbits of the largest comets crossing the solar system.
Other sections of the Jyotish Shastra describe the influence of various cosmic objects on a person. According to A.B. Minkov, the ancient Aryans studied three levels of this influence: physical, astrological and magical.
At the physical level, the Sun, the Moon and some nearby planets affect us through gravitational, electromagnetic, infrared and lepton radiation, studied by biocosmo-rhythmology.
At the astrological level, space objects act as indicators or a kind of demonstration map of the human psyche. It means not the literal influence of planets or stars on a person, but some laws of the Universe, according to which he is associated with the coordinates and orbits of the movement of various celestial bodies. The simplest analogy: wanting to know what temperature our body or atmosphere has at a given moment, we look at a graduated column of mercury or alcohol. We do not see the temperature itself.
On a magical level, a planet, star, or comet is viewed as a living entity