Vitamins and Minerals in Maharishi Ayurveda

The whole or the parts?

Because there are innumerable parts to life and because the whole is more than the sum of the parts, if it is possible, the best strategy seems to be to deal primarily with the whole and secondarily with the parts.

Ayurveda is pre-eminent within natural medicine in dealing with the whole. It clearly defines perfect health, the most holistic value of life, and provides various means for moving life towards that goal. Even when dealing with discomfort or disease it does so by increasing health rather than removing disease.

The Constituents of foods

In the west we tend to evaluate foods in terms of the energy and chemical building blocks they provide. This reflects the general allopathic approach of dealing with the parts in order to improve the whole.

However knowledge of the vitamin and mineral (V&M) content of food and food supplements is often not very useful because the general health, dietary status and lifestyles of the user as well as the chemical form of the vitamins and minerals all have important effects on what food constituents we need and how they are metabolised. For instance there is growing evidence that natural forms of vitamins and minerals are safer than artificial (see Alliance Natural Health (PDF File) Para 2.1).

Inner intelligence?

Ayurveda does not concern itself much with the constituents of foodstuffs but rather considers the various chacteristics of the foods as a whole in terms that indicate by whom and how they can be usefully used. In the words of Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, the founder of Maharishi Ayurveda, the most important quality of food is its ability to enliven the inner intelligence of mind and body.

This inner intelligence is the self-balancing tendency of life. There does not seem to be any term in biomedicine for this inner intelligence but it is recognised in the old saying ‘the doctor treats but nature heals’.

Ayurveda is part of Vedic Science, which is the systematic science of consciousness, and understands that consciousness, in its most settled state, is the inner intelligence that governs mind and body. The state of perfect health described by Ayurveda is that in which the mind and body are in perfect balance and the most settled state of awareness is a permanent experience. (see Awakening Natures Healing Intelligence by Hari Sharma MD).

How can the value of foods be measured?

It seems logical that the ability of foods and supplements to enliven the inner intelligence can best be measured by those in whom that inner intelligence is best developed. Ultimately only wholeness can measure wholeness.

Maharishi Ayurveda Products are manufactured in a factory where all the staff daily practice Transcendental Meditation to develop their own inner intelligence and so that the products are made in a calm, friendly environment.

Create Ojas

Maharishi Amrit Kalash (MAK) is the product most specifically designed to enliven the body’s inner intelligence at its most fundamental level. MAK creates ojas, the most refined product of the digestive process, created only when digestion is perfect and which supports the highest quality of human awareness and perfect health.

Maharishi has spoken warmly of the value of Maharishi Amrit Kalash and has given it his seal of approval – that is the approval of what seems to be the most highly developed inner intelligence that has been on this earth in many centuries.