Most of the present-day problems are due to emotional upheavels and an atmosphere full of strife, which generate a chain reaction and contribute to more disputes, says Rajyogi Brahmakumar Nikunj Ji
Since ancient times, the medical profession has been considered as a noble one, for its members render a valuable service to mankind by preventing, alleviating, controlling or eliminating disease, pain and suffering. Through the knowledge of the physical body and the laws of health and hygiene, doctors provide patients relief and recovery when the former are passing through great physical or mental crisis or facing the worst of physical troubles or mental tensions or are fighting for life. So, the members of the profession truly needed to be complimented by the society.
However, it has been observed that many members of the medical profession in this era of increasing urbanisation and spread of industrial civilisation and technological culture also face the great pressures of materialism and are hard-pressed for time. With the objective of providing medicine to the largest possible number of patients within the set time-limits, they are pre-occupied with only the physical well-being of their patients, almost overlooking the changes required in the treatment depending on the outlook or personality-traits of the patients. Even though they know that most diseases are psychosomatic in nature and that the life-style, the personality-traits and the behavioural pattern of a person also play a major role in causing stress or trauma or in aggravating the disease, they do not or cannot pay adequate attention to the social and moral dimensions of health and disease.
The reason for this is because their main attention is on the symptoms and on prescribing suitable medicines. But, if we think deeper, we find that, without controlling, reducing or eliminating the psychic or the behavioural causes, there cannot be any lasting cure for diseases.
When a person is suffering from social or mental ill-health, it is not him or her who suffers from its evil effects but also others who live with him, work with him or deal with him. For example, a person of irritable nature or one who easily loses his temper or is prone to anxiety, not only suffers from avoidable worry and tension but often causes mental stress and anxiety to others around him also.
Worse still is the social strife, family turmoil or political upheaval that the moral and social ill-health of a person can create. Hitler, for example, was socially and morally ill and mentally sick. Most of our present-day problems are due to moral and social ill-health of our citizens which generate a chain-reaction and contribute to an atmosphere that is full of strife. So, while doctors talk of holistic health, hypertension, psychosomatic diseases, drug addiction or AIDS, we wish that due attention is also paid to the turmoil caused by one’s moral sickness or social illness in the socio-political or socio-economic atmosphere of the society.