Western medicine does not accept that there is any subject in you. It only accepts your body; it does not accept you.  Man has to be accepted in his totality.

All other methods that have been used around the world should be brought into a synthesis; they are not against each other. Right now they are functioning as if they are against each other. They should be brought to a synthesis and that will give you a better view of man and a better life for human beings….

It is now well known, by brain surgeons particularly, that everything has its centre in the brain. If your hand becomes paralyzed, it is stupid to treat the hand; you cannot treat it.  Then the only suggestion, the mechanical suggestion, will be to cut it off and put on a mechanical hand which will at least be movable, you can do something with it. This hand is absolutely useless, it has died. It has not died. Some centre in your head controls this hand, and that centre has to be cured. The hand has not to be touched at all; that centre is not working, there is some problem with the centre.

Sooner or later the whole of medicine is going to become dominated by the brain centres. Those centres have control of everything in the body. When something goes wrong in the centre it is only symbolically represented by the outer part of the body. You start treating the outer part; you don’t go deep enough.

Modern Western medicine is superficial. You should go to very root: why has this hand suddenly become paralyzed? The centre in the brain is in some trouble, and that centre can be cured very easily. It is a bio-electric centre….

Perhaps when you are not feeling well-being it is just that your battery is running out — you need some recharging. If your hand has gone paralyzed, perhaps the centre has lost its electricity; it can be recharged. No medicine is needed, no surgery is needed.  We are in a position now to look at man from different angles: how different societies, in different cultures, in different times have treated man. And sometimes if strange things seem to be working, they should be accepted rather than rejected.

For example, seventy percent of diseases are only in your mind: you don’t have them, you just think you have them. Now, to give you allopathic medicines for these diseases is dangerous, because all allopathic medicine is somehow or other connected with many poisons. If you have a disease, medicine is good; but if you don’t have the disease but only the idea, then homoeopathy is the best because it harms nobody. It has nothing in it, but it is a great help to humanity. Thousands of people are getting cured by homoeopathy.

The question is not whether homoeopathy is real medicine or not. The question is: if people are having unreal diseases, you need some unreal medical system for them. Homoeopathy has nothing in it, but there are people who don’t have any sickness but are getting tortured with the idea that they have. Homoeopathy will help them immediately. It cures people but it never harms anybody. It is bogus medicine — but what to do with a bogus humanity?

The Indian physician and the practical nurse don’t have any instruments, sophisticated mechanisms, X-rays or other things; they don’t have even the stethoscope. They just check your heartbeat — and this has been functioning perfectly well for thousands of years. They check it because the heartbeat is your very centre of life; if something is not perfect it gives them indications of what has to be done. Rather than treating the disease, they will try to make your heartbeat more harmonious. Their medicine will help your heartbeat be more harmonious, and immediately the disease disappears. You think the disease has been treated but the disease was only a symptom.