OM and BeyondI can’t thank you enough for all your efforts in keeping me positive and disease free.
Not only me,Kamya , Maliha and all my friends whom I have recommended to you Join Me in thanking you.
It has been 3 years since I first meet you and since then I have never had to visit an allopath doctor and have lived a good life thanks to your guidance , approach to illness and wonderful understanding.
THANK YOU .
Ravi Jaswani
I was amazed at the way you could pinpoint my emotional upheaval (including when too) by doing my Nadi Pariksha. You set me on the right path by your counselling, Kriya Yoga & medicines. Thank you very much Doctor
Prathima Ravi Prakash
The Ayurveda routine under the guidance of Shri Ravishankar Krishnamurthy has changed my level of energy and efficiency. A sense of inner strength, clarity of thought and over well being is what has been achieved.
Through the practice I have understood the value of dinacharya (daily routine) and the importance taking responsibility for ones own health & wellbeing.
The strength of this ancient science is revealed beautifully by a systematic engagement with ones own mind and body.
I am deeply grateful for having received this guidance.
Miti Desai
designer, dancer, educationist.
It has been our fortune to find you or should we say it was destined!!!
We are lost in the life without finding the proper direction meant for our Prukruti, to attain the ultimate liberation. You have shown us this direction – the purpose of our existence or birth. If he mind is purified, body automatically aligns with the nature, thereby giving the best health. No medicine is effective, without an accepting mind. The corollary could probably be – no medicine is necessary for a pure mind!!!
My dear Sir, I and my wife are looking forward to a wonderful journey of life with your direction, for which we are ever grateful to you and the lineage of Masters, for this wonderful knowledge.
Ramesh Upadhye
Dear Shri Ravishankar ji
At the outset, please accept my sincere gratitude for helping me commence a new, meaningful journey towards wellness and good health. I was initially very skeptical when you informed me that you would do my Naadi Pariksha over a video call, rather than examine my naadi in person. However, the Bhootha Naadi Pariksha, which you conducted this morning was truly fascinating. At the end of the session, on the basis of the questions you asked and the information you went on giving, I was convinced that you were able to delve deep into my mind and explore my body. Your assessment of the status of my mind and body demonstrates the effectiveness of the Naadi Pariksha. On the receipt of the dinacharya, the daily routine chart from you, which enlists the various do and don’ts, I was a bit lost. However, the detailed clarification call that my wife and I had with you, exhibited your profound knowledge of the human body and the effect of various foods on it. I look forward to sincerely following the dinacharya and be the beneficiary of its positive effects. Thank you so much for the guiding me into the right path of restoration of good health.
Kuloor Arvind Kamath
Senior Advocate
During my recent visit to Vadodara, Gujarat, India I had the privilege to closely observe Mr. Ravishankar Krishnamurthy practice an ancient knowledge of diagnosis requiring tremendous years of experience and skills, Nadi Pariksha.
Currently, Mr. Krishnamurthy is one of the rare remaining experts in the field of Nadi Pariksha. In spite of being at the forefront, Mr. Krishnamurthy is a truthful, very personable and humble.
Consistent with principles of the field, Mr. Krishnamurthy takes a unique approach to promote healing; he considers the mind, body, and spirit as an integral part of his healing, which is distinctively powerful.
He focuses on practical solutions with precision, relevant to modern life, that promote optimal health at its roots. I highly recommend individuals seeking sustainable physical, mental and spiritual health to consider Mr. Ravishankar Krishnamurthy.
A rare man in the universe practising genuine altruistic ravana nadi. As an allopathic doctor, I genuinely recommend Mr. Krishnamurthy for holistic treatment of the mind -body. His treatment contains a comprehensive holistic treatment.
Modern world needs people like Mr. Krishnamurthy to cure the disease from the root-cause. A must meet person!
Dr. Mitesh Patel, D.O.
Family Medicine Physician
Dually-trained Allopathic (MD) and Osteopathic (DO) Medicine
YOGA IS NOT A PERSPECTIVE
When you begin to think of Yoga, it may look like another choice for you to get your desired health back. The attractiveness of this science as portrayed through advertisements is actually misleading.
With glamour and the promise of a good figure, Yoga actually has become more of a desire rather than a way of life. Yoga is not another perspective.
When the thought of Yoga dawns on you, be sure it didn’t happen automatically. Watching an advert or hearing a speech on Yoga is a lot different than craving for an experience of inner peace. And when intrinsically, intuitively, in a very subtle way, when a feeling develops in you that Yoga is the way, you can be sure that you have received a divine calling.
Yes! Yoga is not just doing! Yoga is a way of living; not through Asanas, Pranayamas, Shatkriyas and the like. Yoga is an active medium through which you can look beyond, intuite about every thought of yours, every emotion of yours, every act of yours. You can achieve a balanced mental, physical & psychological equilibrium.
Yoga for you should not be a 1 hour class of Asanas, stretches and currently, a power Yoga session (a corrupted form of western influence on a divine art of intuitive living). Yoga is way, way beyond that. Let me briefly explain to you…!
You will notice that all your sense organs are pointed outward – Your Eyes, Ears, Nose, Mouth (includes the tongue actually) & your Skin. The Mind receives so many messages, so many experiences through these sense organs. It is rather disturbing that so much of information in the form of subtle thought impulses are crowding the mind at any moment. But the mind has the ability to handle the information received from only one sense organ at one time.
The mind is also constantly analysing these impulses, switching from the information provided by one sense organ to the other. This is the chatter you experience in your mind and this crowds your thinking. If your distraction levels are high, you ability to concentrate is very low. Your frustration increases as the chatter interferes with your day to day activities and influences your thinking and reasoning abilities.
Anxiety levels go up and so does anger because of impatience. With the current trend to multi-task every day, the mind gets more stressed. And with the whole idea of catching up with time gaining
more importance in our lives, we are losing out on our sanity.
And then someone suggests you to meditate. Imagine, you are sitting idle, with your eyes closed, trying to do nothing in the midst of your own rat race! Isn’t it funny?
Just in the midst of this chaos, your inner being, your consciousness introduces to you this possibility of being able to relax, to slow down, bring your life in perspective and achieve everything you want to, in a very unfamiliar but comforting harmonious environment – MINUS the Rat Race. And you begin to believe in this possibility!
This possibility is living as a Yogi. No! No! No!…. You don’t have to go to the Himalayas, to the mountains! It’s a beginning of an inner journey that offers similar tranquility, quietness, and peace as you would experience in the mountains, in the comfort of your own home.
It all starts with a change in attitude. And this change in attitude progressively make you pray with a wish to gain control over yourself, blend into yourself very happily, feel relaxed and be in tune with your happiness. This wish is not just a wish. It’s a complete change in the way you prefer to look at your life here on. Its a paradigm shift in your thinking process.
Yoga is a preferred psycho-physiological fitness regime that goes beyond bodily fitness. It works at the level of your soul consciousness, getting you in touch with your inner core. It helps you transcend the gross presence of the body and enables you to go beyond the chatter of your mind and shallowness of your breathe. The experience is one of liberation.
Yoga reveals to you the so far unknown possibilities of you intuitive mind, the blissful experience of remaining strangely calm and not being distracted by any loud noise. Everything seems so pristine,
so very beautiful. The same environment that was a pain yesterday causing stress, misery, anxiety and fear of the unknown seems so very different and friendly.
The active union of this psycho-physiological regime does this miracle. It liberates you from the stereo-typed response to your situation, takes you beyond the familiar action-reaction response of
the mind and also increases the fitness levels of your body. This welcome change is a revelation in itself.
WHY IS IT IMPORTANT FOR A NADI VAIDYA TO DETACH HIMSELF FROM HIS SENSE ORGANS WHILE DOING NADI PARIKSHA
Nadi Pariksha is the most intuitive of diagnostics performed by a Vaidya. Apart from the knowledge to perform the Nadi Pariksha, which is the key, the skill of performing it totally depends on his ability to disconnect from his active sense stimuli. He is required to bring in a state of absoluteness and tune his awareness totally to his higher consciousness to perform Nadi Pariksha.
It is extremely important that no internal conversation is happening at that moment. When the Nadi is pulsated, irrespective of the level at which it is being pulsated, intuitive guidance starts to happen. A one way conversation with the consciousness within starts guiding the Vaidya. When other conversations triggered off by thoughts, emotions, feelings or stimuli from the senses begin, the loudness and the jumble of these conversations can totally cut off this subtle guidance.
My earlier articles gain significance here and this is the reason why emptiness of the mind and silencing of thoughts is crucial for Nadi Pariksha. To arrive at this stage, a couple of very powerful sessions in Tantra and Yoga are taught. This is given as a part of the Diksha or initiation of Spiritual knowledge from Guru to disciple.
All vibratory frequencies arising out of the intellect, our mind as well as the communication by our senses to convey their understanding of what they have been directed to perceive by our intellect, is all to be nullified. This stage the most crucial as, if this is not taken care of, a Vaidya may be tempted (by virtue of his ego) to understand the pulse only from his point of view. Such an understanding will be disastrous to the whole diagnostic activity. In fact, it will lead the Vadiya to infer wrongly and will only bring chaos in his understanding of the pulse.
Reading the pulse is actually connecting the dots. There are a billion combinations out of which right mapping needs to be done. Understanding the Prakruti (the constitution at birth) and its subtler doshic imbalances vs the Vikruti (the altered state of constitution) with its subtle doshic imbalances, at the time of Nadi Pariksha is extremely important. This forms the foundation of the
whole analysis. Pathological understanding to arrive at the right conclusion of the prognosis of the ailment happens on this basis as also other very crucial parameters which will be discussed later in the forthcoming articles. This requires absolute and total subtlety of mind and a fully opened super conscious state. This is not difficult and can be attained by dedicated practice through actively attuning the mind to a meditative state as often as one prefers and practices.
The direction and the force of Prana that flows through the Nadis can only be ascertained if one is able to tune his Prana with that of the flow happening in that of the patient’s Nadis. Prana is universal intelligence. By tuning the Prana in both the patient and the Vaidya, the Vaidya can allow his higher consciousness to flow through the patient’s Nadi and communicate the findings. This process is so subtle, very elevating and extremely enlightening. If there is ever a slight disturbance in one’s awareness, the whole process of observation can become gross and can be misinterpreted.
For all this to happen, the Nadi Vaidya needs to be disconnected from active involvement in society’s matters. I was very specifically instructed by my Guru to be in the world and not be a part of it. This prevents conflicts and other emotions from emerging in the mind and allows a feeling of sattva in the Vaidya’s active conscious state. Also, it is extremely important to be calm and composed and be aware of the inner state of tranquility and quietude always. This will enable the Vaidya to delve deep within his self and allow introspecting of himself. As he goes deeper, he establishes more peace and calmness. Thus his state of being is one that of a “Siddha” or an adept being. Nadi Pariksha is a Siddha tradition predominantly and this practice is of utmost importance.
Before starting the Nadi Pariksha, the Vaidya is required to perform certain rituals to detach his energies and protect his aura from getting connected with his immediate environment. This way, he is also preventing diseased frequencies from infecting him as he will be merging his Prana with that of his patient. This ritual is called a “Kavach” or a divine protective shield. This is performed through chanting of mantras, performing Mudras and performing very specific Pranayamas to activate the chakras to still the body and, silence the mind and connect the Vaidya to higher states of consciousness. This will be dealt with in the next article.
HOW SHOULD A NADI VAIDYA NOT ALLOW EMOTIONS TO INFLUENCE BREATHING AND BE DISEASE-FREE
To understand and appreciate the contents of this article, I would want you to read my earlier article on this blog called “The Digestion of Emotions and Foods”. This explains in detail the manifestation of our emotions through our body in various zones and the effects it has on our system. Also, various diseases that manifest as a result of these emotional manifestations are also elaborated.
LIVING IN AND WORKING THROUGH OUR CONSCIOUSNESS
A Nadi Vaidya can perform a thorough Nadi Pariksha only when he is totally tuned to his consciousness and is fully alive in it.
Our consciousness is the only one that is “eternally alive” when we are awake and also when we are asleep. We are not conscious of our existence in sleep but our consciousness keeps us alive throughout our sleep till we awaken the following morning.
Our consciousness is the only “witness” to all our perceptions and feelings, thoughts, emotions as well as actions performed either consciously or unconsciously. We also need to live and conduct our life, our thoughts and actions in a similar manner, unaffected as a witness to all the actions performed by our Body, Mind and Intellect.
Our consciousness works in the background throughout our existence. And yet it stays unaffected by our actions. When we perform our actions, think our thoughts or experience an emotion or feeling, our consciousness in the background, subtly makes us aware of what we are indulging in at this moment. Even while you are reading this artlcle, your consciousness is aware of you reading this article where your eyes are reading the words, your mind is forming the sentences and your brain is assimilating the information to make it meaningful and relevant to you.
Living in and working through our consciousness means staying in absolute harmony in our inner world as well as with all the manifestations in the outside world. This means we need to establish mental calmness. This is the only way we can detach ourselves from our mind.
UNDERSTANDING THE TRANSFER OF EXPRESSION FROM MIND TO BODY
We live in a world of ‘Names and Forms’. Our identification with this world of names and forms happens through our equipments of Body, Mind and our Intellect. Through these equipments, we are constantly perceiving, feeling and thinking. Liberating ourselves from the influences of our perceptions, feelings and thoughts and forfeiting the use of the body, mind and intellect for this purpose gives us the ability to live in and work through our consciousness. Mind is just ‘Thought Flow’. All our thoughts get qualified by our perceptions and feelings. Because of this ‘qualified’ thought flow, we ‘visualize our version of the reality’ because of which we tend to
experience Happiness, Sadness, Anger, Frustration, Anxiety, Fear etc.
When there is ‘no qualified thought flow’, thoughts ceaze to distract us and slowly the thoughts exhaust themselves. When there is absence of thoughts, there is emptiness. This emptiness is a state of no mind. And it is establishing this state that is the key to start living in and working through our consciousness.
Our perceptions and feelings bring about their influence on the world of names and forms. The instrument that qualifies these perceptions and feelings is our Ego. In a bid to feel happy, complete and in harmony, the ego binds itself to these names and forms and tries to derive happiness through them. But in doing so, it finds itself torn between likes and dislikes, happiness and sadness, anger and frustration etc. Thus, due to the plurality of expressions, it gets further entrenched in misery.
Our mind perceives and feels through our senses. And the senses qualify the sensed objects. Thus the objects are qualified as ‘good’, ‘bad’, ‘liked’, ‘disliked’, ‘attractive’, ‘unattractive’ etc. With such dualities and pluralities present, the mind is constantly in turmoil. The only way out is to totally distance ourselves from our perceptions and feelings.
All our perceptions and thoughts are expressed by the mind through the body. Every thought is a desire for gratification originating from the intellect. The expression of this desire happens through the physical equipment called the ‘Body’. By “Preferring not to recognize or acknowledge our perceptions and feelings”, we directly nullify the desire. Thus the body stays calm and unaffected.
Thus with the duality of the mind getting done away with, the mind will have no option but to quiten down. But the mind though dormant, is a volatile force. To condition its working, we need to empower it by ‘redirecting it to more harmonious actions’. Harmonious actions will establish a sense of peace and calmness within and gradually withdraw us from the duality.
Harmonious actions can only come out of harmonious thoughts. Thus by “Preferring to think in a certain fashion”, we can manifest harmonious actions that will calm the Body, Mind an Intellect. This can happen only be adopting the following techniques:
1). Practicing forgiveness means we do not allow anger to manifest in us. Rather we replace it empathy and compassion.
2). Being straightforward in our relationship with others allows harmony and wellness to prevail. This also allows the fullest of genuine expressions to blossom along with the existence of healthy values to prevail in the relationship. Additionally, a spiritual bond is established.
3). Practicing Kindness brings a soul awakening experience. We feel spiritually elated and feel fully satisfied when we show an act of kindness. Mental calmness is established and stays for a long time.
4). Practicing honesty and truthfullness in thought and deed establishes in us a calm and unwavering mind. Moreover, it heightens our self esteem thereby making us feel very purposeful in
our actions. The net result is calmness and Joy within, and a healthy environment around us.
5). Practicing Cheerfullness and being lively re-awakens the child in us. We become ready to explore all the beautiful moments, living in the present moment all the time. This makes us alive and aware of each and every thought and action. The result is harmony within and around us.
USING OUR BREATHE TO ALTER OUR STATE OF ACTIVE CONSCIOUSNESS
Our breathe is the only living force that makes us experience every moment. Because of the stressful lives that we lead today, we are not aware of the breathe acting or reacting to each and every impulse of the mind.
Both thought and breathe are a part of the Prana or life force. By controlling one part, we can gain control over the other. By practice, we discover that it is easier to control and regulate our breathe than our thoughts.
Depending on the nature of our feelings as we perceive, our breathe gets automatically directed to certain zones of the body, moving either upward or downward. This enables our body to respond to the way we feel and we are forced to act on this feeling. Our body either stiffens or slackens. Through the expressions of our body, we either decide to run away or stay and face the situation.
USING OUR DIAPHRAGMS TO REGULATE OUR BREATHING
We have 3 diaphragms in the body. The 1st one is at the pelvic region, just below the navel. The 2nd one is at the region of our Diaphragm, just below the rib cage and the 3rd one on the crown, in the region of the occiput. This is where a very powerful Marma exists called the Adipathi Marma controlling the central nervous system.
Through conscious control on the volume and the direction of breathe using these 3 diaphragms, one is able to change one’s level of consciousness and prevent thoughts from manifesting in our mind. Our senses are calmned. Then, withdrawing the senses and establishing a meditative state within us becomes extremely easy.
As the outer manifestations of the body cease, the body relaxes and allows to heal itself through its own internal intelligence.
THOUGHT, WORRY, DOUBT AND KARMA
A Human is a thinking being. We are always thinking. We are planning, forecasting, and looking to the future of every moment. Our thoughts have become routine depending on the attitude we possess within us.
Thoughts are actions decided in the virtual worlds, meaning, they are already happening in our minds. When thoughts are clubbed with feelings and emotions, they gain so much momentum that they are converted to actions in the physical world.
There are five organs of action in us. These are;
The strength of our thoughts and the conviction we hold to manifest them into the physical world decides the quality of our actions.
Our thoughts are sometimes riddled with worry too. We do not realise we are worrying till we become conscious of the negative feeling that has taken over us and we feel heavy, inactive, gripped with doubt and fear. And then, fear takes over and makes its decision of. Ot performing any action.
Before you do any action, there is a thought. Your thought is virtually action in the subtle world. So when you talk about karma, you should know that your karma, your action, is virtually a thought, a thought mingled with emotion, a thought mingled with doubt, a thought mingled with desire and want.
I like to do something. There is no intensity in my liking. When I have to do it, it means that I have, within myself, decided to do something with all my might.