“Medicine catches the diseases in man superficially. Meditation takes hold of man from deep within. In other words, it can be said that medicine tries to bring health to a person from the outside, and meditation tries to make the person healthy from deep within. Neither can the science of meditation be complete without medicine, nor can the science of medicine be complete without meditation, since man is both body and soul.

    “In fact, it is basically a linguistic mistake to say man is both. For thousands of years, man thought the body and the soul of a person were separate entities. That thinking gave birth to two very dangerous outcomes. One was that some people thought only the soul was the man and they neglected the body. Such people brought about developments in meditation but not in medicine: medicine could not become a science; the body was totally disregarded. In contrast, some people considered man as only the body and negated the soul. They did a lot of research and made great developments in medicine, but took no steps toward meditation.

    “But man is both at the same time. It is also a linguistic mistake to say ‘both at the same time’; it gives the impression that there are two things connected together, whereas in fact, the body and the soul of man are two ends of the same pole. Seen in the right perspective, one will not be able to say that man is body and soul. It is not so. Man is psychosomatic or somato-psychic – mind-body or body-mind.

    “According to me, the part of the soul within the grasp of our senses is the body, and the part of the body beyond the grasp of the senses is the soul. The invisible body is the soul, and the visible soul is the body. They are not two different things, and they are not two separate entities; they are two different states of vibration of the same entity.”