My True Experience

Everyone has their own endeavor. It depends on how they take it, how they overcome each situation and how they will face each circumstance that made their endeavor meaningful.

Very beautiful is the journey on which we walk while enjoying good health while laughing and playing. In such a situation, the time passes by easily, but whenever there is any physical health issue, we are neither able to enjoy the journey of life happily nor are we able to do our daily chores well, due to which we get trapped into the vicious cycle of drugs, doctors and diseases. We get so entangled that we earn from one side and spend on the other side on medicines and expensive treatments. But if this happens to a youngster, then his/her dreams do not come true and he starts getting disappointed. Coming at this juncture, there is a need to understand everything deeply and wish to lead a healthy life. 

Basically, due to lack of correct knowledge, we make such mistakes in life  due to which we have to suffer terrible consequences because we do not have the knowledge of what is good and beneficial for our body. We get sick due to wrong diet & lifestyle. In the same way, I am sharing with you my entire journey from being sick to recovery.

I have been very active since childhood. I have been a Bhangra dancer. Bhangra has been my hobby. I was a basketball player, a volleyball player. But eating wrong food items together out of ignorance, taking it in wrong quantity or taking it against the physical nature must have been some of the mistakes which must have aggravated Vata dosha. My body prakriti was of Vata and Pitta but I had milk everyday & mango was my favorite fruit, so I used to eat it in abundance. Due to this habit, I started having many skin related problems like acne, pimples etc. Later on I discovered that I was also allergic to mango & milk. 

That time I must have been between 14 and 18 years old. When we went to the dermatologist, he gave very heavy antibiotics. I took a lot of allopathic medicines. But due to lack of right knowledge and information, side-effects emerged in the body and later on developed an auto-immune disease in the body. After the age of 14, our bile increases, if we do not take the right food then it increases. As a result, skin disorders arise.
After consuming so many medicines, visiting so many dermatologists, the result was that at a later stage, I had diarrhea for a week in 2012 when I was returning to my city Jalandhar, then on my way home I had severe pain in my legs and feet. With this started an auto immune disease – Rheumatoid Arthritis. In some people its symptoms start with the hands, in some from the feet or other parts of the body in my case it started from feet.
The pain was so intense that I could walk only with the help of my mother or father. For two months I was in constant pain. We consulted many doctors but no one could understand the problem. Also, I could not understand why this pain was happening continuously. That too without any apparent reason. For two months, pain was severe and was continuous night and day. Then one day my family doctor asked me, if anyone in the family had arthritis? I told him about my mother, aunt and uncle having same trouble. He suspected about me having rheumatoid arthritis. 

Then he asked me to get the RA factor test done. When the reports came, my doctor felt very bad when the reports showed the test positive. The reports had RA - 60 and ESR - more than 30 and uric acid - 4 which happens when there is inflammation. He said that we will start a tablet for this - Aramact, which is given to RA patients in America. After giving the medicine for a month, all these facts increased in the next test.
RA factor was - 90, E S R - 60. Then my family doctor said that there is no cure in allopathy because there is only suppression in allopathy, which only gives relief from pain and does not treat. Because only painkillers or steroids are given in them. He again said that there is no treatment in allopathy for this. He asked me to get treatment in Ayurveda and take help of Yoga.

I was a basketball player, a gold medalist, almost 25 years old and I couldn't even walk - it was so sad that I used to shudder at the thought of never running again. Ever wondered whether life's journey was such a journey? I wanted to know from the doctor that is there any treatment possible for such disease? But there was a glimmer of hope that there must be some solution, it was a paradox that I was not disappointed even in so much pain. I used to meditate; I had a strong will power that somewhere there would be a cure for it.

I was in this situation due to wrong diet, allopathic medicines, lack of correct information, wrong routine and suppression. But I was hopeful because of a blessing or support from God. It was only by the grace of Almighty that I used to try something new every day so that I would get well. I searched for its treatment in allopathy, when nothing was resolved, I read a lot and then switched to Ayurveda. Along with this, Neuropathy, Naturopathy etc. were also followed.

I started researching on myself every day, started understanding the diet in myself. I developed an understanding that eating what increases pain etc.., then started reading Rajiv Dixit ji, Vag Bhatt ji that it might be useful for someone, so started noting those things that might be useful to someone who is in pain. I started fenugreek seeds - checked its effect. I used to write in the diary the do’s & don’ts and what lifestyle to be followed.  At that time I was pursuing  professional course of Company Secretary.

Nothing had made sense until 2018. By 2019, it was half way done. Tried many doctors but the pain never ended. But it was understood that pain killers are fatal. My father's principal was also a patient of rheumatism, passed away due to an organ failure. Therefore, I decided  not to take pain killers or steroids because already one disease was not manageable and how to bear more adverse effects. 

Here Ayurvedic medicines did not create new energy, but the mind also used to get into a depressive mood. With Ayurveda, the understanding of diet was developed, what to eat & what not. But in Ayurveda the medicines are so strong and in more quantity that the patient gets bored because medicines are more in quantity  than a meal. Then, I spent some time taking Aloe Vera & Giloy in the morning as well as learned yoga and practiced it every day.

I learned yoga from Patanjali and the Indian Yoga Institute. This started reducing my body pain, I was feeling better. While RA factor was coming high in the reports, the symptoms were minimal. In those days, I was also the District Governor for 3 States in the youth wing of Rotary International, Rotaract. There was no pain and other symptoms also vanished due to being busy in the projects because the mind is more powerful than the power of the body. The mind was busy doing so many projects of Rotary that the disease was not paid attention to. Hence, it subsided.

In 2014 - 2015, the ESR was 60 - 70 and RA reports were more adverse. We were associated with many schools / colleges and used to do social projects but surprisingly there were no symptoms, so it was proved that the mind power If used, then the symptoms do not emerge. This is also the power of meditation that if the mind is busy then the symptoms also become latent.

A sick person has two options that either he should sit down thinking that nothing can happen now or find a solution with the determination to recover. If they overpower it with the power of mind, they can conquer it. Whether a person is suffering from any major disease, whether it is cancer, tumour or any fatal auto immune disease, by using the power of mind by taking God's support, we can conquer it. One can easily get out of it. From 2012 to 2015, I had completely tried everything like Ayurveda, Naturopathy, Allopathy, Yoga, Pranayama, Expresssure, Color Therapy, Sujok Therapy, Seed Therapy. There were no symptoms in my body in 2014, 2015, 2016. Then I got selected from Rotary International to go to Canada to represent India. I also went to represent my team in Montreal. I was very surprised that I was able to lift a 32 kg suitcase after coming out of such a disease, whereas earlier I could not even lift a small college bag. You can call it the magic of power of mind that I traveled to Canada alone and everything was very well managed there. Then I realized that now I am healthy. But by the end of 2016 i experienced the same pain in my body, the same complication started again.

By the time I came to this point, research had started that the power of mind had overcome the symptoms but the problem persists. These pains had gone from the body. Two years after recovery, the attack of  RA started again. I started working on diet reform. In 2016-2017 I switched to raw diet. At this time I had started preparing for UPSC. So this was my passion. I wanted to become a doctor since childhood. But I didn’t opt for medical stream because of chemistry. I believed that chemicals are not made for our body. That's why I didn't like it naturally. But I wanted to do something passionate. As I have been authoritative by nature so I chose to clear UPSC exams. When I started the preparation for UPSC, the pain also increased. When I used to come home from my classes, due to extreme pain (in 2017-2018) I used to cry a lot with a thought - why this pain is creating a hurdle in the midst of my career. When I want to do something, why this body is like an obstacle in my future, it was a big attack on the mind. 

Painkillers/steroids are a suppression that can give relief from pain for a while but does not give relief. Anyways, how many pain killers can you take in a day? Because as soon as you eat them they will start harming your other organs. When I was in pain, I used to look at the pain killers and keep it aside. I used to think that I will bear the pain anyhow, but can't harm my body anymore. So I never took pain killers. I had to drop preparation of UPSC Mains. Then I studied plant based nutrition, l did self detoxification. Reduced cooked food - started RAW food, increased the intake of fruits & salad. So I saw this, it was very beneficial. After following a vegan diet, my condition improved, but when the spring or monsoon season prevailed, this same diet started causing problems.