We live in a world addicted to speed—a world of quick fixes and instant results. A tablet for pain, a tonic for fatigue, a gadget to track sleep. Every discomfort is met with a pill, every pause filled with another notification. Somewhere along the way, health has been reduced to the absence of disease, and healing has become synonymous with treatment.
Our ancestors, however, saw it differently. They viewed the human being not as a collection of organs and systems, but as an orchestra—five layers of existence playing in harmony. Their approach was not just curative but integrative, rooted in daily rhythms, mindful living, and deep connection with nature. It is no coincidence that they lived long, purposeful lives, often without the crutches of modern medicine.
Healthi BEING invites readers to rediscover wisdom through a modern perspective. It is based on the Vedic concepts of the human being and their relevance in today’s world.
Through real-life stories, clinical experiences, and scientific research, the book explores how imbalances in these subtle layers manifest as physical or emotional illness—and how restoring harmony across them leads to true health.
You’ll meet Savita, whose relentless social media scrolling left her anxious and sleepless until she discovered that mental rest was as essential as muscular rest. Or Meera, whose chronic neck pain dissolved not through stronger painkillers, but through releasing long-held emotional tension. You’ll walk with a monk who spoke of “cosmic sleep,” with a neuroscientist decoding meditative brain waves, and with my grandmother, who healed wounds not with antibiotics but with turmeric, prayer, and patience.
As a surgeon trained in the rigours of modern medicine, I once dismissed these stories as a coincidence. But over decades of practice, I’ve come to realise that science and scriptures are not opposites—they are two languages describing the same truth. The scalpel can remove a tumour, but it cannot restore meaning; the pill can ease the pain, but it cannot dissolve fear. Healing begins when both worlds meet.
This is not a book of prescriptions. It is a bridge between evidence and essence, East and West, body and being. It calls for a more compassionate medicine: one that treats not only the bones that ache, but the mind that worries and the spirit that longs to be whole.
As physicians, we are trained to treat what we can measure — to quantify, to prescribe, to repair. Yet health is not merely the absence of pathology; it is the presence of harmony. Over time, I have come to realise that healing unfolds not only through precision of technique, but through presence, empathy, and awareness of the person behind the illness.
Sir William Osler, the father of modern medicine, once said, “The good physician treats the disease; the great physician treats the patient who has the disease.” That timeless insight lies at the heart of this book. True healing begins when we see the human being in full — body, breath, mind, and beyond — and recognise how intricately these layers weave the fabric of health. The Healthi BEING offers us a lens to rediscover this wholeness, uniting the measurable and the mysterious.
I invite you to journey through these pages not merely as a reader of another health guide, but as a seeker exploring the deeper architecture of your own Self. For when healing begins within, medicine evolves — from treatment to transformation, from science to art, and from knowledge to wisdom.
Rediscover your ‘I’, awaken the Healthi BEING within and get Health lightened today!