And remember: in this fight science cannot win and should not win. Nature should always be the winner. Nature is more wise than all your scientists put together.
Look: go to a primitive community where no medicine exists, where no doctors are, no science to cure them. They are less ill and more healthy. Illness is common but not incurable. And there are a few primitive communities still alive which don’t believe in medicine at all. They don’t really do anything, or whatsoever they do is just to console the patient, in fact. Mantras, magical tricks – they are not medicines: they are just to help the patient to pass time – because nature cures itself. It is said that if you take a medicine for a common cold, it will be cured in seven days; if you don’t take, then in a week.
Nature cures itself. In fact, nature cures. One has to give time; patience is needed. The English word for an ill person, patient, is beautiful. It means patience is needed; one has to wait. In fact, the function of the doctor is to help the patient to be patient. By giving medicine he is consoled. He thinks: “Now something is being done and soon I will be cured.” He is helped in waiting. The doctor cannot do anything else. That’s why so many “pathies” work – homeopathy, allopathy, ayurveda – thousands of pathies work; even naturopathy works. Naturopathy means not doing anything, or doing something which is actually nothing. That’s why even Satya Sai Baba succeeds. Consolation is needed – the work is done by nature itself.
- OSHO
OSH