With an intuitive insight into the complexity of our origin, Ayurveda understands that the knowledge of the body is never complete, a truth that is painfully obvious to anyone who tries to keep abreast of the myriad developments and contradictory opinions of today’s medical science. This merry-go-round of shifting phenomenon and perceptions is identified as a property of ‘Samsara’, which represents the inexorable law of change, which states that no subject or object ever remains completely static. Modern science though is based upon the systematic observation, experimentation and analysis of such shifting material existence (Samsara). Ayurveda states that the limits of human perception (including the technology that expands that awareness) are unconsciously guided by the principle of ahamkara, which represents the act of naming, identification and discrimination. It creates a vocabulary, a semantic description of a conditioned reality that lulls the scientist into believing in the idea of objectivity, that the individual self can somehow observe the machinations of Samsara without the perception itself being affected.

The Samkhya philosophy of creation that is at the core of Ayurveda perceives humans as microcosm – a universe within themselves – while the rest of the universe is the macrocosm and cosmic energy is manifest in all living and non-living things. According to this lucid physiological model, human body is thus a holographic representation of the microcosm and within our being and within our bodies exist all the clues and data we need to understand the universe.