In order to malign the reputation of Banaras Hindu University (BHU), the liberals along with the leftist media have been doing overtime. They tried everything to discredit the historic university however this time they made fool out of themselves as they misinterpreted the ‘Bhoot Vidya’ as an exorcism course.
https://twitter.com/DilliDurAst/status/1209898645820100608?s=20
BHU has a Bhoot Vidya department. Hope they find a cure for the country in the tight grip of bhoot (past) that is setting fire to its bhavishya (future).
— ᴋᴀᴍʟᴇsʜ sɪɴɢʜ / tau (@kamleshksingh) December 26, 2019
BHU has started a Bhoot Vidya course so that in absence of internet we can find out OTPs and summon Ola/Uber by invoking the one on the nearest peepal tree. https://t.co/hBdQpveZEB
— Rahul Pandita (@rahulpandita) December 26, 2019
As soon as the BHU announced the course, liberals started mocking the varsity along with the government, without even knowing the meaning of ‘Bhoot Vidya’. However, people on the twitter mercilessly trolled and schooled the liberals for making this mistake.
That is ignorant. Western models and understanding of the mind is primitive as is their medicine. This is why nearly of fifth of Americans are on psychiatric meds today and there is a huge opoid crisis as well.
You're turning this pharma complex into the "only true god."
— Sankrant Sanu सानु संक्रान्त ਸੰਕ੍ਰਾਂਤ ਸਾਨੁ (@sankrant) December 26, 2019
"Bhoot" simply means past. The mind has become a prisoner of the past. This is what psychotherapy and past life regression is about as well.
Of course, Jung comes and learns and copies from yoga for years, that becomes "modern", right?
— Sankrant Sanu सानु संक्रान्त ਸੰਕ੍ਰਾਂਤ ਸਾਨੁ (@sankrant) December 26, 2019
https://twitter.com/Skpbhuvns51/status/1210517069747240961?s=20
BHU starting a course on BhootVidya.
My take –
Severe and chronic mental illnesses are treated best with modern medicine and appropriate rehab. Early intervention by modern medicine is their only hope.For many mild ailments of mind,heart and soul field is wide open for all.
— Bhooshan Shukla (@docbhooshan) December 26, 2019
Media outlets such as the BBC, Scoopwhoop, NDTV, News18 and India Today too took forward the initiative of maligning the BHU by publishing factually wrong stories on this. This idiocy went even to the extent as some news outlet compared BHU to the Hogwarts (the school in Harry Potter).
While the truth is that, Institute of Medical Sciences (BHU)’s faculty of Ayurveda has started ‘bhoot Vidya’ or paranormal sciences course which deals with the psychosomatic disorders rather than ghosts. Psychosomatic refers to the mind (psyche) and body (soma). The psychosomatic symptom manifests as a physiological consequence of an emotional state. For example, depression as a consequence of terminal cancer. The term psychosomatic disorder is also used when mental factors cause physical symptoms in the absence of physical disease.
Students holding ‘Bachelor of Ayurvedic Medicine and Surgery’ (BAMS), Bachelor of Medicine and Bachelor of Surgery (MBBS) degrees are eligible for the course. It must be noted that Bhoot Vidya or paranormal science is one of the eight branches of Ashtanga Ayurveda. Ayurvedic therapies generally include herbal medicines, diet changes, massages, breathing and other forms of exercise.
Confirming this, Yamini Bhushan Tripathi, the Dean of Ayurveda, said: “Bhoot Vidya mainly deals with psychosomatic disorders, diseases caused by unknown reasons and diseases of mind or psychic conditions.”
Notably, a report by the World Health Organisation (WHO) revealed that 7.5 per cent of the Indian population suffers from some form of mental disorder. Mental illnesses constitute one-sixth of all health-related disorders in the world. India accounted for nearly 15% of the global mental, neurological and substance abuse disorders. WHO also predicts that by 2020, roughly 20 per cent of India will suffer from mental illnesses.
This course initiated by the BHU is praiseworthy citing the increase in mental diseases. It must be mentioned here that Ayurveda has always been more practical in its approach rather than the western medical system. Ayurveda must be utilized further in order to get cures of extraordinary medical conditions.
