Fundamentals of Natural Food to Heal Your Body [ 12 ]

Dear JINPATH Sik-Gu,

How have you been this past week?
Here in California, the late summer heat has been intense.
It is hard to believe we are already moving toward September, leaving more than half of 2026 behind us. Time truly flies.

Today, I want to talk to you about something I have been thinking about for a very long time. I want to share a story about Ayurveda and its roots in the Vedas.

To be completely honest with you, I hesitated for a long time before writing this.
The Vedas are the oldest scriptures in human history. Their scale is so massive and profound that even dedicated scholars spend their entire lives studying just one small fraction of them. The sheer weight of the word "Veda" felt overwhelming.
I wondered, “Am I qualified to speak about something this vast?”

But as I share my thoughts on health, conscious living, and natural food with you, I realized it would be a contradiction to leave Ayurveda out. So today, I will simply share what I know. We will start with the big picture, keeping it as easy and approachable as possible.

The Language of Vibration

To understand the Vedas, we first run into a unique wall: language.
The original texts are written in Sanskrit.

Sanskrit was not meant to be a language for everyday street conversation.
It is a language built entirely on sound and vibration.
It was designed to capture the invisible, unmanifested energy of the universe and translate it into sounds we can make with our voices in this physical world.

Because of this, translating Sanskrit into modern languages—especially character-based languages like Chinese—is almost impossible. Often, when these texts are translated twice over, the original essence is nearly lost.

Let me give you an example.
You have probably heard the sound "Om."
But what does it actually mean?
"Om" does not have a simple dictionary definition.
It is a phonetic translation of the original vibration of the universe.
Some people translate it as "God," while others translate it as "The Universe."
To trap a word like "Om" into a single English word is practically impossible.