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Item Code: NAC221
Publisher: Sri Aurobindo Ashram
Author: Dr. R. S. Agarwal
Language: English
Edition: 2017
ISBN: 9788170589839
Pages: 223
Cover: Paperback
Other Details 7.5 Inch X 5.0 Inch
Weight 190 gm
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WHAT A MARVEL IS THE EYE! As simple as an animate miniature camera, as sublime as the gift of vision.

When our vision is normal we hardly notice the wonder of sight; but when it deteriorates, suddenly we become aware of Nature’s great gift— irreplaceable eyesight.

Is there a natural way to improve defective vision and, in many cases, restore it to normal? “Yes”, says Dr R. S. Agarwal, a pioneer in the field of holistic eye care. His book, Yoga of Perfect Sight, is a comprehensive manual on the natural care of the eye. It explains how to maintain healthy eyes by adopting a few good habits of eye care — habits that keep the eyes relaxed, refreshed and at ease. And it gives simple but effective exercises to improve one’s eyesight.

Because everyday life strains our eyes, the eye muscles get weakened and our vision declines. But just as other muscles of the body can be strengthened through proper exercises, so the eye muscles can become strong and healthy again. By gently relaxing, stretching and strengthening the eye muscles, we improve their health and thus improve our vision. This book shows how to do this safely and effectively.

The book contains chapters on the discoveries of Dr W. H. Bates, on the physiology of the eye, and on the natural cure for many major eye problems. There are also interesting case histories, question-and-answer sections, and letters on eyesight and Yogic vision by Sri Aurobindo.

Dr R. S. Agarwal, founder of The School for Perfect Eyesight at The Sri Aurobindo Ashram, Pondicherry, India, started his career with a medical degree. His practice combined allopathy and naturopathy with the Bates Method and the Integral Yoga of Sri Aurobindo. The discoverer of a synthesis in ophthalmic science, his aim was to create a new type of doctor, a spiritualised doctor of the future, more concerned with health than with pathology, one who could bring to his patients perfect eyesight in a natural way.

 

Editor’s Note

This book is a collection of articles written by my father, Dr. R. S. Agarwal. Most of the articles were first published in Mother India, a monthly journal of Sri Aurobindo Ashram, Pondicherry. The last chapter includes letters of Sri Aurobindo about eyesight and Yogic vision.

The author has added some more experiences in this new edition.

 

Introduction

Almost every eye specialist of the world believes that for refractive errors there is not only no cure but practically no preventive also. From such a belief any rational mind will conclude that science is in a very imperfect stage. What some writers on Ophthalmology wrote two hundred years back about the incurability of the refractive ailments, is continuing as a dogma even today, in the days of advanced science. We are so much hypnotised by the assertions of the old authorities that we do not care to make any experiment or do some research on the subject. And if anyone comes forward to say that cases of errors of refraction can be improved without glasses, we begin to doubt and without any study discard his explanation. Such is the condition of our mind which is supposed to be scientific. A scientific mind is always open to admit a truth or a fact.

The old writers tell us that the visual organ of man was never intended for the uses to which it is put now. In the early ages there was no school, no printing press, no electric light and no moving pictures. In those days the eye served the needs of the human animal perfectly. Man was a hunter, a farmer, a fighter; he needed only distant vision for which no muscular action was required. It is in near vision that some muscular action is required to correct the focusing, but at that time the use of eyes for near was rare and of very short duration.

When man learned how to communicate his thoughts to others by means of written and printed forms, there came some undeniably new demands upon the eye, affecting at first only a few people but gradually including more and more, and now in the most advanced countries the great mass of the population suffers from defective vision. Since the tallow candle has been displaced by the various forms of artificial lighting and the moving pictures have come in to use, almost every one suffers from some form of refractive error.

The prevailing method of treatment for the errors of refraction is by means of compensating lenses. But very little has ever been claimed except that these contrivances neutralise the effects of the various conditions for which they are prescribed as a crutch enables a lame man to walk. In the case of myopia Dr. Sidler Huguenin expresses the opinion that glasses and all methods at our command are “of but little avail” in preventing either the progress of the error of refraction or the development of the very serious complications with which it is often associated. This incurability of errors of refraction is based on the theory that the eye changes its focus for vision at different distances by altering the curvature of the lens. And both myopia and hypermetropia are supposed to be permanent conditions.

While examining thirty thousand pairs of eyes, Dr. W.H. Bates, the pioneer Ophthalmologist of New York, observed many cases of defective vision who recovered spontaneously, or changed their form of ailment. Dr. Bates was unable either to ignore these facts, or to satisfy himself with the orthodox explanations. It seemed to him that if a statement is a truth it must always be a truth. If errors of refraction are incurable they should never recover or change their form spontaneously. In seeking for light Dr. Bates undertook a series of observations upon the eyes of human beings and lower animals, the results of which convinced him that the lens is not a factor in accommodation. The eye adjusts its focus for different distances just like a camera, by a change in the length of the organ, and this alteration is brought about by the action of the external eye muscles called oblique muscles. We mention here some very important discoveries by Dr. Bates regarding the refractive error. The modern ophthalmologists should study these discoveries and if necessary repeat Dr. Bares experiments as his work needs further investigation.

 

Content

 

Chapter I Introductory I
  Discoveries of Dr. Bates 3
  Definitions 5
  Suggestions 7
  Central Fixation 9
  Sun treatment 9
  The eye and camera 10
  Eye testing 11
  Care of eyes: a dialogue 13
  Art of seeing 17
Chapter 2 Eye strain and eye education 19
  Eye troubles 20
  Eye education by central fixation 21
  Proper use of the eyes 22
  Sun treatment and palming 25
  Long and short swing 27
  Prevention of myopia in schools 28
  Medical examination of the eye 29
  Superstition and eye education 29
  Relax and see 32
  Questions and answers 35
Chapter 3 Fundamental Principle of treatment 40
  Favourable conditions 40
  Demonstrate 42
  Candle practice 42
  Useful hints in reading 44
  Shifting 44
  Circular swing 45
  Imagination essential to sight 46
  Optical Illusions 49
  Relief from blindness 50
  Questions and Answers 53
Chapter 4 Myopia and Hypermetropia 56
  Headache 58
  See things moving 59
  Memory swing 60
  Mental pictures 61
  Glaucoma and stare 62
  Hypermetropia 64
  Questions and Answers 66
Chapter 5 Treatment of Mypopia 70
  Variations in Eyesight 72
  Vision and education 74
  Eye education 76
  School children 78
  A case of Myopia and Nystagmus 80
  Myopia cured without personal assistance 82
  Questions and Answers 82
Chapter 6 Astigmatism 88
  Improve your sight 90
  Fine print 93
  Photographic type Reduction 95
  Good eyesight 95
  A case of Astigmatism 96
  Report 97
  Astigmatism relieved by eye education 99
  Questions and Answers 101
Chapter 7 Squint and amblyopia 106
  Double vision 108
  A Student’s planning composition 109
  Blindness or Amblyopia 110
  Suggestions 112
  Permanent improvement 113
  Eye strain during sleep 114
  How my blind eye got cured 114
  A case of hysterical amblyopia 116
  Cure of Squint 119
  Questions and Answrs 121
Chapter 8 Eye troubles in old age - Presbyopia 124
  A case of presbyopia 126
  Cataract 128
  Questions and Answers 130
  Cataract and eye education 132
  Questions and Answers 134
Chapter 9 Limits of vision 138
  Concentration and relaxation 140
  How to concentrate 142
  Practical suggestions 143
  Brain tension 144
  Diseases of the retina 145
  Facts reconciled 146
  Floating specks 147
  Threatened blindness 148
  Retinitis Pigmentosa 150
Chapter 10 Seven truths of normal sight 153
  Blinking education 154
  Proper Use of the eyes 155
  Different ways of Sun treatment 156
  Short notes on plaming 157
  Candle practice 158
  Alternate exercises after palming 159
  Games of eyesight 160
  Treatment chart 161
  School for Perfect Eyesight 162
  Exhibition on eye education 164
  Art of Writing 165
  See the Natural Way 167
  Go to the Movies 169
  Questions and Answers 171
Chapter 11 Eye Hygiene 174
  Why eyes fail to see 175
  Relief of pain 176
  A case of Squint 177
  A case of Night blindness 179
  A case of Glaucoma 183
  A case of high Compound Myopia 185
  Story from the clinic 187
  Optician and the doctor 188
  The divine eye 191
  Synthesis 195
  Perfection in eyesight 197
Chapter 12 Letters of Sri Aurobindo 202

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