Reasons for illness

The scripture reveals that health situations happen due to one or more of the following three reasons -

• Daivik (Devanagari: दैविक ISO159191: daivika)​: health problems arising due to environmental conditions e.g. pollution causes health problems. Medicine can cure these types of illnesses to some extent.
• Doshaj (Devanagari: दोषज ISO159191: doṣaja​): health problems arising due to your own careless habits e.g. being lazy, eating unhealthy food etc. Medicine can cure these to some extent.
• Karmaj (Devanagari: कर्मज ISO159191: karmaja): Health issues resulting from our actions from our past lives. These are called prarabdha (see Karma — Actions ). No medicine nor the best doctors can cure these. God determines the fruits of our Karma — Actions and based on that, we face these health problems which last for a predetermined period of time and then come to an end.