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). No medicine nor the best doctors can cure these. God determines the fruits of our Karma and based on that, we face these health problems which last for a predetermined period of time and then come to an end.