Dr. K. DINSHAW MEHTA

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Dr. Mehta was affectionately known as 'Dadaji' by his followers, which means elder brother in North and Central Indian languages. His mother was a deeply religious woman who held the Prophet Zarathustra close to her heart and prayed to Him for hours every day. Back then, Jalna didn't have electric lights.

One day, she saw a bearded man with long hair dressed in white robes enter her room through a closed door. To her, he looked like the Prophet Zarathustra. He knelt beside her, raised his hand over her womb, and said something like, 'This is the reward for all your prayers.' Then, he walked out through the wall. After that, she found a white rose and a red rose on her bed. Following this, she had a normal pregnancy and gave birth to a baby boy named Dinshah in a Bombay hospital on June 5, 1903.

From a young age, Dinshah stood out with his unique personality. By the time he was between 5 and 7 years old, he figured out that the goal of life was to achieve perfection. Since all he really understood about himself was his body, he made it his mission to perfect it. His physique was so impressive that at 17, while working out in the gym of the organizer of a weightlifting competition he entered, the organizer asked him to showcase his muscle control on stage. He struck poses resembling famous Greek gods like Mercury, Mars, Apollo, and Discobolus.

The event was such a hit that many people wanted Dinshah to perform again in different theaters in Bombay and Poona. His shows really boosted the mood of the audience. After one of the performances, they raised 30,000 Indian Rupees, which was a lot of money back then, to kick off a bodybuilding club and health center in Bombay.

When he was young, Dinshah learned different ways to heal naturally and opened his Nature Cure Clinic and Sanatorium in Poona and Bombay. Mahatma Gandhi found out about Dr. Mehta's successful natural healing methods and began referring patients to him. In 1932, Gandhi sent a telegram to Dr. Mehta asking him to come to Bombay. They met at Mani Bhavan on Hughes Road, where Gandhi lived, and today, Mani Bhavan is a historical site.

As their bond deepened, Mahatma Gandhi began to consider Dr. Mehta's institution in Poona as his home, where numerous meetings of the All India Congress Committee took place. Many prominent Indian leaders involved in the fight for independence from British rule were patients of Dr. Mehta, including Mahatma Gandhi, Sardar Vallabhai Patel, Jawaharlal Nehru, Jaya Prakash Narayan, and Rajkumari Amrit Kaur.

Later on, Mahatma Gandhi, along with Dr. Mehta and a few others, started the All India Nature Cure Foundation Trust, with Gandhi serving as its first Chairman. Dadaji contributed his property to this Trust, and eventually, the Indian Government took over, creating the 'National Institute of Naturopathy' in the building that Dr. Mehta had donated.

He approached the treatment of chronic illnesses using several principles: the Law of Elimination, the Law of Nutrition, the Law of Circulation, the Law of Relaxation, and the Psychological Law of Emotions. He utilized various therapies such as fasting, diet changes, heliotherapy, hydrotherapy, electrotherapy, mud therapy, and massage therapy.

He introduced a combination therapy of pure naturopathy along modern system of medicine.
He helped the patient eliminate other effects of allopathic medicine.
He used a combination therapy for pre-surgical and post-surgical care.
He strongly believed that the body creates its own medicine through its immunological system.


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