Mitra Ji, First of all I am quite indebted for your love; I am honored and I am obliged. Do you think I deserve such a high regard :)? I have lot of love in my heart for you and it has never been enough. We are soulmates in Sajha since years and we are soulmates for ever. To answer your questions in short, Meditation, Yoga and Ayurveda are incomparable gift of our ancestors. We must use them and treasure them. However, if we compare ourselves to modern civilization, we are far behind. Civilizations comes and go! 7000 years ago Sumerians were most advanced people. But today the decendent of these mighty Sumerians are in poor condition. Then came Egyptians, Chinese, Inidans, Persian Greeks, Romans, Arab, Mayans, Inkas etc. But none of these last for longer. If you exclude Roman, the entire western world had never shine before until the end of small ice age ie 16th century. We are living in dark age since more than 2000 years. Those people who lived in this duration were our ancestors.They were the one who killed living woman by the name of Sati. They were the one who considered human secrifice is the greatest of secrifice. They were the one who believed people are divided by birth and so many other things... Now I am leaving you to analyze and judge their action whether they were civilized. Now western world has lot to offer to the world. They have collected infinite treasure of knowledge and their civilization has higher value then ours. We have to take from them and get civilized...........only good things though :).