'The crime against wisdom' - Charaka's deepest account of why people fall ill: knowing perfectly well what is good for you, and doing otherwise anyway. Not fate, and not germs, but a failure of the judgement.

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  He called it prajnaparadha , the crime against wisdom: knowing perfectly well what is good for you, and doing otherwise anyway.

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