January 17 2001, Swamiji was invited to speak at JHU at their Tropical Medicine conference. During his hour lecture, he covered an introduction to Ayurveda, what makes it unique, case studies, scientific research and ayurvedic herbs for tropical diseases.

Today we speak of globalization, industrialization, and computerization and a lot about Intellectual Property Rights (IPR). So it is natural to wonder if people in ancient India ever thought of issues like patent laws, intellectual property rights. Dwelling in to the pages of history we find very fascinating ideas, which would be of great interest to us now.