That is how Ayurveda , the first Materia Medica was born

When everybody goes into meditation, somebody should be there to record what is said;

thus, the question was, who will record, who will keep themselves awake and write everything down?

Rishi Bharadwaja volunteered to write and not meditate.

(It is like how the driver is awake, when all the other people travelling are sleeping.)

Thus, all the Rishis closed their eyes and went into deep Meditation . 

They started downloading, speaking, ‘This herb is good for this, that herb is good for this, and so on’, and that is how Ayurveda , the first Materia Medica was born.

- Gurudev Sri Sri Ravi Shankarji