Ayurveda is beyond beginning and ending. A science of eternal healing, it is compared to a vast ocean, and studying Ayurveda to swimming across. A true teacher can teach one how to swim, but the swimming is up to the student...it is a lifelong journey.

The object of Ayurveda, the science of life, is to protect the health of the healthy and to alleviate disorders in the diseased.

  -Charaka Samhita, Sutrasthana, chapter thirty