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Needless
to mention here that ayurveda 'shastra' is not only the
ancient text in India but it is the earliest text of science
and knowledge in the history of mankind. The Taittriya
upanishad says:- 'Pranangdeva anuprananty vidyangsodeva
manusyapaswaschase; pranohi vutanang aiyuh. Tasmath sarvaiyusmucchante sarvameva ayuryanti. Ye pranang brahmopasate'.
The
supreme creator works through the shakti or power of life.
The learned are god. Human beings and animals sustain by the
help of 'prana shakti' or energy of life. Life actually is
the 'aiyu' or longivity. Thats the reason why life is known
as 'sarvaiyu' or universal longivity. Those who worship life
as 'Brahma' begets full life since life itself is longivity.
Hence the veda that deals with life is ayurveda.
Now
I shall discuss an interesting aspect, its the relationship
of mind with the self through the eyes of ayurveda. The
ayurvedic principles states during pregnancy the child inherits
the mind from the mother and memory and merits from the
father, so this is genetics where character is transmitted
through the genes and apart from this the society and
environment has a profound impact too. There were a few
ancient texts that dealt with the mind viz. 'Upadhenav
samhita', 'Parasor samhita', 'Attri samhita', and a few others
but however they didnt find much relevance in the Charak and
Susruta samhita. However the Charak samhita gradually underwent
metamorphosis later in the years under the hands of the then
scholars or researchers where in certain instances influences
of 'Konas' ideology, or 'Tantra' ideology or the relevance of
Buddhism can be observed thereby giving a totally new identity
to itself. But the susruta samhita remains at a safe distance
from charak samhita. Interestingly the creaters of both the
samhitas acknowledged the three 'gunaas' or elementary principles
as natural. They are 'satwa guuna' the quality of goodness,
the first one, the second one 'raja guuna' the elementary
principle regarding the composition of nature and the third
one 'tamo guuna' the lowest of the three elementary principles
depicting pride vanity haughtiness etc in the descending scale.
So the sum total of the three gunaas satwa raja and tamo along with place and environment constitutes the nature of a person. But the constitution can never be the same for everyone there has to be a basic difference. Susruta considers the three basic ingridients as 'vaiyu' which is air, 'pitta' which is bile and 'kafa' which is phlegm which makes up the body and these inturn circumscribes to the three gunaas satwa raja and tamo which above all helps in mental progression.
"Nanavidhani khalu sattwanitani sarvani eka purushe bhavanti api n cha bhavantek kalam ekong tu prayo anubritta" (Charak samhita). The significance of the above sloka is that the presence or existence of the three gunaas in the body is natural but the manifestation of the same occuring simultanously at the same time is not possible, thats because of the fact mind is pliable and gets easily moulded to the environment and circumstances the person stays in. This in the sum total helps in progression of individual personality. Both Charak and Susruta agrees to the fact that people those who are inclined towards sattwa guna have seven characteristics. Those who are inclined towards raja guna has six and those of tamo guna three. The seven characters of satwa guna are: Brahmasatya, Aryasatya, Oindrasatya, Yammyasatya, Varunsatya, Kayuver satya and Gandharva satya. That of raja guna are Rakshas nature or gluttonous person, Asura nature or demon incarnate, Pishacha or fiendish nature, Swarpa or snake like. Need to be mentioned here this has nothing to do with reptiles. The ayurveda while describing the nature by using the word 'swarpa' did not mean snakes. Such type of men are intelligent hardworking has a twisted mind etc. Ghostly (or preata) nature. This again has nothing to do with spirits or ghosts. The persons of this nature belong to the dark part of the society usually are hoodlums and guilty conscious. The last Shakun nature They are always restless in nature, spendthrift, but no eagerness of earning, highly desirous without any end.
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