Ayurveda is the world’s oldest body of knowledge based on nature and one of the initial written healing sciences. The inception of Ayurveda was towards helping achieve a lifespan in various aspects like longevity, health, obtaining financial and social prosperity, attaining wealth of knowledge, living the righteous way and achieving spiritual well being or salvation. Ayurveda explains and provides guidelines for a way of life. In today’s age mankind is desperately seeking the ultimate goal of a healthy life. Thousands of years ago a simple definition of health was offered by the Shashtra’s. A long life with a purpose of achieving Dharma-the path of righteousness Artha Kama Moksha Sloka and explanation What is Ayu (Life) Life according to Ayurveda is not only the combination of the Panchamahabhutika Sharia (the cells, tissues in the body), the Karamindriya and Jnanendriya which are the motor and sensory organs, Manha (mind or the brain) but also the presence of Atma the soul. The definition of life as per Ayurveda is not only limited to having a physical form or presence of organs but a constant moving, interacting, ever changing and growing individual with the presence of consciousness and understanding. Ayurveda encourages finding the balance between your body, mind, and spirit because all three of these spheresare connected. Though Ayurveda has originated from the Indian philosophical knowledge but its applications are universal because it understands the living and the inanimate aspects of nature a part of the same universe, interdependent, interacting and beneficial for Life. What is Ayurveda Ayurveda explains and provides guidelines for a way of life.
हिताहितं सुखं दुःखमायुस्तस्य हिताहितम्| मानं च तच्च यत्रोक्तमायुर्वेदः स उच्यते|| (Ch. SuS Ch 1/41) Hitahitam Sukham Duhkhamayustasya Hitahitam | Mananca Tacca Yatroktamayurvedah Sa Ucyate ||(Ch. SuS Ch 1/41) Ayurveda is that which deals with good, bad, blissful and sorrowful life, and with what is wholesome and unwholesome for it, longevity, and about what Ayu (life) is in itself. Before becoming a medical knowledge describing diseases and treatments, Ayurveda starts with preventive and promotive aspects of life based on its principles, using natural resources available as per different region,climates etc. and daily, seasonal rituals.