Article by Dr Raghuram Y.S. MD (Ay) & Dr Manasa S, B.A.M.S
Satisfaction and dissatisfaction, contentment and discontentment are half and parcel of our life. They’re additionally the outcomes of our needs and aware decisions. They can’t be generalized as a result of they imply various things for various people.
Whereas satisfaction or contentment reveals the constructive facet of our needs and needs or decisions, dissatisfaction and discontentment mirror the destructive facet of our needs, thought course of, decisions and needs.
However many instances, dissatisfaction, not being contented with and never reaching or experiencing the purpose of satiety can also be necessary and displays the constructive facet and constructive impression they’ve on us, our well being and happiness.
In one in all his quotes, Acharya Chanakya mentions three issues one should be happy and contented with of their life within the first line and three extra issues one shouldn’t be happy or contended with within the second line.
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On this article we will talk about the three issues which one shouldn’t be happy or contended with. These three issues have a powerful impression on our bodily, psychological, sensual and non secular well being.
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Three issues to be happy and contented with
One ought to at all times be happy with –
- Swa Dhara – one’s spouse
- Bhojana – Meals
- Dhana – cash and wealth
Then again, Chanakya additionally mentions three issues for which there ought to by no means be a degree of satisfaction, satiety or contentment. One ought to always have a thirst for these three issues talked about beneath.
Three issues to not be happy and contented with
One ought to by no means be happy with –
- Adhyayana – Finding out, Studying, Information,
- Japa – chanting, prayers,
- Dana – charity
On this article we are going to restrict our dialogue to the second half of the verse which offers with ‘three issues to not be happy with’ and their impression on complete body-mind-sensual-spiritual well being.
Three Issues one ought to at all times be not happy with!
Adhyayana – Fixed learning and studying will improve our information, knowledge and abilities. There isn’t any finish or barrier for studying. There isn’t any age for studying. Finding out will preserve us up to date with all issues occurring round us and this can be a signal of development.
Adhyayana will get us the respect, identify and fame we deserve. It helps in bringing maturity and evolution at psychological, sensual and non secular ranges. It’s going to preserve us linked with the world and worldly affairs. Adhyayana will preserve our mind and its capabilities always activated and wholesome. It restores stability of prana vayu, sadhaka pitta and tarpaka kapha working in our mind.
It’s going to additionally preserve the thoughts wholesome by retaining the trigunas – sattva, rajas and tamas in a state of stability. One ought to by no means cease studying and by no means really feel happy. Information is an enormous ocean. There’s something for everybody in it. It depends upon how lengthy and the way deep we need to discover it. It has no boundaries and we will additionally not attempt to attract it.
Chanakya says that one ought to by no means cease learning and studying. It’s a course of which ought to preserve going all through one’s life. These getting happy with studying and learning have put a full cease for his or her development, growth and evolution in life, in all features.
Japa – Japa contains doing meditation whereas chanting repetitively. The chanting is usually a stotra, mantra or simply ‘Aum’. It’s adopted in numerous non secular traditions together with Hinduism, Sikhism, Buddhism and Jainism.
It isn’t solely part of devotion, it additionally has a non secular angle and is claimed to purify one’s thoughts, senses and ideas when performed often.
It brings in and nurtures one’s focus, mind, ideas and reminiscence and balances the doshas of the thoughts – tamas and rajas. It additionally will increase the sattvika high quality of the thoughts and generates immense positivity within the physique, thoughts and senses. It additionally deepens one’s non secular consciousness and connects with the divine.
Japa could be performed loudly. It may also be whispered or chanted mentally. Additionally it is stated to result in vak shuddhi i.e. readability of speech. It instills in us peace, calmness and non secular upliftment. Japa additionally energizes and opens up the chakras relying on what and the way we’re chanting in Japa follow.
Chanakya mentions Japa as one of many issues which one ought to preserve doing as a follow and preserve improvising on it day after day, all through the life. One shouldn’t be contented with doing japa. The extra you’re, the extra you evolve as a human.
Dana – Dana means charity or making a gift of one thing to the needy with none expectations or with out contemplating the fruits and advantages of the identical. Only a few individuals have the ‘coronary heart to offer’. Dana is not only linked to how a lot you could have and the way a lot you may give. Having is particular person and it needn’t at all times have a giving half on the opposite facet. One may have and never give. It’s a aware selection to offer or to not give. However ‘to offer’ is wholesome, noble and humane.
Dana has been a component and parcel of Hindu tradition and custom. Additionally it is an moral, noble, ethical and righteous follow. Some do it for atonement. It isn’t improper. However this could ignite the fireplace in them which might preserve away or burn away the sins which might cause them to the considered atonement, ‘the guilt issues’. Else charity turns into a compensation for our sins.
Charity ought to be selfless. It’s a advantage which has immense worth when it naturally comes out of ourselves. Charity shouldn’t be deliberate. It’s simply performed. Dana has been talked about in Ayurveda additionally in numerous contexts. Dana bestows an unexplored and un-experienced form of satisfaction and bliss. It’s a good deed which might bestow many good issues on us. We might get again unsaid blessings and desires from these on the receiving finish. Dana is a mirrored image of our contentment, satisfaction of getting ample, wanting to offer and the goodness a part of us. It’s going to assist in one’s private, non secular and social evolution and development. Dana can also be a dharma – righteousness and a pathway for moksha – salvation.
Chanakya says that there ought to be no drawn line of limitation for dana and one shouldn’t get happy with giving.
