Article by Dr Raghuram Y.S. MD (Ay) & Dr Manasa S, B.A.M.S
Satisfaction or contentment is a special type of arithmetic. It’s all about how we take a look at ‘an excessive amount of’ and ‘too much less’ and the attitude relating to this adjustments from individual to individual.
‘An excessive amount of’ for me is a degree of satiety and satisfaction. It is a sign for me to cease wanting. This trait could also be inborn or cultivated. It’s wholesome to domesticate the behavior of being glad with what may fulfill our wants and it results in peace of thoughts and happiness.
My ‘an excessive amount of’ might be another person’s ‘too much less’. So, when I’ve reached a degree of satisfaction, the opposite somebody has most likely not even reached the halfway of that.
Satisfaction is thus associated to our needs and wishes. Desires and wishes are associated to needs. Want is expounded to our thoughts, senses and consciousness. We are able to prepare ourselves in relation to regulate the needs surfacing from inside.
We have to know the place, when and with what we should be glad. It isn’t straightforward. It comes with devoted apply and dedication to not deviate from that apply.
Acharya Chanakya mentions three issues with which we should be content material and glad. He additionally mentions three extra issues with which we should always by no means be glad or content material with. Each are important for our psychological and emotional well being.
Allow us to see what Chanakya has to say on this course.
Three issues to be glad with
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Three issues to be glad and contented with
One ought to all the time be glad with –
- Swa Dhara – one’s spouse
- Bhojana – Meals
- Dhana – cash and wealth
Then again, Chanakya additionally mentions three issues for which one ought to by no means be glad or contended. There ought to be a continuing thirst to maintain doing them repeatedly and repeatedly since they’re completely happy and wholesome habits.
Three issues to not be glad and contented with
One ought to by no means be glad with –
- Adhyayana – Learning, Studying, Information,
- Japa – chanting, prayers,
- Dana – charity
Associated Studying – ‘Three issues NOT to be glad with’
On this article we are going to restrict our dialogue to the primary half of the verse which offers with ‘three issues to be glad with’ and their affect on complete body-mind-sensual-spiritual well being.
Three Issues one ought to all the time be glad with!
Swa dhara – We’ve got seen that the lust and attraction – kama – in the direction of one other girl apart from one’s spouse will result in infidelity points. That is additionally relevant for girls who’re interested in different males outdoors marriage. One ought to know the distinction between significant love and meaningless lust.
Chanakya right here says that one should be devoted in the direction of their partner. Marriage is a ceremony which brings two individuals, two hearts, two souls and two households collectively. Every little thing needn’t be excellent between the couple. And there’s no excellent couple. However to work out perfectness amidst ocean of imperfectness is how the establishment of marriage works. Infidelity just isn’t the answer for the chemistry gone mistaken between {couples}.
Unfaithfulness results in divorces, separation, psychological and emotional trauma to each companions. It isn’t that the individual will likely be pleased with the opposite girl. It was simply an attraction or diversion. Many could not know or have causes for not being devoted with their partner and being excellent with the opposite individual.
After marriage, a home turns into house. There may be nothing which can’t be sorted out inside 4 partitions. The love, care, affection, bonding and belief retains this establishment going robust. Infidelity takes its origin from discontentment and dissatisfaction, the explanations for which we have to work out. Completely happy houses are product of completely happy spouses.
A sense that ‘I would like to return house as a result of my life associate is ready for me’ is a priceless really feel. Behavior of this retains one mentally and emotionally completely happy.
Additionally it is an recommendation to observe Grihastha Dharma – duties and obligations of a household individual, which is among the ashramas – part of lifetime of a person and in addition a dharma – righteous duty. Being loyal to 1’s partner can be part of Sadvritta – circle of goodness and pathway for happiness.
Bhojana – Ahara or meals, based on Ayurveda is one among the many trayopastambhas – three pillars of 1’s life. It’s a lifelong assist system and fundamental intuition of life, for each residing being. Meals is a blessing however it may possibly additionally turn out to be a curse whether it is consumed following mistaken etiquettes. Ayurveda has detailed each facet of significant consuming which incorporates supreme high quality, supreme amount, supreme time and place of consumption of meals, technique of consuming and associated guidelines and rules and issues that one would undergo on account of erratic and undisciplined consuming.
Meals ought to be taken to 1 third of 1’s capability is what Ayurveda advocates. That is the best amount and is totally different for various individuals. One ought to know these items to maintain oneself wholesome, match and completely happy.
A verse from ‘Ajirna – Agnimandya’ chapter i.e. chapter coping with causes and pathogenesis of indigestion and sluggish digestion of Madhava Nidana treatise says that ‘when an individual who doesn’t have self management and eats with animal intuition, with out contemplating the amount of meals would develop a severe type of indigestion which is the foundation of many issues’.
That is true even these days. Individuals eat meals with out following the principles and rules with respect to high quality, amount and time and consequently undergo from many issues.
Chanakya too has included bhojana – meals among the many elements which one ought to be contended with and know the restrictions for a similar.
Idea – In line with Acharya Charaka ‘Dhana Eshana’ i.e. pursuit for wealth is among the three major pursuits within the lifetime of an individual and a compulsory one too. Man is consistently in search of wealth and the need is tempting and limitless. Dhana isn’t just wealth; it’s fame, glory, identify and success.
As soon as the wealth begins flowing into one’s life, the greed for getting increasingly more of it begins ascending to a limitless level. The individual is rarely glad. Chanakya says that we should be glad with no matter wealth now we have and get. The incomes of dhana ought to be moral and inside limitations. Greed is a really harmful illness which may lead one to untoward penalties. Dishonest and robbing are the results of unquenchable thirst and greed to have increasingly more wealth, whose outcomes will likely be damaging. Greed results in dissatisfaction and discontentment and this can rob us of our peace of thoughts. Materialistic longings can emotionally separate us from our family members or appeal to undesirable individuals into our lives.
Artha – Incomes wealth and cash is among the Purusharthas i.e. 4 elementary objectives or goals of 1’s life. One ought to be glad with what he earns and it ought to be moral, ethical and significant.
Lobha or greed for increasingly more wealth or materials is among the dharaniya vegas i.e. the urges which we have to consistently monitor and have a management upon, earlier than it takes management over us. So, one ought to know the bounds for incomes and accumulating wealth and supplies and be taught to attract the ‘strains of limitations and satisfaction’ for a similar. That is good for psychological and emotional well being.
