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Why We Suffer
How do these reflections affect how we act?
A thought comes to mind- first it will go to the wisdom body where it will be interpreted according to our conditioning and not necessarily according to wisdom or right and wrong. When we act from a place of conditioned reaction, it is called KARMA ( action). There is no consciousness to the action, it is simply a reaction.
When our sense of intelligent awareness or Buddhi is clouded by bad health and incorrect lifestyle choices, we often make decisions and react in ways that are negative to our happiness and health. When we act against our Prakriti or our purest nature- our physical and emotional body reacts creating further disharmony. The cycle becomes unhealthy and difficult to break. This state of non-health or disharmony is called VIKRITI (diversion from natural harmony).
Causes of disease-
Main reason behind our disease is "ASATMYEINDRIRTHSANYOG" and KARMA Ayurvedically karmas are not god or bad actions; Karmas are dust on our wisdom, as result, we become a part of Maya (illusion) which result in (+ -) joy through the sense and motor organs and ultimately lead to sicknesses.
Ayurveda has accented three types of KARMA -:
1: VANGA BHAVA KARMA: the deeds through emotions.
2: MANAH VIDHA KARMA: the deeds through thought.
3: SHARIRA VIDHA KARMA: the deeds through the body.
Health and sickness:-
General idea of health has two components; true health and diagnosed health. Many times the person is declared to be healthy, but he is stressed, has disturbed sleep, bloted in the morning and he feels something is wrong. Often this is termed as psychosomatic disease or neuroses, or imagination
Ayurveda teaches that each person is born with a unique body and psycho-spiritual constitution. Prakriti is a term that denotes 'nature' or 'natural harmony' in the human constitution, as soon as we loose our uniqueness our mind and body reacts in the form of diseases and symptoms.
In the context of health our body is an "organisation" established in a balance between the natural forces of creation and destruction. When the balance is upset, our normal rhythms and health is disturbed and we either over-create or over-destroy. This gives rise to the development of toxins, which cause disease and ill-health, because they are not in harmony with the cosmic organisation. If the disease is left unattended to during the initial stages the toxins grow and challenge the existence of the physical 'organisation'. The energy and activity of the body is directed to nourish the toxins and slowly the whole being becomes out of tune with cosmic harmony. This is what a major disease is.
At the initial stages, pathological materials or toxins are transitory and simple practices can help restore the natural balance in the patient. The role of the Ayurvedic physician is to restore natural balance by intervening in the pathological cycle and reinvigorating healthy processes with the help of appropriate diet and herbs.