Causes of Dis-ease according to Ayurveda

Ayurveda is an ancient medicine from India. Ayur means “life” and Veda means “knowledge”. According to Ayurveda the body can heal itself with the help of a competent physician, diet, herbs, daily routines and selfcare rituals as well as a therapeutic detoxification process called Pancha Karma.

According to Ayurveda below is the main causes of dis-ease:

1. Either excessive or little or wrong indulgence or utilization of our 5 senses: by either;

• Artha – disharmonious connection between the 5 senses and the object of their desiresmell, taste, vision, hearing, touch. Examples are: over eating, watching violent or horror movies, or reading in dark areas, hearing violent language or listening to laud music, touch something harsh or hot, etc.
• Kala – time – examples are prolonging time in procrastination or excessive duration of sleep or prolonged summer, short summer or long winter, or eating foods that are not in season.
• Buddhi – mental faculties – like excess thinking, less thinking or wrong thinking and wrong decision, wrong perception or belief

2. Failure of the intellect - (Prajnaparadha) when we make wrong decisions or don’t listen to our intelligence in doing the things that are conducive to a good life our wellbeing and health. Example: we know we should not smoke but we still do. Or we know we have a final to study for but instead go out to party, or eat the foods we know is not good for our health, etc.

3. Kala - Linear time- Decay due to time and Motion- (Parinama). As we age our body degenerates. Once we are born, we get closer every second to our death. However, this is due to a linear or chronological time. In Ayurveda it is known that the biological time is not linear but dynamic and as time is measured in terms of space or motion, biological time can be altered to slow down the aging process

4. Rajas - This is a quality of the mind - Rajas is the quality of distraction and turbulence. It seeks power and stimulation and passion. It seeks instant pleasure that quickly diminishes into pain and disharmony. Rajas is the predominant energy in our society today.

5. Tamas - This is also a quality of the mind – This is ignorance and its worse than Rajas. Tamas is the quality of darkness, inertia, and stagnation. When we feel depressed and can’t get out of a rut. All the school shootings for example fall in this category.