What is Ayurveda?

The Science of Life

Ayurvedic knowledge originated in India more than 5,000 years ago and is often called the “Mother of All Healing.”

According to Ayurveda, there are three fundamental states of a being such as the physical (including physiological), mental, and the spiritual. Health is a balance of all these three states and their relationship with the outside world.

One who is established in Self, who has balanced doshas (primary life force), balanced agni (fire of digestion), properly formed dhatus (tissues), proper elimination of malas (waste products), well-functioning bodily processes, and whose mind, soul and senses are full of bliss is called a healthy person.

Ayurveda places great emphasis on prevention and encourages the maintenance of health through close attention to balance in one’s life, right thinking, diet, lifestyle and the use of herbs.

Knowledge of Ayurveda enables one to understand how to create this balance of body, mind and consciousness according to one’s own individual constitution and how to make lifestyle changes to bring about and maintain this balance.

प्रकृतिस्तुस्वभाव ....

शुक्रासृग्गर्भिणीभोज्यचेष्टागर्भाशयर्तुषु

य: स्यादोषोडधिकस्तेन प्रकृति: सप्तधोदिता

Just as everyone has a unique fingerprint, each person has a particular pattern of energy—an individual combination of physical, mental and emotional characteristics—which comprises their own constitution. This constitution is determined at conception by a number of factors and remains the same throughout one’s life.

प्रकृते: स्वभावातप्रच्युति: विकृति:

In Ayurveda, body, mind and consciousness work together in maintaining balance. Balance is the natural order; imbalance is disorder. Health is order; disease is disorder. Within the body there is a constant interaction between order and disorder. When one understands the nature and structure of disorder, one can re-establish order.