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 acutely aware selections. They can’t be generalized as a result of they imply various things for various people.
Whereas satisfaction or contentment exhibits the optimistic aspect of our desires and needs or selections, dissatisfaction and discontentment replicate the unfavorable aspect of our needs, thought course of, selections and needs.
However many instances, dissatisfaction, not being contented with and never reaching or experiencing the purpose of satiety can also be essential and displays the optimistic aspect and optimistic impression they’ve on us, our well being and happiness.
In considered one of his quotes, Acharya Chanakya mentions three issues one have to 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.
Associated Studying – ‘Three issues to be happy with’
On this article we will focus on 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.
संतोषस्त्रिषु कर्तव्यः स्वदारे भोजने धने।
त्रिषु चैव न कर्तव्योऽध्ययने जपदानयोः॥चाणक्य नीति ७.४।
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
However, Chanakya additionally mentions three issues for which there ought to by no means be some extent of satisfaction, satiety or contentment. One ought to consistently have a thirst for these three issues talked about under.
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 finding out and studying will improve our information, knowledge and expertise. There is no such thing as a finish or barrier for studying. There is no such thing as a age for studying. Learning will preserve us up to date with all issues taking place 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 can preserve us related with the world and worldly affairs. Adhyayana will preserve our mind and its features consistently activated and wholesome. It restores stability of prana vayu, sadhaka pitta and tarpaka kapha working in our mind.
It can additionally preserve the thoughts wholesome by protecting 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 will depend on 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 finding out and studying. It’s a course of which ought to preserve going all through one’s life. These getting happy with studying and finding out have put a full cease for his or her development, growth and evolution in life, in all elements.
Japa – Japa consists of doing meditation whereas chanting repetitively. The chanting could be a stotra, mantra or simply ‘Aum’. It’s adopted in numerous non secular traditions together with Hinduism, Sikhism, Buddhism and Jainism.
It’s not solely part of devotion, it additionally has a non secular angle and is alleged to purify one’s thoughts, senses and ideas when carried out usually.
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 might be carried out loudly. It will also be whispered or chanted mentally. It is usually 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 observe.
Chanakya mentions Japa as one of many issues which one ought to preserve doing as a observe and preserve improvising on it each day, all through the life. One shouldn’t be contented with doing japa. The extra you might be, the extra you evolve as a human.
Dana – Dana means charity or gifting away 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 provide’. Dana isn’t just related to how a lot you might 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 aspect. One could have and never give. It’s a acutely aware alternative to provide or to not give. However ‘to provide’ is wholesome, noble and humane.
Dana has been an element and parcel of Hindu tradition and custom. It is usually an moral, noble, ethical and righteous observe. Some do it for atonement. It’s not fallacious. However this could ignite the fireplace in them which might preserve away or burn away the sins which might make them the considered atonement, ‘the guilt issues’. Else charity turns into a compensation for our sins.
Charity needs to be selfless. It’s a advantage which has immense worth when it naturally comes out of ourselves. Charity is just not deliberate. It’s simply carried out. Dana has been talked about in Ayurveda additionally in numerous contexts. Dana bestows an unexplored and un-experienced sort of satisfaction and bliss. It’s a good deed which might bestow many good issues on us. We might get again unsaid blessings and needs from these on the receiving finish. Dana is a mirrored image of our contentment, satisfaction of getting satisfactory, wanting to provide and the goodness a part of us. It can 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 needs to be no drawn line of limitation for dana and one shouldn’t get happy with giving.
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