Article by Dr Raghuram Y.S. MD (Ay) & Dr Manasa S, B.A.M.S
Satisfaction or contentment is a distinct type of arithmetic. It’s all about how we have a look at ‘an excessive amount of’ and ‘too much less’ and the angle 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 would possibly fulfill our wants and it results in peace of thoughts and happiness.
My ‘an excessive amount of’ will 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 desires and wishes. Desires and wishes are associated to wishes. Want is said to our thoughts, senses and consciousness. We are able to practice ourselves in relation to regulate the wishes 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 follow and dedication to not deviate from that follow.
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 path.
Three issues to be glad with
संतोषस्त्रिषु कर्तव्यः स्वदारे भोजने धने।
त्रिषु चैव न कर्तव्योऽध्ययने जपदानयोः॥चाणक्य नीति ७.४।
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
Alternatively, Chanakya additionally mentions three issues for which one ought to by no means be glad or contended. There ought to be a relentless thirst to maintain doing them repeatedly and frequently since they’re blissful and wholesome habits.
Three issues to not be glad and contented with
One ought to by no means be glad with –
- Adhyayana – finding out, studying, data,
- 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 impression on complete body-mind-sensual-spiritual well being.
Three Issues one ought to all the time be glad with!
Swa Dhara – We’ve seen that the lust and attraction – kama – in the direction of one other girl aside from one’s spouse will result in infidelity points. That is additionally relevant for girls who’re interested in different males exterior marriage. One ought to know the distinction between significant love and meaningless lust.
Chanakya right here says that one should be trustworthy in the direction of their partner. Marriage is a ceremony which brings two folks, two hearts, two souls and two households collectively. All the things 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 is just not the answer for the chemistry gone flawed between {couples}.
Unfaithfulness results in divorces, separation, psychological and emotional trauma to each companions. It isn’t that the particular person might be pleased with the opposite girl. It was simply an attraction or diversion. Many might not know or have causes for not being trustworthy with their partner and being superb with the opposite particular person.
After marriage, a home turns into house. There’s nothing which can’t be sorted out inside 4 partitions. The love, care, affection, bonding and belief retains this establishment going sturdy. Infidelity takes its origin from discontentment and dissatisfaction, the explanations for which we have to work out. Completely satisfied properties are manufactured from blissful spouses.
A sense that ‘I would like to return house as a result of my life accomplice is ready for me’ is a priceless really feel. Behavior of this retains one mentally and emotionally blissful.
It’s also an recommendation to comply with Grihastha Dharma – duties and tasks of a household particular person, which is among the ashramas – section of lifetime of a person and in addition a dharma – righteous duty. Being loyal to at least one’s partner can be part of Sadvritta – circle of goodness and pathway for happiness.
Bhojana – Ahara or meals, in line with Ayurveda is one among the many trayopastambhas – three pillars of 1’s life. It’s a lifelong assist system and primary intuition of life, for each dwelling being. Meals is a blessing however it could possibly additionally turn out to be a curse whether it is consumed following flawed etiquettes. Ayurveda has detailed each facet of significant consuming which incorporates very best high quality, very best amount, very best time and place of consumption of meals, technique of consuming and associated guidelines and laws and issues that one would undergo on account of erratic and undisciplined consuming.
Meals ought to be taken to at least one third of 1’s capability is what Ayurveda advocates. That is the perfect amount and is totally different for various individuals. One ought to know this stuff to maintain oneself wholesome, match and blissful.
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 critical type of indigestion which is the foundation of many issues’.
That is true even these days. Individuals eat meals with out following the foundations and laws with respect to high quality, amount and time and consequently undergo from many issues.
Chanakya too has included bhojana – meals among the many components which one ought to be contended with and know the constraints for a similar.
Dhana – In keeping with Acharya Charaka ‘Dhana Eshana’ i.e. pursuit for wealth is among the three fundamental pursuits within the lifetime of an individual and a compulsory one too. Man is continually looking for wealth and the will is tempting and limitless. Dhana isn’t just wealth; it’s fame, glory, title 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 particular person is rarely glad. Chanakya says that we should be glad with no matter wealth we have now 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 might be harmful. Greed results in dissatisfaction and discontentment and this may rob us of our peace of thoughts. Materialistic longings can emotionally separate us from our family members or appeal to undesirable folks into our lives.
Artha – Incomes wealth and cash is among the Purusharthas i.e. 4 elementary targets 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 always monitor and have a management upon, earlier than it takes management over us. So, one ought to know the boundaries for incomes and accumulating wealth and supplies and study to attract the ‘strains of limitations and satisfaction’ for a similar. That is good for psychological and emotional well being.
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