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 aware decisions. They can’t be generalized as a result of they imply various things for various people.
Whereas satisfaction or contentment exhibits the constructive aspect of our needs and needs or decisions, dissatisfaction and discontentment replicate the adverse aspect of our needs, thought course of, decisions and needs.
However many occasions, dissatisfaction, not being contented with and never reaching or experiencing the purpose of satiety can be necessary and displays the constructive aspect and constructive influence they’ve on us, our well being and happiness.
In certainly one of his quotes, Acharya Chanakya mentions three issues one should 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 robust influence 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
Alternatively, Chanakya additionally mentions three issues for which there ought to by no means be a degree of satisfaction, satiety or contentment. One ought to continuously have a thirst for these three issues talked about beneath.
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’ll restrict our dialogue to the second half of the verse which offers with ‘three issues to not be happy with’ and their influence 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 abilities. There isn’t a finish or barrier for studying. There isn’t a age for studying. Learning will maintain us up to date with all issues occurring round us and this can be a signal of development.
Adhyayana will get us the respect, title and fame we deserve. It helps in bringing maturity and evolution at psychological, sensual and non secular ranges. It’s going to maintain us related with the world and worldly affairs. Adhyayana will maintain our mind and its capabilities continuously activated and wholesome. It restores stability of prana vayu, sadhaka pitta and tarpaka kapha working in our mind.
It’s going to additionally maintain 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. Data is an enormous ocean. There’s something for everybody in it. It is determined by how lengthy and the way deep we need to discover it. It has no boundaries and we will additionally not strive 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 maintain 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 contains doing meditation whereas chanting repetitively. The chanting is usually a stotra, mantra or simply ‘Aum’. It’s adopted in numerous non secular traditions together with Hinduism, Sikhism, Buddhism and Jainism.
It isn’t solely part of devotion, it additionally has a non secular angle and is claimed to purify one’s thoughts, senses and ideas when finished 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 could be finished loudly. It may also be whispered or chanted mentally. It’s also mentioned 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 follow.
Chanakya mentions Japa as one of many issues which one ought to maintain doing as a follow and maintain improvising on it day after 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 giving freely 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 present’. Dana isn’t just related to how a lot you’ve and the way a lot you can provide. Having is particular person and it needn’t at all times have a giving half on the opposite aspect. One may have and never give. It’s a aware selection to present or to not give. However ‘to present’ is wholesome, noble and humane.
Dana has been an element and parcel of Hindu tradition and custom. It’s also an moral, noble, ethical and righteous follow. Some do it for atonement. It isn’t flawed. However this could ignite the hearth in them which might maintain 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 must be selfless. It’s a advantage which has immense worth when it naturally comes out of ourselves. Charity will not be deliberate. It’s simply finished. Dana has been talked about in Ayurveda additionally in numerous contexts. Dana bestows an unexplored and un-experienced form of satisfaction and bliss. It’s a good deed which might bestow many good issues on us. We might get again unsaid blessings and desires from these on the receiving finish. Dana is a mirrored image of our contentment, satisfaction of getting satisfactory, wanting to present and the goodness a part of us. It’s going to assist in one’s private, non secular and social evolution and development. Dana can be a dharma – righteousness and a pathway for moksha – salvation.
Chanakya says that there must be no drawn line of limitation for dana and one mustn’t get happy with giving.