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 selections. 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 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 necessary and displays the constructive aspect and constructive affect they’ve on us, our well being and happiness.
In one in all his quotes, Acharya Chanakya mentions three issues one must be glad and contented with of their life within the first line and three extra issues one shouldn’t be glad or contended with within the second line.
Associated Studying – ‘Three issues to be glad with’
On this article we will focus on the three issues which one shouldn’t be glad or contended with. These three issues have a powerful affect 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 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 there ought to by no means be some extent of satisfaction, satiety or contentment. One ought to always have a thirst for these three issues talked about under.
Three issues to not be glad and contented with
One ought to by no means be glad 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 glad with’ and their affect on complete body-mind-sensual-spiritual well being.
Three Issues one ought to all the time be not glad with!
Adhyayana – Fixed finding out and studying will improve our information, knowledge and expertise. There isn’t a finish or barrier for studying. There isn’t a age for studying. Learning will preserve us up to date with all issues occurring round us and it is 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 is going to preserve us related with the world and worldly affairs. Adhyayana will preserve our mind and its capabilities always activated and wholesome. It restores stability of prana vayu, sadhaka pitta and tarpaka kapha working in our mind.
It is going to 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 glad. Data is an unlimited ocean. There’s something for everybody in it. It relies on how lengthy and the way deep we want 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 glad with studying and finding out have put a full cease for his or her development, growth and evolution in life, in all points.
Japa – Japa contains doing meditation whereas chanting repetitively. The chanting is usually a stotra, mantra or simply ‘Aum’. It’s adopted in varied 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 executed 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 executed loudly. It may also be whispered or chanted mentally. Additionally it is 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 apply.
Chanakya mentions Japa as one of many issues which one ought to preserve doing as a apply and preserve improvising on it day after day, all through the life. One shouldn’t be contented with doing japa. The extra you’re, the extra you evolve as a human.
Dana – Dana means charity or making a gift of 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 got and the way a lot you can provide. Having is particular person and it needn’t all the time 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. Additionally it is an moral, noble, ethical and righteous apply. Some do it for atonement. It isn’t incorrect. However this could ignite the hearth in them which might preserve away or burn away the sins which might cause them to 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 isn’t deliberate. It’s simply executed. Dana has been talked about in Ayurveda additionally in varied contexts. Dana bestows an unexplored and un-experienced type of satisfaction and bliss. It’s a good deed which might bestow many good issues on us. We’d get again unsaid blessings and needs from these on the receiving finish. Dana is a mirrored image of our contentment, satisfaction of getting sufficient, wanting to present and the goodness a part of us. It is going to 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 glad with giving.
