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 constructive facet of our needs and needs or selections, dissatisfaction and discontentment mirror the unfavourable facet 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 vital and displays the constructive facet and constructive impression they’ve on us, our well being and happiness.
In certainly 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 religious 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 all the time 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 – learning, studying, data,
- 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 all the time be not happy with!
Adhyayana – Fixed learning and studying will improve our data, knowledge and abilities. There is no such thing as a finish or barrier for studying. There is no such thing as a age for studying. Learning will maintain us up to date with all issues taking place round us and it is 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 religious ranges. It is going to maintain us linked with the world and worldly affairs. Adhyayana will maintain our mind and its capabilities continuously activated and wholesome. It restores steadiness of prana vayu, sadhaka pitta and tarpaka kapha working in our mind.
It is going to additionally maintain the thoughts wholesome by maintaining the trigunas – sattva, rajas and tamas in a state of steadiness. One ought to by no means cease studying and by no means really feel happy. Data is an unlimited ocean. There’s something for everybody in it. It is dependent upon how lengthy and the way deep we want 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 learning and studying. It’s a course of which ought to maintain going all through one’s life. These getting happy with studying and learning have put a full cease for his or her development, improvement and evolution in life, in all elements.
Japa – Japa contains doing meditation whereas chanting repetitively. The chanting could be a stotra, mantra or simply ‘Aum’. It’s adopted in numerous religious traditions together with Hinduism, Sikhism, Buddhism and Jainism.
It’s not solely part of devotion, it additionally has a religious angle and is claimed to purify one’s thoughts, senses and ideas when achieved 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 religious consciousness and connects with the divine.
Japa might be achieved 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 religious 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 maintain doing as a observe and maintain improvising on it everyday, 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 freely giving 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 offer’. Dana isn’t just linked to how a lot you might have and the way a lot you may give. Having is particular person and it needn’t all the time have a giving half on the opposite facet. One may have and never give. It’s a acutely aware alternative to offer or to not give. However ‘to offer’ 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 observe. Some do it for atonement. It’s not improper. However this could ignite the hearth in them which might maintain 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 must 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 achieved. 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 needs from these on the receiving finish. Dana is a mirrored image of our contentment, satisfaction of getting sufficient, wanting to offer and the goodness a part of us. It is going to assist in one’s private, religious and social evolution and development. Dana can also 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 shouldn’t get happy with giving.
