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 decisions. They can’t be generalized as a result of they imply various things for various people.
Whereas satisfaction or contentment reveals the constructive facet of our desires and needs or decisions, dissatisfaction and discontentment replicate the destructive facet of our needs, thought course of, decisions 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 influence they’ve on us, our well being and happiness.
In one in every of his quotes, Acharya Chanakya mentions three issues one should 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 talk about the three issues which one shouldn’t be glad or contended with. These three issues have a powerful 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 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 a degree of satisfaction, satiety or contentment. One ought to continuously 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, 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 glad with’ and their influence 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 data, knowledge and expertise. There isn’t a finish or barrier for studying. There isn’t a age for studying. Finding out will preserve 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 non secular ranges. It should preserve us linked with the world and worldly affairs. Adhyayana will preserve our mind and its features continuously activated and wholesome. It restores steadiness of prana vayu, sadhaka pitta and tarpaka kapha working in our mind.
It should additionally preserve the thoughts wholesome by holding 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 glad. 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 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, improvement and evolution in life, in all features.
Japa – Japa contains doing meditation whereas chanting repetitively. The chanting generally is 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 completed 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 completed loudly. It can be whispered or chanted mentally. It is usually 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 observe.
Chanakya mentions Japa as one of many issues which one ought to preserve doing as a observe and preserve 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 gifting away one thing to the needy with none expectations or with out contemplating the fruits and advantages of the identical. Only a few folks have the ‘coronary heart to offer’. Dana is not only linked to how a lot you may have 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 facet. One could 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 is usually an moral, noble, ethical and righteous observe. 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 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 completed. 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 might get again unsaid blessings and needs from these on the receiving finish. Dana is a mirrored image of our contentment, satisfaction of getting ample, wanting to offer and the goodness a part of us. It should 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 must be no drawn line of limitation for dana and one shouldn’t get glad with giving.