Aayurveda – History & Philosophy
Aayurveda is an ancient system of life (Ayur) Knowledge (Veda) arising in India thousands of years ago.
Ayurveda theory evolved from a deep understanding of creation. The great rishis (or) seers of ancient India came to understand creation through deep understanding and other spiritual practices. The rishis sought to reveal the deepest truths of human physiology and health. They observed the fundamentals of life organized them into an elaborate system and compiled India’s Philosophical and spiritual texts called Veda of knowledge.
Ayurveda was first recorded in the Veda, the world’s oldest existing literature. The three most important Veda texts containing the original and complete knowledge of ayurveda, believed to be over 1200 years old, is still in use today. These ayurvedic teachings were customarily passed on orally from teacher to student for 1000 years. The wisdom of ayurveda is recorded in Sanskrit, the ancient language of India that reflects the philosophy behind ayurveda and the depth within it.
Ayurveda greatly influenced health care practices in the east and the west. By 400 AD ayurvedic works were translated into Chinese; by 700 AD Chinese scholars were studying medicine in Indiaat Nalanda University. Chinese medicine, herbology and buddhist philosophy were also impacted by ayurvedic knowledge.
The philosophy of ayurveda teaches a series of conceptual systems characterized by balance and disorder, health and disease. Disease/health results from the inter connectedness between the self, personality and everything that occurs in the mental, emotional and spiritual being. To be healthy, harmony must exist between the purpose for healing, thoughts, feelings and physical action.
Ayurveda is a careful integration of six important Indian philosophical systems, many physical/behavioral sciences and the medical arts. One verse from an ancient authority says ayurveda deals with what are good life and bad life, happiness and misery that which supports (or) destroys and the measurement of life.
It is central to ayurveda that the functioning of all creation, the minerals, plant and animal kingdoms, can be understood as the interactions of three fundamental energy complexes (erroneously called doshas). The three energies are VATA, PITTA and KAPHA. Signifying the dynamic (or) mobile energetic, non-material aspect of nature; the transformative, intelligence aspect and the structural, physical aspects respectively. VATA governs respiration, circulation, elimination, locomotion, movement, speech, creativity, enthusiasm and the entire nervous system.
PITTA governs transformations such as digestion and metabolism, vision, complexion, body temperature, courage, cheerfulness, intellection and discrimination.
KAPHA governs growth (anabolic processes), lubrication, fluid secretions, binding, potency, patience, heaviness, fluid balance, compassion and understanding in the organism. All have physical expressions in the body. In the human physiology these 3 energies tend to interact in a harmonious and compensatory way to govern and sustain life.
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