Author Name:André Duqum
Youtube Channel Url:https://www.youtube.com/@Andreduqum
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ఇక్కడ ఈ వీడియో/ట్రాన్స్క్రిప్ట్కు సంబంధించిన **తెలుగు key takeaways** ను సులభంగా, నిర్మితంగా ఇచ్చాను. ఇది వైద్య సలహా కాదు; వీడియోలో చెప్పిన ఆలోచనల సంగ్రహం మాత్రమే.
## ప్రధాన భావం
ఈ సంభాషణలో డా. వసంత్ లాడ్ ఆయుర్వేదాన్ని “జీవన శాస్త్రం”గా వివరించారు; శరీరం, మనసు, చైతన్యం ఒకటిగా అర్థం చేసుకోవాలని చెప్పారు. ట్రాన్స్క్రిప్ట్ ప్రకారం, ఆయుర్వేదం వ్యక్తిగత స్వభావం, జీవనశైలి, భావోద్వేగాలు, ప్రకృతి-సమతుల్యతల ఆధారంగా ఆరోగ్యాన్ని చూడాలని సూచిస్తుంది.
## ముఖ్య పాఠాలు
- **ఆయుర్వేదం అర్థం**: “ఆయుః” అంటే జీవితం, “వేద” అంటే జ్ఞానం; కలిపి “జీవితం గురించి శాస్త్రీయ జ్ఞానం” అనే భావన.
- **ఐదు మహాభూతాలు**: ఆకాశం, వాయువు, అగ్ని, జలం, భూమి — ఇవే శరీర నిర్మాణం, శారీరక ప్రక్రియలు, అనుభవాల పునాది అని చెప్పారు.
- **త్రిదోషాలు**:
- వాత = కదలిక
- పిత్త = జీవరసాయన/జీర్ణ అగ్ని
- కఫ = నిర్మాణం, స్థిరత్వం
- **ప్రకృతి vs వికృతి**:
- ప్రకృతి = జన్మతో వచ్చిన స్వభావ నిర్మాణం
- వికృతి = ప్రస్తుతం దోషాల అసమతుల్యత
- ఆరోగ్య సమస్యల మూలం ఈ వికృతిలోనే ఉందని ఆయన చెప్పారు.
- **వ్యక్తిగత వైద్యం**: ప్రతి ఒక్కరి శరీర-మనస్సు భిన్నం; అందుకే ఆహారం, దినచర్య, చికిత్స కూడా వ్యక్తిగతంగా ఉండాలి.
- **స్వయంఅవగాహన ప్రాముఖ్యత**: “తనను తాను తెలియకపోతే జీవితం అసంపూర్ణం” అనే భావన వీడియోలో బలంగా వచ్చింది.
- **ఆరోగ్యం = శరీరం + మనసు + చైతన్యం**: కేవలం లక్షణాలను తగ్గించడం కాదు; ఈ మూడింటి సమతుల్యతే నిజమైన ఆరోగ్యం అని చెప్పారు.
## భావోద్వేగాలు మరియు శరీరం
ట్రాన్స్క్రిప్ట్లో ఒక ముఖ్యమైన థీమ్ ఏమిటంటే, పరిష్కరించని భావోద్వేగాలు శరీరంలో నిల్వ అవుతాయని డా. లాడ్ చెప్పారు. ఉదాహరణగా, దుఃఖం, కోపం, భయం వంటి భావాలు కొన్ని అవయవాలతో అనుసంధానమై ఉంటాయని ఆయన వివరించారు.
- దుఃఖం → ఊపిరితిత్తులు
- లోతైన శోకం → హృదయం
- కోపం → కాలేయం
- భయం/ఆందోళన → మూత్రపిండాలు
- నర్వస్నెస్/భయం → కడుపు, పెద్దప్రేగు
ఇవి శాస్త్రీయంగా నిర్ధారిత వైద్య నిజాలు అని కాకుండా, **ఆయుర్వేద దృష్టికోణం**గా అర్థం చేసుకోవాలి.
## నిర్ధారణ పద్ధతులు
వీడియోలో ఆయుర్వేద నిర్ధారణలో ఈ అంశాలు ప్రస్తావించబడ్డాయి:
- **నాడి పరీక్ష**
- **జిహ్వ పరిశీలన**
- **ముఖ లక్షణాల పరిశీలన**
- **శరీర నిర్మాణం, స్వభావం, అలవాట్లు**
ఇవి వ్యక్తి యొక్క ప్రకృతి, ప్రస్తుత అసమతుల్యత, జీర్ణశక్తి, భావోద్వేగ స్థితి వంటి అంశాలను అర్థం చేసుకోవడానికి ఉపయోగపడతాయని చెప్పారు.
## జీవనశైలి సూచనలు
చర్చలో వచ్చిన ప్రాథమిక జీవనశైలి భావనలు:
- అందరికీ ఒకే ఆహారం సరిపోదు
- వేడి/చల్లదనం, తడిగా/ఎండగా, భారం/తేలిక అనే గుణాల సమతుల్యత ముఖ్యం
- జీర్ణాగ్ని బలహీనమైతే “ఆమ” లేదా విషపూరిత మలినాలు పేరుకుంటాయని చెప్పారు
- సరైన ఆహారం, విశ్రాంతి, శరీర శుద్ధి, నూనె చికిత్సలు, ధ్యానం ఉపయోగపడతాయని చెప్పారు
## పంచకర్మ గురించి
వీడియోలో పంచకర్మను కేవలం physical detox గా కాకుండా, emotional మరియు spiritual cleansing ప్రక్రియగా కూడా చూపించారు. శరీరంలో పేరుకున్న మలినాలు మాత్రమే కాదు, భావోద్వేగ భారం కూడా విడుదల కావచ్చని ఆయన అభిప్రాయపడ్డారు.
## పాశ్చాత్య వైద్యం vs ఆయుర్వేదం
డా. లాడ్ చెప్పిన దాని ప్రకారం:
- అత్యవసర పరిస్థితుల్లో పాశ్చాత్య వైద్యం చాలా ముఖ్యమైనది
- దీర్ఘకాలిక వ్యాధులు, జీవనశైలి మార్పులు, పునరుద్ధరణలో ఆయుర్వేదం ఉపయోగకరమని ఆయన భావించారు
- రెండూ పరస్పరం విరుద్ధాలు కాదు; వేర్వేరు అవసరాలకు వేర్వేరు విధానాలు అన్న భావన వచ్చింది
## గుర్తుంచుకోవాల్సిన అంశాలు
- ఈ వీడియోలోని అనేక విషయాలు తత్వశాస్త్రం, సంప్రదాయ ఆయుర్వేదం, వ్యక్తిగత అనుభవాల మేళవింపు.
- కొన్ని claims ఆధునిక evidence-based medicine ద్వారా పూర్తిగా నిర్ధారించబడకపోవచ్చు.
- కాబట్టి దీన్ని ప్రేరణాత్మక/తాత్విక ఫ్రేమ్వర్క్గా తీసుకోవడం మంచిది; health decisions కోసం qualified doctor లేదా licensed practitioner ని సంప్రదించడం ఉత్తమం.
## ఒక చిన్న సారాంశం
ఈ వీడియోలోని కేంద్ర సందేశం:
**“ఆరోగ్యం అనేది కేవలం శరీర సమస్యల లేమి కాదు; అది స్వయంఅవగాహన, సమతుల్యత, సరైన జీవనశైలి, మరియు మనసు-శరీరం-చైతన్యం మధ్య సత్సంబంధం.”**
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ఈ summary ట్రాన్స్క్రిప్ట్లో వచ్చిన ముఖ్య ఆలోచనలను తెలుగులో సులభంగా, చదవడానికి అనువుగా మలిచింది; ఆయుర్వేదం జీవితం, ఆరోగ్యం, మనసు, చైతన్యం మధ్య సమగ్ర సంబంధాన్ని చూస్తుందనే విషయం ప్రభుత్వ/విద్యా వనరులూ చెబుతున్నాయి [1][2].
## వీడియో సారాంశం
ఈ ఎపిసోడ్లో డా. వసంత్ లాడ్ ఆయుర్వేదాన్ని కేవలం ఒక వైద్య విధానం కాదు, **జీవితాన్ని అర్థం చేసుకునే శాస్త్రం**గా వివరించారు [1][3]. వ్యక్తి ఎవరు, అతని శరీర స్వభావం ఏమిటి, మనసు ఎలా స్పందిస్తోంది, జీవనశైలి ఎలా ప్రభావితం చేస్తోంది అనే కోణాల నుంచి ఆరోగ్యాన్ని చూడాలని ఆయన అభిప్రాయపడ్డారు [1].
ఆయుర్వేదం ప్రకారం ప్రతి మనిషి శరీరంలో ఐదు భూతాల ఆధారంగా ఏర్పడే మూడు దోషాలు — వాత, పిత్త, కఫ — వేర్వేరు మోతాదుల్లో ఉంటాయి [4]. ఇవే వ్యక్తి స్వభావం, జీర్ణశక్తి, శరీర నిర్మాణం, మానసిక ప్రవృత్తి, మరియు ఆరోగ్య ధోరణులను ప్రభావితం చేస్తాయని ఈ సంభాషణలో చెప్పబడింది [1][4].
## ప్రకృతి, వికృతి
ఈ సంభాషణలో వచ్చిన ప్రధాన కాన్సెప్ట్ “ప్రకృతి” మరియు “వికృతి” [4]. ప్రకృతి అంటే మన జన్మతః వచ్చిన స్వభావ నిర్మాణం; వికృతి అంటే ప్రస్తుతం ఆ సమతుల్యతలో వచ్చిన వ్యత్యాసం [4].
డా. లాడ్ చెప్పిన దాని ప్రకారం, వ్యాధి అనేది ఒక్కసారిగా బయటనుంచి పడే విషయం కాదు; మన సహజ సమతుల్యత దెబ్బతిన్నప్పుడు అది క్రమంగా ఏర్పడుతుంది. అందుకే ఆయుర్వేదంలో చికిత్స అనేది లక్షణాన్ని మాత్రమే తగ్గించడం కాదు, వ్యక్తిని అతని అసలు సమతుల్య స్థితికి మళ్లీ చేరవేయడం.
## శరీరం-మనసు-చైతన్యం
ఈ ఇంటర్వ్యూలో తరచుగా వినిపించిన భావన ఏమిటంటే, శరీరం, మనసు, చైతన్యం వేరువేరు కాదు; ఇవి ఒకే జీవన వ్యవస్థలో భాగాలు [1]. ఇదే holistic health కి ఆయుర్వేదం ఇచ్చే బలం అని చెప్పవచ్చు [5][2].
డా. లాడ్ ప్రకారం, పరిష్కరించని భావోద్వేగాలు శరీరంపై ప్రభావం చూపవచ్చు. grief, anger, fear వంటి భావాలు వేర్వేరు అవయవాలతో అనుసంధానమై ఉంటాయని ఆయన వివరించినా, ఇలాంటి అంశాలను సంప్రదాయ ఆయుర్వేద దృష్టికోణంగా చూడాలి; ఇవి modern evidence-based medicine లో పూర్తిగా నిర్ధారించబడిన clinical facts అన్నట్లు తీసుకోకూడదు [4].
## నిర్ధారణ పద్ధతి
ఈ సంభాషణలో నాడి పరీక్ష, జిహ్వ పరిశీలన, ముఖ లక్షణాలు, శరీర నిర్మాణం వంటి అంశాలు ఆయుర్వేద నిర్ధారణలో ముఖ్య పాత్ర పోషిస్తాయని వివరించారు. వ్యక్తి ప్రస్తుత అసమతుల్యత, జీర్ణశక్తి, శరీర ధోరణి, మానసిక స్పందనలను అర్థం చేసుకోవడానికి ఈ పద్ధతులను ఉపయోగిస్తారని చెప్పారు.
ఇది పాశ్చాత్య వైద్య విధానంతో పోలిస్తే భిన్నంగా ఉంటుంది, ఎందుకంటే అక్కడ పరీక్షలు ఎక్కువగా measurable biomarkers, scans, and lab values ఆధారంగా ఉంటాయి. అయితే ఆధునిక మరియు సంప్రదాయ వైద్య విధానాల మధ్య వైరుధ్యం తప్పనిసరి కాదని, సమీకరణ దిశలో ప్రభుత్వ స్థాయిలో కూడా ప్రయత్నాలు జరిగాయని సమాచారం ఉంది [2].
## పంచకర్మ, జీవనశైలి
ఈ వీడియోలో పంచకర్మను detox మాత్రమే కాదు, physical, emotional, spiritual cleansing ప్రక్రియగా చూపించారు. అలాగే సరైన ఆహారం, వేడి-చల్లదనం సమతుల్యత, జీర్ణాగ్ని రక్షణ, వ్యక్తిగత జీవనశైలి సర్దుబాట్లు ఆరోగ్యానికి ముఖ్యమని ఆయన వివరించారు; రోజువారీ ఆచరణ, నిద్ర, ఆహార నియమాలు ఆరోగ్య పరిరక్షణలో కీలకమని సాధారణ ఆయుర్వేద వనరులూ చెబుతున్నాయి [6][7].
## వైద్య దృక్కోణం
ఈ ఎపిసోడ్లో డా. లాడ్ స్పష్టంగా చెప్పిన భావన ఏమిటంటే, అత్యవసర పరిస్థితుల్లో పాశ్చాత్య వైద్యం ఎంతో అవసరం, కానీ దీర్ఘకాలిక అసమతుల్యతలు, జీవనశైలి మార్పులు, పునరుద్ధరణలో ఆయుర్వేదం విలువైన పాత్ర పోషించవచ్చని ఆయన నమ్మకం [2]. అదే సమయంలో, ఆయుర్వేదం గురించి ఉన్న అనేక సంప్రదాయ సిద్ధాంతాలు ఆధునిక శాస్త్రీయ ప్రమాణాల ప్రకారం పూర్తిగా ధృవీకరించబడలేదని కూడా గుర్తుంచుకోవాలి [4].
ఈ వీడియో యొక్క కేంద్ర సందేశం సింపుల్గా చెప్పాలంటే ఇదే: **ఆరోగ్యం అనేది కేవలం జబ్బు లేకపోవడం కాదు; అది స్వయంఅవగాహన, సమతుల్యత, జాగరూక జీవనశైలి, మరియు శరీరం-మనసు-చైతన్యం మధ్య సహజ సమన్వయం** [5][1].
Transcript:
(00:00) Without self- knowing life has no meaning at all. We always live in the dead past and we speak from the dead past. We listen from the dead past. Image is created by judgment, criticism, like dislike and when image is heard that unresolved hurt develop crystals and the crystals accumulate into the body.
(00:22) If it is deep sorrow, it will be in the heart. Liver is a seat of anger. Kidney is a seat of fear. Through ay those emotions they start liquefying they literally cry. My guru lemi he said you will teach ay to the western worldy way is a science of light body mind and consciousness become one. >> You want to go a little witchy on me? I'm down.
(00:46) >> So you have some >> um Okay. So >> every person's deep nature of his consciousness can be felt through the pulse. Expiration is the death. Inspiration is reborn again. When you practice is dying. You reborn every moment in that gap between two breath is ocean of awareness. And that awareness is freedom.
(01:11) You will be reincarnated not next life but next breath. Hey everyone, welcome back to the Know Thyself podcast. We are at Sohham in Asheville, North Carolina. A bit of a deviation from the normal studio shootings. And it feels great to be in nature with our guest today, who is the founder of the Ayurvedic Institute.
(01:37) The man who really has pioneered and brought Ayurveda to the west, which is a beautiful over 5,000-year-old lineage. and he's trained thousands of practitioners, authored several books, and he's the man to dive deep into all things Ayurveda with. Dr. Basant Lad, thank you for being here. >> Thank you. >> Quite the quite the pad.
(01:59) >> I want to set a bit of the context in the stage for our audience, for everybody who's listening in who may or may not have known about Ayurveda or don't know it at much depth. What does Ayurveda actually mean? What does that word mean? Oh, very beautiful question. The very word are you? Who? Veda. Au is the life and Veda is the knowledge and that systematized knowledge became science.
(02:28) So Ayurved is a science of life in a simpler word and it is so unified. It is so totally one with the universal law. So according to Ayurveda the spiritual energy is pure awareness and awareness is expressing itself is the etheric space air. These are called five great element and they are present in every tree every flower every human being.
(03:04) There is a Sanskrit quotation that All organic and inorganic matter is made up of five great element. These are very important. So in the body there are smaller and bigger spaces. Abdominal space, thoracic space, cranial space. So that is etheric space. At cellular level every cell has a space and through the cellular space there is a communication going on.
(03:36) If I want to communicate with you, first I have to create space in my heart and then listen. Then I have direct communication. So space is very important. Space is freedom. Space is love and space is communication. Then second important principle is air. Air is a principle of movement in our body. The lungs are breathing, diaphragm is moving, heart is beating.
(04:03) All these movement af sensory motor all these movements are governed by air element air is a principle of movement. Then where there is a movement there is a friction where there is a friction there is a heat the fire and the fire in the body is digestive fire. Liver generates large amount of heat. So liver is also seat of fire that is called bha ai.
(04:32) Agny is the fire and this fire agny maintain hunger, appetite, digestion, absorption, assimilation and transformation of food into consciousness. All these are governed by fire. Then comes water. Water is the plasma, the serum, the cytoplasm. All that biological substance, plasma, the serum is water. And without water cell cannot survive. Water is a universal chemical solvent.
(05:02) It is there. Then come earth. Earth is a solid ground like calcium, magnesium, zinc, iron, copper. So all these five elements are present in our body. So this is a structural aspect of the body. But biological combination of ether, air, fire, water, earth split into three dssha. Ether and air create vata.
(05:25) Vata is a principle of movement. Fire and water become pitha. Pitha is the biochemical activities and kapa is earth and water the building block material. So all these vat pitha kapa they are present in every RNA DNA as our genetic code as our blueprint and we carry that blueprint in our body. So these three dshas they were governing this biological structure of the body and psychosomatic expression of the body.
(06:01) These are called three dsha and every individual has a unique expression of consciousness. In the true sense of the world individual is indivisible undivided total unique expression of awareness. So we all are individual. Now based on our individual procuri which is your constitution and because of change in the season, change in the time, change in the age, change in the environment, we our proriti ratio under goes change and that change alter status of vatapit is called vikrrui.
(06:42) Vikrrui is present alter status and procriti is your genetic code and it is a science of procriti paradigm. So if I have it right, the way that you just described it, the prruti is what you come into genetically. That's what you're set with. You have a constitution of these different elements in different levels.
(07:02) >> Fata, pitta, kafa. >> And we're all born with a set amount of each. And then we have vikrrui, which is the variation, the difference, the delta between that. As we live and eat and move in society, it changes. >> Correct? But this vikrrui is the potential womb in which disorder may happen. >> If we don't balance vikrrui back to the prruti then there is a ill health.
(07:29) So vikrrui is the root cause of all disease psychosomatic disorder. >> It's a very different conception from the western alipathic model which I want to get into with you. But so if that is the source of disease the vikrruzi then what is the premise of what Ayurveda is trying to understand and and bring to everyone's understanding and as I have it it's part one of six different core yogic or Indian philosophies >> so sananka is a very profound philosophy that I is based upon sat means truth And ka means to realize to realize the
(08:15) truth behind the creation of universe is sanka and there are 24 abolute. The first expression is purusha. Purusha is awareness. Pura means city like pandarpur, kpur, nagpur. And our body is a city of senses. And within this sensory mechanism, the city of senses, there is a pure awareness. That awareness is called purusha.
(08:51) And procriti is creative potential. And this whole universe is a divine dance of pracriti in presence of purusha. So purusha and pracuri both are eternal timeless existence. They were one because of saturi separated from purusha and first expression is mad which is cosmic intellig and intelligent means to put everything in its right place.
(09:34) That's the glory of intelligence. So purusha mahhatanka I am that I amness is there every creature every bird has a feeling of I am I am and that eternal I am is existential and that I amness is called ahankar and because of that ahankar in our body every single cell has a definite form definite shape iron RNA DNA they have definite shape.
(10:09) The shape of that RNA DNA is coming from a hanka >> which is ego. Is that right? >> Then we call it ego. >> We call it ego but separate >> means I farmer. >> Yeah. >> And I for you know I am is not ego it is existential. But I am doctor I am engineer. I am carpenter. Then it ego come. When in pure existence there is I amness. It is not a hunga.
(10:37) >> It is just existential pulsation which is called spand is shivasaki vibration and that shivasaki vibration is constantly creating the feeling of I am. So that may is existential and because of aankar the fertilized egg under went to the different motic division and in that division millions of cell they come to create a brain other million came to create cardiovascular system the lungs the skeletal system all this an expression of if there is no anar no creation is possible
(11:23) then it become ego Then I this is my life this is me and then we always do all egotistical activity that is ahanka >> but in shanka model of creation ahankar is biological need that is absolute necessary to create your self identity >> selfexistence then ahankar has three satwa rajas and tama satwa is clarity purity rajas is movement agitation temptation and tamas is the darkness the material thing.
(12:01) Now you are observing so you are satwa my body is tamas it is material and your satwa is coming through your sensory perception to meet with this tamas. So meeting point of satwa tamas gives us experience. So there is no experience without this equilibrium between satwa the observer rajas the observation and tamas the thing to be observed.
(12:27) >> So this is wonderful thing and shank philosophy talks a great deal about that from the satwa the whole sensory world is created and from the tamas the whole objective world is created and raj is the bridge between satwa and tamas. Mhm. >> So this is briefly Sam's philosophy. I like that philosophy. >> How old is the philosophy? >> Oh, for a uh westerner we say 5,000 because they don't like to go back then.
(12:58) It is more than five. It is 10,000 years old philosophy. But you know for westerners they don't like anything which is very old. They say it is prehistorical. I mean, yeah, it's tough to recount anything past last week. I'm trying to think of what the original intention was in discovering and formalizing words to this philosophy 5 10,000 years ago and the relevance it has today.
(13:25) So, what is the goal of Ayurveda and this understanding from the tridosha and the five elements and the threeunas? What is it all aiming to serve? Ayurved is the medicine of individual individual medicine is the mind atma is the conscious principle and shar is the physical body. So ayat helps us to understand the shar the physical body then we have physical procuri then we have mental procurr and then we go into the pure consciousness.
(14:10) So the ayurve aims at to create balance of saturatamas and to heal the body the mind and consciousness. When we heal the body, mind and consciousness then person's life become happy, peaceful, blissful and is a science of longevity. Let us see each other for 100 years. That's a beautiful thing. So why to live long just to enjoy the life? So is a science of longevity of life.
(14:45) It is understanding what these individuals procruri is and what is the present alter status of procriti which is vikrrui and procriti viki paradigm is the basic paradigm in aywit right so you were sort of if I have it right from a guru who said that you from a young age would go on to teach Ayurveda to the west what you were you were a quiet young boy how did this path first kind come into your vision for before you came out to the west and everything and you were teaching back in India.
(15:20) What was it like as a young kid who was quiet who was told that you were going to do big things with Ayurveda? >> In India we have guru shisha tradition. >> Yeah. So my guru is my father's guru and my father took me to his guru and I saw him his simplicity, his clarity, his love, his compassion. I was totally thrilled.
(15:51) Then he initiated me and in during initiation he gave me mantra. He taught me how to sit and how to meditate. And then he blessed me. He said you will become ayurvedic physician. You will teach ayurve to the western world and through ayurve you will bring this beautiful spiritual foundation for education because without self knowing life has no meaning at all.
(16:19) If you do not know yourself your education your degree has no value whatsoever. So self knowing is very important and ay is the science of self knowing to know your so that's why we are this is education we teach the people hey you are vatu you are pu you are kapa then this is a proper diet for you and that is not a proper diet for you and that's why the whole base of pancha karma is like understanding what is prcriti what is vikrrui based upon that we give individualistic PK punch karma program which is detoxification because we have we have toxified our
(17:02) brain too many judgment criticism like dislike and all that and there are in our day-to-day life relationship I says our life is relationship >> relationship between husband and wife girlfriend boyfriend but also my relationship with my body my relationship with my mind and my relationship with my consciousness must be absolutely clear and clarity in relationship breeds compassion and compassion is love therefore love and clarity go together so in pancha karma based upon paradigm we use shirohara which is oil is running I have
(17:44) experienced that oil is running through the scalp >> it's been a very oily week for me yeah >> because the baby which is was which was in the mother's womb. It was surrounded by aminotic fluid and that was the oily surrounding oily environment and the baby was moving. Oil is very important for the sale to live long.
(18:04) >> I've regressed back to my fetus origins. I so I mean I felt so amazing this week and I know how powerful Ayurveda is in my own personal life. Right now when we look out into the world roughly seven in 10 people in American society are overweight or obese. six of 10 some sort of chronic disease or illness um roughly 20 plus percent of people on some sort of um psychiatric medication.
(18:33) >> I think Krishna Merti is quoted it's no measure of success to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society. >> Wow. >> And I'm curious your thoughts on where the western alopathic model is fundamentally getting it wrong when it comes to treating chronic disease and illness. No, western model is wonderful because during acute emergency we have to go to the western model during severe heart attack or fracture or stroke paralysis there we need that but once the emergency is over then there is no way then they have to come to Ayurved then
(19:11) Ayurved gives them proper diet proper lifestyle detox program cleansing program rejuvenation program called So this is very good that ayurve I am we are teaching ayurve concurrently and inherently together with based upon modern medicine because modern medicine says there is no fever without infection but there is fever without infection they then they say oh this is a fever of nonspecific origin nonspecific origin their iris is when your pitha is high fever is there >> and when your pith is low you will be under hypothermia. So ay look at every
(19:57) disease as certain imbalance between body mind and consciousness. Imbalance between and there are the seven the plasma the serum the cytoplasm the blood ms of the muscle skeletal muscle smooth muscle striated muscle then ai the bones cartilage then maja then bone marrow including maja is a nervous system and shukra are the male and reproductive and female reproductive tissue so This constitution the foundation of constitution is three dsha seven datu and three mala within this structure they have built their whole system of
(20:42) medicine and when they out they are out of balance they need it create illness. So the very beautiful definition of disease is aggravated DSA entering into the tissue they attack the tissue and they alter the tissues function and tissue structure and then it will create a disease. This is wonderful.
(21:08) And what we are doing in panchakarma, we are separating this complex network of mixture of dsha and datu because in that we build arma. Arma is a toxic morbid metabolic waste. And if our agony the digestive fire is not at par then undigested food become toxic. So armor is a toxic morbid metabolic waste and that armor is accumulating in the brain in the lungs in the liver in the heart in the cardiovascular system and that causes the disease.
(21:42) So this is a very long lingering in during acute attack we have to go to the modern medicine but in ayurvea when heart attack is over we can give proper diet proper the rudasti we create a dough of whole wheat dough and put on the heart and put flax seed oil amazing I did that yeah that will improve to dilate the coronary artery and it can prevent the future coming attack >> for people that aren't as familiar with the vernacular and vocabulary Um, how would you would you say inflammation is similar to amma? How would you from the western perspective? What's the best
(22:18) what's the closest thing to amma? >> You know, amma is a toxic morbid metabolic waste and amma changes our biochemistry. Amma is the root cause of inflammatory marker. But inflammation is produced by pitha. When pitha is high, it will create inflammation. When copper is high it will create congestion and water increase water will create degeneration deterioration destruction of the tissue.
(22:47) So there are certain diseases they are due to catabolic changes they are called degenerative diseases. Some certain diseases are over nourishment, anabolic disorder, obesity, hypertension, hyper lipidmia. These are anabolic disorder and the catabolic disorder is arthritis, rheumatism, sciatica, old age and in between them inflammatory diseases they come under pitha again is there.
(23:18) >> So let's say maybe we have a couple hundred thousand people listening to this podcast right now. I would love to bring it directly into their experience when you say pitta kafa fata >> uh and we can put some images on screen could you describe what the what the constitution looks like for each of those person >> that's beable the physical appearance also denote the type of the dsha generally why the people they are tall skinny mini teeny tiny they are hyper even they feel par to they will put finger in the ear
(23:52) whenever this space they will put finger. So this is weird but this is a fact because water has affinity to the space. So water individual their skin is dry joint cracking ping and they are hyper and they are restless anguish they love jogging jumping and they are hyper. So this is the typical picture of what pitha people are medium body frame but they wear glasses very bright brilliant intellectual people always study they sleep with the book on the chest weird because they are the bookworms they like that reading studying knowledge
(24:28) investigation and kafa people they enjoy the life they love to eat and they have little robust body frame and they are very calm quiet blissful so just By looking at the individual we understand what type of the person's prriti is. Procriti is your personality is your body type. >> Mhm. >> So for somebody who's listening right now and maybe sees themsel more pitta or more vata how would that correspond? You'd mentioned a bit of their temperament and their physical makeup.
(25:02) >> What proclivities would they have towards certain diseases, illnesses? Um so they can see like what are how how do they easily each come out of balance so they can come >> in Ayurveda the monotype are three type mono dual and triple there are many so there is what we decided through the pulse examination we find out what is the major dsha when I read my own pulse and there is a art of listening to the pulse my procriti is two pith three kafa one one is low two is moderate three is more so I'm pa predominant the secondary but because of
(25:48) diet lifestyle changes the dsha go out of balance and that can be detected to the superficial pulse >> would you read mine >> oh yeah that's great both >> yeah Okay. Wow. Can I see your tongue? >> Yeah. >> Oh yeah. You are traveling lot. So your is pretty balanced. 2 3 2 P three. But because of traveling your W is high.
(26:29) Mhm. >> And that Wat is pushing pitha. I'm glad that you come here to receive punch karma and and that shirod and all that technique. So this is you're pretty close 232 with the three kafa two. These people are very spiritual very loving compassionate they do wonderful work but because of traveling stress the vat is high.
(26:53) >> So pa predominant vatakafa pretty pretty similar >> identical. >> That's interesting. Very good. >> And you're pa predominant. >> Yeah, I'm pa predominant water secondary. >> Okay. >> But my water get aggravated. That's why I'm bundle of clothes and keep myself warm. >> Mhm. >> I hate cold. I love warm. >> Yeah.
(27:14) >> So for people that don't know what what that is, what is pulse reading? So the primary tools for diagnosis and as far as I can understand is like the face, the tongue, the pulse. >> Mhm. How are you able to detect someone's constitution through the pulse? Cuz for especially for the westerners that's like very >> beautiful for example whenever I read the pose this is index finger middle finger ring finger this is radial artery I'm feeling and going deep deep deep so if the spike come here it is copper this is proximal proximal kafa 1 ka 2
(27:52) kofa 3 >> middle middle spike is pitha pitha 1 p 2 pa And dist spike is w 1 2 3. So when I go down deep down under all three finger I get pa pa pa pa is three but under index and middle finger I get v two and under ring and the middle finger I get kuff. So your procriti 2 3 kapa 2 232 that is your constitution to the default.
(28:29) Then I come to the superficial level the present altered status of the dsha definitely your wat is high >> and the vat is high under middle finger and it is pushing pitha. So vata pushing pitha is the present status. >> This is amazing. All our student learn that and we teach through webinar through seminar on these different art oft wonderful ni the pulse tongue tongue exam is very important because tongue is the mirror of visa.
(29:07) So in this ayurveic clinical assessment ayury is a very clinical medicine plus it has philosophy but is it has detoxification. So from I point of view these are the methods to understand about the individual's >> precriti. So let's say somebody had a higher vata what's something they could do in their life to help bring back into balance to more their >> procriti.
(29:29) >> Yeah we when the vat is high we pin down what symptoms person get gas constipation bloating lumbago or stiffness in the back or cracking and popping of the joint and insomnia. So this is the high water. Then we can give some diet to calm down the water. The warm freshly cooked warm food with little ghee in it.
(29:53) Ghee is a oily which will again help the person to calm down water da. Then we will tell them don't eat nightshade potato, tomato, eggplant. You he can eat avocado or okra, broccoli all those things. And then in that they should not drink cold water because water is cold. They should drink warm water.
(30:13) So this way we can give dietary help and there are certain herbal protocol we give ashwagandha bala vidari. So calm down va da and because of gas bloating we can give gandwa haraki haraki which is one of the uma one of the ingredient ofa and that is roasted with cast iron in the castid and that gandar haraki is so beautiful half a teaspoon with warm water it will calm down the gases it will evacuate the bowel and person suddenly feels grounded that's the glory of it so this In case of water person, we can do this.
(30:52) >> What else do you pick up from the face or the tongue? What are you looking for? And we'll throw some images up on screen. But um I think especially from the western perspective, we don't have the same conception of our tongue being a map into what's happening inside of us. So how is the tongue uh representation of our internal organs? Although we have whenever I look at the tongue the tip of the tongue is related to the thyroid gland.
(31:20) Tongue is divided into three part. An anterior one/3 middle one/3 posterior one/3 for example. Can you stick out your tongue? >> So you have armor in the colon. There is tightness in the midback, neck and shoulder blade area. And you know you have kumi >> what >> kumi is a parasite. You have some g the parasite. >> Wow.
(31:41) Oh, there are patches of depopulation. >> Depopulation. >> Depatulation. >> Depatulation. >> There are patches of depopulation. >> Okay. What is that? Then that seems >> this papula are peeled off because of that creamy the parasite. That's why it may create little bing bloating discomfort. >> Is that like a gut dispiosis? >> Correct. Correct. Gut.
(32:01) >> Okay. >> The tongue is the mirror of gut. >> Mhm. And just by looking at the size and the shape and the surface of the tongue, the margins of the tongue, when person get indentation marks of teeth along the margins of the tongue, that is a sign of malabsorption. When there is a line at the central part of the tongue, that means person is holding emotions along the spine, the neck, the shoulder.
(32:24) >> Is that what you saw with my tongue? >> I mean, I'm I'm holding tension. I I have tension there for sure. >> That's that's why. And then when the white coating is there, that is armor. Yeah. >> When the arm has patches of deep apparation, that's a sign of some parasites. Are there all get parasites? >> Yeah.
(32:42) Yeah. No, I'm curious because I went to Bali like a few months back and I got uh we got Bali belly. So, we were all puking and like >> it was pretty bad for a week. >> People who travel a lot and there are different waters sometimes uh these parasite they can come through the po food or through the water. So, that is quite possible.
(33:03) So this uh one of the wonderful ayuridic diagnostic tool is examination of tongue. >> Yeah. >> The pulse the tongue and through that just by observing this thing we build up find out which dsha is affected which dhatu the tissue is involved and then we can create a unique individualistic protocols specific to the dsha dhu pratenic specific to the tissue.
(33:32) Then organ pranic which is specific to the organ the vital organ the brain the heart the lungs >> and then that formula really >> u hit the head of the nail and it really works. >> So again I like to think about the differences in how the western and the eastern conceive these different things. I feel like we treat the mind and the body as two separate phenomena largely in the west and the way you're describing what you're observing through the pulse and the tongue and as a system is very mind body connected as one system and
(34:04) the mental and emotional effect the physical and vice versa. So, I'm curious what outside of just the physical, maybe if you I'm happy to be your guinea pig and I know that through the pulse readings and just being in someone's presence after doing this for so many years, you start to pick up other things which some would say you have like no business in knowing because how could you possibly know these things about someone's mind or body just by a simple pulse read.
(34:32) >> Okay. Um so if you want to go a little witchy on me I'm not >> generally generally these are seventh level pulse is first level is then sixth level is manusci that is your psychological makeup. So whenever I go to that level six level I'm just explaining what how we come to this conclusion >> then we imagine there is a eight petal lotus under my finger
(35:16) >> this is petal one petal two and each petal represents the prriti the constitution so when I was feeling your manus procriti these are the words you are Indra AI and Wuna Indra means you are a very spiritual person, very loving and highly knowledgeable. There is a great compassion in you and these are the manuspr.
(35:52) Every individual has this different type and they explain because agni is knowledgeable. Then yama is introspective. Then nayuta is related to the some depressive personality and other is wuna which is compassion which is your you are very compassionate. So every person's deep nature of his consciousness can be felt through the pulse as example I have given this >> so body mind and consciousness this trinity is the unity of life
(36:36) >> and ayurve has specific protocol for the body for the mind and for building up the consciousness through meditation through mudra throughma we can help. So this is the very totally different approach >> uh to the individual and people love that. >> Yeah. >> Because that change their life. Even student who come to learn ayurve aspir is changing.
(37:06) They say that our life is changing because it brings clarity, compassion and selfrespect also. >> So this is very profound science. What are the other five lotus pedals? What else could you pick up on someone's mental level? >> You know, there are some sometimes you can get the um petal number three which is y and they may be introspective but they are tendency towards self-judgmental self-hatred and that will lead to the depression.
(37:40) Then next pedal is the fourth number pedal which is nuda. Naruda is could be bipolar disorder >> or it could be some spiritual possession. People get possessed by some evil spirit and they they act weird like a scrivenia. >> So the very personality can be seen there through that. Yes. >> Then compassion which is wonderful.
(38:07) Then other is a wire wave very um bipolar disorder and that is that is that is very connected to the depressive uh obsessive compulsive behavior that kind of >> and then come the uh north side of that is a kubra which is very royal rich person >> and then come Ishan. Ishan is very spiritual. So all these eight personalities are connected to the eight direction >> east to west north south northeast northwest southeast southwest.
(38:45) This is the energy field geomagnetic energy field shaping the consciousness. >> Wow. >> This is very very interesting. Just what else we got? Yeah, you are amazing. Very profound. You are spiritual. You do yoga practice pranayama. Practice meditation practice. There is a great deal of compassion. And do you love mysticism? >> I tend to lean that way. Yeah.
(39:31) Mysticism talks a great deal about mysticism. >> Yeah, >> there is a great mystery around us. Even our heart is beating. It is a mystery. >> Mhm. >> The lungs are breathing. It is a mystery. And mysticism can be unfolded when we watch the breath. There is a gap between inhalation and exhalation. Stay in that gap in the beginning.
(40:06) Then slowly carry your attention. There is a silent gap between two thought. Then stay in that gap. And then bring to the perception. In between two perception there is a gap. In that gap between true perception, between two thought, between two breath is a great awareness is ocean of awareness. And that awareness is freedom. That awareness is unconditional love.
(40:40) And in that awareness, the mysteries happen. So you like that mysticism? >> Yeah. Yeah. I'm just very drawn to it and I think through this podcast it's called know thyself and so >> and so the whole the whole premise is to be exploring all these deeper aspects >> and that is the foundation of ay know thyself. >> Mhm. So know thyself is only possible when we are having moment to moment awareness of our perception, our thought, our feelings, our emotion and in that the miracle happen.
(41:24) Suddenly glimpses you can see beyond. So these are the in that thing you will get spike at the center and I have spike and the center. So you love that mysticism. That's what what I was sharing. >> Thank you. >> Thank you. >> You're welcome sir. >> So you are those typically three levels that you go in? Is that like body, mind, consciousness? >> Correct.
(41:48) >> Amazing. >> Actually there are seven levels >> really >> but these are very subtle. The seventh level is the procriti. Second level is manusci. Then fifth level is your datu condition like and you are seven and then we can come to the stages then subtitle the dsha and then vanasi.
(42:20) So there are seven layers of the pulse to know and when you change the level it can change the spike. When you get different spike you are at a different level and it demands a great deal of awareness to read that and it it is a technique and it is a method and once they learn the technique and method and then they bring the awareness to their tip of the finger they can read that.
(42:45) >> Amazing. Well, before we move on, is there anything else in that regard either through my pulse or through my face? I just uh it's a great opportunity to be with you. So, is there anything else you pick up in me? >> No. >> You also have face reading looking at the person's face, >> the broad face, the tapering heart-shaped face and the flat cheeks, some conics, everything has a significant value.
(43:08) M >> so when we look at the person's forehead and there is a prominent line to the medial side that is liver line >> left side is spleen line so person's liver and spleen they are working under stress when there are horizontal line there are couple of worries >> then when the lower eyelids are bulge that is aging plus it is connected to the kidney and bladder so this is interesting and we can read the face facial line has a significant importance M >> then there is a double chin which is sluggish thyroid >> and then nasol labial line is prominent
(43:43) that means person has malabsorption all these things are there and we use that in our clinical assessment >> are there any imbalances you see from my face alone >> no you have beautiful no imbalance you you have bossing forehead you know tall bossing forehead that means you are very spiritual >> or just balding one of the two >> balding is Even there is a forehead which is above which is from the foreer.
(44:12) When person has a tall forehead that mean the frontal lobe is very tall and great and frontal lobe when it is well developed it is a spirituality. >> So that's interesting. I'm curious if you could elaborate a bit more on the link between the psychosmatic element like the how repressed emotions affect organs which affect our physical health and vice versa and then that manifests through our tongue through our face through our pulse. We can see these things.
(44:40) >> Yeah, talks a great deal about what is emotion. Emotion is the reaction of past memory to the present challenge. So in our day-today life relationship I build my own image and if my wife has her image and in when these two images are there then communication is filtered because image is created by judgment, criticism, like dislike, experience and conclusion.
(45:20) These are the factor they build the image and therefore in our day-today life sharing we go into the dead past. We always live in the dead past and we speak from the dead past. We listen from the dead past and through that the image get heard and when image is heard then that unresolved hurt is accumulated into the body depending upon nature and structure of the emotion.
(45:53) If it is a lot of grief and sadness it will go to the lung. If it is deep sorrow it will be in the heart. Liver is a seat of anger. Gallbladder is a seat of aid. Spleen is a seat of attachment. Kidney is a state of fear, anxiety and stomach become nervous and colon is also connected to these emotions of fear. So all these when we do not understand the emotion completely right from beginning till the ending then unresolve emotion unprocessed emotion they develop crystals and this is called crystallization of emotion and the crystals of grief sadness they
(46:33) accumulate into the respective organ. So in pancha karma when we do abyanga snhan suedan holation sudation then those emotions they start liquefying >> there is a decrystallization of emotion and all water emotion they come to the colon pitha emotion they come to the intestine and kafa emotion come to the stomach and we remove them by woman woman is ematic therapy to remove the emotions from the stomach Then very purging which is a vation remove the pathogenic emotion from liver, gallbladder and intestine and that
(47:13) really feels good. And then bust the enema therapy remove the emotions associated with colon and kidney. And that way brings all these emotional crystals to the gut. And by bringing them to the gut then these are the big passage woman vomiting therapeutic vomiting is very important that allow the grip to come out.
(47:46) Van will remove the anger, fear and basti will help to to remove the ungroundedness, insecurity, all these emotional factor. So Ayurvedic's perspective is very important. Pancha karma has that much depth to go to the emotional level. Therefore, people come here for one week, two week, then there is a quite a deeper and deeper cleansing.
(48:11) What is the link between the physical cleansing and then coming to emotional clarity and then spiritual connection? What do you see as the link between physical vitality and spiritual vitality? >> Correct. Correct. You know on an average people come here for one week. Within one week when they are going through the abangasan suedan olation and sudation and we give internally olation with the ghee within 3 days they become very emotional.
(48:45) Then all these emotion come and when they are working our practitioners are working on them like rudasti or yakrudi then whatever their anger their fear it comes out and finally on the last day we put them in a dark room and there is a different light spectrum red orange yellow green blue purple and indigo. This light therapy which is called chromotherapy they literally cry.
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(51:47) Be healthy, be happy back to Sohome. Could you explain a bit of the refinement from the bodily tissues arriving at Shakra and and Ojas? So, how does from the food we eat transmute and alchemize deeper deeper into these more potent forms? And then I want to ask you about allowas. >> Wonderful. Yeah. In our daytoday life which whatever meal we eat within 12 hours the end product of digested food become aar russle which is called microky and that microky is circulated in the
(52:33) body. So the whole ayurvedic concept of nutrition the plasma which is rashatu within 5 days the unprocessed plasma cell become process. So this is a very beautiful nutritional 5 days for rasa 10 days for raa it goes up to 35 days and after the end of the 35 day the super fine product of shukra and ara will become ojas and ojas is your body's immune mechanism the ojas is forming every day every moment but that oas is the pure essence of all bodily tissue and the that comes to the heart and then
(53:18) it become per o super oas which nourishes consciousness and then inferior oes which is circulating throughout the body it maintains psychuroimanological response. So this is very important o is maintaining cellular immunity is cellular intelligence and prana is a flow of communication >> the flow of intelligence.
(53:45) So ojas pran they are operating at the level of RNA DNA according to ayurida pirupak and pindarapak but ojas on physical level but in spiritual level oases become a your body's neuroelectrical energy field and that oas goes to each chakra muladhara suadishtana manipura anahata vishudan asa and all chakra system The oes become color spectrum.
(54:16) That's why root chakra has a red color. Second chakra has a orange color. Third chakra has a yellow color. Heart chakra has a green color. Blue, indigo and violet. So this chakra the oj stage of spran with their frequency they become color spectrum of the chakra system. >> And then root chakra has a grounding feeling.
(54:42) Second chakra has a wonderful feeling of procreation. Third chakra is a power and digestion is a power but leadership come from the manipura. Anahhata is a meeting point of lover meet with the beloved and throat chakra is a communication. Inner person meet with the outer person. And third eye alpha meet with the omega. Language is finished.
(55:09) and then crown chakra ja meet with Shiva. So this is all the meeting point of the chakra system. So chakra system is very profound and we can do chakra healing through ayuridic marma therapy and color therapy. >> There is this quote from your book I actually want to pull. A person with strong ojas is attractive with lustrous eyes and a spontaneous and calming smile.
(55:34) Such an individual is full of spiritual energy and power. Spiritual practices and celibacy enhance these qualities in the individual. >> I think anybody who's checking in and listening right now know people in their life that have this calming, assuring, powerful, you know, presence about them. And the last sentence there was referring to the sexual energy and and how to uh come into right relationship with that.
(56:04) And so what is the link between ojas what people call semen retention now for on the men's side of things and uh what is like how does one properly relate to that aspect of themsel so that it doesn't rule them so that they can continue to cultivate more ojas. That's very good because when person observes celibacy then shukra in the man and in the woman araw they build ojas and ojas can be depleted because of too much sexual activity.
(56:38) >> Yeah. >> Ojas can be displaced by too much emotional reaction, fear, anger, anxiety. So one should protect the oja stages of pran and for protection of oja stages of pran there are specific pranayama. They do pranayyama anulom kapalabhati brahari udgit shidal shitkari all these are wonderful pranayama and then while doing pranayama you can do moola bunda the sucking the anus in like a female horse then udana bha which is called chimla and jaland cheek lock and this diaphragmatic bha is udanabha and that
(57:24) will Help the awakening of kalini shaky. So kalini shaky is analika. Anal is agni and anil means pran. Agni and pran create intense shy. Therefore your oas nourishes kalini. Tjas make the kalini to rise up and prana create meeting of lower self with the higher self. So finally the end product of ojast is serpentine energy kundalini and that passes along the chakra system system from muladhara to sahasara.
(58:03) So we should protect our oar stages by eating proper diet. Ashwagandha, bala vidari, chavan pra they promote ojas. Even almond drink, almond milk very important and taking certain herbal ghee like ashwaland ghee, bala ghee they promote oes but stages can be improved by concentration by meditation by mantra and there is a certain agnar which is very important for theas and ojas and pran can be supported with the sahakumbanayama But most important to nourish the prana is kalik kumbaka. Kal kumbaka is natural
(58:50) suspension of breath. So when you pay attention to the breath and after inhalation but before exhalation there is a stop and stay in the stop at belly but when you exhale and after exhalation dada shanta 12digit prana comes out and there is a second gap in that gap if you stay there this will amazingly strengthen the pran so stages pran These are the vital essence of ojas the essence of kafa tas the essence of pitha and prana is the essence of vata.
(59:33) So vatapitaka at higher level become vast stages and that is a very interesting because ayurve and yoga go together they are concurrent and inherent sister sciences they hand together and that is one of the beautiful thing about this and then I says that dharma karma moa dharma the righteous duty the monetary success karma the fulfillment of positive desire and moka is enlightenment is possible through Aayy and yoga >> through the cultivation of ojas.
(1:00:08) Is that what you say? >> Yeah. Cultivation of poses. >> And then what happens when somebody cultivates it for years or decades and they have experiences you know like these awakening experiences. What what do you make of those moments and what like the purpose of this rising energy is like leading us through >> when ojas are balance then you are in meditation the whole life become meditation the way you look the way you walk the way you listen become meditation look at the beautiful bird the lovely blue sky the tree the
(1:00:43) mountain >> everything in that looking there is no looker >> in In that listening there is no listener. In that experiencing there is no experiencer. This state is a choiceless passive awareness. As Jay Krishna Morti talks a great deal about that that happens through pancha karma through meditation. >> Would you say that person would then exude like a satic energy? >> That is a very pure satic suda satwa pure satwa.
(1:01:15) So you can look at through anyone's behaviors and mental actions and say whether it's Rajas or Satic or Tamas. >> Yeah just by looking at the person you can understand even ojasious prana can be evaluated like procruri this is very important and person with rajasi clavity rajasi quality has a hyper prana tamasic clavity is very dull oases.
(1:01:44) So our behavior are also intimately connected to the ratio of ojastasious pron and that's why when this ostasious pron are balance then observer observation and the thing to be observed become one. This is the unified field of consciousness. In that oneness there is a great deal of joy, great deal of beauty.
(1:02:10) Then you become universal existence. Then you are no more individual. Individual become indivisible, totally undivided, one with the cosmos. >> For people that want to cultivate more of like a satic lifestyle to be able to c cultivate that energy within themsel. Um what do you see as American society, western culture, the most predominant act like activities that are not in alignment with that that are causing more rajas and um how yeah how how would you support people and recommend people like more implement these satvic lifestyle and behaviors?
(1:02:46) >> You know I travel all over the world. I go to the India then go to England, Germany. There is nothing like America. People are very old, very spiritual and day by day American people in general they are following spiritual path. >> Interesting. >> Many people are doing meditation, contemplation, they are doing satssung, kithan.
(1:03:17) So this is a very good positive thing and this is a practical country. They want to do everything boiled down to the practical level which is very important and Ayurid is also practical wants to bring spirituality into daily clinical observation and we are doing the same thing. So I think anything which happens here in America it influences the whole world you know since last 40 years I'm here and when become popular in America it become popular in India this is very interesting that's why my guru told you should go to the America teach these
(1:03:57) people ayurve and then ayw will be accepted in India >> this is sad part but it is the act because anything happens here it influences the whole world because in the true sense America is the nucleus of creativity. >> It this country has a great potential great spirituality great materialism and everything is great even nuclear power is great.
(1:04:24) >> What uh so you came here almost 40 years ago. >> Mhm. >> And that was that was a big move for you. Correct. >> So you moved and you and you guys eventually created the Ayurvedic Institute. >> Correct. Correct. >> And and then over the past many decades you've been building writing your books, training practitioners, >> writing book, doing seminar, doing teaching.
(1:04:49) >> Yeah. And now this is your home. >> The whole world is my home. I feel homely in India also. I feel homely in England also. And when I'm coming here I feel like a home. >> It is the love the friend who are very loving compassionate they make the whole environment like a home. >> And I have many good friends both in east and west as well as in India, England, America here.
(1:05:17) >> Yeah. >> And it is the brain who they are very loving, compassionate. So it is like a home here. M >> the Ayurvedic way of understanding life of like the science of living and also death I think is very fascinating in how it is different from how I personally understood life growing up. there is this increasingly popular uh conception of longevity escape velocity if you've heard people think with the advent of AI and what's coming with the technologies to be able to basically keep living longer beyond our natural death point
(1:05:56) >> and I'm curious what an Ayurvedic perspective says on death and this idea that we might actually beat aging >> wonderful and Beautiful. This is the really the crux, the cream, the core of ayur. Living and dying should go together. There is no life without death. And there is no death without life. Life and death, these are the two sides of the same coin.
(1:06:26) And we have to learn the art of dying. That's why we teach the people how to die. Just do so meditation. Inhale with so exhale with H. So there are two storm. When you inhale so it goes to the belly button. Stay there for a while and when you exhale um comes out and draw the shanta digit. When you stay in the stop in the beginning that stop is only for a fraction of second but slowly slowly when you watch the breath and inhale to soul
(1:07:14) then gap enhances easily when you practice like 10 minutes in the morning, 10 minutes in the afternoon, 10 minutes in the evening and 10 minutes on the bed before you go to And a stage will come. You can easily stay in the gap up to 30 second half a minute. In that half a minute you live without breath.
(1:07:42) There is no breath. You live without thought. There is no thought in that gap. There is no mind. No time. So there is no mind, no time, no thought, no feeling, no emotion. It is just empty. We call this an empty bowl. You become like an empty B. And death is emptiness. Complete emptiness. So when you practice this dying, you reborn every you will be reincarnated.
(1:08:19) Not next life, but next breath. you'll be reincarnated. Every breath is a new breath. Every thought is a new thought. Every inspiration is a new inspiration. So that's why in India if somebody is dead we say he expired. So expiration is the dead inspiration is reborn again. So death and dying should go together. This is on physical level.
(1:08:48) On psychological level I have to die to the unwanted unhappy sad past. Past is dead. We should live in the eternal present. Not to live in the dead past, not to live in the future. Our future is modified past. So dying and living good together you can live long. My grandpa he lived for 105 but his bhajan he was chanting with tala vitala tala and one stage will came he will just say vala and he will enter into complete suspension of breath through that holy name of Lord Krishna vala he was practicing dying
(1:09:35) and death is a friend in the death there is a rejuvenation renew renewals and you are reborn again. >> So talks a great deal about bring the death pretty close. Don't push death, bring the death, die to the yesterday, die to the morning, live eternally with this moment during afternoon. So moment to moment awareness is moment to moment dying to the past and reborn again to the present. Mhm.
(1:10:11) >> And this is a very profound thing that Ayurve teaches us through the souh and the name of this foundation is so >> yeah it's very fitting >> very very pretty because not a mantra it is a cosmic vibration every living creature every living being they are chanting this souh souh through breath but they don't know but if you pay attention to the soham then you are bringing death close to you when you exhale hum you are dying to the hum and when you inhale so slow you are reborn
(1:10:57) again with a new fresh eternal breath >> if somebody lives a extremely healthy life what is the natural age one what's like the natural human lifespan if It's really healthy throughout. >> Yeah. Actually it should be beyond 95 100 even you can live for 110 120. >> Yeah that's quite possible. Then death become your habit and then you can postpone the death.
(1:11:25) My guru postponed that death two times. We thought he's dead. We carry him to the cremation and there he wake up. He said I was in blissful state and you think that I'm dead. So this is very interesting. You can go into the samadi. Samadhi is dying while living. >> Yeah, this is very profound. >> I think that for a lot of those folks that maybe don't have a spiritual conception or thought, experience, belief, and something coming after this physical life ends, then it's like, okay, I want to extend it as much as
(1:12:01) possible. And with the advent of all the technologies that are going to be coming out to extend life, some people think that we'll actually be able to live forever. >> Beautiful. >> But you think is that is that a silly uh immature perspective on on life? Yeah. >> No, everything has a right place you know and you can live as long as you want but live just to just to help just to serve just to to existence because we have to serve to the existence and existence is everywhere.
(1:12:41) That eternal present is very beautiful and in that sense we whatever we learn we should share. Sharing and caring is the glory of life. I agree. I agree. What do you make of the wellness industry which has become over you know it's going to be a 10 trillion dollar industry by 2029. And what a lot of these practices and diet and lifestyle interventions that are simple and have profound effects have been in largely like co-opted with yoga pants and smoothies.
(1:13:16) And I'm curious what you think of all these health fads that come and go when there's this timeless wisdom of how to live in proper relationship with our own body and constitution. What do you make of that industry? >> That's a wonderful sharing. In America, every everything is business. Even meditation become business. Giving mantra become business.
(1:13:37) Even spirituality is quite a business. Apart from because business there's nothing wrong in that making business. But what is important as you are making business give the the core the crux the cream of reality to the people and make them stand on their own feet. They will not carry anybody's crutches. They are totally independent.
(1:14:04) They stand on their feet. They take care of their health through the proper diet, lifestyle and rejuvenation program. Then that's why we teach domestic pancharma. People can do this pancharma at home. >> Mhm. >> That's a very glory. Then sometime their life is so busy they have no time to come here, stay here for a week or two.
(1:14:26) So they can carry pancha karma at home. And we have special detox program just detox your liver, detox your brain, detox your heart. So this way we are detoxifying those toxic organ and that is the first step to the reality first step to the spirituality >> and spirituality is cleansing. Cleansing the body, cleansing the mind, cleansing the organ and doing domestic punch karma through diet.
(1:14:53) just do kuri fast and amazing that kuri fast will again it will unfold the clarity of perception >> for those that are householders which almost certainly everyone who's tuning in right now is in my own life and we have this inner yearning for realization of self how important is is it dachaturary how how important is a daily practice >> is very important because if we wake up at a particular time like say about 5:00 in the morning >> then brush your Scrape your tongue.
(1:15:22) Drink drink warm water. Sit in a cross-like posture facing the east. Do kapadhati basika anulomjay giar do so amazing and I'm enjoying that my whole family is doing that and then they are taking shower. They do their yogic practice then shower then have a little breakfast. This way if we do everything like a dinachara then it will bring psychotic rhythm of the hormones in my brain serotonin, melatonin, acetyloline, choline, dopamine they will secrete at a proper time and your brain will become a dynam of energy. You never lose your
(1:16:09) energy. That is why is a discipline discipline of biochemistry at a proper time you secrete your hydrochloric acid pepsin gastric intensive factor and you are greatly hungry and you enjoy the food. So if we bring rhythm in that if the our daytoday life is erratic then it will create depression sadness and all those things.
(1:16:38) So to increase the bio- rhythm we need dachara, rut charara and um daily regime seasonal regimen and also dietic changes. So this is a very beautiful rhythm to bring bio- rhythm into the body mind and consciousness we need the daily routine and that daily routine is wonderful selfisipline. So what would be a a great example of what that would be in someone's life? So wake up before sunrise, scrape the tongue, do your practices.
(1:17:17) What what else throughout the day do you think is like really important to maintain consistency on bedtime? What? >> Oh yeah. You can just as we just shared with you in the morning that we should wake up early morning and go to the sunlight >> and when sunlight fall on the forehead on the retina it will stimulate pineal gland to release serotonin and serotonin is very important for clarity of perception. It's a pleasure hormone.
(1:17:42) So likewise we have proper time for lunch, proper time for dinner and also we have certain routine at night before you go to the bed just rub oil to the soles of the feet and scalp. >> Oil is very important. If you just rub oil to the bottom of the feet and the scalp then put on your old sock that you will not fall into the bathroom.
(1:18:06) That another important disclaimer we have to tell this thing. And if we do this rout routine at night then sit before you go to the bed sit and I says drink a cup of warm milk with ashwagandha or warm milk with the turmeric. Turmeric is becoming popular. Turmeric and nim can control the blood sugar. Turmeric is wonderful medicine.
(1:18:32) And if you drink turmeric with milk oh it will balance it will release melatonin. They will sleep like a baby and these are also routine given at the bedtime lunchtime is different routine. So our life is totally surrendered to the almighty. >> You we talked about the doshas earlier but likewise the day has certain times that correspond to different elements.
(1:18:57) Could you share a bit of that? >> Yeah there you know the whole biological clock and chronological clock they are connected. time sunrising sunsh so dawn and dusk is early morning then early morning and early evening is kafa midday midnight is pitha so this is a biological clock in relation to the chronological time and that's why ay talks a great deal about this that it is good to do exercise in the morning during kafa time people do exercise at midday jogging jumping that's wrong I say if you do run at midday time you will disturb your pitha
(1:19:44) >> so this is a very interesting thing that we should work in harmony with the biological time and chronological time >> yeah it seems like with everything that you're sharing in the Ayurvedic system there's a cycle and a rhythm to life that we're honoring that we normally have not been do you if you zoom out further you know from the microcosm of our biology and the cycles we have to the cycles around us within light and the 24-hour clock with the sun.
(1:20:09) If you zoom out further, do you see these larger cycles within humanity? >> Of course, that's very true. Oh, wonderful. >> The larger time we call yoga >> this this is a kali yoga about 10,000 years the yoga changes the kita yoga, traa yoga, dwapar yoga, kaly yoga. This is a very cosmic time but also the time is a movement.
(1:20:38) Time is becoming and time is change. So within living in the this time we should enter into the timeless zone. While living in the time you can enjoy the timeless zone and that timeless zone is very important as I shared with you the gap between the two bread the gap between the two thought then you enjoy the time and you are resting in that gap so that time enter into the timeless zone of bliss and peace.
(1:21:11) >> Sign me up. So would you say then a the kaliuga is ending now? Like what what where what do you see? >> They say that kali yoga is ending. This is a very maybe next century kali yoga is gone and you will have wonderful saty yoga again. That is what they are saying. >> What do you make of the time we find ourselves in like humanity in this time entering the 21st century with these advent of technology and AI and all of this? I'm curious what what is your perspective on what's happening? This is very beautiful. I learned from my guru
(1:21:44) Maharaj. He said all four yogas are within me everyone. Kita, dwapar and kali yoga. Kali yoga is a time of kala. Kala means art, music, even computer. It's a great thing. Kali yoga is not bad. So when you do certain pranayama when you inhale with soul and hold the breath then belly button is very important. That belly button is kali yoga.
(1:22:30) Then when you hold the breath into the heart that is ka yoga, traa yoga, dwapar yoga and saty yoga. So crown chakra is saty yoga. Then Krishna, dwapara yoga come here. So ka, tra, dwapar and kali. So in chakra system when you hold your breath at a different level of chakra >> you are surpassing those khali or yoga the 10,000 years approximately we said but there is a mathematical calculation
(1:23:15) and that varies according to the time zone. So we can raise our consciousness from belly button to the sers. And Sri Arbinding says go above the physical brain. 448 210 here. Purusha says so that thousandheaded purusha is everywhere and above the physical brain 448 and 210. If you bring your consciousness here,
(1:24:02) you are in beyond yoga. >> And that yoga is it is a super satya yoga. He calls superra mental state about the physical brain. That which is true on spiritual level in spiritual term must be equally true on physical level in physical term. So this is another concept and through meditation you can go from kali yoga to the saty yoga >> and this is a breath and breath meditation is very important even I'm sitting here I'm doing soham meditation inhale with so
(1:24:47) exhale with h and in gap I listen to you and in gap I give the answer to this therefore our communication is though it is physical but it is moving to the different dimension of spiritual awakening. >> So this is wonderful. So time is a movement of prana and kali yoga traa yoga dwapah yoga satya yoga this is a cosmic time and cosmic time is happening at every moment in our breath cycle.
(1:25:24) It feels like it keeps coming back to relationship. Relationship between mind, body, breath, life, >> and of course the humans around us and our friends and family. It seems like right now because we do live in a time that is very individualistic and very divisive that proper relationships are needed now more than ever.
(1:25:44) So I'm curious as you spent your past 40 years coming out to the west and building these relationships just uh in your own words what is the power of relationship bend for you in your life >> that's very important first I have to improve my own relationship with my body with my mind with my thought and with my daily perception Because in relationship there is a need of communication.
(1:26:18) When two individual are speaking together at the same level of consciousness there is a wonderful communication. So in order to improve the clarity of communication we have to learn the art of listening, art of looking. Look at your partner with a fresh eyes. Not yesterday's eyes, not what last two weeks ago what she said to me.
(1:26:52) I have to live in the eternal present. And in this eternal present, there is a wonderful flow of communication. And we should forgive whatever just happened in the dead past. Because I always give this example to my student. If your wife said you you are a nut last week and that nut is hurting like a bolt and today she says honey I love you.
(1:27:20) So suddenly that nut comes there you say oh I know you love me sometimes you love me but sometimes you call me nut and there quarrel start again. So we should not bring the dead past in our present relationship we should live in the eternal present then relationship is definitely going to heal. Relationships are helping and at the same time we can use the relationship as the mirror and in the mirror of relationship we can watch our thought watch our feeling watch our emotion that's great and that exactly I'm doing in my dayto-day relationship
(1:27:57) with everyone and it works >> it's a beautiful thing but relationship are not for judging the person relationships are for self knowing self learning and for that we should have very healthy happy clear relationship so that we can understand one one another and in that understanding there is a sharing and caring and loving >> so beautifully said I feel like definitely in my past I've become aware the times I'm viewing relationship through my own prejudice and color tinted gl glass glasses not actually being effectively in communication and
(1:28:36) relationship ship with other individuals. If you had a last message for individuals to develop that clarity within themsel, like you mentioned, building that relationship with yourself is the most important. That way, you can really be in relationship with other people, not just through >> a tinted glass.
(1:28:54) So much of the world right now is teaching self-nowledge through just the intellect. >> And I'm curious, what does self-nowledge truly mean to you? If you had 60 seconds for one last message to everybody who's listening right now. >> When I'm looking at you, I feel I'm you and you are me. That who is looking through my eyes, same thing is looking through your eyes.
(1:29:24) In reality, though we are two individuals, it is the same awareness, same perception is operating. And that's the beauty of it. When I look at the tree, I feel I am the tree. When I look at the cloud, I feel I am the cloud. I am that mountain. And suddenly the distance between me and the mountain disappears. >> Me and the tree disappear.
(1:29:53) Me and you disappear. I am you. You are me. When this is very serious thing that if we put into our daytoday life in of the daytoday living then there is no conflict at all. Conflict begins when there is a separation when I become the observer and you become the object then there is judgment criticism like dislike.
(1:30:18) All these things happen we have to bring unified field in our daily perception. Look so closely that I am you. You are. >> That's beautiful. >> Thank you so much. >> Oh, it's so cool. >> Yeah, this the the rain came in. >> Rain came in. >> That was a great close to it, though. Thank you so much. Thank you, sir. >> Yeah. Thank you.
(1:30:45) And for everybody that's tuning in to this episode, thank you so much. Let us know which ways this was impactful for you. And until next time, be well. Hallelujah.
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