write about Ayurveda for Life, Health and Wellbeing: A Survey
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WHAT IS AYURVEDA?
Definition of Ayurveda- Ayurveda is made up of two
words — ayus meaning life and veda meaning knowledge.
Ayurveda is thus knowledge of life or Life Science. A classical
text defines Ayurveda as the knowledge that describes the
wholesome (hitam), unwholesome (ahitam), happy (sukham)
and unhappy (asukham) life as well as that which informs what
is wholesome and unwholesome for life and longevity.
We can see from the above definition that the goal of
Ayurveda is to promote both individual and social well-being at
all levels of experience. Ayurveda aims to establish the highest
level of health that a human being is capable of achieving and
its scope is not restricted to curing diseases. Health is a state of
physiological, psychological and spiritual well-being.
Several thousands of years ago, the tradition of Ayurveda
anticipated the most modern definition of health that has been
trumpeted by the World Health Organization: ‘Health is a
state of complete physical, mental and social well-being and
not merely absence of disease or infirmity.’ Ayurveda also
adds the spiritual dimension to health and points out that the
human being is three-dimensional and needs to be healthy in
body, mind and self. Health is a tool to achieve the four-fold
goal of life: pursuit of spiritual and material well-being through
resources obtained by righteous activity — dharma, artha, kāma
and mokṣa.