Genetic research has provided insights about who we are or where we come from, but even though it is a fact we inherit certain characteristics, our personality, our behavior and our temperament are formed after we are born, and all are influenced by ‘conditioning’ (circumstantial) and ‘environmental factors’.
Scientists, philosophers, psychologists, they seek to answer a wide range of important questions about human nature, like if the mind can be used to heal the body; or what causes illnesses and imbalances, for instance.
Ayurveda has never made this distinction between the physical and the psychological. It believes both in visible and invisible forces and can embrace science, medicine, psychology and the spiritual. We are all part of the One, of a whole, and if we learn to live in harmony with nature, with the universe, and with ourselves, we will reach maximized levels of happiness and health.
Discoveries from sciences and philosophy can help people understand themselves, relate better to others and solve the problems that confront them, because life itself is a remarkable and a marvelous combination of science and spirit, always defying logic and reason and always seeking for wise explanations.
 

The author would just like to echo some of the wise messages of the Upanisads (texts written in Sanskrit).


“He who knows both, knowledge and action, with action overcomes death and with knowledge reaches immortality”.

“In him are woven the sky and the earth and all the regions of the air, and in him rest the mind and all the powers of life. Know him as the ONE and leave aside all other words. He is the bridge of immortality”.

“Beyond the senses is the mind, and beyond the mind is reason, its essence. Beyond the reason is the Spirit in man, and beyond this is the Spirit of the Universe, the evolver of all”.

“ When the five senses and the mind are still, and reason itself rests in silence, then begins the Path Supreme”.

“And when he is seen in his immanence and transcendence, then the ties that have bound the heart are unloosened, the doubts of the mind vanish, and law of Karma works no more”.



The world’s worst illness is a huge lack (absence) of love. Let’s try to remember each day that we are a spirit that lives in this physical body, and not just a body that has a spirit… Our duty is to love ourselves, our planet and all the other living creatures. If we could understand the simplicity of it, we would live in harmony with the Universe…Which is the real purpose of being here, happiness and total ecstasy.

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