Three issues NOT to be happy with!

Article through Dr Raghuram Y.S. MD (Ay) & Dr Manasa S, B.A.M.S

Satisfaction and dissatisfaction, contentment and discontentment are section and parcel of our existence. They also are the results of our wants and aware possible choices. They can’t be generalized as a result of they imply various things for various people.

While pride or contentment displays the sure facet of our desires and needs or possible choices, dissatisfaction and discontentment mirror the unfavourable facet of our wants, concept procedure, possible choices and needs.

But time and again, dissatisfaction, no longer being contented with and no longer attaining or experiencing the purpose of satiety could also be necessary and displays the sure facet and sure affect they’ve on us, our well being and happiness.

In considered one of his quotes, Acharya Chanakya mentions 3 issues one wish to be happy and contented with of their existence within the first line and 3 extra issues one will have to no longer be happy or contended with in the second one line.

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In this text we will speak about the 3 issues which one will have to no longer be happy or contended with. These 3 issues have a powerful affect on our bodily, psychological, sensual and religious well being.

संतोषस्त्रिषु कर्तव्यः स्वदारे भोजने धने।
त्रिषु चैव न कर्तव्योऽध्ययने जपदानयोः॥चाणक्य नीति ७.४।

Three issues to be happy and contented with

One will have to all the time be happy with –

1. Swa Dhara – one’s spouse
2. Bhojana – meals
3. Dhana – cash and wealth

On the opposite hand, Chanakya additionally mentions 3 issues for which there will have to by no means be some extent of pride, satiety or contentment. One will have to continuously have a thirst for those 3 issues discussed underneath.

Three issues to not be happy and contented with

One will have to by no means be happy with –

1. Adhyayana – learning, studying, wisdom,
2. Japa – chanting, prayers,
3. Dana – charity

In this text we will be able to prohibit our dialogue to the second one part of the verse which offers with ‘three things not to be satisfied with’ and their affect on complete body-mind-sensual-spiritual well being.

Three Things one will have to all the time be no longer happy with!

Adhyayana – Constant learning and studying will reinforce our wisdom, knowledge and abilities. There is not any finish or barrier for studying. There is not any age for studying. Studying will stay us up to date with all issues going down round us and it is a signal of development.

Adhyayana gets us the dignity, identify and repute we deserve. It is helping in bringing adulthood and evolution at psychological, sensual and religious ranges. It will stay us attached with the sector and worldly affairs. Adhyayana will stay our mind and its purposes continuously activated and wholesome. It restores stability of prana vayu, sadhaka pitta and tarpaka kapha running in our mind.

It may also stay the intellect wholesome through protecting the trigunas – sattva, rajas and tamas in a state of stability. One will have to by no means forestall studying and not really feel happy. Knowledge is an unlimited ocean. There is one thing for everybody in it. It is dependent upon how lengthy and the way deep we need to discover it. It has no barriers and we will additionally no longer take a look at to attract it.

Chanakya says that one will have to by no means forestall learning and studying. It is a procedure which will have to stay going all the way through one’s existence. Those getting happy with studying and learning have put a complete forestall for his or her development, building and evolution in existence, in all sides.

Japa – Japa comprises doing meditation whilst chanting repetitively. The chanting could be a stotra, mantra or simply ‘Aum’. It is adopted in quite a lot of religious traditions together with Hinduism, Sikhism, Buddhism and Jainism.

It is not just part of devotion, it additionally has a non secular attitude and is claimed to purify one’s intellect, senses and ideas when performed often.

It brings in and nurtures one’s focal point, mind, ideas and reminiscence and balances the doshas of the intellect – tamas and rajas. It additionally will increase the sattvika high quality of the intellect and generates immense positivity within the physique, intellect and senses. It additionally deepens one’s religious consciousness and connects with the divine.

Japa may also be performed loudly. It will also be whispered or chanted mentally. It could also be stated to result in vak shuddhi i.e. readability of speech. It instills in us peace, calmness and religious upliftment. Japa additionally energizes and opens up the chakras relying on what and the way we’re chanting in Japa follow.

Chanakya mentions Japa as one of the most issues which one will have to stay doing as a convention and stay improvising on it daily, all the way through the existence. One will have to no longer be contented with doing japa. The extra you might be, the extra you evolve as a human.

Dana – Dana approach charity or giving freely one thing to the needy with none expectancies or with out bearing in mind the end result and advantages of the similar. Very few folks have the ‘heart to give’. Dana is not only attached to how a lot you will have and what sort of you’ll give. Having is particular person and it don’t need to all the time have a giving section at the different facet. One might simply have and no longer give. It is a aware selection to provide or to not give. But ‘to give’ is wholesome, noble and humane.

Dana has been an element and parcel of Hindu tradition and custom. It could also be a moral, noble, ethical and righteous follow. Some do it for atonement. It isn’t incorrect. But this will have to ignite the fireplace in them which will stay away or burn away the sins which might make them the considered atonement, ‘the guilt things’. Else charity turns into a reimbursement for our sins.

Charity will have to be selfless. It is a distinctive feature which has immense price when it naturally comes out of ourselves. Charity isn’t deliberate. It is simply performed. Dana has been discussed in Ayurveda additionally in quite a lot of contexts. Dana bestows an unexplored and un-experienced more or less pride and bliss. It is a great deed which might bestow many excellent issues on us. We would get again unsaid blessings and desires from the ones on the receiving finish. Dana is a mirrored image of our contentment, pride of getting ok, in need of to provide and the goodness a part of us. It will lend a hand in a single’s private, religious and social evolution and development. Dana could also be a dharma – righteousness and a pathway for moksha – salvation.

Chanakya says that there will have to be no drawn line of limitation for dana and one will have to no longer get happy with giving.