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Seasonal Regimen according to Ayurveda

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• KALA (TIME): * Käla is divinity and it has neither a beginning nor an end, Time follows the accumulated effect of actions of the past.  * Basing on the time only, the movement of the sun, the moon and other planets and also the transformation of five basic elements take place.  * It is also the causative factor for the birth and the death of all the creatures.  * Similarly, the increase and decrease of the seasons, tastes and potency of the substances. strength of the doşas and the body depends upon the time only.  • KALA BHEDA (DIVISION OF TIME): -MP Kala is divided into the following 12 divisions:  1. Mäträ (= time taken for blinking the eyelid) 2. Kastha (= 15 Matra) 3. Kala (= 30 Kastha) 4. Nädikä (= 24min.) 5. Muhūrta (= 2 Nadika) 6. Yäma (= 3 hours) 7. Ahorātra (= 4 Yama = 1 day/1 night) 8. Paksa (= 15 Ahoratra) 9. Mäsa (= 2 Paksa) 10. Rtu (= 2 Masa) 11. Ayana (= 3 Rtu) 12. Varsa (= 2 Ayana) • SADRTU (SIX SEASONS): - The months starting with mägh...

Regimen of right conduct

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REGIMEN OF RIGHT CONDUCT (SADVRTTA): * To maintain positive health one must have wholesome and limited food only that too after the completion of the digestion of the food consumed earlier. * Natural urges like urine, faeces etc. should not be expelled forcefully. * At the time of the urge one should not attend any other work. * Initially treat the curable diseases. - All the activities of the human beings are meant for happiness only. Such happiness will not be happened without dharma (right moral conduct). Therefore one must always pursue right conduct. - Take care of the friends with a sense of devotion and good fortune and others (wicked persons) should be kept at a far distance. - One must help the persons, those who are struggling for their livelihood, suffering from diseases and afflicted with sorrows according to one's own capacity. They are all to be looked upon with sympathy, consoled and helped. - Consider as ourselves even insects and ants. A co...

10 Steps to improve your Daily Routine

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Daily routine for healthy lifestyle : Here are the 10 steps to improve your Daily Routine Pratahkalotthana (Weakup time) Sauca vidhi (Cleansing) Danta dhavana (Cleaning the teeth) Anjana (Collyrium) Nasya (Nasal drops) Gandusa-kavala dharana (Gargles) Abhyanga (Oil massage) Vyayama (Exercise) Udvartana (Powder massage) Snana (Bath) 1.WEAKUP TIME: • In order to protect his life, a healthy person should get up from bed in Brahma muhurat. • Brahma muhurat is approximately at 4:24A.M. • Brahma muhurat is the 14th muhurat kala of night (1 muhurat = 48 minutes). • Whole night consist of 15 muhurat (15*48=720 minutes). • It is the suitable time to study and obtain knowledge. • Is also the time when all the three doses are in equilibrium stage. 2. CLEANSING: • After considering the condition of the body (such as the food taken in the previous night has been fully digested or not etc.) one has to attend for the natural urges and clean the parts well •...