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Ayurveda DoshasPsychological Humors & Our BehaviorAyurveda doshas play multiple roles out of all the basic materials of body - they are humors when they vitiate the tissues, they are restoring the tissues when functioning normally and in their deranged form they have to be expelled out of body like waste excretory materials. Vitiated and abnormally increased Doshas are expelled out of body through Panchakarma procedures. So humors are greatly important for maintaining health and keeping away disease. Sensing the importance of humors for health and disease, Ayurvedists mentioned Doshas as 'three pillars of body'. Bodily humors are the supporting cause for body. The Psychological Humors:There are three basic attributes of nature according to Ayurveda and Vedic Science. These are Satva, Rajas and Tamas. More introduction can be had here>>> Satva attribute is pure in nature and can't affect the mind adversely. So it is not considered as psychological humor. Rajas and Tamas are the two psychological humors that can vitiate our mind when they are predominant and out of balance. Charaka mentioned that soul is bound to rebirth. Rebirth of soul can stop in the condition when our mind is free from the effects of Rajas and Tamas absolutely and when all the impressions of past actions are distinguished. This is the perfect state of liberation of Consciousness. (Charaka Samhita, Sharira Section, 1/141) Some Afflictions Born Of Psychological Ayurveda Doshas:
Two Types Of Actions:According to Ayurveda, there is two types of action at any given time. Firstly Previous Actions and their resulting impressions are there. Second is the free choice governed actions that we can do at present. There is influence of both set of actions on us. When previous actions and their impressions dominate that is luck. Luck is considered as a force in itself that can affect us adversely or favorably. At all times we have free choice of taking the present course of action. This is the ultimate freedom of human being, our privilege of being a human.
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