Sommari

Vaidya Bhagwan Dash
Happiness in the Context of Ayurveda

Happiness is the eternal desire of all living creatures including human beings, animals and plants. Because of well manifested and developed mental as well as intellectual faculties human beings can achieve happiness independently. But because of moha that is illusion or ignorance they land themselves in upadha or unwholesome desires which give rise to three types of unhappiness, viz., adhyatmika or unhappiness caused by the interior of the body, adhibautika or unhappiness caused by external trauma and adhidaivika or unhappiness caused by divine displeasure. These three types of unhappiness can be corrected in two different ways, viz., by medication, etc., whose effects are temporary as well as partial, and by spiritual means which include realization of ultimate reality.
Ayurveda describes both the types of measures to overcome unhappiness leading to phenomenal and eternal happiness.