
Yoga & Ayurveda: Self-Healing and Self-Realization

Ayurveda as Self-healing means that it is concerned with restoring wholeness, with our inner Self as its ultimate goal, which is spiritual healing.
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Yogic methods cover the entire field of our existence - from the physical, sensory, emotional, mental, and spiritual to the highest Self-realization. It includes all methods of higher evolution in humanity - physical postures, ethical disciplines, breath control, sensory methods, affirmations and visualizations, prayerand mantra, and complex
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The link between yoga and Ayurveda is prana, or the life-force. Yoga is the intelligence of prana seeking greater evolutionary transformations, while Ayurveda is its healing power, seeking to consolidate the life-systems it has already developed. Together, Ayurveda and yoga afford a complete discipline, one which can transform our existence from
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Adharmic living, life contrary to dharma, brings pain and disharmony to all. A dharmic life is the basis of all ayurvedic treatment and all ayurvedic lifestyle regimens. Most psychological problems and emotional disorders are rooted in adharmic living, living out of harmony with the universe. Most physical diseases are based on it as well.
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Ayurveda is one of the most remarkable holistic medical systems in the world. It covers all aspects of health and well-being - physical, emotional, mental and spiritual. It includes all methods of healing from diet, herbs, exercise and lifestyle regimens to yogic practices and meditation.
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Samkhya postulates twenty-four primary cosmic principles (tattvas) to explain all processes in the universe, with the twenty-fifth as the pure consciousness beyond all manifestation.
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The most important dharmic law is the law of karma: as we act, so must we experience the fruit of our actions, not only in this life but in future lives as well. There is an absolute justice in the universe, but this occurs through many incarnations and cannot be seen by a momentary look at human affairs.
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In addition to universal dharmas, each individual has his or her own personal dharma, or svadharma, the law of our own particular nature that shows us our special role and purpose in life. Yoga requires that we find the appropriate dharmic spiritual path and understand our place in the universal unfoldment of consciousness. Ayurveda states that
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Yoga is first and foremost a science of Self-realization. Its concern is spiritual practice, mainly through meditation, to take us beyond the sorrow and ignorance of the world. It teaches us how to move from our outer bodily and ego-bound identity to our immortal Self that dwells within the heart. Yoga provides the key to all spiritual development,
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