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Introduction to Ayurveda | The Science of Life

3 Dec 2022 · 1 min

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Speaker defines Ayurveda as literally "the science of life," explains that it examines all aspects of life, and clarifies that Ayurveda is not a religion (though sometimes associated with Hinduism or Buddhism). The speaker emphasizes Ayurveda's practical, secular applications in modern life — citing yoga, mindfulness, plant-based eating, and internal rhythm modulation — and notes the teachings originated in Sanskrit and have been translated and adapted into contemporary language.

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What is Ayurveda? Ayurveda translates literally as the science of life. So it was a process that looked at all aspects of life. Sometimes people associate it with a religion, either Hindu or Buddhist, but it's really not that. It's grounded in practical daily solutions. And one doesn't have to be connected to a spiritual tradition to be able to benefit from the knowledge. And in fact, many of the practices that we do now in this modern time, yoga, mindfulness, plant based eating, internal rhythm modulation, keeping our control over that come from those teachings. And they've been adopted and transformed in the modern era to language that feels more familiar, that's not written in the original tongue that it was, one would say, offered in, which was Sanskrit.