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Åtmanalso denotes life as existence in the ÓRgveda, for example, in thanks given to Indra for bestowing existence on human being ...

of other animals, but in the Hindu context, man’s highest potential is not the exercise of this power in dominion of the earth a ...

Sir, in this ill-smelling, unsubstantial body, which is a conglomerate of bone, skin, muscle, marrow, flesh, semen, blood, mucus ...

A rich conception of the person is the G ̄ıta’s ̄ depiction of the body as a ‘field,’ and the one who knows this, “the knower of ...

Yoga, the soteriological aim is realized in the freeing of puruÓsa, con- sciousness, from prakÓrti, material nature. However, am ...

by recognizing the mutual influence of physical and mental factors in health and illness. Apart from the metaphysical problems i ...

a positive attitude toward material nature and the body. The feminine principle is esteemed as the manifestation of the masculin ...

Tantra as a major religious and philosophical movement emerged around the fourth century of the common era. According to Eliade, ...

one. A person could object to this analogy and the T ̄antric ontology it il- lustrates, saying that the current is not essential ...

distinct from Brahman, nor is prakÓrtiunconscious (jaÓda) as it is for Yoga. As part of Brahman, prakÓrtiis conscious, and by me ...

world to be less real than Brahman. For persons who are concerned about provision for particularity, as is the case when body is ...

manifestation, and the human body is Íiva’s abode. The body is the quin- tessence of the physioconscious creation, and the T ̄an ...

their respective strong and gentle natures.^68 T ̄antric practice or sadhana ̄ utilizes cosmophysiology to transubstantiate the ...

The Eight Branches of Åyurvedic Medicine Internal medicine, including physiology and pathology: Kaya-cikits ̄ a ̄ General surge ...

Caraka-samhitÓ a ̄ states that Åyurveda is sacred because it benefits human- kind in “both worlds,” this one, and the life beyon ...

medicine lends its color and shape to different plants, and is made ser- viceable through pulverization. AV 1:5.24.1 Rajan ̄ı (√ ...

Rendering the patient’s diet and regimen appropriate to the ecologi- cal conditions. While ancient Greco-Latin science produce ...

Hygiene in the Åyurvedic sense of ‘knowledge of life’ is the axis of the ancient medical traditions of Greece and China as well ...

relationship with the environment in the diagnosis and treatment of health problems. Concepts of health and disease that incorp ...

blood, flesh, fat, bone, marrow, and ova/semen. The term dhatu ̄ also re- fers to the three functional constituents of the body/ ...