How to Promote Satva in Human Beings
- Ayurveda recommends some important things to promote satva quality in our body and mind.
- Eating unadulterated food, drinking pure water, inhaling pure air and getting good sleep at night and rest—all these are necessary to keep the mind in tranquility.
- At the same time, one has to visit beautiful gardens, lakes, streams, rivers, hills and mountains, trees, sound of birds and animals.
- These are all part of nature, which make one’s senses pleased and purify them.
- Ayurveda is the upaveda of Atharvana veda. For promoting satva qualities in man, they have recommended certain factors:
- Be generous to others—treat each one of them alike with dignity and respect.
- Be pleasant and good to others.
- Avoid anger and criticism.
- Move with good people.
- Spend your days in good company, for playing and relaxation and for spending time.
- Eat three-fourths of your hunger or capacity.
- Awake early in the morning in brahma muhurtha (4:30-6:00 a.m.), walk in good climate for at least 2-3 kilometers.
- It helps you to get good oxygen and ozone to body and also is a good exercise.
- Try to follow the rules of balance in talk, speech, sleep, and food.
- Try to be tolerant to others.
- Try to love animals.
- Treat everybody with love and affection.
- Try to love nature.
- For an intelligent person, everything is good in this world and for a fool, everything is bad an useless.
- Eat natural foods, vegetables, milk, rice, ragi, ghee and wheat, a list of satvic food is given in this book.
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