Genuine knowledge however is much more than just understanding facts, but rather the deep knowing the truth of a matter. This is the highest form of knowing called Direct Perception. Life exists in both a gross and subtle form…The gross form ends when we die and the subtle one is immortal. It proceeds from lifetime to lifetime carrying with it our karmic seeds. Ayurveda is the science of life, both gross and subtle.

Ayurveda originates from some 3000 BCE in the Indus Valley, though exact times are unknown. The Vedas emerged from this region and are the oldest writings of Vedic Knowledge around before 1500 BCE, though its roots precede written texts.

Ayurveda as the “KNOWLEDGE OF LIFE”, i.e. the science of life is the oldest holistic science known to mankind. It truly holds the key to a harmonious life.

Ayurveda’s principal goals are to keep people healthy as they pursue their more important spiritual goals and to show us how to use health to achieve the path to enlightenment. It is the science of creating harmony between our physical nature and our environment as experienced through the five senses.

Once we forget our true nature as spirit, we understand ourselves as body and mind beings only. With that misunderstanding, the meaning of life becomes a simple pursuit of pleasure.

Our senses are like portals, kind of vehicles through which we relate to the world. We constantly take in energetic and physical impressions, which are either harmonious or disharmonious in relationship to our constitution. When people take in to their body what doesn’t match with their constitution, they are considered to be misusing their senses, creating disharmony, which in turn causes disease. Another form of misusing our senses is by taking in too much or too little of what is energetically harmonious for us.