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Ayurveda and Sharad Rutu

                          Ayurveda is also known as the science of life. The most important aim of Ayurveda is to safeguard the health of the healthy individual. Cure of disease has been the secondary objective. Keeping this principle in mind, the entire Ayurveda has been written down and passed on. Ayurveda has recognized the influence of day night, seasons, climate on the body and accordingly the state of health and disease occurs.                          In order to safeguard one’s health, Ayurveda has laid emphasis on one’s daily routine as well as certain regimen that must be followed in certain season and climatic conditions. If that is done properly, then the chance of a person falling ill is very negligible. Six seasons, also known as ‘ rutu ’ in Sanskrit have been mentioned in Indian culture. Out of those six, the current rutu is ‘sharad rutu’. So let’s have a look at the regimen during this period and dos and don’ts   for this particular season.                         ‘ S

The Universal Power

                       The Universe is a wonderful creation. How it came into existence or who/what is responsible for it still remains an unsolved mystery. But instead of attempting to unravel them, we must try to ‘explore the Universe’.                        By the word ‘explore’ what I mean is to try to use the unlimited power and energy which it possess. Man, since ancient times is sure about one thing which is that the Universe holds limitless powers which can benefit the humankind if used properly. The power is never going to deteriorate; in fact it is constantly growing each second along with the expansion of Universe.                         Ancient cultures have tried to explore the source of that power or energy, which they ended up calling as ‘God’. All the cultures in every part of the world irrespective of the era during which they flourished agree with this concept in one way or the other. They found various ways to evoke that special power for their own good. These met