The document discusses the relationship between health and the Bhagavad Gita. It defines health as a state of physical, mental, social, and spiritual well-being according to the WHO. It describes the three gunas (qualities) - sattva, rajas, and tamas - and how different types of actions and behaviors under their influence can impact health. Being predominantly in the sattva state through selfless actions leads to holistic health and freedom, while rajas and tamas take one toward illness and deterioration due to stress, ignorance, and inaction. Transcending the three gunas enables one to achieve eternal bliss and be free from distress, even in this life.

1. Health and Bhagavad Gita

2. Introduction
• HEALTH –
– Not merely the absence of
disease or infirmity but a
feeling of well being at the
PHYSICAL, MENTAL,
SOCIAL and SPIRITUAL
levels. World Health
Organization
– WHY HEALTH?
– - IF YOU ARE HEALTHY YOU CAN
PERFORM BETTER
Towards
divinity
(i.e.
perfectio
n)
Superman
Normal
health

5. तमस्त्वज्ञानजं ववद्धि मोहनं सववदेहहनाम्|
प्रमादालस्तयननद्राभिस्ततन्ननबध्नानत िारत ||14.8||
tamas tv ajñāna-jaṁ viddhi mohanaṁ sarva-dehinām
pramādālasya-nidrābhis tan nibadhnāti bhārata
• born out of the ignorance
• always sleeping,
• dellussion no clarity in mind,
• no aims and ambitions,
• attachments, carelessness, animal like people
• always pushing the work
• never care for the loss of injury caused to others
by their actions
• nor they pay any attention to their own status
and ability when they act.

6. यातयामं गतरसं पूतत पययुषितं च यत्|
उच्छिष्टमषप चामेध्यं भोजनं तामसषियम्||17.10||
yāta-yāmaṁ gata-rasaṁ pūti paryuṣhitaṁ cha yat
uchchhiṣhṭam api chāmedhyaṁ bhojanaṁ tāmasa-priyam
• stale
• tasteless
• stinking
• cooked overnight,
refuse and impure
food
• meat,drinking
smoking

7. A sedentary lifestyle and lack of physical activity can
contribute to be a risk factor for health
• Anxiety.
• Cardiovascular disease.
• Migraines.
• Breast cancer.
• Colon cancer.
• Computer vision
syndrome only for
computers and tablets.
• Depression.
• Diabetes.etc

9. रजो रागात्मकं षिद्धि तृष्णासङ्गसमयद्भिम्|
तच्ननबध्नातत कौनतेय कमुसङ्गेन देहिनम्||14. 7||
rajo rāgātmakaṁ viddhi tṛiṣhṇā-saṅga-samudbhavam
tan nibadhnāti kaunteya karma-saṅgena dehinam
• An actions which is done by one longing for
desire or gain done with egoism or with much
effort is declared to Rajas
• Super ambitious kind people all the time activity
oriented, attachment, possession, restless,
always angry, egoistic, keep on initiating the
projects with lots of confusion, work under the
tension and restless

10. कट्िम्ललिणात्ययष्णतीक्ष्णरूक्षषिदाहिन: |
आिारा राजसस्येष्टा दय:खशोकामयिदा: ||17. 9||
kaṭv-amla-lavaṇāty-uṣhṇa- tīkṣhṇa-rūkṣha-vidāhinaḥ
āhārā rājasasyeṣhṭā duḥkha-śhokāmaya-pradāḥ
• Food: bitter, sour, hot, burning that
stimulates the nervous system speeds up
metabolism and activities, spicy and fast
food

11. Common Stressors
•Stressors are the things that cause our body systems
to respond in a stressful way. They may come from a
major life event or from everyday activities that add up
over time:
•Not enough money$$
•Not enough time
•Family demands
•Conflict with family or co-worker
•Feeling that you have no control over your life
or work situations.
•More work pressures
•Lack of motivation/ satisfaction

12. DOMESTIC STRESS
• Unable to cope with Multiple Roles
• OVERBURDEN
• Dissatisfaction with family life
• Lack of Freedom
• Bad interpersonal relationships
• Egoism- egotism

13. •EFFICIENT WORKER BECOMING CARELESS
•FINDING REASONS TO SHUN RESPONSIBILITIES
•WITHDRAWING FROM PARTICIPATION IN TEAM
DECISIONS
•JEALOUSY, ANGER, GREED, HOSTILITY,
ANXIETY AND DEPRESSION
•HYPERSENSITIVITY!!!!

14. EMOTIONAL!
BEHAVIOURAL!
PHYSIOLOGICAL!

15. EMOTIONAL CORTEX
CONSTRICTS
BLOOD
VESSELSFORCEFUL
CONTRACTION OF THE HEART
Anger Fear Tension

16. PERCOLATES AS IMBALANCES IN
ENDOCRINE SYSTEM
DIABETES
HYPOTHYROIDSM
MENSTRUAL
IRREGULARITIES
INFERTILITY etc

17. 2
TO PREPARE THE BODY
STRESS CAN BE BOTH GOOD AND BAD
IT’S A INTERNAL DRIVE THAT MOTIVATES US TO
WORK / FACE CHALLENGES
WHEN YOU ARE ABLE TO COPE------ NO PROBLEM
WHEN YOU ARENT PSYCHOSOMATIC
DISEASES

18. SOME COMMON LIFESTYLE AND
STRESS RELATED DISEASES
• PSYCHOSOMATIC DISEASES
• Allergies, Asthma,
• Diabetes, Endocrine disorders,
• Hypertension, IHD, Gastritis, Acid peptic
disease, IBS,
• Rheumatoid arthritis, Pain Syndromes,
• Menstrual irregularities, infertility,
• Depression, Anxiety, neurosis…….
• “CHRONIC”

20. तत्र सत्त्िं तनमुलत्िात्िकाशकमनामयम्|
सयखसङ्गेन बध्नातत ज्ञानसङ्गेन चानघ || 14.6||
tatra sattvaṁ nirmalatvāt prakāśhakam anāmayam
sukha-saṅgena badhnāti jñāna-saṅgena chānagha
• an action which is free from attachment
• which is done without love of hatred
• without desirous of the fruit of action
• sattva action is the best. works own sake in an
attitude that work itself is worship.
• undertaken without any anxiety
• Clarity of thinking not easily polluted or destrub,
no stress, no anxiety, always calm and relax

21. BONDAGES
• sattva: happiness and knowledge
• rajas: action
• tamas: irresponsible, lazyness and sleep
• story: Ramakrishna parble-the three robbers

22. RESULT
• Sattva predominent:every sense organs in
the body and in the antahkarana the light
of intelligency( viveka) shine -takes
towards holistic health
• Rajas predominent:greed, activity, unrest,
stess-takes towards illness
• Tamas predominent:ignornce, darkness,
miscomprehension-takes towards death

23. Always do good actions.
It takes you towards
freedom or towards
sattva rightly
said Swamy
Vivekananda the
“ MAN IS THE MAKER
OF HIS OWN DESTINY”
as your thought like
your actions good
actions takes you
towards
development bad
actions take you
towards deterioration.

24. TRANSCENDING THE THREE GUNAAS
LEADS TO HOLISTIC HEALTH (14.20)
• when one is able to trascend these three
gunas associated with the material body,
he can become free from birth,death,old
age and their distresses and can enjoy
nectar of eternal bliss even in this life

25. Attributes of those who transcend
the three gunaas (14.22 to 14.27)
• he does not hate illumination, attachment,
delusion
• he does not remains unconcerned and does not
feel disturbed by threegunaas
• equal worth upon stone and gold, balanced in
pain & pleasure, pleasant & unpleasant, blame &
praise
• maintains balance in honour and dishonour,
equal to friends and foe, detached from all
undertakings

26. QUESTION AND ANSWERS