This document discusses introducing Ayurveda into mainstream education. It argues that Ayurveda can help bridge gaps in existing education by teaching principles like understanding one's constitution and living accordingly. This leads to benefits like individual health and happiness, cultivating social values, and respecting the environment. Integrating Ayurveda can offer a flexible, personalized knowledge for high quality living and achieving life's goals in a healthy way. The document presents Ayurveda as more than healthcare, but a system that promotes well-being through understanding one's true self.

1. Introducing Ayurveda in Mainstream
Education: Making a Sense?
Prof. Sanjeev Rastogi
State Ayurvedic College and Hospital, Lucknow

2. What is Education ?
 Is it schooling ??
 Is it the information
given at schools and
colleges ??
 Is it a qualification
needed for a job for
your future security ??
 Or it is some thing
beyond this

3. What is Education ?
 Education is an active
process of inviting truth and
possibility, encouraging and
giving time to discovery.
 It is a wise, hopeful and
respectful cultivation of
learning undertaken in the
belief that all should have
the chance to share in life.

4. Education Vs Schooling
 Education is a social process – ‘a process of living and not
a preparation for future living’
 Schooling prepares us for future living whereas education
prepares us to live at its best with present.
 The idea of education is to make your present as beautiful
as possible
 John Dewey (1916) an American psychologist,
philosopher and educationist

5. Are well schooled also well educated ?
 What is socially expected from education is a change in behavior
and values
 “आप तो पढे लिखे है , आपको ऐसा नह ीं करना चाहहये”
You are well educated. You should not have done it this way.
 This is not really happening
 On the contrary the real fact is
 A big number of crimes are being done at schools and colleges
 All level of stakeholders are involved in such crimes
 In many such crimes , people having high level of schooling are found involved

6. Crime by Educated people on the Rise
 NCRB ( National Crime Record Beureu) reported in 2012
 In last 10 years Indian prisons have reported 78% increase in
number of Graduate convicts and 68% in Post graduate
convicts. (In Maharashtra the growth is 140 %.)
 The share among total convicts increased from 3.24% to
5.49%

7. Depicting Education

8. Educational Gaps in Society
 Not linked with human values
 Not linked with personal upbringing in various
dimensions (mental, physical , social, spiritual
and interpersonal)
 Not linked with development of a sense of
accountability
 Not linked with respect to ecosystem

9. Vicious Circle of Earning and Spending
 Early age Spend in learning to earn
 Middle age Spend in earning
 Late age Spend in spending for what is earned due
to the ignorance of general health principles
 Onset of most life style diseases is common in late middle
age .

10. Can Ayurveda Help Bridge the Gap in Existing
Education?
 Ayurveda offers a flexible and personalized set of
knowledge which
Is demonstrable for its benefits practically
Offers impacts upon individual as well as on
society
Offers high level of quality living to its followers

11. What is Ayurveda ?
 An anecdotal belief ?
 A genuine medical science?
 An empirical philosophy?
 A folk lore system of offering household help to sick people?
 A mystical unproven old traditional practice in India ?
 A healing system which offers cure through herbs, animal produce and
natural minerals etc.
 Or much more………………………..????

12. Ayurveda is ……??
 A knowledge which helps you attaining a quality based
better life
 Both literally and practically
 आयु = Life वेद = knowledge
 Ayurveda is much more than offering cure to a disease

13. The Ideology of Ayurveda
धर्ाार्ा कार् र्ोक्षाणार्ारोग्यर् र्ूिर्ुत्तर्र्। च.सू.१/१५
Four pursuits of a human life are
 धर्ा
 अर्ा
 कार्
 र्ोक्ष
Attainable only in a perfectly healthy state
रोगास्तस्यापहताार: श्रेयसो जीववतस्य च।
 Disease wipes off the opportunity of obtaining these pursuits

14. Ayurveda prepares you
 With its novel and proactive preventive and curative
wisdom
 To achieve the perfect health
 In order to achieve the higher pursuits of life namely
 धर्ा
 अर्ा
 कार्
 र्ोक्ष

15. Objective of Ayurveda
 प्रयोजनर् चास्य स्वस्र्स्य स्वास््य रक्षणर् आतुरस्य ववकार प्रशर्नीं च।
 Two fold objectives
 स्वस्र्स्य स्वास््य रक्षणर्
 To preserve the health of healthy people
 आतुरस्य ववकार प्रशर्नीं
 To eliminate the pathology from the sick

16. What is understood by स्वास््य
 Is it health ?
 Is it mental , physical , social or spiritual well being ?
 सर्दोष: सर्ाग्ग्नश्च सर् धातु र्ि क्रिया। प्रसन्नात्र्ेग्न्िय र्न: स्वस्र्
इत्यलिधीयते ॥
 We tried to define perfect state health through various parameters
 Unfortunately these do not really define स्वास््य

17. What is स्वास््य??
 Ayurveda proposes a much wider definition of स्वास््य
 Literal meaning of स्वास््य
 स्व stands for self
 स्र् stands for situated
 So स्वस्र् is some one who understands his real self and
behaves accordingly

18. Who you are ? Knowing the Self: Knowing the प्रकृ तत
 प्रकृ तत stands for प्र and कृ तत
 प्र is primary , first or prototype
 कृ तत is creation
 So प्रकृ तत is your primary biological specificity
 It gives you a specific physical, physiological and
psychological uniqueness .
 Till you adhere to your प्रकृ तत , you remain स्वस्र्

19. ववकृ तत : The specialized situation
 ववकृ तत stands for
 वव = ववशेष= special
 कृ तत = creation
 The creation which is not natural, is pathological
 Intention of the treatment therefore is always to regain
the normalcy
 प्रकृ तत स्र्ापन is synonymous to treatment in Ayurveda

20. Stop Pretending, It Marks That You Are Sick

21. Quality of life
 हहताहहतीं सुखीं दु:खर्ायुस्तस्य हहताहहतर्। र्ानीं च तच्च यत्रोक्तर्ायुवेद: स
उच्च्यते॥ च.सू.१/४१
 हहत आयु Life helpful to others
 अहहत आयु Life detrimental to others
 सुख आयु Pleasurable life
 दुख आयु Miserable life

22. Science of happiness: Eudiamonic versus Hedonic
Acts
 हहत आयु Eudiamonic happiness
 Achieved by helping others
 सुख आयु Hedonic Happiness
 Achieved by buying happiness through comfort and luxury
 Acts at molecular level by regulating the gene expression through up or
down regulation
 Eudiamonic acts are related with down regulation of stress related genes
where as Hedonic acts are related with their up regulation

23. Random act of kindness
 May give you a pleasure more lasting than buying your
favorite cloths

24. Who Remains Healthy ?
नरो हहताहार ववहार सेवी सर्ीक्ष्यकार ववषयेष्वसक्त:।
दाता सर्: सत्य पर: क्षर्ावान आप्तोपसेवी च िवतत अरोग:॥ च.शा.२/४६
 हहताहार ववहार सेवी
 सर्ीक्ष्यकार
 ववषयेष्वसक्त:
 दाता
 सर्:
 सत्य पर:
 क्षर्ावान
 आप्तोपसेवी

25. Who Does not fall sick ?
र्तत वचा: कर्ा सुखानुबन्धीं सत्वीं ववधेयीं ववशदा च बुद्धध:।
ग्यानीं तपस्तत्परता च योगे यस्याग्स्त तीं नानुत्पग्न्त रोगा:॥च.शा. २/४७
 र्तत वचा: कर्ा सुखानुबन्धीं
 सत्वीं ववधेयीं
 ववशदा च बुद्धध:।
 ग्यानीं योगे तपस्तत्परता

26. Benefits of Including Ayurveda in Education
Individual benefits
Societal benefits
Ecological benefits

27. Individual Benefits
 Knowledge of own personality
 Knowledge of personalized do’s and don'ts
 Knowledge of preventive and promotive health care
 Knowledge of primary health care with natural resources

28. Societal benefits
 A follower of Ayurveda learns to -
 Adhere to the social values
 Respectful to elders, teachers , parents, women
 Care for not hurting any one through deed or thoughts
 To forgive
 Not to accumulate
 Become kind

29. Ecological Benefits
 सवार् िव्यर् हह पाींचिौततकर्
 Every thing in this world is composed of 5 primordial elements
 नानौषधधिूतर् जगत क्रकीं धचत
 For this reason , every substance in the world may have a medicinal
value
 Learn to respect the natural resources for their potential health
benefits
 Helps protection of environment
 नीर्, तुिसी, पीपि are protected by people for these reasons

30. Advantages of Practicing Ayurveda
क्वधचत धर्ा,क्वधचत र्ैत्रत्र क्वधचतर्ा,क्वधचत यश,कर्ााभ्यास क्वधचत चैव
धचक्रकत्सा नाग्स्त तनश्फि
 धर्ा
 र्ैत्री
 अर्ा
 यश
 कर्ााभ्यास
 Practicing Ayurveda is never futile . It is always associated with some
or other benefits