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Chapter One Doshas and Tastes
Diseases are beings with parasitical intentions. Some have collective bodies, like worms, bacteria and viruses, and show the same signs of collective consciousness that social insects like ants and termites do. Other diseases which have no bodies of their own “take possession” of an organism in order to express the compulsions of their individual existences.
Poor digestion produces a variety of physical and mental toxins collectively called ama in Sanskrit. Ama acts as food for parasites, encouraging them to thrive in the organism. Indigestion develops through poor eating and living habits. This sort of deliberate, willful indulgence in unhealthy practices is called in Sanskrit prajnaparadha (“crimes against wisdom”).
Indigestion prevents nutrients from reaching the tissues, and weakens the host’s immune defenses. The human aura is our first line of defense against parasitical beings. The skin and the gut form the second line of defense. A third line of defense, the immune system, waits to intercept and destroy any parasites that somehow find their way past the first two defenses. The immune system, which communicates with both the skin and the gut, is a sense organ with a “sixth sense” for intruders. The immune system is an intricate web of T-cells, B-cells, antibodies and lymphokines, a system of fascinating complexity all controlled by a single boss: ahamkara.
Ahamkara ensures that only those cells that swear allegiance to her lordship are allowed to remain alive in the body. All aliens are hunted down and ruthlessly slaughtered, and all rebels — mutant or cancerous cells — are mercilessly executed as a warning to other cells that might dare to resist her rule.
When she is injured, alien beings may find a weak spot in your defenses and strike you down.
She is your wife, your lover, your friend, your guide and advisor, your servant. She is your all-in-all. Above all, she is your mother. Ahamkara is feminine because she is a fraction of the Divine Mother Goddess Nature. She is your wife because she is always with you, bonded in the marriage of body to mind to soul which is you.
This “I-former” is your mother because she aggregates to herself all the building blocks that form you: the Five Great Elements, the sense organs and the mind. The ancient rishis, who knew this “I am” principle well, worshipped their own ahamkaras as mothers that they might enter into loving relationships with them.
Diseases arise when ahamkara is afflicted and immunity weakens. The Sanskrit word for immunity is vyadhikshamatva, which literally means “forgiveness of disease.” You retain your health only so long as you are willing to forgive
your stresses, shrug off adversity and adapt to new situations. Resistance to change always impedes the workings of your immunity. An old Sanskrit proverb tells us kshama cha janani: the essence of motherly love is forgiveness. Damage to the ahamkara-mother predisposes us to disease by weakening our innate forgiveness.
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Prakriti by Dr. Robert Svoboda presents key insights from the Taoism tradition. The 10 passages above capture the essential teachings.
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