Inside and Outside the Human Body
EFFECT OF THE WINTER: INSIDE AND OUTSIDE THE HUMAN BODY WHAT IS THIS “INSIDE – OUTSIDE” THING? I would love to quote few self-explanatory lines as an answer to this question.
These branches where once lush green and their shade sheltered the tired lives from the scorching Sun till a couple of weeks earlier.
“Yatha Pinde Tatha Brahmande, Yatha Brahmande Tatha Pinde.” - Yajur Veda That is –“As is the individual or the human body, so is the universe or the Cosmic Body, and the vice versa.”
The mild breeze touching your face, as you move ahead has got a little chilled feel, which is really relaxing to the body and the soul. And a subtle voice speaks up from deep within, “The Winter is here.”
“The Cosmos Is Within Us. We Are Made Of Star - Stuff. We Are A Way For The Universe To Know Itself.” - CARL SAGAN, American Astrophysicist and Astronomer.
THE SUN – THE LORD OF SEASONS A few months earlier the Sun used to rise directly into my bedroom. Its rays piercing my eyelids to wake up. But as the weeks and months have passed by, now I can curl under my blanket for long hours. And the Sun has become so favorable to me that its rays no longer fall on my face, rather they are busy lighting up my Mamma’s kitchen.
Winters bring a lot of changes in the nature and in the bodies of all its creatures. We will be talking all about the human body and the changes in it, some visible and some not visible, which we would understand through this ancient science of Ayurveda.
As kids we thought that as we keep on moving around the Sun round the year, when we go away from the Sun, the heat reduces and we are in winters and then the other way round.
HAVEN’T YOU NOTICED THESE CHANGES OUTSIDE? Going for the morning walk these days, I see that the roads are filled with dried leaves, trying to fly up after each motor vehicle that passes by, as if they would love to stick back on those almost empty branches.
But actually it’s the tilt of the Earth’s Axis that causes the seasons. In summers, because of this tilt, the Earth actually leans into the Sun and the opposite happens in the winters. And talking in the big picture, the people on the northern and southern hemispheres of the earth enjoy opposite seasons at a particular time of the year.
The Ancient Ayurveda | Nov-Dec 2020 | Page 15
