An Ayurvedic view of life

Ayurveda, according to Caraka, is knowledge which seeks to weigh life in the scales of wholesomeness and happiness against their opposites. Its main themes of health and disease, and recovery of health from disease take the stage against an inspiring background of intuitive philosophy, lofty idealism, and vivid compassion, which are the hallmarks of India's cultural inheritance. After centuries of neglect and stagnation, Ayurveda has witnessed an unprecedented resurgence from the twentieth century in India and abroad. Ayurveda viewed health as a state of many-sided equilibrium, and disease as its reversal. Ayurvedic practice of medicine aimed at the restoration of equilibrium and, in that process, represented more than the sum of dietary regimen, procedures and medications.