Volume : V, Issue : VI, June - 2015

The Concept of Yoga Therapy according to Panchakoshas: A Review

Dr. Ghanshyam Singh Thakur

Abstract :

 The yogic concept of diseases has been described in TaittriyaUpanisad. According to Taittriya Upanisad, when the mind is agitated due to our interactions with the world at large, the physical body also follows in its wake. These agitations cause violent fluctuations in the flow of Prana in the Nadis. The Prana flows in wrong paths flying from one to the other without rhythm and harmony. The nadis can no longer, in this condition, maintain stability and steadiness and this result in improper digestion of food. This causeskhujirnatvam (wrong digestion), atijirnatvam (non–digestion) and ajirnatvam (over digestion). When this improperly digested food settles down in the body amidst such commotion, it results in ailments of the psychosomatic disorders. The disturbances in the ManomayaKosa percolate into the physical layer (AnnamayaKosa) through the pranamayaKosa, hence in the treatment of these psychosomatic ailments it becomes mandatory to work at all the levels of our existence to ing about the quickest result. The integrated approach, thus, consists in not only dealing with physical sheath, the relief of which could at best be temporary as is happening with the drugs used in modern medicine to treat diseases of the psychosomatic type like asthma, Diabetes Mellitus, hypertension, etc, but it also includes using techniques to operate on different sheaths of our existence. The large number of yoga practices available in the texts of yoga and Upanishads are adapted to balance and harmonize the disturbances at each of the five kosas and tackle this type of complex psychosomatic ailments.

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Dr. Ghanshyam Singh Thakur The Concept of Yoga Therapy according to Panchakoshas: A Review Indian Journal of Applied Research, Vol.5, Issue : 6 June 2015

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