Ayurveda Living

 Ayurveda: The Mantra of Niramaya (CD-ROM)

 My first trip to India was in 1998 to Kerala for a mission of discovery of Ayurveda.  I toured the first Ayurvedic resorts that were mushrooming to host people from all over the world.  There has always been a fascination about India but at that time, there was a great euphoria.  Arundhati Roy had just won the Booker Price for The God of Small Things and Independent India was only 51.

Ayurveda and related disciplines, as well as the great culture of India, came to me as a revelation and I was eager to learn as much as I could.   I spent considerable time with people at Invis Multimedia in Trivandrum who were then working at Ayurveda: the Mantra of Niramamaya, a first encyclopedia type CD on Ayurveda.

So I was clueless about mantra and let alone Niramaya which I believed was the name of a woman or a deity, sho knows?  Later on, I discovered that The mantra of Niramaya is a great classical Vedic hymn – not as universal as the Gayatri Mantra, still one of the greatest. 

The mantra of Niramaya is aspiritual formula that goes like this:

                                “Sarve bhavantu sukhina,
                                 Sarve santu niramaya,
                                 Sarve bhadrani pashyantu,
                                 Ma kaschit dukha bhang bhavet”

It says more or less that all people should live happy and prosperous in a world free of diseases. That enough is great enough to embrace Ayurveda and to see it flourish all over the world. It is also said that the full acceptance of Ayurveda would put the actual economy of the world in peril.  I would certainly change the face of the world and give a new meaning to the words progress and civilisation.

Ayurveda, indeed, proposes a very refined and elevated way a life and this is what we are going to discover altogether.