Have you got Pragyaparadha?
According to Vedic Wisdom Pragyaparadha is the root cause of all disease and unhappiness.
Pragyaparadha refers to the loss of memory of the unity of life & the identification with the diversity of creation. By forgetting the source of life and chasing fulfilment through the senses, one makes short term decisions that lead to poor health & dissatisfaction. Consoling yourself in a
packet of chocolate biscuits or polishing off a bottle of wine may bring short term gratification but longer term only serves to increase your sense of discontent.
Pragyaparadha both predisposes one to poor lifestyle choices and undermines the natural intelligence of the body. The worse we feel, the less in tune we are with what our body needs & the more we are looking for gratification from outside ourselves. Addictions are a classic example as we start to crave and actually need particular substances or behaviour to feel better although they are damaging to our well-being. If you are identifying with this scenario you are
not alone. Until we are in a state of enlightenment there is still some trace of Pragyaparadha so this mistaken thinking is a universal phenomenon.
Pragyaparadha is present on every level of life; from cancer cells in our body forgetting that they are part of a whole and destroying their life force to the often short sighted way we treat the planet which is our life force.
Aside from poor health & environmental destruction, Pragyaparadha has broader & perhaps more abstract implications. The world we see is in fact a grand illusion, the ever changing surface of life arises from a hidden field of nonchange. Quantum physicists recognise that there is a unified field that is the source of life & understand that what we perceive as solid objects are nothing but fluctuations of particles. Material creation is an illusion created by our senses & interpretations.
Our physiology is a complex flux of vibrations emanating from a field of pure intelligence or consciousness. Yet instead of treating disease or unhappiness from this level the general tendency is to treat the surface level of the problem. Modern medicine specialises in ways to cut bits off, turn off receptors and generally disturb our natural intelligence. This is like treating the leaves of a plant while ignoring the roots. Vedic knowledge works by enlivening our innate intelligence on all levels. Herbal preparations act like tunning forks to reset the proper functioning of our bodies while technologies of consciousness such as Transcendental Meditation connect the individual consciousness with the intelligence of the universal consciousness.
Wendy Rosenfeldt is a Maharishi Vedic Health Educator and Teacher of Transcendental Meditation. There will be Introductory talks on Transcendental Meditation in Noosa on September the 4th at 11am or in Maleny on September the 9th at 1.30pm.
Please call Wendy on 5499 9580 or 0438507188 to book for the talk or for an Ayurveda consultation.
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