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Ayurveda and Its Philosophical Background. I. Textural References
Prof. Dr Bruno Renzi
Ayurveda is profoundly associated with the mystery of life. The flow of life and the stream of intelligence are intimately linked by their origins: in this sense Ayurveda, or "knowledge of life", harks back to the very first manifestation of cosmic existence.
Caraka defines existence with the term sasvata, meaning "eternal": in support of that theory, he believes that since there is no interruption in the flow of life nor, consequently, in the stream of intelligence or in its becoming; this confirms the eternal nature of knowledge.
Ayurveda deals with those primordial expressions of nature that emerge from a basic level, which contains them all in an innate manner: since the source of material is eternal, it lays down its origins within the very depths; the same laws that have goverened nature since its primordial levels, are eternal and intrinsic laws in the Science of LIfe and are its load-bearing structure.
