ABSTRACT

Mana also recognized as mind is one of the very important factors which is concerned with the mental health of the individual and it is also very well described in the ayurveda classics. Acharyas have also described the functions and the moolsthana of the mana in the body. Mind is the set of cognitive faculties like perception, thinking, judgement, memory, conduct and consciousness. Ayurveda has described that mana seats on the manovaha Strotas and its moola sthan is hridaya and dasha Dhamani of which heart and brain is considered as the hridaya.1 Mana functions are mentioned as the chintya (thinking), Vicharya (Analysis), Uhya (Speculation), Dhyeya (Aim), Sankalpa (Decision).2 Ayurveda have marked out factors for the mental examination properly for the assessment of all mental factors which are described by Charaka and chakrapani. Modern Science has also focussed on the mental factors and given the scales and questionaries for the assessment of these factors. Perseverance is described as one of the mental strength factors which means the sticking to the particular thing till it is not finished and this can also be understood with the ayurveda classics parameters. Keywords: Stress, Perseverance, manovaha, Decision, mental factors
Publication date: 05/03/2022

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https://doi.org/10.31032/IJBPAS/2022/11.3.1040