The hygiene explained in the Girimananda sutta


   


 Buddhism and hygiene is not a two but one and it is joined together well. there the advise is given everywhere and  the main character is behavior and attachment eight principals are depicted in Buddhism where wrong behaviors are shown. There are
 
·         illness caused due to bile (pitta samutthānā ābadhā)
·         illness caused due to rheum (semha samutthānā ābadhā)
·         illness caused due to wind (vāta samutthānā ābadhā)
·         illness caused due to three ills  (sannipātikā ābadhā)
·         illness caused due to seasons (utuparināmajā ābadhā)
·         illness caused due to wrong behaviors (visama parihājā ābadhā)
·         illness caused due to external behaviors (opakkamikā ābadhā)
·         illness caused due to karma (kamma vipākajā ābadhā)

when Mahamoggallana thero and Girimananda thero becamr sick, the Buddha preached the seven factors of enlightenment and those are mindfulness, investigation, energy, rapture, tranquility, concentration, equanimity. This clearly explains the Buddha used his own doctrine as a psychologist to cure illness. psychology analysis is connected to the Ayurveda and preached what should be done to Girimananda thero. It was also preached to Ananda thero to understand the ten conception and prepare the mind with inhaling side to cure the elements. the ten perceptions are

01. the perception if impermanence (aniccasaññā)
02. the perception of non-self (anattasaññā)
03. perception of ugliness or loathsomeness (asubhasaññā)
04. perception of the disadvantages or the negative side (ādīnavasaññā)
05. perception of abandoning, giving up, removing (pahānasaññā)
06. perception of dispassion (virāgasaññā)
07. perception of cessation (nirodhasaññā)
08. mindfulness of breathing (ānapānasati)
09. perception of non-delight in the all worlds (sabbaloke anabhiratasaññā)
10. perception of all formations as undesirable (sabbasakhāresu aniccasaññā)

There are impermanence perception is detailed without knowing the non-impermanence  of five aggregates of clinging. here (rūpa) is an illness   (vedanā) feeling is what is felt. (saññā) perception is the knowledge of knowing the illness due to the feeling (sankāra) formations means place where the illness has occurred (viññāna) means consciousness or the knowledge from that knowledge of the illness it becomes quite easy and from the five senses the eye is seen the image,the tongue finds the taste similarly the teachers analyses the mind and understand both sense. similarly tongue finds the taste is impermanent and the body feels the feeling is also said to be impermanent as well. Here when the ill perception is explained Buddha showed that He was well aware of knowledge of the body. That is form the top of the soul and below the hair and all the interned sense at the end of the skin are impermanent also all the aliment were explained as one who as well and studied with the Arurveda knowledge and understood the root cause of illnesses the perception of riddance are explained. there the clinging or great, hatred killing or torture such as ill wills are to be annihilated. it explained the how Buddha advised Girimananda Thero how He should do the breathing excuse for the physical maintenance. This method improves the development of physical and mental health little by development of muscles, tissues, lungs and extends and improves in breathing fills more air in the lungs and a good quality of oxygen is absorbes to blood while the quantity of carbon dioxide exit is increased similary during the process of breathing not only the lungs the stomach walls too become to the position of inhaling and exhaling resulting the in the great muscle to more up and down causes the five aggregates such as kidney to more will effect a simple massage this movement become constant this coustant movement assist to more bowels supply of blood to the above senses and to strength lien faculties These will strengthen the health and not only health but also the mental happening the Buddha had a great knowledge of conclusions breathing, He trained the physical breathing to Girimananda thero since He was well versed in such training and at the end Girimananda thero was completely cured, this was given in the Girimananda sutta. The thero not because its after that as given in the discourse.

                                     in the Girimananda sutta explains that 7 out of root causes of illnesses such as pitthasamutthānā due to bile disorders the ill differences caused in the inner or the outer body. due to the climate or seasons changes will cause individual or social health changes. air, biles, flem have to be maintained in balance form if not at will cause illnenes as explained in the eastern ayurvedic system kammawipākajā ābādhā  due to the karmic or previous birth effect is only considered as the cause. Those illness named Bhagandarā   is given. There are many who think that all the other disease are similarly same but it is not told that in Buddhism. It is believed in Buddhism that every things is caused due to the karmic effect but due to the doing of the person. then There should be a possibility to get a cure from the illness then the man should acquire a strong discipline and a code of behavior in a strong way for that the Buddha had taught five ways of good behaviors.

01. food culture
02 health according to the live
03 health and season
04 to associate healthy people
05 to associate persons with good thought
                                       
The Buddha was a great philosopher and an eminent   psychologist. and also preached clearly that the both the mind and the body is contred   for some illnesses. The Buddha found that the there are 1510 mental diseases of people. there making than help when there exist 44 illness in the human body and showed that those can be treated to recover in a proper manner. This physical body is formed with 32 sections  which are getting decayed easily and this body will fall sick very quickly very frequently “Roga niddam pabhamguram”It is a nest for diseases was given as a meaning when Girimananda thero  fell sick The Buddha preached about many illnesses such as deceases.

 “Iti imasmiṃ kāye vividhā ābādhā uppajjanti, seyyathidaṃ, cakkhurogo sotarogo ghānarogo jivhārogo kāyarogo sīsarogo kaṇṇarogo mukharogo dantarogo oṭṭharogo kāso sāso pināso ḍāho jaro kucchirogo mucchā pakkhandikā sūlā visūcikā kuṭṭhaṃ gaṇḍo kilāso soso apamāro daddu kaṇḍu kacchu nakhasā vitacchikā lohitaṃ pittaṃ madhumeho aṃsā piḷakā bhagandalā pittasamuṭṭhānā ābādhā semhasamuṭṭhānā ābādhā vātasamuṭṭhānā ābādhā sannipātikā ābādhā utupariṇāmajā ābādhā visamaparihārajā ābādhā opakkamikā ābādhā kammavipākajā ābādhā sītaṃ uṇhaṃ jighacchā pipāsā uccāro passāvo’ti.”

there are seeing diseases, hearing diseases, nose diseases, tongue diseases, body diseases, head diseases, ear diseases, mouth diseases, teeth diseases, cough, asthma, catarrh, fever, aging, stomach ache, fainting, dysentery, grippe, cholera, leprosy, boils, ringworm, tuberculosis, epilepsy, skin diseases, itch, scab, psoriasis, scabies, jaundice, diabetes,  hemorrhoids, fistulas, ulcers, diseases arising from bile, from phlegm, from the wind property, from combinations of bodily humors, from changes in the weather, from uneven care of the body, from attacks, from the result of kamma, cold, heat, hunger, thirst, defecation, urination. likewise there are 47 decease in Girimananda sutta. according to this body is not a good place. it can make fall into a big ailment and such as a feeble  place. however it is a perception as per the Buddhist philosophy. a fall well behaved, well with behaviors moving toward the eternal bliss. It is very important to have a healthy insurance advise to the people who are there and established in healthy way of behavior.

                                   
                                                                                                                -Periya Ulukkulame Nandawimala-




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