Conceptual Study Of Ahara (Mahabhaisajya)

The food is said to be cause of stability for all living beings. There is nothing else except diet for sustaining the life of living beings. Ahara is said to be Mahabhaisajyaby Kashyapacarya, hence no medicament like diet is available. One cannot sustain life without diet even of endowed with medicine that is why the diet is said to be the great medicament by physician.Commenting upon above said aphorism, other authors have also accepted the importance of diet specially the beneficial one. Diet is said to be basis of life, strength, complexion, Ojas, growth and development, clarity of Indriyas, happiness, clarity of voice, lustre, pleasure, increase of Dhatus, intellect, health etc; entire life of individual depends upon food, all the activities of this world, as well as efforts made for eternal emancipation depend upon diet, thus cereals are the greatest in the comparison of other things.