आयुष्मान भव - Aayushmaan Bhava
- May you live long
This is a ancient Sanskrit mantra where in elders wish all the youngsters "May you live long". It is a pleasant blessing from seniors to juniors. It is a blessing for a healthy and long life. Unless you are healthy you cannot live long. Health and longevity are both interrelated. It is the essence of life and existence.
"Deerga Sumangali Bhava" is another form of blessing given by elders to a married couple both husband and wife and especially the wife. A married women is called Sumangali. Sumangali is considered as a sacred term to denote a married women who are blessed with good fortune, prosperity and happiness.
It was preferable for the wife to die before her husband. The death of a Sumangali is celebrated. According to statistics, women generally live longer than men so there will always be more widows than widowers.. It is customary among all Hindus to offer prayers to all dead Sumangali's in the family.
Unless you are physically and mentally fit you cannot complete full term of your lifespan. Every creations or species on this earth comes with a predetermined term plan, which cannot be altered, tweaked, or extended. Species with short gestation period or pregnancy will have shorter lifespan and likewise species with longer gestation period will have a longer lifespan. Species with short gestation period will have everything occurring faster like birth, growth, maturity, and death. The lifecycle and the life duration of each species differs from one another. All life forms have a preset lifecycle. Mayfly is an insect which has the shortest lifespan of one earth day. Glass Sponges are a deep ocean animal with an average lifespan of more than 10,000 earth years and supposed to be longest surviving animals on earth. Everything starts from zero and ends in zero. They start from one cell and multiple themselves into multicellular organisms depending on their set inbuilt program and the genes.
Being physical and mentally fit is absolutely important for every one to survive healthily till their predetermined term plan. Spirituality is a path which will liberate you from mundane life and takes you to the higher plane wherein you align with nature and become one with the Almighty or Brahma, the Universal Reality. You have to submit yourself completely so that your Atma will become one with the Antaratma and ultimately merge with the Paramatma, Absolute or Ultimate Reality.
Spirituality is a marga to know your own inner self and dissolve your self to become the Universal Self. To become one with the spirit and live eternally.
Accept Spirituality and Accept Your own self
Celebrate Life and Live Consciously
Become one with Existence
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