‘RAGADI ROGA’ PSYCHOLOGICAL FACTORS AS ROOT CAUSE OF ALL DISEASESA CRITICAL REVIEW OF AN AYURVEDIC CONCEPT.

Abstract

The ultimate goal of human life is to be healthy and stay free from diseases. But humans are suffering from various kinds of diseases, thus leading to misery and unhappiness. Man has been searching for the root cause of all diseases since ages. Various concepts and theories were proposed by many learned scholars. Acharya Vagbhata has proposed that desire is the root cause of all diseases.1 So the utmost goal of human life is to learn to control the mind and his desires to prevent diseases and stay happy.