How Traiyopastambha Builds Your Body As Per Ayurveda?

If the body is built up of three biological energy forces, Ayurveda talks about the three supporting pillars to keep the body sturdy and healthy. They are Āhāra (Diet), Nidrā (Sleep) and Bramhacharya (Celibacy). These three pillars help maintain the body like pillars support a building. Your Doshas’ equilibrium is based on them too. So, Ayurveda supports these pillars, and Patanjali provides products to help.

Āhāra (Diet)

To be labelled healthy, diet plays an important role. It is called the body's medicine. What you eat restocks and alleviates life and maintains doshas and dhatus. Dietary knowledge helps deal with health issues and diseases. A pure diet equals a pure mind and good memory power.

Food overall helps in body processes and functioning. It works as an energy and fuel provider. Your sensory and motor organs get strong while giving your body the life-force and sustenance it requires. Your continuous body preservation comes from your diet.

When asked about health, Vāgbhata, a discipline of Charak, mentioned Hitbhuk, Mitabhuk, and Rtubhuk. It means 'eat as per your constitution, in an appropriate quantity, and food earned rightly that adds to your health'.

Stabilise the diet pillar by indulging in food as per prescription and the eight factors: food's nature, processing, combination, quantity, place, time, dietary rules and one's constitution. Our skin, pleasure, life span, voice, appearance, intellect, desires, sustenance, etc., depend on diet.

Start your day with Patanjali Poha (500 Gms and 1 Kg). The flattened rice makes for the perfect breakfast with low calories and good carb levels for weight management.

Nidrā (Sleep)

Your second most important pillar is sleep. When your mind and body tire after a day's work, sleep compensates for the loss due to activities. When you sleep, all the slack and inactive sensory and motor organs and mind are refreshed and powered.

Infants get 18-20 hours to push and develop their physical and mental growth. A healthy adult requires six to eight hours of sleep in 24 hours. Sound sleep on time results in happiness, strength, energy, life span and knowledge. Improper sleep brings in infertility, a slow brain and moodiness.

Early sleep and early to rise work well for physical and mental health. But the materialistic and pleasure-seeking lifestyle negatively impacts the body. While insomnia and less sleep harm the body, too much sleep brings in lethargy, indolence, Kapha vitiation, obesity, indigestion and other health issues.

Choose Patanjali Nutrela Ashwagandha & Melatonin Gummies (30 Gummies) (90 Gms) for relaxation and naturally improving sleep. Ashwagandha calms you, and melatonin regulates sleep.

Brahmacharya (Celibacy)

Celibacy or sexual restraint is the third most important pillar. It means ‘to protect the semen’ and calls for control of your senses. The last dhatu or body tissue food digestion form is śukra or semen. Ayurveda states that semen holds the body’s strength.

The quote – Maranaiṁ bindu pātena, Jivanaim bindu dhāranāt – means ‘excess discharge of semen may result in death while its retention provides life’. Contrary to celibacy, sexual indulgence and pleasure mean semen loss and resultant strength loss.

Celibacy makes you full of ‘ojas’, brilliance, astuteness, power and dignity. It can keep away diseases and maintain health. Even married couples are advised to keep sexual intercourse in control and limit it. Both genders need to follow the celibacy set for them.

Few rules of celibacy include keeping away from sexually stimulating drugs, photos, food and lifestyle. Pure behaviour with simple food should be the norm. Our Vedas mention that 'by the penance of celibacy, deities have defeated death'.

Pick Patanjali Youvan Churna (100 Gms) to boost your health and energy levels, while being positive as a celibate person.

Leading a good life with the three pillars of the body – Āhāra (Diet), Nidrā (Sleep) and Bramhacharya (Celibacy) – is a fulfilling and healthy thing.  

Published on: Thursday, June 05, 2025, 05:26 PM IST