A CLASSICAL APPROACH TOWARDS UNDERSTANDING OF MANOVAHA SROTAS

Abstract

Mental disorders are a bane for the medical fraternity by the virtue of its complexity in handling them. Manas remained a mystery and very few attempts to understand it was made. Manovaha srotas, which is an essential channel for the hauling of Manas throughout the body and its accessibility out of the physical body, must possess a definite physical structure. In classics, we do not find the word ‘Manovaha srotas’ while describing about different srotas but psychological disorders. Keeping the existent srotas in to account, we can claim that the regular srotas only can act as Manovaha srotas. Thus we can understand the relevance of such understanding by cross checking the references. Though Pranavaha srotas is concerned with respiration, it also is apprehensive with sensory and motor activities of the body. Pranavaha srotas extends from Hridaya till shiras which helps in comprehending the data. Mind can traverse elsewhere in the body by other srotas as well.