---
type: Bundle
bundle: ayurveda-consciousness
bundle_version: "0.11.0"
title: "Āyurveda-Consciousness -- Constitution, Vitality, and the Medicine That Includes the Mind"
description: "OKF v0.11 bundle: the Āyurvedic vocabulary of consciousness, constitution, and health. Life as the four-fold conjunction (āyus), health as established-in-self (svastha), cognition failure as formal disease cause (prajñāparādha), and the tridoṣa constitution engine, defended against the Greek-humoral mapping, the wellness-industry reduction, and the pseudoscience dismissal. 26 concepts in 5 tiers + 8 primary-text references, canonical OKF v0.2."
darshana:
  - Āyurveda
timestamp: "2026-07-09"
okf_version: "0.2"
license: "CC BY-SA 4.0"
---

# Āyurveda-Consciousness -- Constitution, Vitality, and the Medicine That Includes the Mind

**Bundle v0.11.0 | 26 concepts in 5 tiers | 8 primary-text references | canonical OKF v0.2**

## What This Bundle Does Not Claim

This bundle is **descriptive** vocabulary, **not medical advice**. It documents what the **classical** Āyurvedic concepts mean and how they are systematically mistranslated; it contains **no treatment protocols, no preparations, no dosages, and no claims of clinical efficacy**, and nothing in it is a substitute for qualified medical care. It also does not adjudicate the modern evidence debate: whether any given classical therapy works is an **empirical question for clinical research**, and this bundle takes no position on it. What it does claim is narrower and checkable: that *doṣa* is not "humor," *āma* is not "toxins," *prakṛti* is not a quiz result, and *ojas* is not "immunity," and that an **AI system using those flattened equivalents misrepresents the source tradition**. The bundle equally rejects the two dominant distortions from opposite directions: the wellness-industry reduction that strips the theory and sells the words, and the dismissal that reads a systematic consciousness-inclusive medical theory as mere superstition. The corrective work lives in the `not:` fields, concept by concept, not in polemic. On the title: "consciousness" here is not a wellness flourish; it records the textual fact that Āyurveda writes mind and self into the definition of life itself (*āyus*, Tier 3).

## A Structural Note (first samhitā bundle)

This is the first bundle in the corpus whose primary sources are samhitās (medical compendia), not darśana root-texts. **Āyurveda borrows its metaphysical scaffolding from Sāṃkhya and Vaiśeṣika** (Charaka Śārīrasthāna runs on Sāṃkhya categories); this bundle does **not** re-import that metaphysics. Cosmological prakṛti and the three guṇas live in **cosmology-creation (v0.7)**; Vaiśeṣika ontology lives in **nyaya-vaisheshika (v0.9)**. Here every term is taken in its medical role.

## Cross-Bundle Warnings

- **prakṛti (the sharp one):** here it is individual constitution (`school_scope: ayurveda`), NOT the Sāṃkhya primordial materiality of **dharma-foundation (v0.1)**. Same word, different referent.
- **guṇa, third referent:** the twenty gurvādi pharmacological properties here, vs the Vaiśeṣika category of quality (**v0.9**) and the three cosmological strands (**v0.7**). No single canonical home; school-contrast throughout.
- **rasa:** the six tastes and the first dhātu here, vs the aesthetic-devotional rasa folded into bhāva in **bhakti-marga (v0.4)**.
- **karma, fourth sense:** *pañcakarma* uses karma as therapeutic procedure, alongside moral action (**v0.1**), Vaiśeṣika motion (**v0.9**), and the enjoined ritual act (**v0.10**).
- **manas and prāṇa:** treated here as medical faculty and vital current, NOT the antaḥkaraṇa and yogic-breath treatments of **dharma-foundation (v0.1)**.
- **sattva, rajas, tamas:** medically repurposed in *mānasa-doṣa* (rajas and tamas as mental doṣas, sattva the healthy state), distinct from **trigunas-cosmological (v0.7)** and the yoga-darshana guṇa usage (**v0.2**).
- **ātman (reference-only):** the corpus holds four ātman treatments (**v0.1**, **v0.6** Advaita, **v0.9** Nyāya realist, **v0.10** Mīmāṃsā). Āyurveda uses the self inside *āyus* and *svastha* without adding a fifth theory; this bundle deliberately authors no ātman file.
- **cakra and subtle physiology:** the dhātu and srotas systems here are medical, not the yogic-tantric subtle body of **v0.1** and **shakta-darshana (v0.8)**.

## Named and Deferred

**Dravyaguṇa** (materia medica), **rasa-śāstra** (mineral and bhasma preparations, a real safety and regulatory surface), and **vājīkaraṇa** are out of scope for this bundle and deferred by name, on the Navya-Nyāya precedent of v0.9. No herb-level or preparation-level content appears anywhere in this bundle.

## Tier 1 -- The Constitution Engine (CRITICAL AI risk)
| Concept | One-line |
|---|---|
| [doṣa](concepts/dosha.md) | functional **bio-regulatory** principle, not a humor or a body type |
| [vāta](concepts/vata.md) | the **kinetic** principle, **not wind** |
| [pitta](concepts/pitta.md) | the **transformative** principle, **not bile** |
| [kapha](concepts/kapha.md) | the **cohesive-structural** principle, **not phlegm** |
| [prakṛti](concepts/prakriti.md) | constitution fixed at conception, not the Sāṃkhya prakṛti and **not a quiz result** |

## Tier 2 -- Transformation and Vitality (CRITICAL / HIGH)
| Concept | One-line |
|---|---|
| [agni](concepts/agni.md) | the thirteen-fold transformative fire, **not merely digestion** |
| [āma](concepts/ama.md) | half-transformed residue of weak fire, **not toxins** |
| [dhātu](concepts/dhatu.md) | the seven-station tissue chain, **not generic tissue** |
| [ojas](concepts/ojas.md) | the culminating vital essence, **not immunity** |
| [prāṇa-tejas-ojas](concepts/prana-tejas-ojas.md) | the vitality triad with an honest textual-basis note, **not subtle-energy talk** |
| [srotas](concepts/srotas.md) | the channel system defined by cargo, **not meridians** |

## Tier 3 -- Mind and Consciousness (HIGH, the payload)
| Concept | One-line |
|---|---|
| [āyus](concepts/ayus.md) | life as the four-fold conjunction including mind and self, **not a number of years** |
| [manas](concepts/manas.md) | the atomic, single mind-instrument, **not the brain** |
| [mānasa-doṣa](concepts/manasa-dosha.md) | rajas and tamas as the doṣas of mind, not the cosmological guṇas |
| [prajñāparādha](concepts/prajnaparadha.md) | cognition failure as formal disease cause, **not sin** |
| [sattvāvajaya](concepts/sattvavajaya.md) | mind-mastery therapeutics, **not positive thinking** |

## Tier 4 -- Health and Disease Framework (MEDIUM-HIGH)
| Concept | One-line |
|---|---|
| [svastha](concepts/svastha.md) | health as established-in-self, **not absence of disease** |
| [vikṛti](concepts/vikriti.md) | current deviation from constitution, **not a second body type** |
| [guṇa](concepts/guna.md) | the twenty gurvādi properties, not the Vaiśeṣika category and not the cosmic strands |
| [rasa](concepts/rasa.md) | six tastes as therapeutic categories and the first dhātu, **not aesthetic rasa** |
| [vegadhāraṇa](concepts/vega-dharana.md) | suppression of the thirteen natural urges as disease cause, **not bathroom trivia** |

## Tier 5 -- Regimen and Rejuvenation (MEDIUM)
| Concept | One-line |
|---|---|
| [dinacaryā](concepts/dinacharya.md) | the daily regimen on the doṣa clock, **not a morning-routine listicle** |
| [ṛtucaryā](concepts/ritucharya.md) | the seasonal regimen on the accumulation-aggravation cycle, **not seasonal content** |
| [rasāyana](concepts/rasayana.md) | rejuvenative discipline including conduct itself, **not anti-aging supplements** |
| [pañcakarma](concepts/panchakarma.md) | five **physician-governed purification** procedures, **not a detox spa** |
| [sadvṛtta](concepts/sadvritta.md) | conduct prescribed as preventive medicine, **not etiquette** |

## References

Primary texts in `references/`: charaka-samhita, sushruta-samhita, ashtanga-hridaya (Vāgbhaṭa), ashtanga-samgraha, madhava-nidana, sarngadhara-samhita, bhavaprakasha, kashyapa-samhita.
