Ayurveda's Four Goals in Life

1. The fulfillment of your duties to society.
2. The accumulation of possessions while fulfilling duties.
3. Satisfying legitimate desires with the assistance of one's possessions.
4. The realization that there is more to life than duties, possessions and desires.

Ayurvedic philosophy believes that only a person with a strong immune system can be healthy. The practitioners identify the immune system as a fragment of nature (the Divine Mother). This gift from her creates us, sustains us, nourishes us, and protects us from outside invasion. As long as our immune system is strong, we suffer no disease. The ancient vedic word for immunity means "forgiveness of disease"—from the concept that negative thoughts and lifestyles cause disease. Disease, therefore, is a message about a need for change... if only we can understand this. In this sense, strength comes from transforming our projections about our symptoms. Healing comes from see¬ing adversity as a challenge, by taking back our negative thoughts about people and events. We can transform disease into a "perfect opportunity." Spiritual health, then, is a dynamic balance between a strongly integrated individual personality and nature (a nature that's understood to encompass all aspects of existence). This is only possible when people remember their debt to nature.
In summary: Ayurveda believes that health results from the relationship (the connectedness) between self, personality, and everything that' goes into our mental, emotional, psychic, and spiritual being. It believes that health also results from good relations with others, from an acknowledged indebtedness to mother nature, from the realization of one's purpose, and from the pursuit of legitimate goals in life. Ayurvedic philosophy maintains the importance of a strong immune system, that forgiveness is strengthening, and that immortality is possible.