Samashana : Mixing Pathya and Apathya together !

Samashana (Samaśana/ समशन)

Namaskar to all !

We are discussing about different aspects of Apathya. This post will tell about Samashana. The word is made up of two small words viz sama and ashana.

Sam (सम्)  – along with, together

Ashana (अशन)  – diet

So the meaning of samashana is ‘the diet in which both pathya and apathya are mixed’ or ‘the diet in which pathya is consumed along with apathya.’

Samashana is very common verity of apathya as we unknowingly consume mixed type of diet good and bad or edible and non edible or pathya and apathya.

Example will enlighten the concept clearly.

If anyone eats fast food along with his/her routine diet then it is samashana; like eating farsana (farasāṇa) with khichadi or Sev with rise or samosa in routine diet.

For a diseased person -  if a pitta disordered person is eating sweet and spicy together it is samashana for him. Because sweet is pathya and spicy is apathya to his disease.

If anybody is consuming curd or dahi in night along with khichadi ( diet made up  of rise and green gram) then it is also samashana as dahi is apathya to all in night.   

So eat only pathya and do not mix any apathya in it.

Don’t drink cold drinks with pathya breakfast like upamā.

Know your disease and constitution and decide your pathya accordingly.

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