Dhanteras: Celebrate Ayurveda Day! – your SV Ayurveda Newsletter Nov 5, 2026, #43, Vol 16

Once upon a time, long long ago,

the divine celestial beings and the not-so-divine-and-oh-so-naughty creatures were fighting over the “nectar of immortality!” They ALL wanted to live forever in the world. So they kept pushing and pulling and churning the ocean of milk/soma where the nectar was secretly kept…

This churning of the ocean is called the “Samudra Manthan” – from the Sanskrit समुद्रमन्थन, which literally means the “churning of the ocean of milk” (soma). This is a central episode in the Vishnu Purana – an ancient text that narrates the stories of Lord Vishnu – the sustainer of the universeS. But do you know what happened? As the devatas and the asuras – the good and the naughty – kept pushing and pulling, magical mystical creatures, and trees, and a conch, and the goddess of wealth and prosperity, all kept coming out.

AND then, Lord Dhanvantari himself, an avatar of Vishnu, who maintains prosperity through health, came out, carrying in his arms a vat filled with Amrit – the nectar of immortality… Many more things happened after that…. but today, on November 6, 2026, we celebrate the appearance of Lord Dhanvantari and his gift to us of the eternal knowledge of Ayurveda. Without ayurveda there cannot be health. Without health there cannot be any health. Without health there cannot be prosperity.

Happy Dhanteras to one and all!

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