Tuning yourself to the five major elements in Nature🔗

ABOUT THE TECHNIQUE

In the eastern cultures, man is recognized as having a deep and integral connection with the whole cosmos.

In the Taittiriya Upanishad there is a beautiful verse: Tasmaad va etasmaad aatmana aakaashah sambhootah Akaashaad-vaayuhu, vayor-agnihi Agner-aapaha adbhyah prithivi Prithivya oushadhayah...

This verse describes how the whole material universe was created from five major elements - earth, water, fire, air and space (or ether).

All these elements find their representation in man as well.

For instance, the earth element corresponds to our physical body, the air element corresponds to our breath, the fire element corresponds to our digestive fire present in our stomach, and so on.

Each of the five elements also has its unique quality or subtle essence: earth has smell, water has taste, fire has form, air has the quality of touch and space the quality of sound. These five qualities correspond directly with the five sense functions in man.

Just like the universe, man was also born of these five elements!

That is why he always has a deep longing to tune himself to these five elements, to return to his source.