The subtlest and the top most in the scale is space, as we descend each succeeding element becomes more and more concrete than the preceding one. Thus air is denser than space, fire denser than air water denser than fire and earth the densest. This hierarchy can be seen as a pyramid of qualities. eg. space possesses the quality of sound or vibration giving out waves that originate sound. next comes air it has the quality of touch, as it gives a sensation of touch, you can touch it and it touches you recognising its existence. in addition it takes on the quality of sound too as we go down we can see it becomes more and more concrete. next fire has the quality of possessing a form, it has visibility and it also possesses the quality of touch and sound too. next comes water it has the quality of taste. and also qualities of the other three form touch sound too.next the earth has smell and all the other qualities in addition. of taste, form, touch, sound too.
The five senses open to the five elements, each sense linked to its own element, presenting a particular aspect of the material universe. ether to ear, air to skin, touch to eye, liquid water to taste, and smell to earth. earth the dense aroma of God's material world.
The five elements correlates to the five senses of man. they represent the fundamental principles underlying or characterizing the nature of matter.
The five elements are not meremy substances or states and qualities of substance, they re also forces and energies, material forces and energies. starting from the most patent and gross going up to more and more subtle energies. first mechanical energy, chemical energy, electrical energy gravitational energy and finally the field energy. this can be compared to the earth, water, fire, air and space. we can thus see a parallelism between ancient and modern knowledge. the curious echo of modern science corresponds what the great seers had done thousands of years ago. The parallelism means similarity but also difference. The manner of approach to the reality, the way of expressing it is different in the east and in the west. The ancients express a truth or a fact symbolically, the moderns express it in a straightforward matter of fact way. The ancients used symbols for they wanted a multiple way of expression, a symbol embodying a movement refers at the same time to many forms of the same movement on different levels, along different lines in diverse applications. It can be compared to multiple meanings of a verbal root in Sanskrit. The scientific terms on the other hand are very specific; they connote only one thing at a time. Each term with its specific sense is unilateral in its movement.
Further the five need not be restricted to the domain of matter alone as being its divisions and levels and functions. they can be extended to understand the whole existence symbolise the different levels of cosmic being and consciousness. at the lowest rug in the ladder is the earth representing matter and material existence. water next represents life and the vital movement, then fire represents the heart centre from where wells up all impulse and drive for progression. it holds so to say the evolutionary urge, the divine agni, the flame the inner heart, the radiant energy and aspiration. the fourth status or level of creation is the mind represented by air. (Marut). Finally the Vyom or space representing all that is beyond the mind. The INFINITE Existence and Consciousness. The five thus give the chart, as it were of nature's constitution, they mark also the steps of her evolutionary journey through unfolding time.
The five senses open to the five elements, each sense linked to its own element, presenting a particular aspect of the material universe. ether to ear, air to skin, touch to eye, liquid water to taste, and smell to earth. earth the dense aroma of God's material world.
The five elements correlates to the five senses of man. they represent the fundamental principles underlying or characterizing the nature of matter.
The five elements are not meremy substances or states and qualities of substance, they re also forces and energies, material forces and energies. starting from the most patent and gross going up to more and more subtle energies. first mechanical energy, chemical energy, electrical energy gravitational energy and finally the field energy. this can be compared to the earth, water, fire, air and space. we can thus see a parallelism between ancient and modern knowledge. the curious echo of modern science corresponds what the great seers had done thousands of years ago. The parallelism means similarity but also difference. The manner of approach to the reality, the way of expressing it is different in the east and in the west. The ancients express a truth or a fact symbolically, the moderns express it in a straightforward matter of fact way. The ancients used symbols for they wanted a multiple way of expression, a symbol embodying a movement refers at the same time to many forms of the same movement on different levels, along different lines in diverse applications. It can be compared to multiple meanings of a verbal root in Sanskrit. The scientific terms on the other hand are very specific; they connote only one thing at a time. Each term with its specific sense is unilateral in its movement.
Further the five need not be restricted to the domain of matter alone as being its divisions and levels and functions. they can be extended to understand the whole existence symbolise the different levels of cosmic being and consciousness. at the lowest rug in the ladder is the earth representing matter and material existence. water next represents life and the vital movement, then fire represents the heart centre from where wells up all impulse and drive for progression. it holds so to say the evolutionary urge, the divine agni, the flame the inner heart, the radiant energy and aspiration. the fourth status or level of creation is the mind represented by air. (Marut). Finally the Vyom or space representing all that is beyond the mind. The INFINITE Existence and Consciousness. The five thus give the chart, as it were of nature's constitution, they mark also the steps of her evolutionary journey through unfolding time.
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