According to Siddhar's science,
they are the original bases of all the corporeal things which, when die
out or destroyed resolve themselves again into elements. The human body
is composed of five elements viz., Earth, Water, Fire, Vayu and Akasa
or ether. This is in fact just takes place in the case of dead bodies.
The following instances
will show the transformed conditions of the five elements in the human
body:
1. Earth - Bones, flesh, nerves, Skin
and Hair.
2. Water - Bile, Blood, Semen, Secretion
and Sweat
3. Fire - Hunger, Thirst, Sleep, Beauty
and Indolence.
4. Air - Contraction, Expansion and
Motion.
5. Sky - Interspaces of the stomach,
Heart and the Head.
All earthly things live,
move, grow and die to be resolved themselves again into five elements
after death. They are the fundamental principles of creation, preservation
and destruction in the universe. On examine their functions, it should
be known first, that these elements first combine with one another to
form cells, the requiste materials or organism for the animal body; and
secondly, they discharge the functional forces called cellular activities,
which are in themselves, the guiding principles of mind and the body.
1. The creative activity in the physical
body is known as Vatha.
2.The protective one as Pitta.
3. The destructive one is Kapha. (Phelgm)
In the mental body, these activities are being guided by the three qualities
Satwa, Rajas, and Tamas, which are after all the relative forms of the
above said activities. It is only the matter and force which they brought
into union by Nature and they manifest themselves into a Purush a composed
of Soul, Mind, and Body. The soul though form the basis for the generative
forces to act and react on mind and body and to produce mental and physical
activities, yet it remains independent, undistributed and absolute.
Now coming to body and mind, the ultramicroscopic activities are brought
on by the nerve centres, which make up the human body proper. So, the
body manifested from the absolute depends for their functional existences
on the food, we take just like petrol or coal for machinery. It is only
that the well measured and judiciously regulated supply of food that
causes progressive chemical changes to produce chyme or chyle [rasa]
to blood, then flesh, then fat and bones, and lastly marrow and semen.
It is the progressive change and action that lead to the three humours
described below viz., Vatha, Bile, Phelgm.
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