Panch MahÄbhuta Tatwa & Sharira
ISBN: 9788122310115
Author: Prof. Shrikant Prasoon
Publisher: Hindoology Books (www.pustakmahal.com)
According to the Indian philosophy, the physical body (after death) merges into five gross elements – air, fire, water, soil and space.
The book Panch MahÄbhuta Tatwa & Sharira should have been a book of science but the author has changed it into a general book to enable everyone to understand, and perform ‘pious duties towards Elements, Body, Creator and Nature to ensure continuity of life’.
Life is not what we live and then die. It is not what ends with us. Life is a sublime term and a divine gift. It must continue. We are here on this Earth, because it has continued, it will continue and the posterity will live, play and give way to their posterity. It is the supreme arrangement, which should not be disturbed. Hence, we must control ourselves and lead a balanced life to shun away human interference and excesses towards Nature and Natural Elements. That is our first and foremost duty to ‘live under limitations’. The eternal fact that will never change is that ‘our freedom ends at the end of the tip of our nose and at the fingers of stretched hands’. We are free only to a limited extent.
Life should never be lived as a burden. Live it wisely, live it fully and be healthy and happy. Life will become bliss. Inner strength and growth of body is as important as the outer growth and strength.
This book deals with the five Natural Elements, Panch MahÄbhuta Tatwa. The translation of MahÄbhuta Tatwa into ‘Elements’ is not satisfactory enough, for it does not carry the weight and significance, it does not express the divinity and sublimity.
Man is making them scarce and charging a price for each of them. He has become the most degenerated businessman. He is selling Air, Soil, Water, Fire and Space. Others are paying for them. It seems that he has completely lost contact with God, has polluted and is still polluting the Elements. He has already made all the preparations for the extinction of life from the Mother Earth. And yet, he dreams to survive to rule over the world.
Panch MahÄbhuta Tatwa and Sharira is a scientific study of the Elements and the body, and their inter-relationship. Both the concrete form and the abstract reality are analysed, explained and synthesised in achieving the target of understanding the Elements and showing the need of their balanced presence in the body, which we can achieve by absorbing them. There is an effort to show the intricate and essential relationship between the Creator and the body, which was never possible without Him.
It will be a victory of the Elements and the body, of divinity and humanity, if man changes his ways, closes the entrance to the path of destruction and extinction, and moves on the constructive path, keeping the Elements clean for growth, health and happiness.