Meditation is the food of our soul. It helps us experience the theories of life explained by scholars time and again. These experiences are as exciting as it gets. Here is one such experience which left me in awe.
This universe is made of five elements - Earth, Water, Fire. Air and Space. And so is our body. Our body remains alive only if air passes through it, i.e. if we breathe. A baby is born in this world weighing 3/4 kilos. He or she eats food and drinks water and grows into a 60/70 kilos adult. The food he or she eats comes from the earth which is grown with the help of sunlight (fire) and water. All of this happens within space. There is space in the body. That is why we can eat food, drink water or breathe. Our body is like a hexagram with these four elements - earth, water, fire, and air.
Earth and water flow downwards and are represented as feminine energy like Dharti Mata and Ganga Mata.
Similarly, fire and air flow upwards and are represented as masculine energy like Agni Dev and Vayu dev.
A mother holds her children, feeds them, nourishes them. While a father teaches his children life skills and helps them achieve their goals in life. The feminine energy in us keeps up grounded, and masculine energy helps us rise upwards. Though a healthy life is a balance in these feminine and masculine energies, a life happens only when these two energies meet.
Our body is like a hexagram, i.e. a combination of two triangles, one pointing downwards and other pointing upwards. This hexagram has a lot of significance in many religions like Hinduism, Jainism, Islam, and more. The more we learn about the symbols, the more interesting it becomes.
However, the most intriguing part of this is the fifth element of the universe - space. Is it possible to capture the space in any symbol? Well, it is something where all of this happens, or for that matter where a symbol is created. In some beliefs, the universe is said to be made up of only four elements - earth, water, fire, and air. Space is not considered as an element. The subtler we go, the more difficult it becomes to understand. Meditation can help us experience the space, the very existence.
Experiencing these elements within us can open up a whole new perspective to look at this universe. It is so rightly said that you are the universe. The play of these elements which continues in our bodies to keep us alive is the very same which keeps this universe alive as well.
Inspired by Gurudev Sri Sri Ravishankar's meditation.
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