DHYAN FOUNDATION

This is our body and all around us is the environment. This is our body and all around us is the environment. This body is also a part of the environment because everything is made of the five elements—earth, water, fire, air and ether. Actually, the body is made up of 24 tatvas.  The element that is most relevant to this discussion is ‘I’—asmita, aham, ahankar or ego. That is the most important tatva. It is also the first one to get contaminated. In order to contaminate the air in you, a few breaths of polluted air have to be inhaled. But not even a breath is required to contaminate the ego. It happens in an instant.  If you tell a beautiful girl that she is ugly, immediately she believes that she is ugly. After that even if 100 people tell her that she is pretty, she will continue to think she is ugly. The first thing to get contaminated is the ego and that is also the biggest test of a sadhak. The person whose ego is not affected by anything, no matter what ...

The entire creation consists of purush and prakriti or the five elements, which in various permutations and combinations make the creation in totality. All individual beings are a part of these five elements at the physical level. The purush aspect is individualistic and manifests at will, where the combination of these elements are most suitable for it backed by its karmic balance. Most perceive the world and themselves as just the five elements and all they worry about are those five elements, nothing more than that. Sanatan Kriya details these as bandhans, those who do not have these bandhans are called bandhan mukt. Stillness is the key to untie oneself from these bandhans. In vedic sciences, there is specific practice called tatva shuddhi that leads to stillness of the five elements, or prakriti. Only when that stillness is achieved are you able to access the other part of the creation, the purush tatva. Till your elemental or physical awareness does not dissolve, yo...