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Five Elements:

India Ayurveda’s Five Elements (Pancha Mahabhutas) form the foundation of life and health, Other philosophies include metal and wood. 

How these elements are key to our Sustainable Organic Natural Agriculture at EAFARMS:

 🌿  The Five Elements in Ayurveda: Pancha (5) Mahabhutas Ayurveda, India’s ancient science of life, teaches that everything in the universe, including the human body, is composed of five fundamental elements, known as the Pancha Mahabhutas:

  Akasha(Ether/Space - Sky):

Represents expansiveness, subtlety, and the potential for all creation. It governs sound and the sense of hearing.   

Vayu (Air):

Symbolizes movement, lightness, and mobility. It governs touch and the nervous system. 

Agni (Fire):

The principle of transformation, heat, and metabolism. It governs vision, digestion, and energy.  

Jala (Water): 

Represents fluidity, cohesion, and adaptability. It governs taste and bodily fluids. 

Prithvi (Earth): 

Symbolizes solidity, stability, and structure. It governs smell and the physical body’s form. 

Together, these elements are not just physical substances but energetic principles. They combine to form the doshas (Vata, Pitta, Kapha), which regulate health and balance in Ayurveda. 

🔥 How the Elements Manifest in Daily Life Body: Bones (earth), blood (water), metabolism (fire), breath (air), and consciousness (ether). 

 Mind: Stability (earth), emotions (water), passion (fire), creativity (air), and awareness (ether). 

Nature: Mountains (earth), rivers (water), sunlight (fire), wind (air), and sky (ether). Ayurveda emphasizes that health is harmony among these five elements. Imbalance leads to disease, while balance fosters vitality and longevity. 

🌏 Commonality with other philosophies such as Chinese philosophy, particularly in Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM), also describes a world built on five elements: Wood, Fire, Earth, Metal, and Water. 

 

Shared Elements: Both systems recognize Earth, Fire, and Water as essential. 

 Unique to Ayurveda: Ether (Space) and Air are emphasized, highlighting subtle energies and movement. 

Unique to Chinese Thought: 

Wood (growth, flexibility) 

and Metal (structure, refinement)

are central, reflecting cycles of nature and transformation. 

✨ Points of Convergence Fire governs transformation in both Ayurveda and TCM. 

Earth represents stability and nourishment in both traditions. Water symbolizes adaptability and life force in both. 

🌳 Divergence and Complementarity Ayurveda’s Air and Ether highlight the unseen forces of breath and consciousness. TCM’s Wood and Metal emphasize growth, cycles, and resilience. Together, these traditions remind us that human health is a reflection of universal balance. Ayurveda focuses on the subtle interplay of energies, while Chinese philosophy emphasizes cyclical processes of growth and decline. When combined, they offer a more holistic map of life’s elements.

@EAFARMS:

✅ Ayurveda’s five elements—Space (Ether) - Sky,

🗓️ Farmer’s Almanac: Nature’s Calendar of Wisdom  

The Farmer’s Almanac is a time-tested guide that blends astronomy, weather forecasting, planting schedules, and folk wisdom into a single seasonal roadmap. Rooted in centuries of observation, it helps farmers align their activities, sowing, harvesting, irrigation

with lunar phases, solar cycles, and elemental rhythms. Just as Ayurveda and other traditions emphasize harmony with nature’s forces, the Almanac empowers rural communities to make intuitive, climate-conscious decisions. It’s not just a calendar, it’s a cultural compass that echoes the elemental balance found in many philosophies.

Air, 

Fire, 

Water, 

Earth 

when compared with Chinese philosophy,   both mirror much of , but differ by excluding 

Wood and 

Metal. 

These differences enrich our understanding of how cultures interpret nature’s forces, showing that while the languages differ, the wisdom converges on one truth: life thrives in balance.

Majority of the World population is deviating from these five elements philosophy and do not think about it at all in this AI era. Hopefully the current generation understand these philosophies and lead a balanced life.

Space Debris:

Polluted Skies - Particulate matter & Other chemicals:

Air Pollution:

Water Pollution:

Destructive Fire:

Earth - Soil Pollution: Pesticides, Artificial Chemical & Plastics making soil sterile:

However, all these elements were utilized by our forefathers to build Deepam (Diya, Earthen Lamp) -

Soil clay from *Earth*,

Mixed with *Water*,

Dried in *Air*,

Lamp Wicks lit with *Fire*

that brighten the *Spirit* (Meditative state - Ether, Space - Environment) - 

for various functions mainly such as Karthigai Deepam festival indicating the importance of the five elements.

Let the Earthen Lamps that incorporates all five elements, lit in this auspicious Karthigai Deepam Day, lighten the Earth and bless it's inhabitants with positive blessings, peace and prosperity.

Shiva Nature

 Shiva Nature:

Historically humans have inclined to find the mysteries of life on Earth. Evidence left by our ancestors are so intriguing and amazing. As we study these historical evidences it is really astonishing how detailed they were. They recorded them for the  future generations to understand the concepts, experience their knowledge, findings and make further progress along their findings. Hopefully we can follow their guidance and move forward in a positive way to obtain the goal of this life on Earth. 

Humans have understood from Nano level to incomprehensible size of the universe. That is the vastness of the place we are in. The smallest of smallest is as important as the largest of largest. Every aspect of this is important to understand and one has to remain in the neutral state. That neutral state is what humans have tried to understand historically. 

It is as simple as a Neutron in an atom and Positive Charged sub-atomic particles (Protons) that are surrounded by Negative Charged particles (Electrons). Electrons, revolve around the Protons which when interact  forms Neutrons (Zero Charge), which creates the stability. This type of constant activity is seen in higher level such as universe (Cosmic dance) with fuzzy stability (Higgs-Boson- some call God's particle). This stability state with constant dance historically was identified as Shiva in Hinduism ( way of life).

     Cosmic dance of Shiva

Every unit (smallest to the largest) are in constant motion and simultaneously stable.  Ancestors represented this concept of stability of constant dance (energy) by Shiva Lingam. Shiva Lingam are found in different parts of the world and some of them have self existed naturally (Suyambu). They carved thousands of lingams in lingam (like fractals) - SahasraLingam.

        

(Several videos are available about ancient Lingam in the channel by Praveen Mohan).

They incorporated five elements of life ( Earth, Air, Water, Fire, Space (aether - sky))  

Shiva Lingams. 

Prithivi Lingam	Earth	Ekambareswarar         Temple -                Kanchipuram
Jambu Lingam	Water	Jambukeshwarar Temple –  Thiruvanaikaval,  Trichy
Agni Lingam	Fire	Arunachaleswara  Temple  - Thiruvannamalai
Vayu Lingam	Air	Sri Kalahastheeswara Temple - Kalahasthi
Akasha Lingam	Space	Thillai Nataraja    Temple - Chidambaram

Historical Shiva temples of India fall on the same geographical line in map of India:

Some argue that this will not fall into staright line, But Shiva is universal and the view from a higher point - it will fall into a staright line:

Stabilization was the key concept in all these indicators by forefathers. That is the reason they have conferred to be in stable state of mind while one win or lose. They understood the benefits of natural form of stability and gave us in the form of Shiva. They felt the energy from the Shiva Lingam and experienced the meditative stability. 

Hence when excavations were done for archeological purposes Shiva Lingams were found in several places of the Globe (Google Search):

Mexico:                                                         

 

Austria:

   Israel:                                             

        

Nepal: - Buddha Birthplace

 

Ireland:

   Vatican: Museum                                      

  

Oldest Lingam: Gudimallam:

 

Ancient Lingam:

    Tallest Lingam:                             

Isha - Lingam  (108 names):

Spadika Lingam:

Thanjavur - Lingam - built by Raja Raja Chola:

Indus Valley Shiva Lingam:

Similarities:

Old Video from Middle East:

 Lord Shiva (Hindu God ) and Ek Chuah (Mayan God):

Bundle of hair, Snake in the neck and rope in the neck, Tiger cloth and Leopard cloth, Anklets on legs, Trishul (Trident) in hand and Spear in hand.

Natural Flower - Naga Linga Poo  (Couroupita guianensis):

Indian Bael (Vilvam - properties ) is used for praying (Pooja) Shiva.

Rudraksha - ( ELAEOCARPUS GANITRUS) - Shiva's eye - Yoga beads.

Ancient Shiva Lingam guarded by snake similar to Naga Linga Poo:

Association of snake in Shiva's neck is always amazing. 

Structure of DNA (Double helix structure) 

                            

Nagar:

For defect less DNA they prayed Shiva to rectify Nagadhosam.

                                              

Every part of the Nature were considered part of Shiva. Sacred Mountains were identified as Lord Shiva's Abode. 

Mount Kailash

Mount ShivLing

Tiruvannamalai

All these mountains were considered sacred, historically. In a way, the minerals and nutrients flow from these mountains by rainwater and sacred rivers to bring them to land and to make the land fertile for food growth. These mountains are very important in various aspects of Life survival on Earth. Most of the ancient siddhars (500 BCE - 500 CE or 300 BCE or 300 CE - ardent devotees of Shiva) got their ingredients from the mountains (Chaturagiri) and nature. 

Diversified Nayanmars (3rd to 8th centuries CE) devoted their life completely to Shiva coming from different backgrounds and professions.

Recently read scientific articles on minerals in the rock surface acting as photoelectric current materials and brain cells are stimulated by electricity. In most of the temples sun rays falls on the Shiva lingam mostly made up of shiny rocks. A rock has energy in several ways. Assuming it's sitting still, a rock may have gravitational potential energy because of gravity pulling on it. It has energy stored in the chemical bonds in the molecules of the rock. Also, if the rock has some charge on it, it could have electrical potential energy if it was in an electric field. Then of course there is the rest energy of the rock. According to relativity(E=mc^2), the rock has some energy just by being massive. The rock has energy stored in many different ways. Rocks containing radioactive materials (e.g. pitchblende) will radiate energy as the radioactive decay.  People experienced these meditative electric waves in the temple when sun rays fall on them, it had improved their mental health and well being historically.

During childhood days we used to go Shiva temples in Srivilliputtur and Sankaranainarkoil.

 

  Visited so many other historical Shiva temples over the years:

Great Thanjavur Temple built 1000 years ago By great King Raja Raja Chola

These are great temples and thinking they are standing 1000s of years is amazing as itself. How many people would have come to these places and experienced the divinity. Real truth of life can be experienced in these temples.  Followers have written about their experiences. One such epic work is Thiruvasagam written more than 1000 years by Maanikkavaasagar.

Thiruvasagam by Maestro Illayaraja takes you to the upper state:

From the smallest atom (scientists map atoms in nanoparticle)  to largest Universe:

Scientific Shiva Lingam:

     Shiva Vishnu together:                          

  

Vishnu and Brahma (floating above Vishnu):

 It is all - the dance of Shiva, once that is realized it is a joy to travel in life along with the dance of Shiva:

In Mathematics, there are proofs adding positive numbers infinitely ends up in an negative fraction. From the circle of life at our Mother Earth, Pangaea or Pangea was a supercontinent in our Earth, meaning all the surface lands of the world at one point were one land mass and now they are attracting towards each other slowly and it may become one huge mass again - this is circle of life at a bigger level. Now, even bigger picture is Universe - Stars and Black holes - So many stars are born and are also pulled by black holes and the event is called “ stellar tidal disruption ”. 

When we understand this concept in a simpler words "Everything is Nothing" it intrigues people and make them obsessed with these type of topics. After all, from Nothing, Something may happen again - A complete circle. That circle of everything - nothing to everything - smallest to largest - no start and no end -  infinite is Shiva - that concept was completely understood historically by our forefathers and was represented by Lingas,  by Temples,  felt it in sound (Aum), Nature and at Universal (cosmos) level in meditative states.

At our E (Eswaran - another name for Lord Shiva) AFARMS, we also have a Shiv Linga and another stone in front representing Nandiyam Perumal). Of course, we have Shiva's dear tree - vilvam tree along with other trees. We practice  Sustainable Organic Natural Agriculture. Along with that we take it to next level of farming - Spiritual Farming. Progress of the farm - over 12 years. Every aspect of the farm is the dance of Shiva - Shiva the Nature. 

I hope you all get the spiritual aspect of the life and how our forefathers mastered it.

If you have such great experiences share to the World to move forward in the right path.

OM NAMA SHIVAYA

Everything needs to be stable - Peace be on our Great EARTH - Let us all travel  together -

ANBAE SHIVAM