Pancha Mahabhoota | Earth, Water, Fire, Ether, and Wind

Pancha Mahabhoota

 

Panch mahabhoota made with three words panch, maha, bhoota. Panch means five and maha refers to great, bhoota refers to elements that exist, combine meaning would be “Five great elements of existence”. According to Ayurveda scriptures and Scholars, these fundamental elements are responsible for the creation of the universe, including humans. There is a balance of these five elements in the universe. The Elements are Space, Earth, Water, Air, and Fire. Every element has a specific role in itself. If this balance is disturbed it can be dangerous for the universe and also for the people. These five elements are called Pancha-mahabhoota. 

 

क्षिति जल पावक गगन समीरा ।

पंच रचित यह अधम शरीरा ।।

           -Tulsidas ji

 

 

It is believed that our body is also made up of these five elements. Our body is created by five supreme element- Earth, water, fire, ether, and wind. The body is composed in the same order as it is written here.

• The first mother's ovum is the earth element,
• Janaka's sperm is the water element.
• The combination of these two is the fire element.
• Formation is an ether element.
• Pranvayu (प्राणवायु ) is an air element.

EARTH | WATER | FIRE | WIND | ETHER

Every  human has a unique balance of panch-mahabhoota, the imbalance of these elements cause diseases.

 

The Pancha-mahabhootas and their associated organs and factors

• Ether(sound) (ears, throat)
• Air (touch) (skin, heart)
• Fire (seeing) (eyes, navel)
• Water (taste) (tongue, sacral)
• Earth (smell) (nose)

Elements are developed from influence of this basic constitution of the universe as below

Ether	Sattva dominant
Air	Rajas dominant
Fire	Sattva and Rajas dominant
Water	Sattva and Tamas dominant
Earth	Tamas dominant

Let's try to know properties about them

Property type	Earth (पृथ्वी-तत्व)	Water (जल-तत्व)	Fire (अग्नि तत्व)	Wind (वायु तत्व)	Space(Ether) (आकाशीय-तत्व)
Nature	Heavy	Soft	Warm	Uncertain	Mixed
Quality	Weight, solidarity	Fluidity	Hot, spread	Speed	Spread
Characters	Yellow	White	Red	Blue or brown	Black
Shape	Square	Crescent moon	Triangle	Hexagon	The dot
Chakra	Base	Health care	Manipur	Non-profit	Purification
Body function	Skin, blood	All body fluids	Apps, sleep, thirst	Muscle contraction	Passion
Body position	Thighs	Leg	The shoulder	Navel	Head
Mental state	ego	wisdom	Manas, Vivek	Mind	Wisdom
Thesaurus	Annamay	Pranamay	Manomay	Scientific	Delightful
Deathbed	Inanimate	Life	same	Udan	Wynn
Planet	Wed	Moon, Venus	Sun, mars	Saturn	Jupiter
The direction	East	The west	South	answer	Mid-vertical

PANCH-MAHABHOOT AUR TRI-DOSHA SAMBANDH