Sambodhi 2009 Vol 32

Author(s): J B Shah, K M patel
Publisher: L D Indology Ahmedabad

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S. N. Bhavasar and R. W. Boyer
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further limited. Pressure and activity rise, increasing temperature or heat, which can lead to radiation. This involves the weak and strong nuclear forces in combination with the force of gravity. Water (Apas)
The next level is water, condensing further from space, air, and fire; which expresses the abstract principle of liquidity, fluidity, or flow of energy along a path, such as a current of water. This concerns flow or motion to fill the available space within the limitations of its permeability, but a denser flow due to increased mass. This type of energy flow can be associated with the electromagnetic force, and especially the properties of electricity, in conjunction with weak and strong forces along with gravity. Earth (Privithi)
The grossest constituent, earth, expresses solidity and inertness, with the least degree of directional freedom or flow. It is a further limitation of the liquid form, such as ice from water, when motion and temperature associated with heat or fire is reduced into a more rigid, less dynamic state of solid matter. It is the endpoint of the process of manifestation or condensationìthe most fixed inert state of nature. The abstract principle and constituent of earth can be associated most closely with magnetism (water with electricity), in combination with the other four forces. The magnetic force is a dipole system in which the opposites of attraction and repulsion (north and south poles) are contained in one field. It flows in a defined circular path that curves back upon itself in a closed loop perpendicular to the flow of electric current, a further limitation compared to electricity (1).
In this model of the full range of levels of nature, these five fundamental constituents together constitute the most expressed, grossest domain of phenomenal existence. Although no additional ontological levels of existence emerge from them, a vast diversity of natural phenomena manifest from their combinations and permutations. The levels of gross objective existence associated with the Mahabhutas inclade the ultramicroscopic, microscopic, macroscopic, and ultramacroscopic cosmological levels of the gross physical universe that have been the object of mainstream objective modern science.
As introduced earlier in this paper, it is fortunate that cutting edge quantum and quantum gravity theories have been progressing beyond this gross relative