What is Knowledge : Ch-6-14.

Chapter- 6:- Being in Balance with the World-14.


The inner constituents of your personality, to which I was referring again and again, are also to be understood properly. What is meant by the inner constituents? As I mentioned, the physical body is ultimately constituted of the five elements – earth, water, fire, air, ether.

The bones, flesh, nerves, marrow, blood, and whatever is in your physical body, is nothing but the result of the permutation and combination of earth, water, fire, air and ether. But there is something else; there are energies. The prana, which takes the form of breathing, is also an essential.

And the breathing process, which is the expression of the energy we call the prana, is the generator which pumps strength into our body, due to which we are able to move, walk, lift our hands, and perform the physical and physiological functions. If the prana does not pump energy, we cannot even move; there will be no life in the body.

The body has no vitality of its own. It cannot move, just as a brick cannot move or a cart cannot move unless it is pulled. This dynamo that pumps energy into the physical body and makes it move, as railway carriages are made to move by their engine, is the prana sakti within us – the energy, vitality, force, vibration, or whatever we may call it.

Swami Krishnananda
To be continued  .....