WORSHIPPING FIVE ELEMENTS, YOGA, AND MORE

Why do we worship five elements?

- GURU GYAN Sadhguru

Sadhguru: Everything that we know as physical existence, including ourselves, is just the mischief of five elements: earth, water, fire, air, and space. It is so magnificently put together that it could be an eternal trap. Even a magnificent trap is still a trap. Yogis enjoy the trap when they are in it, but they constantly work to transcend the trap.The wise of the past devised many methods to go beyond the trap. We developed a system called bhuta shuddhi, as a scientific way of becoming free from the five elements. Bhuta shuddhi is the most fundamental aspect of Yoga. If you become free from the five elements, you become free from the physical. To support this kind of sadhana, they built devices called bhuta lingas.

There are five temples for the five elements, four in Tamil Nadu and one in Andhra Pradesh: water in Thiruvanaikaval, space in Chidambaram, fire in Thiruvannamalai, air in Kalahasti, and earth in Kanchipuram. People moved from temple to temple to do sadhana on each of the five elements, get mastery over them and enhance them, which could do miracles for one's health and wellbeing.