The Hindu elements of life consist of five parts. These are air, fire, water, earth, and space.

Each element is a representation of a mood or sense such has fire represents not only the physical fire but anything that emits light or heat or that radiates.

The Hindu elements of life date back to the very earliest written history of India. They have been a part of the Ayuderva system of philosophy of understanding the cosmos.

Each element is a Bhuta and when the elements combine to form life that we perceive as something of conscious world then these lifeforms all fall somewhere within one of three doshas.

Things formed from space and air are classified as vata dosha, fire and water as pitta dosha, and water and earth as kapha dosha.

Under the Ayuverdic alternate medicine system of holistic healling the Vata Dosha classification deals with the kinetics and dynamics of bodies in motion. This is the mobility of bio energy fields or lifeforms through space where air is displaced.

The burning of energy is considered under the Pitta dosha or more of the formation and transformation of matter.

Where the Vata dosha considered dynamics, the Kapha dosha considers the more static quality of life or with what holds life together while it moves through space.







 

While the Hindu elements of life are classified in these three doshas none of the doshas can be said to completely rule either the spirit, the mind, or the body.

Each bio energetic being whether at the micro or smallest level of life to the macro or largest level of life presents characteristics from all three doshas or in other words philosophically speaking all bio energetic beings or lifeforms have mind, body, and spirit.

Somewhere, whether the lifeform is big or small, it is presenting somatic, psychosomatic, and or spiritual prahna.

Another word used in Ayurvedic medicine is Prahna and it is the point of manifestation or the moment of creation.

Without prahna there is no life force. Great life force is great prahna.

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A similar word in the Greek language would be Poiesis. Or it would have been when it was used as a verb in the age before Plato. Today poeisis is a suffix used to denote the formation of something as in erythropoeisis which means the formation of a red blood cell from seemingly nothing
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