How To Approach God In The Right Way?

THE MANIFEST AND

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THE UNMANIFEST

Puruṣa and prakṛti are considered
the operative principles of the
Universe in the Hindu philosophical
systems of Sāṅkhya and Vedānta.
Puruṣa and prakṛti are unmanifest
energy sources, puruṣa being
inactive and prakṛti capable
of being active.
Everything else arises from these
two elements when they operate
together.
Prakṛti gives rise to the Cosmic and
individual intelligence and the five
natural elements.
The Taittreya Upaniṣad explains that
the Cosmic energy gave rise to
etheric energy or the energy of
space, ākāśa, which pervades the
Universe.

Prakṛti gives rise to the Cosmic and individual intelligence and the five natural elements. The Taittreya Upaniṣad explains that the Cosmic energy gave rise to etheric energy or the energy of space, ākāśa, which pervades the Universe.

This is the largest and subtlest quantum of energy that pervades the Universe. From etheric energy the energy of air arises. It is this energy of air, or vāyu, that sustains us in our body-mind system as the carrier of pranic or life energy. From the energy of air arises the energy of fire, agni. Many salutations in the Ṛg Veda, the first of the Hindu scriptures, are addressed to the fire. Almost all Vedic rituals are performed for the fire god. Āpas, the energy of water, arose from the energy of fire. Pṛthvī, the energy of earth arose from the energy of water.

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The Taittreya Upaniṣad goes on to say that it is from the earth energy that plants, herbs, food were created, from which came humans. Within the human is the intelligence that is a hologram of the Cosmic intelligence. The energy cycle is now complete.

The Cosmic intelligence is reflected in the human as the mind. The mind in turn uses the senses to access the external world. Each of the senses, sight, hearing, smell, taste and touch are related to the natural elements. Ether is linked to sound or the ears; air is linked to touch and the skin; fire is linked to color and form, and hence to sight and the eyes; water is linked to taste and the tongue; earth is linked to smell or the nose.