Five elements means
Lectures
Srimad-Bhagavatam Lectures
Five elements means the sky, air, then fire, water, and earth.
Lecture on SB 1.3.1-3 -- San Francisco, March 28, 1968: Five elements means the sky, air, then fire, water, and earth. And five senses acquiring knowledge, just like eyes, ear, tongue, smelling. We are acquiring knowledge by these... And working five senses, hands, legs, the genital, and in this way there are five working senses and five knowledge-acquiring senses, and mind is the center.
The five elements means earth, water, fire, air, ether. Other planets are made of the same ingredient, five elements, earth, water, air, fire, and we find innumerable living entities within this planet, and why other planets made of the same ingredient and there is vacant? Why? This is not scientific knowledge.
Lecture on SB 6.1.23 -- Chicago, July 7, 1975: In the Bhagavad-gītā you will find,
- yānti deva-vratā devān
- pitṟn yānti pitṛ-vratāḥ
- bhūtāni yānti bhūtejyā
- yānti mad-yājino 'pi mām
- [Bg. 9.25]
Sri Caitanya-caritamrta Lectures
Whatever we see in this creation, the plants, the trees and living entities, and we are speaking especially of the living entities, and there are 8,400,000 different forms, they are coming from earth. That we can see. It doesn't require great intelligence. Any boy can understand that it is coming out of these five elements—means earth, water...
Lecture on CC Madhya-lila 20.113 -- London, July 23, 1976: Things which are beyond your conception, don't try to understand it by your so-called logic and argument. But one logic, one argument, if we are sincere, then we can accept even by logic and argument, that... That is also stated in śāstra, in Bhagavad-gītā, that Kṛṣṇa says, ahaṁ bīja-pradaḥ pitā.
- sarva-yoniṣu kaunteya
- mūrtayaḥ sambhavanti yāḥ
- tāsāṁ brahma mahad yonir
- ahaṁ bīja-pradaḥ pitā
- [Bg. 14.4]
Page Title: | Five elements means |
Compiler: | Jamuna Priya |
Created: | 11 of Dec, 2008 |
Totals by Section: | BG=0, SB=0, CC=0, OB=0, Lec=3, Con=0, Let=0 |
No. of Quotes: | 3 |