Principles of Ayurveda

Ayurveda explains an individual bundle of `spirit’ (desirous of expressing itself) utilizes Satwa (subjective consciousness) to manifest sense organs and a mind. Spirit and mind then combined together into a physical body. The five great eternal elements create the physical body. And these elements are Panchamahabhutas (Pancha = five; maha = great; bhutas =elements), which form from Tamas. The sense organs then use Rajas to project from the body into the external world to experience their objects. The body becomes the mind’s vehicle, its physical instrument for sense gratification.