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Starting with the grossest element and moving towards the finest, what are the five elements?

A

Earth-Water-Fire-Air-Ether (Space)

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What are the building blocks of the Vedic sciences?

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The 5 elements

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Spirit is called what?

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Purusha

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When Spirit takes form it is called what?

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Prakriti

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Every object as Prakriti is an expression of what?

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Purusha. Matter expressing spirit

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Each of the Elements are responsible for what?

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For some important aspect of the self and one of the five senses

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Earth is primarily responsible for what?

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For the physique

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Psychologically, Earth is our what?

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Our practical nature, literally being “down to earth”

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Earth connects us to what?

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The sense of smell.

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Ayurveda says anything we can smell contains what?

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Earth

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Prominent planets in Earth signs will be what?

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Sensual and hands on. They are practical in expression.

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Too much Earth brings what?

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Stagnation and clinging to form

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Water is primarily responsible for what?

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For the senses

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Psychologically, water has to do with what?

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Our deep emotional bonds, memories and sensory impressions

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Prominent planets in water signs make one want to what?

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To merge and bond emotionally

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Water signs can be the most________ of signs

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Psychic

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Too much water can lead to what?

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Excessive emotion/emotional dependence.

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Water connects us to the sense of what?

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Taste

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What is Fire primarily responsible for?

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The mind and mental impressions while also being responsible for digestion of all sorts, whether digesting food or digesting information.

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Fire is also our active __________mind, our ________ nature and the instinctual, conditioned/________ mind.

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Emotional, Passionate, reactive

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It is the element of Fire that digests __________ impressions (water) turning them into __________ we can use. Otherwise, our minds would be a jumble of sensory data.

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Sensory, Thoughts

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Psychologically, fire represents what?

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Our active desire nature. We literally “burn” to satisfy our desires. It is Fire that makes us “want” the chocolate eclair.

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Prominent planets in Fire signs will exhibit what?

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An active, bold or perhaps aggressive nature.

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Strong Fire types can be what?

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The most inspirational of signs yet also the most self-centered.

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Too much Fire can lead to what?

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Excessive anger

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Fire connects us to what sense?

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The sense of sight. Ayurveda says anything we can see is touched by Fire.

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Air is primarily responsible for what?

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The intellect.

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The Air element corresponds to movement of all sorts in the _________, ________, __________, etc.

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Body, breath, thoughts, etc.

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Air is our higher ________ and ________ mind

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Intellectual and social mind. It is the mind of our philosophies and opinions - our politics and rationalizations, as well as how we relate to society as a whole.

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It is through the ________ element that we observe and interact socially with the world, forming conclusions about ____ and _________.

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Air. It and ourselves

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Which element would decide to eat the eclair?

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Air

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Psychologically, Air represents what?

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Our higher mental capabilities as well as our conscience and ethical principles.

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Prominent planets in Air signs will generally exhibit what?

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A social nature. They like discourse and debate.

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Too much Air and one becomes what?

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Ungrounded, aloof, dry or sterile.

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Air connects us to the sense of what?

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Touch.

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Anything we can feel is touched by what?

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Air

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Ether is primarily responsible for what?

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Consciousness

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The element of Ether corresponds to what?

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Pure consciousness itself-our awareness.

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Ether is the layer of being beyond what?

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The four gross physical elements.

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Ether refers to the ___________ consciousness. That which is able to perceive the thought process and remain __________ with it. It is our _______ nature, connection to freedom and the closest to our _______ Self.

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Witnessing. Unidentified. Intuitive. True.

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Psychologically, Ether represents what?

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An initial freedom from the mind/body complex.

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It is through the element of Ether that we perceive the distance between the _____ and ______ mind substance and the _____ of creation and our connectedness to it.

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Thinking and feeling. Oneness.

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Ether- the behavioral archetype is that of one who is ________ in a healthy way, as the __________ or witness.

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Detached. Observer.

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Ether connects us to the sense of what?

A

Sound

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Ayurveda says that it is through sound that we perceive ______.

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Space

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Each finer element _______, ________, and _______ the grosser ones.

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Contains, observes, and animates

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The ______ sound of ______ was the first act of creation

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Primordial. Aum.

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Even in the Christian texts it is stated “in the beginning there was the word•, the ______. ______ is simply another form of Aum.

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Amen. Amen.

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(Sound of Aum as 1st act of creation cont’d)

How are all creatures created?

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All creatures are produced in this way through the unique sound vibration of their Karma, yet all creatures arise from the same source, the same primordial origin, the sound of Aum.

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This, through the element of _______, the dance of creation begins out of the _________ that existed before (sound resonates through ______).

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Ether. Equilibrium. Ether.

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