Five elements in education.

- Yesterday in Today - Bhagiratha Brahmabhatta

This Vedantic ideology should also be brought into education, that is, the entire animate and inanimate world has arisen from the five elements: earth, sky, water, air and fire... children are also the creation of those five elements. So the child should be introduced to that panchatattva. Our five sense organs and five action senses are the result of panchatattva. The attribute of earth element is smell and its sense nose, the attribute of air element is touch its sense skin... the attribute of sky element is word and its sense ear... This should be taught to the child by showing the characteristics of five different elements. All the five elements are infinite and how can a child made of the sum of those five elements be finite?

From time immemorial, we have given the status of river and earth as mother, sky as father, air as god and fire as devadhi god. It was nothing like us. Those Indian rites are present in every Indian, that is why it is said that when a person dies, he is absorbed in the Panchamahabhutas. The Panchatattvas were valued in all the ways of life where marriage rites were witnessed by fire, death rites were witnessed by fire, rites like Punsavana in birth rites were witnessed by air. Now let us see the utilization of those five elements in education or the importance of five elements in education.

What is the basic function of education? To develop the personality. What is a person?- Organism of five elements. So what if the five elements of water, earth, fire, sky and air are centered in the formation of a person? Let us understand the matter with a better illustration, the student is at the center of education - which is the earth element... earth means soil, it forms different forms of soil... that soil is also of different types, some fertile, some sandy, some silty. If it is a river bank, the soil becomes moldy... Take an example of an illiterate farmer, he will never plant paddy in a field where potatoes are growing.... Why? That soil is suitable for potatoes - he knows it. We also have to know the nature of the student's basic soil - Prithvi Tattva - its innate nature.. Then different shaped vessels are prepared from that soil.

Another component in the education process is the teacher who theoretically works with water. When the water element is mixed with the earth element, the soil becomes soft. The hardness of the earth—the water dissolves so that the soil can be given the desired shape. The teacher's job is to give a new mold to the earth element student by adding water element to that soil. While giving the mold, the teacher taps the clay - the aim is to make the vessel harden and not break, just like a potter. The teacher's teacherhood pours into the student—the mold of the student is formed as a result. The work of this teacher is not only done by the school teacher, the student also receives teacherhood from parents, gurus, saints, elders, events or experiences. The basic thing is that the teacher molds the child with earth element...with water element.

The third element in the process of education is fire. A child molded from clay into a pot or a pot matures in Nimbhada in the fire element. It is this fire that ripens in the end. Knowledge is the fire in the learning process. Be it the knowledge of experience or the knowledge of the senses, but the ability in it comes from knowledge. Now the teacher like the potter moves away. The moldy green vessel is the fruit of the teacher but the ripe moldy vessel is the cause of Jnana or Agni. The idea and imagination of the student, which is formed by the teacher, has to be matured in the furnace of knowledge... It becomes strong when it gets experience... After teaching the Guru, the disciple would let the disciple loose in the forest-world, the disciple himself would gain knowledge through experience. Those experiences are the true capital of that disciple. Teacher - lost, lost, teacher's work done Dronacharya chastises Arjuna - then Arjuna enters Arjuna, Dronacharya pushes behind the curtain. Disciples are accustomed to Guru - in that sense, when the basic elements in the disciple are more powerful than the Guru... Thus we see three stages... Child means earth teacher means water element and Jnana means fire element.

With the help of the student-geologist, the teacher, with the help of hydrology, nokha nokha becomes mold of soft soil. Then, in that fiery element, that mold personality is formed in the furnace of knowledge. Now the fourth element is Vayu which constantly keeps the student-teacher... student-society connected. Becomes an assistant in Pratyanaya. The words spoken by the teacher are carried by wind to the ears of the disciple and the knowledge acquired by the disciple spreads through the wind to the society. Vayu Tattva is responsible for expansion of knowledge.. in the absence of Vayu Tattva the whole process becomes impossible. And the fifth element is space. The place where the entire yajna is performed.. the entire environment....the entire environment. Everything floats from inside to outside. Get overturned. The personality is shaped by the environment that makes the environment pure. Keep the school yard clean... All the examples of cleaning the environment are the results of Akash Tattva.

In the Environment - Akash Tattva improves the environment... Fearlessness in the inner environment in such a way that activities like prayer, pooja after bathing, defecation, etc. sanctify one's physical environment. Virtues like Prabhuprem, compassion sensitivity arise. Hence the omnipresence of Akash develops a person from the inside out.

Just as every seed has the potential of a tree, every student also has some possibility, but its development depends on the soil, how much water, and the environment in which the seed is planted. ... that ability can be recognized by the teacher through the curiosity in him and the intimate opportunity towards him. After discerning those possibilities, if that seed gets the nourishment of Panchatattva, then that seed can surely attain a higher personality... We have to approach education through the process of Panchatattva to form such personalities with sensitive souls. The basic thing cannot be forgotten that the earth element will sprout, the water element will soak, the air element will spread, the fire element will light and the sky element will expand.