CHAPTER IX 



TATTVIC INFLUENCES: TEJAS, THE FIRE OF LIFE 



IT is only natural and in perfect accord with 

 the harmony which we observe throughout 

 nature that the Tattva which puts us in hap- 

 piest relations with the universe while we live on 

 the terrestrial plane is the earth element, or 

 Prithivi. Moreover, the fortunate influences of 

 the Tattvas upon mundane life, decrease, ac- 

 cording to Tantrik philosophy, in exact ratio to 

 their remoteness from the terrestrial element; 

 and the lower triplicity Prithivi, Apas, and 

 Tejas work together with paramount influence 

 upon human life for good when harmoniously 

 balanced, and for untold evil when misused. And 

 this influence is not alone upon the gross plane in 

 perfecting the physical body and maintaining the 

 equability and harmonious functioning of all its 

 organs, but also in subtler ways through the great 

 sympathetic nervous system, which is the connect- 

 ing link with exterior vibrations. 



We are constantly lapped in an ocean of life- 

 giving Prana flowing in full currents of rhythmic 

 harmony from its solar center; but in diseased 



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