What do we learn from Aakash ( space )?

Let’s clarify – by Aakash, it is meant here to be SPACE, not SKY.

The sky is what is visible from Earth.

Space is beyond the sky ( our atmosphere ).

Not only that, but SPACE is the nothingness between the planets and galaxies, and also, it is hidden within us as emptiness between atoms and sub-atomic particles.

So, it is the most pervasive element of all.

Aakash Bhav ( attitude of being a sky ( space )  ) is the most difficult to grasp, yet very important because the sky always remains standstill.

Clouds come and go. Sky ( space ) stands still.

Clouds fight, win, lose, and disappear, but the sky remains a witness.

Full of clouds or cloudless, the sky is always a sky.

Sun rises, creating a day.

It sets and creates a night.

It doesn’t matter to the sky.

Civilizations after civilization come and go; the sky watches.

The sky is where the drama of life goes on.

If we can develop Aakash Bhav and witness our own life, life’s sufferings can disappear, and a permanent sthitpragnya state can get established within.

This bhav is the most important because all other elements are matter ( earth, water ) or energy ( fire, air ), but Aakash is beyond them.

Energy and matter create Sansar, but they are all under the supremacy of space ( Aakash, existence ).

Sansar is Parvati ( Prakriti ), and Aakash is Shiv ( Purush ).

Sansar is DOING ( energy is always restless, it forces you to DO ).

Aakash Bhav is NON-DOING – total rest, eternal bliss.

Understanding the nature of each element and its corresponding Bhav releases us slowly and makes our Ego more pervasive.

The ego is caught in the lower four elements that create and operate our body.

Meditating on this, and observing this interplay of them, lets us settle on the fifth element of Aakash ( space – the witness ), which, when realized, one realizes that it is not separate from the other four elements, but they all were and still are part of the fifth – just like a dream is a part of the dreamer, the wave is a part of the ocean, Parvati is a part of Shiva – and we settle in THE ONE.