The Philosophy of the Bhagavadgita : 12- 2. Swami Krishnananda.
---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Saturday,August 7,, 2021.8:44. PM. Chapter -12. God and the Universe - 2. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- The lowest category of reality that we observe is the earth plane, physical matter, solid substance, gross objects, all which can be grouped under the category of the mahabhutas, or the five elements. Anything that is perceptible to the senses is regarded as material. The five elements, so-called, are not five different substances as we might have heard it said earlier. These elements are rather five degrees of the density of the cosmic substance. It does not mean that there is a total distinction of one from the other. According to the cosmology of the Samkhya, and also Vedanta, the effect can be resolved into the cause, so that, ult...