World Water Day

Today is #worldwaterday.

What does water mean to Us?

Water is important to our body, our home and family life, our livelihood, our culture practice, our being.Without water nobody can run their work from grassroots to apex level.

One can’t imagine a life without water, neither in nature/environment nor in our body.

Water is life, it’s an integral part for our life and for our body.

Do you know what Ayurveda explains about water ?

Ayurveda explains AAP ( water) is one of the panchamahaboota ( one among 5 basic physical elements). In Ayurveda classics it’s mentioned that Prakruti (nature) and Purusha (human being) are similar carrying the common components [Panchamahabuta-prithvi(earth),aap(water),teja(fire), vayu(air),akasha(space)].

The 5 great elements originate from pancha tanmatra. Tanmatra is a Sanskrit word meaning subtle essence.

Each great element is a combination of all 5 tanmatras but shows predominance of one tanmatra.The 5 tanmatras are Sound (Shabda), Touch (Sparsha), Vision (Roopa), taste (Rasa), Smell (Gnadha). These tanmatras are related to each sense organ.

Whenever we think of water qualities like liquidity or fluidity comes to our mind. Water shows important quality of binding – e.g. if we see dry soil, we cannot make a ball out of it.  But if we add water to the soil, then we can easily make mud balls. This binding nature helps in forming different structures in the body as it binds the 2 cells together. Hence this element is a constructive force.The tanmatra of water element is rasa (taste). The sense of taste or the ability to taste depends on the liquidity that exists within in the mouth in the form of saliva. Dry mouth along with dry tongue is unable to give sense of taste. The water element exhibits qualities like cool, liquid, dull soft, and sliminess. Its main actions are cohesiveness and adhesiveness.

Our body contains 70% of water. It manifests in the secretions of the juices in digestive tract and the salivary glands, in the mucus membranes and in plasma and inside the body cells. Water is absolutely vital for the functioning of the tissues, organs and various bodily systems, and is therefore called the Water of Life.

Water is life,life is precious, conservation is future.Lets save lives through water conservation.