One unique principle in Ayurved states that we have to understand human anatomy and physiology by understanding principles hidden in the universe, by understanding nature around. In other words, human being is a representative to study the nature around and also other way round.
In microcosm (human being), you will find all factors of macrocosm (universe) in a miniature form.
As is universe, our body is a composition of five mahabhut (basic elements). Vayu is the second basic element or mahabhut in the ladder of evolution of universe, after Aakash.
Vayu is NOT just air. It is to be understood as an entity with some characteristics.
What are those characteristics? Well, Vayu is a medium. It’s a medium that carries sound.
Vayu has a power, exhibited by propagation! Vayu is a power of frequency. We cannot see vayu, but very well feel it. Vayu has to be felt.
Vayu is another name of energy. Imagine no movement, no propagation around! No movement of any object. Any object! No movement of any living being. No movement of any non-living being. Everything standstill and there will be no progression of TIME.
Time is the outcome of movements. It’s the outcome of movements on the planet, movements of planets and movement of stars in the galaxy and movement of the galaxy, all of which give birth to ‘TIME’. The principle behind all these movements is of Vayu.
‘Movement’ is characteristic of Vayu and the ‘Dryness’ we observe as a result of this movement is a characteristic of Vayu. In short, wherever there is ‘dryness’, wherever there is ‘movement’, we know that Vayu is very much in action!
In a living being Vayu is responsible for any and every movement: reflexes, known, unknown, voluntary, involuntary, of hands and of legs, within the body, between and within systems, between and also within tissues and cells, every movement, you imagine, movement that happened in your brain for that imagination!! Due to this fact, Vayu in the body has been given the status of God. In daily routine, we sometime refer TIME as God! (In Sanskrit its Kaalay Tasmaih Namah!)
