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The renowned astrophysicist Sir Arthur Stanley Eddington explains: "The world wesee and experience in everyday life is simply a convenient mirage attuned to our very limited senses, an illusion conjured by our perceptions and our mind. Allthat is around us (including our own bodies) which appears so substantial is ultimately nothing but ephemeral networks of particle-waves whirling around at lightning speed, colliding, rebounding, disintegrating into almost total emptinessso-called matter is mostly emptiness, proportionately as void as intergalactic space, void of anything except occasional dots and spots and scattered electric charges."! (p.812 The Second Coming of Christ by Paramahansa Yogananda) Man thinksof his body as compact, solid matter; but science now defines the body as wavesof electromagnetic energy. Matter has been dissolved down to photons. But what is the difference between light and consciousness; and what is the relation of consciousness and the body? ... The body is nothing but electrons and their subatomic magnetic companions whirling in empty space. (p.1508 The Second Coming of Christ by Paramahansa Yogananda) To a materialist, the whole worldits complicationsof solids, liquids, fire, gases, and so forthseems to be composed of real material substances: "This is the way I perceive it; therefore, it must be fact." Butthe advanced yogi, whose Self-realization has penetrated to the inner source ofexternal matter, is able to say: "This world, this cosmos, are only shadows of life thrown on the screen of space, and reflected in our conscious and subconscious mental chambers." (bg p.123) From science, then, if it must be so, let man learn the philosophic truth that there is no material universe; its warp and woofis maya, illusion. Under analysis all its mirages of reality dissolve. ... In his famous equation outlining the equivalence of mass and energy, [mc2] Einstein p

roved that the energy in any particle of matter is equal to its mass or weight multiplied by the square of the velocity of light. The release of the atomic energies is brought about through annihilation of the material particles. The "death" of matter has given birth to an Atomic Age. (aoy p.269) Elements My manifestednature (Prakriti) has an eightfold differentiation: earth, water, fire, air, ether, sensory mind (manas), intelligence (buddhi), and egoism (ahamkara). VII:4 Shadows of films and the beam of light in a cinema booth combine to manifest motion pictures of subjective beings acting with their egos, sense minds, and discriminative intelligences on an objective earthly stage. God similarly uses the delusive films of relativity offered by Cosmic Nature to produce His dream motion-pictures of intelligently active sentient human individualities playing on a stage of matter: manifestations of the elements of earth, water, fire, air, and theinvisible all-pervasive ether vibrant dynamic beings, and beautiful continents su

rrounded by oceans, illuminated by the sun and moon, and abounding in vital air.This stanza of the Bhagavad Gita gives a summary of the eight elements or forces of cosmic material nature. The ancient scientists spoke loosely of nature as matter. The modern scientists think of matter as coordinated forces. They describe all mineral, plant, and animal substances as made of ninety-two elements,* which are further explained as nothing more than permutations and combinations of different atoms or wave-energies. * Science has now named and defined over a hundred such elements. Matter, according to Hindu philosophy, is made of the intelligent thoughtrons of God, which materialize into grosser forces of intelligent lifetrons (prana), electrons and protons, atoms, molecules, cells, tissues, and organic matter. Both inorganic and organic matter are composed of anu (atoms), paramanu (subatomic particles and energies), prana (lifetrons), and chaitanya ("consciousness," thoughtrons) of God. This is the constitution of physical cosmic na

ture or matter from the metaphysical standpoint. The yogis maintain that matterphysical cosmic nature or Jada-Prakriti (gross nature) or Apara-Prakriti (the gross expression of God)may be spoken of as the physical dream-body of the Lord. This cosmic physical dream-body is made of five objective elements (subtle vibratory forces) of earth, water, fire, air (life force), and ether; two perceptive cognitive processes, sensory mind and intelligence; and one perceiving entity, theahamkara or egoistic consciousness of cosmic nature. The little body-dream of man, the copy of cosmic physical nature, is included in the latter's larger dream.Even as cosmic nature is the physical dream-body of God and is made of eight elementary forces, so the human body is also made of eight elementary forces and i

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s the dream body of the human soulthe perfect image of God. ... In the human body, the pure soul is the neutral witness of all its operations. The physical egothepseudo reflection of the soulacts in conjunction with cosmic nature, Prakriti, to operate the workings of the physical body. The finer discriminative astral egoand causal ego (in attunement with the soul in advanced devotees) act, respectively, as the representatives of the finer cosmic astral and cosmic causal Natureto operate the workings of man's astral and causal bodies. Similarly, God's Kutastha Intelligence (the Krishna or Christ Consciousness) is the neutral witnessof cosmic creation. The Kutastha Intelligence manifests itself through the HolyGhost or Aum Intelligence as Apara-Prakriti, the cosmic-dream physical entity, directing the cosmic-dream physical universe. The same Kutastha Intelligence, through the Holy Ghost or Aum as Para-Prakriti in the finer state, directs the subtler cosmic astral and cosmic causal universes. The two aspects of the Holy Ghostvibrations are thus the Apara-Prakriti (Impure Nature) and the Para-Prakriti (Pure Nature). A dream has a threefold aspect: the dreamer, his perception, and the dream objects made of the five dream elements of earth, water, fire, air, andether. The complex cosmic triple dream universes are run by the intelligent Cosmic Mother Nature or intelligent Cosmic Holy Ghost in a finer and in a grosser way. The physical universe is guided by the external vibrations of the Holy Ghostthe impure Apara-Prakriti. The astral and causal universes are guided by the pureHoly Ghostpure Nature, or Para-Prakriti. ... After understanding the dream natureof the universe, the devotee should learn the dream nature of the human body, made of the five dream elements. The body exists in a sphere of dream ether; it inbreathes vital dream air; its chemical processes are carried on by the heat of

fiery energies; it is composed of dream "water" or blood (which constitutes thegreater part of the dream body) and of dream "earth" or so-called solid flesh. This dream body is perceived by the dream sense-mind and dream discriminative intelligence, and is guided by the dream entity of the little nature, ego. As the Spirit dreamed Itself into God beyond creation, God in creation, and God as the Cosmic Nature with a cosmic body, so God as the transcendental soul and the discriminating intelligence and the physical ego sustains the physical dream-body. The five dream elements commingled together constitute the physical dream-body Thesense-identified physical ego and the mind (the coordinator of the ten senses)are centered outside of the spiritual eye; the intelligence works through the inside of the spiritual eye; the seat of man's soul consciousness extends from thepoint between the eyebrows to the central top of the head, in the subtle spiritual centers of the Kutastha and thousand-petaled lotus. The advanced yogi, half

awake in this cosmic dream, beholds this cosmic technicolored dream motion-picture of five dream elements, the human body, and observes its operations as directed by the triune divine entities. He is able to see the little body as it is operated by the soul, by the discriminative ego or intelligence, and by the physical ego. (p.669 Gita) -- Read more at: http://www.yogananda.com.au/gita/gita0704.html#elements