पञ्चभूतमय शरीर · Chapter Overview
From The Garbha Upaniṣad — The Womb, the Body, and the Birth of Consciousness, taught by Acharya T Krishnatrey. This lesson is free to read.
<pre data-block="statement">What this chapter covers | Section 1 opens the whole body as a system of numbers — five elements, six tastes, seven tissues, two sexes, four kinds of food — in a single enumerating verse. It then defines the five great elements by their properties (hardness is earth, fluidity water, warmth fire, motion air, hollowness ether), and names the six tastes and the seven musical notes the body knows.</pre>