As one moves up the elements, lower elements merge with the higher elements. That is, the element above holds the capacity to include the elements below. Ether contains within it air, fire, water and earth, air contains fire, water and earth elements, fire contains water and earth elements, and water contains the earth element. To effect a change in any of the elements one need not go to the level of the individual element. The elements can be easily controlled and modified by accessing the element that lies above the five elements, the partattva or Shiv, under the sanidhya of Guru.

All the elements can be controlled from top. That is why it is said ‘Omkarbindusamyuktam...’ which means, everything is there in omkar, it is a bindu, the partattva, nothing else. ‘....Nityamdhayantiyoginam’, which means, a yogi’s dhyan is always on that partattva and not on the elements below. A yogi has an association with the lower elements also but he controls them from the Agya.

While one can experience the five basic elements in the body through the science of mudras, how does one get the experience of the Shiv tattva?

The Shiv tattva is not experienced by an ordinary person because he does not need it. For a lay person the five senses and their experiences are enough. Shiv is beyond the five tattvas, the partattva, in which all the tattvas reside. Experience of Shiv requires the awakening of Agya through yog under a Guru. You may be given the experience a couple of times forcefully, but till you have control over your basic senses, till you elevate to the level of Agya, it will not happen to you naturally. Even the thought to find Shiv will not come to you.

Even though Shiv is right here, sakshat, to be able to see Shiv awakening is required, and that is the purpose of yog. When the awakening happens, all the pleasures of the five senses come within it. You can get anything you want just by accessing the Agya but for this yog needs to be done. The entire creation is right in front of you, the body is just this and this body is inside Shiv, which is making the body function. Shiv is at agya but where are you?

Article from AshwiniGuruji of Dhyan Ashram