Hindu Medicine c8.30

c8.30

This concept, therefore, looms large in the philosophic speculations of the Upanishads, whenever the nature of man is discussed. The parallelism between the nature of man and the universe is emphasized in the enumeration of carefully coordinated cosmic and human entities. In a series of equations, the various manifestations of the one supreme energy and substance which produces the universal and the human organism are considered now “ with regard to ourselves ” (adhyātman), as faculties of human nature, and now “ with regard to the divine principle ” (adhidaivatam), as personified cosmic powers and principles.⁴