INDIAN MYSTIC APPROACH TO THE EARTH

Abstract

The 'Earth' is the name given to the part of the universe where we, the human beings habitate mainly. The Earth is indicative of all the nature connected with it in the form of air, water, space, vegetation and forests, the animals and birds and the like along with the human race. The earth has been the topic of deliberations of thinkers of all times - be he a philosopher, theist, poet, scientist, politician or a mystic. The view of the Indian mystics regarding the earth is that she is a Mother Goddess and Divinity, immediately connected with the constitution of all life and especially the human body. The earth is an object of meditation to achieve special supernatural powers as well as the moksha (the summum bonum according to Indian mystic tradition),