Srimathe Ramanujaya Namaha,
Asmadh Sarva Gurubyo Namaha,
Velukkudi Sri Krishnan Swami Guruve Namaha,
Namaskaran Bhakta’s,
With Acharya ThiruvAdi Bhalam and AmmangaAr Abhimaanam and Velukkudi Sri Krishnan Swami’s Aasrivadham, Adiyen will share some insights combining Google Acharyan and Gyanacharyan Velukudi Swami’s upanyasams regarding the Human Body and it compositions (Tissues/Cells).
First of all the Human Body is not created by any ordinary Human Scientists or Analysts. Its created by the the ONE and ONLY Superior FIRST & EVERGREEN Scientist SUPREME LORD SriKrishna BhagavAn (Almighty GOD). So we have the follow the manual of the Creator for this body to understand the science of Human Body. So the accidental statement as in the above thread “……….so once again our Parambariya knowledge is superceding……” should be rectified from my mind.
As an analogy, consider a “Car (Human Body) Manufacturer (Creator)” when releases the Car, they also provide the “Manual” about the car about its parts locations, function, maintenance period etc….which is the “Shastras/Pramaanam (Authentic Source Book)”. At the same time, the Car Manufacturuer (Creator) authorizes a “Genuine Dealership“ for Service if any issues to the Car which are Rishis, since they are well trained DIRECTLY by the Creator of Human Body and properly licensed to do any service to the Car (Human Body). Those Rishis (Genuine dealership) are the Ayurvedic/Siddha institution etc…..However one can also take the Car (Human Body) to a “Third Party Service center” who are not Trained directly by the Car Manufacturer (like the present modern medical institutions). They can also do service to the Car (Human Body) who has actually acquired some knowledge about the car (Human Body) by doing “Trial and Error Methods”. These Third Party Dealers are the modern scientists and Analysts as mentioned in the above Youtube link. They are learners only and don’t have the full knowledge of the Car (Human Body) as the Rishis (Genuine Dealers). But some Third Party Dealer workers also acquire some knowledge from a Genuine Dealers workmanship due to their relationship with them or reading their works. Hence the third party dealer (modern scientists/analysts) speeches like “each cell is an intelligent mind, each cell has energy, we transport energy etc…” is a premature state of mind with some reality but not close enough as that of a Genuine Dealer (Rishi) which is what is seen in the above YouTube link as posted.
Being that said, lets get into the Actuality of the Human Body in the View of a Genuine Dealer (Rishi), which will provide full details:
So, inorder to understand he science of Human Body, we have to Refer the Genuine Dealers works like:
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Charaka Samhita (written by Rishi Charaka),
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Sushrut Samhita (written by Rishi Sushrut),
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Agni Purana (Agni devata recited to Vashishta and inturn He recited to Vyasa)
According to Rishi Charaka, Agni (Fire) is said to be the base (mool) of life.
Agni converts food in the form of energy, which is responsible for all the vital functions of our body. Therefore, Ayurveda considers that Dehagni is the cause of life, complexion, strength, health, nourishment, lusture, oja, teja (energy) and prana (life energy).
About the importance of Agni, Acharya Charaka has mentioned that after stoppage of the function of Agni, the individual dies, and when the Agni of an individual is sama, then that person would be absolutely healthy and would lead a long, happy, healthy life. But, if the Agni of a person is vitiated, the whole metabolism in his body would be disturbed, resulting in ill health and disease.
Agni has been divided into 13 types, i.e.
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one JatharAgni,
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five BhutAgni and
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seven DhatvAgni.
-The one Jatharagni is the most important one, which digests four types of food and transforms it into Rasa (Nutritive fluid or Food Essence) and Mala (Excretion).
-The five Bhutagnis act on the respective bhutika portion of the food and thereby nourish the Bhutas in the body.
-The seven Dhatvagni act on the respective dhatus by which each Dhatu is broken into three parts. In this way, the entire process of transformation consists of two types of products – PRasad (essence) and Kitta (excrete). The former is taken for nourishment while the latter one is thrown out, which otherwise defiles the body if it stays longer.
The above word Dhatu is the modern name “Tissue”.
According to Rishi Charaka, the constituent parts of the body, if further divided into the atoms, are sure to become innumerable, as such atoms are exceedingly numerous, very minute and ultrasensory. These tiny atoms are called as “Paramanu” which is the “Cell” in modern terms.
Dhatus means tissues of the body
शरीर धारणात्धातवः।
Shareera dhaaranaat dhaatavaha
Those which wear the body or hold the body are called Dhatus. The word dharana means to wear. This term indicates the responsibility put on the shoulders of the dhatus in holding and guarding the wellness of the body. ‘They wear the body’ should be understood that they form, frame and construct the body.
The Dhatus form the frame and structure of the body. By this denition, we should not have any hesitation in calling the dhatus as the tissues of the body.
The word “Dhatu” comes from a Sanskrit word which means “that which enters into the formation of the body”; the root word “Dha” means “support” i.e. that which bears.
Each dhatu consists of countless infinitesimal paramanus (cells) which are units of structure and function. Each paramanu (cell) contains innumerable suksma srotas (channels, pores) through which it receives nutrients and subtle energies and eliminates waste materials. Because dhatus are saturated with pores, the human body can also be said to be filled with pores (srotomaya). The srotas of each dhatu are unique in their structure and function and in the materials which move through them.
So Human body cells are Countless and not limited to 50 trillion. It is just a limitation to the modern scientists study done. Since, if we say 50 trillion cells, then we should specify what type of Human body, like full limbs, size of human body etc.. since some person has 6 fingers on one hand, so does they have 50 trillion plus additional 1 trillion cells on the additional finger. What happens if one doesn’t have a leg. In that case, do they have 50 trillion minus 20 trillion cells. So these are uncertain answers. So, we should go by Pramaanam (Authentic texts of Rishis) that says Cells are Countless in Human body.
The primary Dhatus are seven in number. They are:
‘1) Rasa dhatu (Nutrient fluid)
‘2) Rakta dhatu (Blood tissue)
‘3) Maamsa dhatu (Muscle tissue)
‘4) Medhas dhatu (Adipose tissue)
‘5) Asthi dhatu (Bony tissue)
‘6) Majja dhatu (Bone marrow and nervous tissue)
‘7) Sukra dhatu (Reproductive tissues including sperm and ovum)
The most unique feature of Ayurvedic histology (concept of tissue formation) is that each human tissue is formed from the previous tissue in ascending order of complexity as follows:
Each tissue type has its own Agni (Fire), which determines metabolic changes in the tissues. Thus when food is ingested, it is digested until, in the small intestines, it becomes a liquid, chyme-like material known in Ayurveda as ‘ahara rasa’, or food essence or nutritive fluid.
With the help of ‘ahara rasagni’ (each dhatu has its own specific metabolic fire) this ahara rasa is converted into Rasa dhatu (nutrient fluid or blood plasma) – the first and most simple tissue.
Now, Rasa dhatu catalyzed by Rasagni is transformed into Rakta dhatu (formed blood cells), the second fundamental bodily tissue. Rakta dhatu in turn, with the help of raktagni, becomes Maamsa dhatu (muscle tissue cells); and so on formation of Majja dhatu, Asthi dhatu and Shukra dhatu takes place.
Together, the dhatus and upa-dhatus (accessory tissue) make up the physical bulk of the body. The upa-dhatus include skin, tendons, ligaments, etc.; they are important structurally but usually are not implicated in disease conditions of the body.
Dhatus have inherent tendency to get vitiated or diseased hence they are called dushya. In contrast to doshas, the dushya have no tendency to vitiate other factor of body. They are only a passive component of disease where as the doshas are active counterparts in disease.
The state of health of each dhatu as well as its relative vriddhi/kshaya (excess/deficiency; increase/decrease) is assessed by the physician.
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Now each ParamaAnu (cell) has each Unique ‘Athma’ to function, but each Athma in each cell though intelligent by itself doesn’t work by itself. It gets the Direction/Energy from the Primary Athma residing in the Hrudhaya Kamalam (Heart) of the Human Body. Means the “Dharma Bhootha Gyanam” of the Primary Athma is spread through out its Human Body and each Athma in each cell gets its energy to function, but it doesn’t act by its own.
A simple Analogy to explain visually from Enthiran movie climax scene (This is just to portray the analogy and not an attempt to recommend anyone to see the movie,….please don’t mistake Adiyen)
Cluster of Many Small Robos in an organised way together form ONE Big Robo. These small many Robos are like the small many cells which forms the One Big Robo “The Human Body”, but each small Robo doesn’t have the power by itself to act, since these each robos gets the Order (direction) from the Primary Robo (Primary Athma) which is the “Chitti Robo” sitting in the center of the Big Formed Robo. So depending up on the size of the Big Robo, the small Robos counts can vary. Same way, cells are countless in a Human body and not limited to a particular number in each Human body.
Analogy:
CLUSTER OF SMALL MANY ROBOS ORGANISED TOGETHER
ONE BIG ROBO IS FORMED
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zq39fpCAgIQ
The Primary Athma is in the Heart of the Human either to relinquish its Karma (Paapa&Punya) or do Sharangathy to get out the Punya-Paapa / Birth-Death Karma Cycle using This Human Body as a Tool as Shashras says:
“Paropakarartham Idham Shareeram”
[This Human Body is given by Almighty God to do Service to HIM and HIS Devotees]
சுவர் இருந்தால் தான், சித்திரம் வரைய முடியும்.
If there is a Wall (Human body), then only a Painting (Service) can be drawn (done to BhagavAn).”
So Human Body (with many countless cells) is Important to support the Primary Athma residing in the Heart of the Human Body to do Bhakthi on SriKrishna’s Lotus Feet and Surrender ONLY ON TO HIM on same Birth and reach Moksham for Nithya Kainkaryam, which is the primary purpose of this Human Body which will not be available or known by the modern analysts, since they are in the initial stepping stone stages. So counting the number of cells or trying to know deeply about the number of cells in the Human body doesn’t help for Athma Ujjivanam, since the Human Body is set to expire at a particular time, But Athma is ETERNAL (Never Ending and PURE and SERVANT of Almighty GOD), at the same time, knowing about Human Body mechanism does help to understand the FIRST SCIENTIST LORD SRIKRISHNA BhgavaAn’s Creation of Human Body.
Adiyen (ElayaAlwar) Srinivasa (DhoddayacharyAr) Dasan,
Velukkudi SriKrishnan Swami ThiruvAdigalaey Sharanam,
AcharyAr-AmmangaAr Thiruvadigalaey Sharanam,
Uyya Oraey Vazhi UdayavAr ThiruvAdi,
Sholinghur AmrithavAlli ThayAr Samedha Bhaktochithan Perumal Ki Jai.
