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Restored subsection "Water, air, or fire?"

I have restored the small subsection "Water, air, or fire?". Someone else originally added the content; I only did some rephrasing, reordering, and added the subheading. I'm sure this could have been done much better by a more capable editor. I haven't checked the sources and don't know to what extent the information is correct and relevant. It seems somewhat interesting and relevant to me. The subsection has recently been removed and there may or may not be good reasons for that. It would be nice with an explanation for its deletion though. The Cosmic Ocean (Please feel free to modify or undo any of my edits as deemed appropriate.) 15:36, 13 March 2024 (UTC)Someone: [Uh,you haven't even said anything about pretty much ANYTHING at all except what you did.]

Jainism

Content was recently removed by William M. Connolley by saying it is more about souls than elements. While I suppose it focuses more on souls believed to inhabit elements than the elements themselves, I still felt like it would be worth keeping because it shows the religious significance that the concept of the elements have in Jainism.

One of the sources added that can be read here even mentions a connection to the elements earth, air, fire and water, by stating "Plants, various one-celled animals, and ‘elemental’ beings (beings made of one of the four elements—earth, air, fire, or water) have only one sense."

However, for the other source that was added, I made a link to the journal itself instead of linking the pages of the journal because more than one page contains information that was added to the article, so I was not able to link every different page. But if you want to see the specific part where elements are mentioned, see this link of page 353 which states "Ekendriya jivas inhabit the elements above enumerated" (in this case it is referring to what the Ekendriya are said to inhabit in pages 351 and 352 which are the elements earth, water, fire and air). Opskind (talk) 15:51, 15 June 2024 (UTC)

Akasha

In Ancient Indian philosophy part they mentioned "Akasha (aether) is beyond the senses of smell, taste, sight, and touch; it being accessible to the sense of hearing alone" who is this hearable? 103.130.108.77 (talk) 02:50, 14 January 2025 (UTC)

20 combinations of three symbols/elements associated with solids

First symbol/element	Second symbol/element	Third symbol/element	Combination of three symbols/elements	First related solid in combination	Second related solid in combination	Third related solid in combination
Fire	Earth	Air	Scorched horizon	Tetrahedron	Cube	Octahedron
		Aether	Forged spirit			Dodecahedron
		Water	Primordial matrix			Icosahedron
		Void	Lava core			Sphere
	Air	Aether	Raging storm		Octahedron	Dodecahedron
		Water	Steam engine			Icosahedron
		Void	Divine spark			Sphere
	Aether	Water	Burning comet		Dodecahedron	Icosahedron
		Void	Spiritual mirage			Sphere
	Water		Abyssal ember		Icosahedron
Earth	Air	Aether	Living world	Cube	Octahedron	Dodecahedron
		Water	Terrestrial breath			Icosahedron
		Void	Frozen vacuum			Sphere
	Aether	Water	Holy ground		Dodecahedron	Icosahedron
		Void	Endless pillar			Sphere
	Water		Muddy chasm		Icosahedron
Air	Aether	Water	Heavenly sea	Octahedron	Dodecahedron	Icosahedron
		Void	Celestial wind			Sphere
	Water		Hollow tempest		Icosahedron
Aether			Cosmic ocean	Dodecahedron

~2026-37026-42 (talk) 22:54, 26 June 2026 (UTC)