In plain words
So the form of air, too, is God.
Fifth is space. Space itself is what gives room to these five elements. All the five elements have arisen from space alone. Space is the form of sound; sound is the form of Brahman. “Śabda brahmamayi, carācaramayi, jyotirmayi, vājmayi, nityānandamayi, parātparamayi, māyāmayi, śrīmayi”: of these eight powers the very first is Śabda brahmamayi. Sound alone pervades everywhere. Asked where space is, we point and say it is up above. No, no. Wherever sound is, there space is. Space is what takes in all room. So this is the very form of God. Then, sixth is the sun. He is the embodiment of heat. How does this heat arise? Heat begins when the hydrogen in the sun turns into helium. This is a scientific law. If we enquire how it stands, the heat in the sun loses, every second, energy of four thousand lakh tons. Even so, the sun will go on giving heat for some thousands of millions of years more. No one can say his power is of this kind or that kind. So God is beyond the reach of speech and mind. From Him alone everything arises. This sun is the lord of the Buddhi. For man the Buddhi is most necessary. The one who makes man's Buddhi shine is the sun himself.
Then, seventh is the moon. This moon is the lord of the Manas. Through the Manas itself he goes on fostering serene feelings. The form of the Manas itself is this world. “Manomūlamidaṃ jagat”. If there is no Manas, there is no world at all. As long as you are here, your body is here, but your mind can travel in a single moment to the cities of Hyderabad and Delhi. So there is no speed beyond the speed of the mind. The speed of the mind is far greater than the speed of light. Eighth is the power of karma. This karma, too, is the form of God.
“Man is born through karma itself, and grows. Again, through karma itself he dies. This karma is like life to man. In this world the root cause of our joys and sorrows is this karma alone.”
The ancient ṛṣis gave this very thing the name “yajña”: “Yajñovaiviṣṇuḥ”. This yajña itself is the form of Viṣṇu, and that form of Viṣṇu itself is the universe. So we must recognise that the whole world is the creation of God, who is the embodiment of the eight kinds of splendour.
The misuse of the five elements is itself the root cause of sorrow
Man today does not use these five elements in the right way. That is just why man falls a prey to many sorrows.