According to Vedanta philosophy, there are two things in nature, one of which they call Akasha, which is the substance, infinitely fine, and the other they call Prana, which is the force.
Whatever you see, or feel, or hear, as air, earth, or anything, is material -- the product of Akasha.
It goes on and becomes finer and finer, or grosser and grosser, changing under the action of Prana.
Like Akasha, Prana is omnipresent, and interpenetrating everything. Akasha is like the water, and everything else in the universe is like blocks of ice, made out of that water, and floating in the water, and Prana is the power that changes this Akasha into all these various forms.
- Swami Vivekananda, Class-Talk in New York
Whatever you see, or feel, or hear, as air, earth, or anything, is material -- the product of Akasha.
It goes on and becomes finer and finer, or grosser and grosser, changing under the action of Prana.
Like Akasha, Prana is omnipresent, and interpenetrating everything. Akasha is like the water, and everything else in the universe is like blocks of ice, made out of that water, and floating in the water, and Prana is the power that changes this Akasha into all these various forms.
- Swami Vivekananda, Class-Talk in New York
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