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Ojas (subtle immune essence / Water-element refined)

ओजस्ojas

also: ojas, vital-essence, immune-essence

pra-ojas-svoboda

Definition

Ojas as Svoboda develops it in the prāṇa→tejas→ojas exercise: 'the body's superlative and most intelligent form of the Water Element, the subtle glue that integrates body, mind and spirit into a living individual.' A quasi-physical material that produces the aura and governs the immune system; 'cooked up' by tejas (the cellular fire) from ghee-and-honey-like substances, it lets ahaṁkāra 'glue you together well.' [MODERN — Svoboda framing of a TRADITIONAL Ayurvedic concept].
Traditional

Prāṇa relevance

⚑ Completes the chapter's prāṇa-physiology triad: prāṇa (refined Air) enkindles tejas (refined Fire / cellular agni), which cooks ojas (refined Water) — three elements' subtlest forms as the body's vital chain. Ojas is the Water-pole opposite the prāṇa/Air and tejas/Fire poles; its loss (failed ahaṁkāra) drops immunity and self-confidence and, ultimately, ends in death (PDF pp.080–082). The strongest closed prāṇa-chain in Book 3 so far.

Connections (1)

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  • ←Fire (Tejas / Agni)Modern
    Svoboda: 'As your tejas gets well-kindled, use it to cook up some ojas... The flame of your tejas will use these substances [ghee, honey] as fuel to generate a golden-yellow radiance' (PDF pp.081-082). tejas (refined Fire) cooks ojas (refined Water) — the immune/integrative essence.

Sources

  • txt-svoboda-vastuch. 3 'Exercise Five: Prāṇa, Tejas, Ojas' (PDF pp.081–082)Modern✓ verifiedojas = the body's most intelligent form of the Water Element, subtle glue of body-mind-spirit, produces the aura, governs immunity; cooked by tejas from ghee/honey-like substances; lets ahaṁkāra glue you together

Other attributes

System Of Origin
ayurveda
Location In Body
in every cell; produces the aura that emanates into surrounding space; governs the immune system (PDF pp.081–082)
Function
the subtle integrative glue of body-mind-spirit; immunity; the aura; the refined Water-element pole of vitality, cooked from food by tejas/agni
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