The Moon, the Mind, and the Oceans

     The entire universe is one continuum with the living beings, jiva rashi (at the micro level) and the brahmanda at the other end (macro level) connected like a spring, the Lagrangian string. Everything is intricately connected to every other! The Sun is the center at the solar system and the Planet Earth and its living beings (jivarashi) located at distance of 140 Million Kms, in the 3rd place (nearer to the Sun after Mercury and Venus). This position decides most of the happenings on the Earth and its life forms. The entire solar system is governed by the mutual attraction and repulsion forces that keeps everything in the appropriate position. Whatever comes nearer is pushed out and whatever tries to go away will be pulled back. This push and pull is the balancing system operates everywhere in the universe. 

   Now, the Oceans are large masses of water (covering almost 79 per cent of earth's surface).These are subject to forccs of attraction by the Moon (0.56 M.Km) away! Every Full Moon and the New Moon causes high tides. The same thing happens every summer and winter as the Sun comes nearer and goes fartheraway by a small distance!. Thus High tides and low tides happen periodically every fortnight and spring tide and neap tides happen seasonally. Now these forces of attraction also have very dramatic effect on living beings on earth.

    The human mind is a fragile apparatus like the Ocean, but invisible. in fact it is called a lake, manasa sarovar. The mind easily succumbs to pull of the Moon like the tides in the oceans. The  lunar cycles easily affect weak minds. The humans and even animals react differently on Full Moon and New Moon days. The human behavior is thus controlled by the Mind that is affected by the position of the Moon during the rotation of the earth (on its axis) and the revolution of the Moon around the Earth. This is one of the major aspects of human behavior that we have to notice!

    This inter-relationship between the sun, the moon, the earth and its oceans, and the human mind and its behavior, attitude, etc. are significant factors that are to be noticed. Human behavior is thus unpredictable!