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Vayu, Pitta and Kapha are the causes of production, preservation and destruction of the body, can be inferred from our everyday experience. Let us take the familiar example of the Hindu philosophers, that of an earthern vassel. For its complete production we want water to moisten the clay, air to make the moist for dry and to help the fire during the burning process and fire to burn it and to change its colour. In the evolution of a plant also, it is evident that nature cannot do without these three substances, without water, the plant become dry. Without air it cannot grow (Ch. Su. 1.8) and without heat (or Tejas) there will be no colouration of the leaves, flowers or fruits. In the same way, the process of reproduction of a human being from the fertilised ovum, thought the foetal stage and finally to the fully grown and developed child takes place with the help of water in the form of Kapha, fire in the form of Pitta and air in the form of body Vayu. The Vayu is necessary for the production of a body is evident from the fact that it is the Vayu alone which acts in all directions. By this action, it can be thoroughly mix up the semen (spermatozoon) of the male and the blood (ovum) of the female. It is the Vayu which helps the foetus to assume a definite shape and develop into a full human body.

257 _ The sense of touch also, as we have seen originates from Vayu. Bur A process of digestition (Paka) is always going on the body, because without digestion there can be no change. But digestion cannot take place without the association of heat. As Tejas is the only substance endowed with heat, we see that the production of a body cannot be effected without Teja (in the form of Pitta). The sense of sight also is produced from Teja, which in the body takes the form of Pitta. As regards Kapha, we see that without the presence of some moist watery substance, the body would have been reduced to ashes by the influence of Pitta, the transformed Tejas. So to keep the body succulent, we must have water in the form of Kapha. The sense of taste also is derived from Ap. Kapha, transformed water Bhuta, is required to bind up the different parts of the body into a compact whole. The Taijasa Pitta is there to keep up the heat of the body. And the ever-moving Vayu acting in all directions, keeps the different channels of the body in their proper form and directs the other two in their movements throughout the body. We thus come to the definite conclusion that without Vayu, Pitta and Kapha, the body cannot be produced.