Excerpt from:
FOOD YOGA - Nourishing the Soul
A new book by Priya Vrata
Who would have ever thought that an apple could hold the key to the secrets of the universe and our existence?
Vedic Mathematician and Sacred Geometrician, Jain 108 explains: “Our energetic body is a Torus; planet Earth is energetically a Torus, and the apple is a Torus.”
Jain proposes that the secret to this understanding begins with the fetus in the womb. “Before any of the limbs have developed, the human form is essentially shaped like a tube torus donut, illustrating clearly that the human body is based on the principle of energy in – energy out. The tube torus donut is the ultimate geometrical shape – expressing perfection in balance and efficiency,” he explains.
Like all spiritual traditions, Jain suggests that complete knowledge can only be obtained by turning inwards to access our core, as illustrated by the turning in of the apple. “Since ancient times the apple has symbolized the science of immortality, ‘Les pomme bleue’. In French the word ‘pomme’ comes from ‘Op Om,’ or Sun Ball. The word ‘Apple’ also denotes ‘Eye’, ‘Stone’ or anything round. The phrase: ‘You are the apple of my eye,’ therefore, has deep meaning, suggesting that in the center of our energetic torus is the self (eye).”
Sacred Geometrician and health researcher, Don Tolman, offers that if we could reduce all the knowledge of our body and the world around us, it would be: “Everything is a tube.” Our body and everything in it is basically tube-like. “Sickness is a result of blockages within ‘tubes.’” He says. It is this “tube” concept that also reveals the mystery of the apple.
Slicing the “tube-torus donut-like” apple in half reveals a pentagonal arrangement of seeds. This 5-pointed pentagonal formation is not exclusive to the apple, but is also found in a host of other fruits like the papaya, and in the flowers of all edible fruits. Tolman explains that the “pulsating rhythm of living growth follows the pattern of pentagonal symmetry,” and is most perfectly expressed in the golden measure or the divine proportion (phi) — a relationship between a small part and a large part of any whole, and mathematically expressed as the irrational number 1.618033… into infinity. In the simplest terms, the small part of a divine proportion is a scale model of the large part, which is a scale model of the whole.
The golden spiral is another aspect of phi’s transcendental character and can be seen all throughout nature, including the nautilus shell, ram horn, butterfly wings, tornadoes, whirl pools, ocean waves, spiraled galaxies and in the movements of birds, bees and schools of fish. Thousands of plant species exhibit the golden measure’s proportional spacing in the distribution of their seeds and leaves in what is also known as the Fibonacci[1] sequence. Indeed, even the roots of plants follow the phi ratio and most profoundly it can be seen in the distances between the planets within our solar system.
The human body also perfectly expresses the golden measure. “The body begins it’s existence in the spiral pattern of an embryo and when it has matured the body exhibits the phi proportion in the primary relationship of its parts,” explains Tolman.
Indeed, even our DNA resonates to phi. Our DNA is composed or two 3D spirals. Sacred Geometrician Stephen Skinner explains that, the geometry that governs these spirals can best be seen if you look vertically down them. “What you will see is a structure that is reminiscent of phi (Golden measure), a series of double pentagons that make up the composite axial view of the DNA double helix. Phi is closely related to ‘fiveness’ and it is integral to the construction of the pentagon,” explains Skinner.
It is for these reasons that perfect health is achieved when we satisfy the bodies yearning for balance, as perfectly expressed in phi (fiveness), by eating whole fruits and vegetables that naturally resonate to phi and arranging our lives in such a way that we honor and connect with each one of the five material elements (earth, water, fire, air, and ether).
Perfect health therefore can be as simple as embracing five key activities, that coincidently resonate with each of the 5 gross material elements:
1. Eating whole foods (Earth);
2. Drinking spring water (Water);
3. Greeting the morning sun (Fire);
4. Vitalizing the body with fresh air through stress-less exercise like yoga (Air);
5. Exposure to positive sound vibration (Ether).
[1] Leonardo of Pisa, famous for introducing Arabic numbers to Europe and discovering the Fibonacci series where numbers unfold by adding the previous. Natural growth often conforms to the numbers found in this series.
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