Ākāsa is identified as the first arūpa jhāna ( arūpajhāna), but usually translates as "infinite space." CārvākismĪdherents of the heterodox Cārvāka or Lokāyata philosophy of India hold that this world is made of four elements only. The Vaibhashika, an early school of Buddhist philosophy, hold Akasha's existence to be real. In Buddhist phenomenology Akasha is divided into Skandha, Desa, and Pradesa. Akasha is that which gives space and makes room for the existence of all extended substances. In Loakasa the universe forms only a part. It falls into the Ajiva category, divided into two parts: Loakasa (the part occupied by the material world) and Aloakasa (the space beyond it which is absolutely void and empty). JainismĪkasha is space in the Jain conception of the cosmos. Īccording to the Samkhya school of Hindu philosophy, Akasha is one of the five Mahābhūtas (grand physical elements) having the specific property of sound. It is the One, Eternal, and All Pervading physical substance, which is imperceptible. The Nyaya and Vaisheshika schools of Hindu philosophy state that Akasha or ether is the fifth physical substance, which is the substratum of the quality of sound. In Hindi, Marathi and Gujarati, and many other Indian languages, the meaning of Akasha has been accepted as sky. In Sanskrit the word means "space", the very first element in creation.
It is one of the Panchamahabhuta, or "five elements" its main characteristic is Shabda (sound). In Hinduism Akasha means the basis and essence of all things in the material world the first material element created from the astral world ( Air, Fire, Water, Earth are the other four in sequence). Meaning in different philosophies Hinduism