In Vedanta it is said that a living being has five bodies. As an empirical science anybody can experience these bodies. If you cannot experience these bodies then trust your experience more than the scriptural doctrine.
Lower three bodies.
The physical body (annamaya kosha): This needs no explaining.
The breathing body (pranamaya kosha): Breathing is said to be a separate body in and on itself. By focusing on it carefully we can discern it more clearly.
The mind (manomaya kosha): This is the field that generates thoughts and emotions.
Upper two bodies
Focus body (Vijanmaya kosha):
Now here is the interesting part. This is the ability to focus and perceive things without attachment to them.
Most people cannot perceive thoughts without getting attached to them, why?
Because this requires the use of the focus body.
To observe without attachment is the gist of it.
This body lies withered away in humans like a muscle that has never been used.
All efforts of meditation are directed towards awakening this body.
Once this body is awakened the process of attachment becomes extremely clear.
Bliss body (Anandmaya kosha):
This body is very rarely felt. It is activated in a mystical experience.
Most spiritual seekers chase the Bliss body. They want a permanent high, a state of forever mystic union.
What they should be seeking is the fourth body, the ability to discriminate.
Bliss is temporary but knowledge one gained is permanent
(well as so long as the body lasts. For there is no knowledge in Brahman))
Beyond the five bodies lies Brahman the ocean of consciousness. When the light of brahman is filtered through these five sheaths then a human arises from the Brahman.
In and of itself Brahman does not know its nature since all it knows is "I am". It is only through a functioning Vijanmaya kosha that the Brahman can perceive itself.
Lower three bodies.
The physical body (annamaya kosha): This needs no explaining.
The breathing body (pranamaya kosha): Breathing is said to be a separate body in and on itself. By focusing on it carefully we can discern it more clearly.
The mind (manomaya kosha): This is the field that generates thoughts and emotions.
Upper two bodies
Focus body (Vijanmaya kosha):
Now here is the interesting part. This is the ability to focus and perceive things without attachment to them.
Most people cannot perceive thoughts without getting attached to them, why?
Because this requires the use of the focus body.
To observe without attachment is the gist of it.
This body lies withered away in humans like a muscle that has never been used.
All efforts of meditation are directed towards awakening this body.
Once this body is awakened the process of attachment becomes extremely clear.
Bliss body (Anandmaya kosha):
This body is very rarely felt. It is activated in a mystical experience.
Most spiritual seekers chase the Bliss body. They want a permanent high, a state of forever mystic union.
What they should be seeking is the fourth body, the ability to discriminate.
Bliss is temporary but knowledge one gained is permanent
(well as so long as the body lasts. For there is no knowledge in Brahman))
Beyond the five bodies lies Brahman the ocean of consciousness. When the light of brahman is filtered through these five sheaths then a human arises from the Brahman.
In and of itself Brahman does not know its nature since all it knows is "I am". It is only through a functioning Vijanmaya kosha that the Brahman can perceive itself.
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