Sheaths

Character

What is needed

Physical Body

(Annamaya Kosha)

It is the Grossest form of matter. Hence it is very Inert in nature. Comfort oriented. Dominates the rest of the sheaths. Unwilling to change. It has it’s own ego. Forces like Tamas, Laziness and Addictions are bound to suck the Physical body easily.

Don’t allow the Physical body to over rule your mind. Make the Physical Body a slave of your mind, to strictly obey the mind. Do yoga to keep it active.

Vital Body/ Emotional body (Pranamaya Kosha)

Vital body is rooted in the Physical body. It is reflected as energy by our life’s vital force of breath. The physical body survives only because of this vital sheath. It has it’s own ego.

Our needs, wants and emotions are rooted in the vital body. Do Pranayama to rejuvenate it.

Mental Body (Manomaya Kosha)

Mental body picks up wants of Vital body and Physical Body acts. It can speak both ways- for you and against you. It’s your friend and your foe. It is the seat of Ignorance and the reason for all pleasure and pain; conflicts and contradictions; It does not know wholeness and see only in parts and judges which is the reason for erring.

Mind itself is not a perfect instrument. So no need to blame it. The five senses are the input medium for the mental body. The mental body is the storehouse of all the experiences of our 5 senses. It can greatly deceive you. Be careful not be a victim of your mind. Use it as a mere tool. It is not the real you. It acts on the pretext of the real you and it is a great deceiver. Regular meditation helps you to understand your mental body so that you can act cautiously.

Spritual Body ( Illumined or Intutive Body) Vigjanamaya Kosha

Its beyond reasoning- because reasoning is the faculty of mind. The judgment of the intuitive body is always correct. It never commands. Comes as a polite and soft voice.

This faculty needs to be wokenup in many persons. The intuitive body is dormant in many. It has woken up only in few grownup souls. Genius persons make use of this faculty to solve their problems. Once woken up you become the psychic being.

Bliss Body (Anandamaya Kosha)

The real soul. The satchithananda. Self delight. Always delightful. Because it’s the true and real you.

Needs prolonged duration to wakeup this body. Through conscious effort and meditative processes this can be woken up. The highest of the known evolution experienced by the so called enlightened have tapped this body. The ultimatum know sofar to many seers.