Body Talk in Current Events

There are five sheaths of body:

Annamaya Kosha - Food Body
Manomaya Kosha - Mental Body
Pranamaya Kosha - Energy Body
Vignanmaya Kosha - Wisdom Body
Anandamaya Kosha - Bliss Body

Your physical body is just a pile of food that you’ve eaten. It’s just a piece of the planet. There is software within you, information, that helps turn what you eat into your body. Your mental body is not what we call the mind because every cell in your body has intelligence and memory. That is your mental body. The information in your body is not a deciding factor it is an enabling factor. We have forgotten how to enable that information to turn it into new possibilities. It has phenomenal possibilities. Those two bodies are just the hardware and the software and both need to be plugged into quality power. That is the energy body. It is also physical in nature. A lightbulb is physical but so is the electricity behind it and so is the light that emanates from it. Vignanmaya Kosha, the wisdom body, vignan comes from the words vishes gnan which means extraordinary knowledge. The knowledge we collect from our senses is ordinary knowledge. The knowledge we collect from outside our senses is extraordinary knowledge. It is a transitory body. Between physical and non-physical. It is a body of transition. The fifth body is the bliss body. It is a non-physical dimension, it is just an experience. When you touch it you feel bliss.

This is part of the yogic system, not the yoga system. Yoga, which means union, has way more aspects to this but the yogic system talks about the five layers of the body. The five sheaths of body. The first three bodies are physical in nature. If you bring sufficient balance into your energy body and keep it in full vibrance your physical and mental body cannot have any ill health within it. You can walk away from your ailments by fixing your inner systems. There are two forms of ailments. An infection which means invasion of an organism and you can attack it, bomb it, have biological warfare and defeat it. However, over 70% of all ailments are chronic in nature. Our bodies are programmed for health but if it is creating ailments within you then there is a fundamental imbalance of our inner systems. It is not a cure or a miracle, it is just a realignment of your system.

I am on round two of Sadhguru’s book Inner Engineering. Not at this moment, I just can’t sleep. I’m avoiding my political debates on social media until I find a way to get leftists to see facts and logic so I came to PB. I came across someone’s entry who talked about his trinity being out of balance and that he’s feeling it. Diet, exercise and reading. I translate that to mind, body and energy because I’m literally at that chapter in Sadhguru’s book. I’ve touched bliss. It’s a part of the spiritual awakening when you feel whole and loved and like everything is on your side. You experience that there is no you or other. It’s all one. The cosmos did not create something separate from itself. It’s a heavy concept to get into right now. The new agers call it the 5th dimension. I was just thinking about that bliss stage that I was experiencing this time last year. That connection to source, to god, to whatever you want to call it. Things don’t exist as words. Words are just shapes, sounds and textures that we give meanings to.

This time last year after I was just getting over a heavy job loss. Well, just prior to that I was telling my therapist how my life was the best it had ever been. That was my answer to his question yo what the fuck you here for dawg? My health was the best it had ever been, my wealth was the best it had ever been, work was the best it had ever been, my relationships with everyone was the best it had ever been but it did not make my inner world any better. Of course, I didn’t have that epiphany until after my therapist ended his practice. The epiphany is that fixing my outer world did not fix my inner one. After all that hard work, after going through hell and back it was never the content that was wrong in my life it was the context. The only way out was in. It was an inside job. It’s the inside that counts. So this time last year I gave myself some time and space to figure myself out, to figure life out. So there it went, the job that defined me for thirteen years, my health, my wealth and my relationships. It wasn’t right, per se but it was okay. It induced enlightenment. This journey to understand my inner ecology so that I can live a conscious life instead of an unconscious life. We function better when we’re experiencing pleasantness. That only comes from within. Alright, I’m going to try and sleep again. There is so much of my life not in my control right now and I’m just trying to be conscious about not slipping into my old fucked up ways. I sound like an addict here, I’m not. My attachments are to neurological compounds, thoughts and habits that do not serve me.

Last updated October 01, 2020