Pancha Kosha - Five Sheaths that CANNOT Cover Atma 

A true teacher coveys his knowledge by simple words as Swami Tadatmananda does; you are one of the best contemporary teachers. Thank you for your time & I wish you eternal happiness.

Vedanta made easy for Common man .. Bow to your knowledge.. Absolutely love your videos .. I absolutely love your video on sukshma sareera explaining what happens after death ..

Swamiji, thank you! As always, I quote the words of my guru, the blessed teacher of the whole world and humanity, Sri Ramana Maharshi: Visitor. Are the shells [koshas] material and are they different from the Atman? Maharshi. There is no difference between Spirit and matter. Modern science agrees that all matter is Energy. And Energy is power, or force [shakti]. Therefore, everything is dissolved in Shiva and Shakti, i.e., in the Atman and in the Mind. Koshas are just an appearance. In them, as such, there is no reality. The Highest Being is that from which this body is born, in which it lives and in which it dissolves. However, we think that we are within the body. Therefore, instruction is given: "Look inside." OM TAT SAT

I always feel like I'm watching advaita vedanta PBS specials when I watch this channel. I love it. Haha

I had a technical understanding of the koshas, but Thanks for making me realize how we think of them as ourselves. 🙏

Thank you very much again and again, Swamiji 🕉️🌞❤️

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One of the most crystal clear explanation of our Shastas that I have ever listened to.

Thank you for explaining it so well 🙏🏻

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I am grateful for this teaching, thank you for producing this. Your teaching is solid and illuminating. Thank you!

clearly explained, thank you Swamiji

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Very detailed and convincing description 🙏🙏

Thank you for elucidating this subject. I entreat you: please make a follow-up elucidating the experience of one who abides in the bliss sheath, so that I can compare and contrast my experience with that clarification.

So clear exposition. Thank you Swamiji.

Wonderful! Please keep up this good work.

Wonderful teacher, clarifying explanation

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As described in Nirvana Shatkam

Amazing teacher 👍, best proof of one who negated this koshas & had identified his true nature is burning monk of Vietnam who not even reacted to the slightest to the body's burning

Thank you so much for such wonderful explanation 🙏🏻🙏🏻

How to remove the identification?

After 10 years with Iyengar yoga teachers I felt like a total failure. Swami Tadatmananda is healing me from my thoughts about failing to learn yoga well enough to have been accepted in the yoga sangha for this Hatha yoga school.

Good knowledge स्वामी जी.

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14:08 - "In deep sleep, ..., only Anandamaya kosha (Bliss Sheath) is experienced" - Swami, since in the deep sleep state, - the mental activities, the feeling of "I" (ego) and the perception of time - all are absent, is it not true that nothing can be experienced? May be the blissful state is experienced by recalling it when we become awake? Did I understand your language (choice of words) wrong?

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Wonderful presentation. Brugu and Varuni in Titareya Upanishad.

How to recognise that I'm connected with the iside..? Does my consciousness will know that

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You in one of ur videos had explained that the consciousness which you in other words u said is the Atman, is one n its the sukshma sharir that keeps taking rebirth. The consciousness gains experience thru the sukshma sarira. If that is true, why does the consciousness keeps taking different forms to gain the same kind of experience. Once it experiences something, that should be the end. But it is taking different forms to experience the same thing from thousands of years. Doesn't it get bored.

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🙏🙏🙏It's a profound knowledge......

Excellent way of explanation

Your right atman is the background but, atman is also in the center. The rings are "you". At least what "you" in ignorance think you are. There cannot be a pure consciousness because consciousness in its nature is dualistic. I would love to go into more detail with you sir.

Is the process of dis-identifying with the koshas not a function of the vijnanamaya kosha itself?

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Can someone pls tell me who is this enlightentend being. Where is his location. Contacts or website.... Pls. Thank you

U mean meditation???

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what means that word "you" thoroughly spelled by speaker countless times? is it occult summoning or?

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You're right about the colors that's actually from occult thought theosophy. They did not reference them that way until the occultist or theosophists c w leadbeater. Taught the energy centers in that way now most use it have no idea it's from occultism. Which there nothing wrong with that at all many Truths are in occult thought.

I thought in yoga literature the koshas are in the reverse order of what has been described here.

Why do some most teachings say seven then you say five someone has to be wrong.

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Please recommend me books about this theme.

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This is the problem ,Guruji. Layers have to be removed and some idiot will see it as removing . What it means by removing the layers ? Remove you're arrogance and you're ignorance,that you are just body. Identify you're true self and true Nature. Who am I in reality ? When you realise that you are pure joyful light , conciousness ,then you remove this layer. This is why it said when Veda Roars as lion all philosophy just hide and there. Earliest and most profound description of ,Who we are true ? Everyone else is just modifying and explaining the same idea as in simulation bla bla.

"Puryashtaka" is the real name.

I love your videos! This is THE most clear and concise Kosha System explanation on the entire internet. Thank you so much!!

The 5 koshis are the five filters or screens through which the light of soul shines

Wow. Thank you for clearly defining the meaning of the koshas! This was wonderful.

Pranaam, some questions/observations seeking clarifications 1- Kosha is not a sheath or layer, it means a gathering or accumulation. therefore annamaya kosha would not translate to food sheath, but rather 'body created by food', and similarly the rest adds to the human body (all sharira combined) 2- there is no relation of kosha and state of sleep, all koshas are always present. in deep sleep the focus is actually gone into repairing the body, creating muscles etc... the major bodybuilding and body repairing happens during deep sleep... and only if you are consciously focusing on something that the external world, body, senses(pratyahar) doesn't register in your focus... and ofcourse technically in samadhi, nothing exists... but its not applicable that koshas disappears without meditation with effort of ignoring them and focusing on something or nothing. kindly correct me humbly

☺🙏 It's the first time I've heard the Koshas explained so clearly

You have made complex topic very easy with great examples and solutions to get over. Sincere Pranams to you Giruji🙏

That was such a clear and concise explanation -thank you I am feeling inspired :)

Is Atma Brahman then? This teacher is marvelous. I enjoy the videos a lot. His explanation is sublime. Do u have IG, please? Xx..

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Thank you for another amazing and clear explanation of vedanta

Thank you so much. It's clear to understand what you say. This video change my life. Valuable video. Good bless you. ❤

These five sheaths do not have separate existence as objects of consciousness. They are also consciousness appearing as five sheaths. If I'm not wrong, this is what non-dualism says

Pranams Swami ji, Heartfelt gratitudes and sincere thanks to you. हरि ॐ!

9:59 - Whatever we identify with can become a source of suffering. So simple yet profound!

As the Soul is divine matter already encased in anandamaya and to experience this material world, it donned the Vignanamaya kosha at Devi Loka when it's limitless multi dimensional vision got cut by half! At Chaturmukh Brahma Loka another kosha called Manomaya further reduced the Soul's vision severely. Catching the rain drop the Soul enters only male physical bodies on Earth and it takes nearly 9 months for annamaya kosha to be formed! At birth, Pranamaya Kosha is added with it's first cry! Till then the Soul, is supposed to stay near developing annamaya and enter into it along with Prana. These 5 sheaths are essential for the Soul to experience this material cosmos as explained by my Master Late Shri Ambarisha Varma (1919-1982). He said earlier there was a 2 way channel for the Soul to send out and receive experiences, this channel should be opened during Sadhana, so that the Soul can take charge of Body, Mind and Intellect. Now, the Ego is in charge. The koshas are like an astronaut's suit, how can they cause pain and suffering- with or without identification of the manomaya? Regards to all

You are helping me so much with my self inquiry through Vedanta! Thank you for such a clearly explained video.

So there is a problem I have remaining it was my understanding of all of this that which I am truly is that which knows. That which knows or that which is aware, is not what it is aware of, (in the dualistic understanding). The point being your head hurts, not you, BUT you or not, you must remain fully aware of the pain. Knowing you are not your head, doesn’t take away the pain you are forced to experience. In other worlds realizing you are the awareness does nothing to stop the experience of the pain. If I think I am my body or if I think I am awareness doesn’t matter I experience the same pain. So where is the Benefit?

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Gracias sus clases son muy buenas me ayudan a comprender mucho mejor.

They are dimensions of consciousness one after another until awakened to your true SELF which exists everywhere in the eternal NOW

Where does responsibility fit into this understanding of our true nature? We do have a physical body, liable to get sick, to grow old, etc.; do we not have a responsibility to tend it, nurture it? If we don’t identify with our body, we say I am not my body, therefore it’s ailments are not my problem; I am not my mind, therefore it’s suffering is not my problem, etc. Why do we incarnate, have a body, are endowed with the fruits of karma?

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These five koshas are bridges to one another and they nourish each other, if the access is correctly ordered. But for the regular human after the Annamaya kosha does not give the accsess to Pranamaya kosha, but to Manomaya kosha. Its not the full awareness what exactly Manomaya kosha is, but only the daily, superficial understanding, that man has body and mind (like the classical cartesian duality of body and mind, that stucks to European philosophy until now). When someone starts to meditate after a bit experience with it, the intuition gets sharper. When someone realizes, that with the sharper intuition, the awarenes broadens about what the body wants to eat and what the emotion wants to express - so the intelligence of the body and the intelligence of the mind gets apparent to that person. After that it gets clear to this person, that the energies of the body also follow this intelligence of organizing the balance and health of the body and the mind - the organs, the immune system, the psychological health, the neurological health etc. Only by this insight through the broadened intuition, the existence of the Pranamaya kosha becomes plausible and so its function as a bridge between body and mind makes sence. This energy guides you in meditation in to controlled, deeper states - without its frustratingly hard to get in deeper meditation and even stay in it. After realizing this, the classical order of the Panchakosha serves as bridge between the conscious and the unconscious. Without this realization we stuck in the superficial duality.

Good lesson for spiritually life.

Another way to see physical food body (annamaya) - the most gross as the tiniest doll enveloped by prana kosha all the way to most subtle bliss body anada kosha.

Thank you for this. This is really helpful.

That was the best explanation of the five kasha’s... I also had a wrong understanding... thank you very much Swamiji 🙏

The is a danger of mood making. Pure consciousness can’t be experienced on the level of thought.

Vedanta is beautiful and you really make it easy to understand. Thank you very much

I am sat chit ananda! I never born and never died!

The Buddhist five hindrances are: 1/Sensory desire (kāmacchanda): the particular type of wanting that seeks for happiness through the five senses of sight, sound, smell, taste and physical feeling. 2/ill-will (vyāpāda; also spelled byāpāda): all kinds of thought related to wanting to reject; feelings of hostility, resentment, hatred and bitterness. 3/Sloth-and-torpor (thīna-middha): heaviness of body and dullness of mind which drag one down into disabling inertia and thick depression. 4/Restlessness-and-worry (uddhacca-kukkucca): the inability to calm the mind. 5/Doubt (vicikiccha): lack of conviction or trust. Dear Swami,Is this the same *pancha kosha you mentioned?

Great lecture as usual, thank you Swami ji for sharing such wonderful knowledge

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The explanation given by Sri Swamiji is not in tune with the reason and anubhava as revealed by Sruti. The koshas are mere appearances or rather Atman appears as the koshas which are mithya. In their essence they are nothing but Atman .Mantra 7-25 -2 of Chandogya Upanishad declares thus: AtmaivEdagM sarvam || Sri Shankara writes | AtmA sarvagatatvAt sarvAnanyatvAcca || Then where are the koshas?

Thank you so much Swamiji. Your videos are supreme.

SWAMIJI JUST PLEASE TELL ME ONE THING...WHO IS CHOOSING HERE NOT TO IDENTITY with the five kosho...who is choosing

Restful contentment isnt lucid dreaming. Puzzlement is better than frustration, fearfulness better than insanity/hallucination, manipulations from abstinent shame, and religious morality quells starvation.

This is very good. I am experiencing difficulty in remaining in the constant thought that I am just a witness. Do you have any videos on improving this please

just as we can over identify with our roles, i think we can under identify with them as well, resulting in abandonment of dharma.

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Nicely explained and clarifies a common and incorrect but widely taught concept

Thanks for imparting such deep knowledge in very simple words

Great teaching! Simple and easy to understand. Thanks so much.

Excellent discourse. The illustrations are very helpful.🎉