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This and that have gone now
May all of us, brothers and sisters, strive hard to live up to the expectations of Babuji and realize the purpose of our lives.
9. Sri M.S. Neelakandan
“We are all connected intellectually, morally and spiritually- the main goal of human life. This and that have gone now. There remains the purity alone in all his work and environment, which weaves the spiritual destiny of the persons with the ultimate.”
Revered Sri K.C. Narayana in his article “Spiritual Fraternity” has mentioned about the fact that people have been differentiating among themselves on the basis of three planes – intellectual, moral and spiritual and that refers to the three kosas – Manomaya, Vijnanamaya and the Anandamaya kosas and stresses that on the contrary people are connected with one another in these three planes leaving out the other two the physical and the vital planes viz. the annamaya and the pranamaya kosas.
Rev. Sri K.C. Narayana in his monumental work “The five kosas role in sadhana under Pranahuti Aided Meditation” has defined the kosas are the sheaths through which the self/soul functions simultaneously in the various planes of existence. It is to be understood that the physical body or the sthula sharira is the annamaya kosa, while the subtle body or the sukshma sarira is the pranamaya kosa, manomaya kosa and vijnanamaya kosa and the causal or karana sharira is the anandamaya kosa. It is the wisdom of the Seers of the Upanishads that enabled them to comprehend the Anna, Prana, Manah, Vijnana and Ananda as forms of Brahman or Ultimate reality or expressions of the same Divine Consciousness.
The annamaya kosa or the physical plane is the sheath composed of food – the physical body, being the
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