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APPENDIX I - KOSAS
Master in a letter to Dr.K.C.V. stated that “Dryness which you feel is the foundation of the state that will lead to Negation. Regarding invasion of thoughts, I want to know whether it happens all the times or at meditation hours or satsanghs. What I find is that they are only at the outer surface, the inner layer being quite clear. This process will help you in breaking Manomaya kosh.(mental sheath).
We have while dealing with Pranamaya Kosa and sadhana noted that the astral body includes the Pranamaya Kosa, the Manomaya Kosa and the Vijnanamaya Kosa. The Manomaya Kosa consists of the mind and the five Jnanendriyas that have become the instruments of the mind.
When we use the word Mind, we mean that, which makes us feel that we are the body and feel the things related to the body as ‘mine’ and that which runs out through the sensory channels to the objects in order to experience the pleasure there from. In view of this incessant activity it is rendered very unsteady and found to be flirting from one object to another. More specifically in the context of
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