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APPENDIX I - KOSAS
to empirical activity, propelled by the forces hidden therein.
But we owe it to our beloved Master to clarify to us that Atman is a conglomerate of buddhi, ahankar, manas and chitta and that Anandamaya is but one more layer binding us. This is the reason why the Master always said Peace is not our goal. Peace or bliss or happiness or pleasure is the display of the Anandamaya Kosa as it expresses it in itself or expresses itself through the other lower kosas. When they are purified we enter into a state of nothingness that reflects but the Divine. Anandamaya kosa is the one into which we enter into every time we have an influx of Pranahuti and we further understand that our binds are to be cleanly and clearly removed by the process that we outlined above.
The first four sheaths, namely, the Annamaya, Pranamaya, Manomaya and Vijnanamaya kosas, constitute the Jiva or embodied being. Atman or Self is a conglomerate and so is Jiva: in the first case it is a bundle of Chit, Ahankar,
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