Seven Energy layers of the Bbody🔗

Coming to the main subject, we have seven energy layers in our body.

The first layer is the physical body which you are carrying, made out of flesh and blood. The second layer is made up of the prana movement inside your body. Prana is actually the life energy which you take in when you breathe. Air is the medium that brings in prana for sustaining your life. There are five stages in the movement of prana in your body. They are praana, apaana, vyaana, udaana, samaana. These five prana, these five movements, constitute what is called praana shareera or breath body.

The next layer is the mana shareera or the mental body. The continuous words or thoughts that rise in you are called inner chatter. The inner chattering which is continuously going on inside of you is the mana shareera or the mental body.

The fourth layer is the emotion layer. I can say that intense inner chattering which does not respond to your logical analysis is what we call 'emotions'. That is the fourth energy layer in us.

The fifth layer is that which you experience in deep sleep. It is called the causal body.

The sixth layer you will experience in a strong meditation technique when you have thoughtless awareness.

And the seventh layer is enlightenment.

You have seven different layers in your system. If all the seven different layers fall in tune with each other, suddenly you will see all of the samskaras will leave your system.

And likewise, if the samskaras are taken out of your system, suddenly you will see all of these seven layers fall in tune with each other.

The balancing, reconnecting, reuniting with yourself starts happening. That uniting is what is called Yoga. Beautifully, Patanjali describes, 'Yogaha chitta vritti nirodhaha', 'living without samskaras'. Only then the state without thoughts or thoughtless awareness will be there. When the samskaras are taken out, the uniting happens. When the uniting happens, samskaras leave your system.

So, the seven energy layers are the physical, pranic, mental, emotional, deep sleep, joy and bliss, which you enjoy in thoughtless awareness, what J.Krishnamurthi calls 'choiceless awareness', the seventh layer or the ultimate pure enlightened consciousness.

Yesterday somebody wrote me a question: 'Swamiji, this stuff was too strong for me, especially the analysis on the four states of consciousness. It was very shocking when you said that when I come back I see the same world.' Actually the person wrote the question in a very funny way, 'When I come back, I see the same house, same car, same wife. But when I go back to the dream state, I don't see the same thing.' He underlined the words, 'same wife'! The answer for that question was very shocking to him. I think the same person again wrote one more note. During the darshan, I got one more note saying, 'It was too strong. I didn't expect I will have such clarity. I am afraid of the clarity now.'

Understand, many times people are afraid of getting near the Truth. But, unless you have the courage to go near the Truth, the real healing will never happen.