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Subtle Body
The five vital breaths (pranas), the mind, the intellect, and the ten sense organs, those of perception (hearing, touching, seeing, tasting, smelling) and those of action (speech, handling, locomotion, ureto-genital, defecation), constitute the subtle body. The subtle body is the illusory form. In the dream state, which occurs in the subtle body, the mind not only creates itself, but also experiences pleasure and pain, fears and agitations. The subtle body is associated with maya (delusion). (SSB)
Causal Body
The anandamaya kosa is the causal or seed body. Although it has the name anandamaya (blissful), it is not real bliss. The causal body is only an image or reflection of the super causal body. (SSB)
Super Causal Body
The super causal body represents the supreme principle. It is the blissful state of the Atma that is reflected as an image in the sheath of bliss (the causal body). The mind is like the moon, which is not self-luminous. The Atma alone is self-effulgent. It is this light that illumines the body, mind, the buddhi, and the senses, and that invests them with consciousness. (SSB)
The Four States of Mind
This section describes the four states of mind and their relationship to the bodies and to the nature of their aachment to sense objects.
Man remains a man as long as the mind lasts. Man functions as man as long as the mind functions. It is only when man transcends the limited state of mind that he becomes broadminded.
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