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Together with the causal body it is the transmigrating soul or jiva, separating from the gross body upon death. The subtle body is composed of the five subtle elements, the elements before they have undergone panchikarana, [citation needed] and contains: sravanadipanchakam – the five organs of perception: eyes, ears, skin, tongue and nose [2]
The subtle body in Indian mysticism, from a yoga manuscript in Braj Bhasa language, 1899. A row of chakras is depicted from the base of the spine up to the crown of the head. A subtle body is a "quasi material" [1] aspect of the human body, being neither solely physical nor solely spiritual, according to various esoteric, occult, and mystical ...
The first five of the seventeen elements of the subtle body are the "organs of perception" or "sense organs". [2] According to Hinduism and Vaishnavism there are five gyanendriya or "sense organs" – ears, skin, eyes, tongue and nose.
A simplified view of the subtle body of Indian philosophy, showing the three major nadis or channels, the Ida (B), Sushumna (C), and Pingala (D), which run vertically in the body. Nāḍī (Sanskrit: नाड़ी, lit. 'tube, pipe, nerve, blood vessel, pulse') is a term for the channels through which, in traditional Indian medicine and ...
A simplified view of the subtle body of Indian philosophy, showing the three major nadis or channels, the Ida (B), Sushumna (C), and Pingala (D), which run vertically in the body. [ 21 ] Indian philosophy describes prana flowing in nadis (channels), though the details vary. [ 21 ]
One of the purifications in the text is the mulashishnasodhana, "the cleansing of the anus and the penis", which calls for water to be drawn into the anus and squirted out through the penis, which James Mallinson and Mark Singleton gloss as "a feat which is, of course, anatomically impossible."
In Hinduism, many compound words are made using rūpa to describe subtle and spiritual realities such as the svarupa, meaning the form of the self.It may be used to express matter or material phenomena, especially that linked to the power of vision in samkhya, [2] In the Bhagavad Gita, the Vishvarupa form, an esoteric conception of the Absolute is described.
Saṃbhogakāya (Sanskrit: संभोगकाय, lit. 'body of enjoyment', [1] Chinese: 報身; pinyin: bàoshēn, Tib: longs spyod rdzog pa'i sku) is the second of three aspects of a buddha. Sambhogakāya is a "subtle body of limitless form". [1]