The Vijnanamaya kosha is the astral or psychic body that’s your seat of intuition. Known as the awareness or wisdom sheath, it allows you to develop a deeper awareness and to see reality for what it is.
The first layer: the body – Annamaya Kosha; There are many possibilities within you, layer upon layer. The second layer: the mind – Manomaya Kosha; third Kosha. The second Kosha, Pranamaya Kosha, is a bridge between Annamaya Kosha and Mamomaya Kosha. So it is not a layer.
Real life is beyond both body and mind. You are in the body, you are in the mind, but you are neither. The body is your outer shell, the mind is your inner shell, but you are beyond both. This insight is the beginning of real life.
The first meditation is to separate yourself from the body. If one moves beyond the mind-body, by purifying the mind, witnessing the mind will realise the fourth, the fourth body – Vijnanamaya Kosha.
When you become aware of your mind, only then you have the fourth body, the intuitive body and then there is a growth. We have it but in a very undeveloped form.
Only when one is seeing directly into the nature of things. It is not trying to think about it. You don’t think about it; there is no “about” in intuition.
The word ‘maya’ means ‘made up of’. The ‘made of’ used is not some abstract term. It literally means that the koshas are made of the things, they are not who you are, one can transcend it. Each outer sheath covers the inner sheath. If you peel off the outer sheath, you move to the inner sheath.
One will transcend Manomaya Kosha so that the sensory organ and mind will have organic unity with the Soul. With this organic unity one can move from Manomaya Kosha and can enter into Vijnanamaya Kosha. Now one can encounter the Vijnanamaya Kosha. This sheath is made up of intelligence.
One will be more sensitive after transcending the Manomaya Kosha will realise the subtlest difference between both Kosha and at the same time realisation comes that one cannot be the Vijnanamaya Kosha. Transcendental process of Vijnanamaya Kosha will start with this distinction.
The three lower bodies were all concerned with one plane. The division was horizontal. Now, it is vertical. The difference is not between outside and inside but between up and down. Not unless you begin to look upward can you move into the fourth. In the fourth Kosha, your consciousness must become like fire – going upward. The upward look is a jump from the third body. And from the third body onward, the flowering of the human being happens.
By looking upward, by raising their consciousness upward from the fourth body, one has crossed the boundary of the mind; one transcends the Vijnanamaya Kosha.
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