Pancha Kosha - Five Sheaths that CANNOT Cover Atma

The five koshas - food, prana, mind, intellect, and bliss - cannot cover atma because atma pervades the universe. Understood according to the non-dual teachings of advaita Vedanta, such as those taught by Shankara, each kosha is a locus of identification, ignorance, and wrong conclusions about atma, the true self, sat chit ananda, limitless eternal consciousness. annamaya kosha = body anna = food pranamaya kosha = physiological energy prana = life force manomaya kosha = mind manas = mind vijnanamaya kosha = intellect vijnana or buddhi = intellect anandamaya kosha = bliss Swami Tadatmananda is a traditionally-trained teacher of Advaita Vedanta, meditation, and Sanskrit. For more information, please see: