Jack Preston King , I love your journalistic approach to revealing ancient wisdom to people in our current time. You are a true blessing and your words help point the way. Thank you!
“ The Taittiriya Upanishad teaches that the Atman is enclosed within five koshas, or sheathes. They are sometimes referred to as the five bodies or vehicles of the soul.” -Jack
These five bodies or koshas or sheathes or vehicles are what we, as divine entities, progress through within the duality-based dimensional reality we are traveling through. They are what our Atman progresses through. There are two koshas ABOVE those five that exist in higher dimensional realms.
There are always SEVEN progressions in an octave; the eight being the first step in the next octave.
In our evolutionary trajectory through this seemingly physical dimension our goal is to reach the fifth dimension, or kosha, because until then we cannot proceed beyond that into the sixth and seventh which opens us up to a whole new octave.
For tens of thousands of years our collective goal is to reach the fifth kosha, or note in our current octave of our divine journey. Back when the ancient scriptures were written it seemed like an impossible task to get to that point so directions for our journey beyond that were not included. It would obviously take humans a very, very, very long time just to reach that fifth kosha.
But there are two koshas ABOVE that which we must go through before entering the next octave of our journey.
The Atman is the sense of self or soul that journeys through the five koshas of this particular octave. This concept of ‘soul’ is necessary for us to traverse this dimension of experience in order to make it past the fifth note, or kosha, of our current octave.
It is when we enter and pass through the sixth and seventh notes of our current octave that the concept of ‘soul’ takes on a whole new meaning. The concept of ‘soul’ was necessary in order to see ourselves in this particular progression through the current octave we are passing through. It was a way to delineate the physical and non-physical aspects of ourselves in our journey.
But once we pass past the fifth kosha we realize that we are much, much, much more than just a soul. We realize that we are much, much, much more than the demarcation between physical and spiritual.
It is through the passage through the sixth and seventh koshas, which the ancient scriptures don’t get into, that our awareness expands to allow us to realize our much greater divine realities.
We see ourselves as a body and mind and a soul. The body and mind are ephemeral while the soul keeps on trucking. But the soul leads to something even grander. The soul is that which leads us to a greater interpretation of what and who we are. It leads us through and BEYOND the dimensional octave we are in to an even greater realization of our profoundly divine nature. Yes, we are each a soul but it is that soul that leads us through our evolutionary journey to discover that which we are that is even more profoundly greater than a soul.
Just my perspective.
