karana-sharira
कारणशरीर kāraṇa-śarīraThe causal body, subtlest of the three bodies. It is the seed-layer of latent tendencies and accumulated karma from which the gross and subtle bodies grow.
Where this term appears
- The Subtle Body: Nadis, Chakras, and Kundalini Yoga
The karana sharira , the causal body, is subtler still, the seed-layer of latent tendencies and accumulated karma from which the other two grow.
- What the West gets wrong about chakras Journal
…e sukshma sharira , the subtle body of mind and vital energy; and the karana sharira , the causal body, the seed-layer of latent tendencies.
- The Map and the Mirage Treatise
There is the karana sharira , the causal body, the deepest seed of individual existence.