sthula-sharira
स्थूलशरीर sthūla-śarīraThe gross physical body, the coarsest of the three bodies in Vedanta. It is the frame that eats, breathes, and dies.
Where this term appears
- The Subtle Body: Nadis, Chakras, and Kundalini Yoga
The sthula sharira , the gross body, is the physical frame that eats and breathes and dies.
- What the West gets wrong about chakras Journal
…dian thought, in its Vedanta scheme, gives a person three bodies: the sthula sharira , the gross physical body you can weigh; the sukshma sharira , the subtle body of mind and vital energy; and the karana shari…
- The Map and the Mirage Treatise
There is the sthula sharira , the gross or physical body, the one that eats and ages and is burned at death.