sukshma sharira
सूक्ष्म शरीर suksma sariraThe subtle body, woven of breath, mind and the channels, distinct from the gross physical body (sthula sharira) and the causal body (karana sharira); the chakras belong to it.
Where this term appears
- What happens after death in Hinduism? Essentials
What carries this residue across the gap of death is not the physical body, which is left behind, but a subtle body , called in the Samkhya and Vedanta analysis the sukshma-sharira or linga-sharira .
- Why do Hindus cremate their dead? Essentials
Hindus cremate their dead because the body is understood as a temporary vessel, borrowed from the five elements (earth, water, fire, air and space), while the true…
- The Subtle Body: Nadis, Chakras, and Kundalini Yoga
The sukshma sharira , the subtle body, is the body of mind, sense, and vital energy, the part the tradition says travels between lives.
- The Map and the Mirage Treatise
Not a body you can dissect If the chakras are not the rainbow chart, what are they? They are centres of the sukshma sharira , the subtle body.
- What the West gets wrong about chakras Journal
Chakra means "wheel." In the classical material a chakra is a centre in what the tradition calls the sukshma sharira , the subtle body.
- The vehicle Treatise
The one that matters here is the middle body, the sukshma sharira , the subtle body, sometimes called the linga sharira , the mark-body, because it carries the marks of all a person has done.