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The mental sheath (mannomayakosha) The lower mind, or what we usually refer to as the thinking mind or the sensory mind is mannomayakosha, or the mental sheath. It includes all mental images, mental dialogs, perceptions and emotions, fantasies, daydreams, concepts, and definitions. It is essentially everything that creates meaning out of the world, as well as what is meaningless. Exercise: Thinking is always either visual, auditory (inner dialog or sound), or some combination of both. For the next 5 minutes try observing your thoughts in silence and you will find that every thought is made of either images, an auditory component (inner dialog), or both. When the mind moves of its own volition (unconsciously), it is due to “dukkha”, or unsatisfactoriness, which is the movement of manas or lower mind operating for itself. The lower mind is never satisfied with what IS, and it is fundamentally made of patterns of craving and aversion. It exists to protect the organism and self structure, and to allow it to operate in a way that will let it have a human experience. For those identified with their personas, it has become the master rather the servant it is meant to be. Whenever we have resistance to what is, the mind engages in patterns of craving and aversion, and we have an incomplete experience of what is happening in the moment. Identification with the self structure creates a “filtered” experience of reality, and generates pathological thinking which is mediation of life through the filter of the mind. The incomplete experience of reality is an outward orientation toward the mind-made projection of the external world, focusing on “things” or phenomena which is constantly changing. If our sense of who or what we are is tied to identification with this phenomena (ie. we prefer or cling to one thing over another), then we will suffer when it inevitably changes. Most of humanity operates on the annamaya and manomaya koshas. NO TEXT IN PICTURE
A surrealist digital art piece in a medium shot showing the profile of a young man with dark, curly hair gazing serenely against a mountain landscape at sunrise or sunset. The man's hair dissolves into a swirling nebula of clouds, galaxies, and celestial elements, representing the complex landscape of his thoughts and subconscious. Within the nebulous cloudscape emerging from his head, various symbolic scenes and figures unfold: on the left, a swirling blue galaxy houses a running human figure and a seated, contemplative person clutching their head; towards the center, a translucent, wireframe human head looks forward alongside a glowing vortex framing a standing figure; on the right, a large golden ammonite shell, a flying bird, and the profile of another face emerge from golden, sunlit clouds. The lighting is ethereal and dramatic, with warm golden light illuminating the right side and deep cosmic blues on the left, creating a dreamlike and introspective atmosphere.