A Healing Aid
http://www.readwhere.com/read/download/clip/d8a01eac-2af6-44a0-a6d6-7da7e5850d4e A Healing Aid – Prithvi Mudra Mudra or a small action with the hands can speak louder than words. The divine gleam within us called ‘Atma’, the soul is ringed by five centric layers of matter called koshas or sheaths. In the Taittiriya Upanishad, an ancient Sanskrit text, a human being is explained as having five koshas, that interpenetrate each other, draping the soul like the layers of an onion. The outermost layer is the physical sheath (annamaya kosha) , which the sages called the food sheath, not only because it is made of the food we take in from the earth but also because it will eventually become food for other creatures. Wrapped by the physical sheath, interpenetrating it and transcending it are the three layers of the subtle body: the pranamaya kosha , or vital energy sheath; the manomaya kosha , or mental sheath; and the vijnanamaya kosha, or intellectual sheat