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Panchakosha - The Five Sheaths of Misidentification
The panchakosha teaching of the Taittiriya Upanishad describes five sheaths — body, life-force, mind, intellect, and bliss — in which the Self is mistakenly identified. They are pedagogical tools for discrimination, not literal coverings.
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