The sense of morality (stemming from the voice of conscience) and personal responsibility that most people spontaneously display comes neither from the ego-mind nor does it come from our intellectual side. Rather it comes from the Higher Realms of the individual...In the discussion of Koshas below it is important to know that they are all highly intertwined and so a human is a “continuum rather than a bunch of separate entities”.
The Divine soul is “encased” in a sheath of Higher Consciousness almost as if to protect it… And one of the Divine attributes of the Higher Consciousness is our Conscience. The rare faculty of Divine Bliss is an integral part of all our souls. Another Divine attribute is intuition, sometimes accompanied by extra-sensory perception. This sheath in turn is encased by a cloak of intellect, which then is encased by the senses and the emotions, then by the limbic brain (the primitive part of the brain, and the cause of much distress to the sincere seeker), and finally by the body…which in turn is made up of various grades of matter and by that I mean less
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More specifically, the Principle is given in the Taittiriya Upanishad…The Upanishads are said to have been written down by very spiritually evolved sages of ancient India. According to this Upanishad, the innermost sheath of a human is the Bliss Sheath, and moving outward we then have the Higher Consciousness Sheath, followed by the Mind-Stuff Sheath, then the Energy Sheath, and finally the Gross Sheath or body, created by the imbibing of food. The concept of Sheaths is important because in most situations, only the “innermost sensitivities of the innermost sheaths” are reincarnated…However the exact mechanism of reincarnation is known only to the Divine Powers and humans can only