the number '5'.
the number ‘5’. container. Yoga generally distinguishes ‘five envelopes’ (pancha-kosa ) or ‘sheaths’ , ‘ducts’ enveloping the Self (atman). The gross body (sthula sharira), that is to say the physical body, contains just one envelope
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