Vedanta - Discussion Forum I (introductory))

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Hmmm...

Thanks gangajal.

I think the term that has been tranlated as 'desire' is 'vAsanA'. That is definitely not 'ichchha-shakti'. vAsanA is indeed like base-desire. vAsanAs are intimately intermingled with our karma and karma-phala.

I knew that kAraNa-sharIra is where the karmic-impressions of all the lifetimes of a jiva are supposed to be stored. And that it is kAraNa-sharIra that transmigrates from birth to birth. In that sense kAraNa-sharIra is the soul.

But the sharIras are organized as a triplet (IIRC):
sthUla, sUkShma and kAraNa.

While the koshas are fivefold:
anna, prANa, mana, vij~nAna, ananda

Why is kAraNa-sharIra identified with the anandamaya-kosha?

I guess sunder can clarify this for us.