The Five Sheaves of the Mind

The five sheaves are the physical form of the body The prana or life that animates this body in other words all the physiological function. We never experienced a dead body as I it's always a living body So there's the body and the prana the form and the life that Animates it And we also never experienced a sleeping body as I It's always a body that seems to be awake Even in dream we're experiencing a body as ourself That body in dream seems to us to be awake at that time. In a waking body or a dreaming body whatever we choose to call it There is always um The mind the intellect and will are also functioning so these five are called the