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The Causal body - originally ''Karana-Sarira'' - is a Yogic and Vedantic concept that was adopted and modified by Theosophy and from the latter made its way into the general New Age movement and contemporary western esotericism. It generally refers to the highest or innermost body that veils the atman or true soul. ==Hinduism== (詳細はrupam'', "undifferentiated form". It originates with ''avidhya'', "ignorance" or "nescience" of the real identity of the atman, instead giving birth to the notion of ''jiva''. Swami Sivananda characterizes the causal body as "The beginningless ignorance that is indescribable".〔 Siddharameshwar Maharaj, the guru of Nisargadatta Maharaj, also describes the causal body as characterized by "emptiness", "ignorance" and "darkness". In the search for the "I am", this is a state where there is nothing to hold on to anymore. Ramanuja concludes that it is at this stage that consummation of the atman with the Paramatman is reached and the search of the highest Purusa i.e. of Ishvara ends. According to other philosophical schools the causal body is not the ''atman'', because it also has a beginning and an end and is subject to modification.〔(【引用サイトリンク】author=Dr. S. Yegnasubramanian )〕 Shankara, not seeking a personal god, goes beyond ''Anandamaya Kosha'' in search of the transcendent Brahman. The Indian tradition identifies it with the ''Anandamaya kosha'',〔(Divine life Society, ''Bases of Vedanta'' )〕 and the deep sleep state, as mentioned in the Mandukya Upanishad, where ''buddhi'' becomes dormant and all concepts of time fail, although there differences between these three descriptions. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「causal body」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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