The Subtle Body: The Home You Never Knew You Had

Most of us spend our entire lives convinced that we are our bodies. But the ancient sages of India had a radically different anatomy. They taught that you have three bodies, not one - and the most important one is invisible.

The Subtle Body: The Home You Never Knew You Had Understanding the Sukshma Sharira and Why Your Soul Doesn't Live Where You Think Most of us spend our entire lives convinced that we are our bodies.

We feed them, exercise them, worry about them, and eventually watch them age. But the ancient sages of India had a radically different anatomy.

Hang on, it gets better.They taught that you have three bodies, not one - and the most important one is invisible. The outermost layer is your sthula sharira , the gross or physical body.

This is flesh, bone, and blood - the body the doctor examines, the thing that gets hungry and tired and makes weird noises. It's real, but it's the least essential layer of who you are.