E63: From Mind to Enlightenment: Understanding Yoga’s “Layers of the Self”

Michael Singer Podcast

Michael Singer

Religion, Religion & Spirituality

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🗓️ 27 March 2025

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Yoga isn’t merely about physical postures or meditation techniques; it is the journey toward union with the true self. It introduces the concept of koshas—layers of human existence from the physical body to the blissful body. Consciousness gets entangled in the lower bodies of thoughts, emotions, and past experiences, which leads to suffering and distraction from our inherent joy. True spiritual growth is not about seeking something external but about letting go of these stored emotional and mental blockages. Ultimately, yoga is the process of transcending these layers and experiencing our natural state of bliss, love, and oneness with the universe.

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Michael Singer podcast presented by Sounds True in partnership with Shanti Publications.
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1:00.8	People think that yoga is something you do on a mat or on a meditation pillow.
1:07.1	Those are techniques. That's like saying distances about the measuring stick. You have
1:14.4	implements and instruments that carry about the purpose of something. That's all that the asanas are.
1:21.0	That's all meditation is. That's all mantra is. That's all, all the disciplines, everything.
1:27.2	They're techniques that lead to yoga.
1:30.3	Yoga means union, union, oneness, merger.
1:36.3	That's what yoga is, the pinnacle.
1:38.3	And the yoga philosophy is all about that.
1:41.3	But we're lucky if we even hear enough about the techniques and try to practice them.
1:47.2	So one aspect, which I touched on yesterday, we're going to talk about it,
1:52.0	is that yoga talks about koshes.
1:55.5	Most people don't know anything about it, which is fine.
1:57.8	I don't even want to know anything about it.
1:59.7	I'm into experiencing things. I don't want to to know anything about it. I'm into experiencing things.
2:01.3	I don't want to know about them before I experience them. Once they experience them, it's fun to know
2:06.4	that they have names and that they have teachings behind them. I'm just very, I'm a fit on the ground
2:12.9	type person, feet on the ground. So what are the cautious? Let's start to the top. You are the consciousness.
2:19.9	You know that? We talk about it all the time. All of you that are here understand you are in there
2:25.4	watching your mind, feeling your emotions, dealing with your body, and receiving the outside
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