Imagine this life as a grand, enchanting theme park—an invitation for the infinite being you truly are to explore, play, and experience. You’ve chosen to embark on a series of fascinating rides known as the Koshas—layers of experience we navigate, all while our true essence remains untouched and whole.
Here are the five rides:
The Bliss Ride (Anandamaya Kosha): The serene, joyful experience of pure being. It’s the effortless peace and deep contentment that feels like floating gently on clouds.
The Effortless Awareness Ride (Vijnanamaya Kosha): The spacious, clear wisdom where all forms arise effortlessly and harmoniously. It’s the beauty of perceiving everything as perfectly balanced and aligned.
The Mind’s Roller Coaster (Manomaya Kosha): The thrilling, often chaotic world of thoughts and concepts. Here, we experience duality, contrast, and storytelling that create the illusion of separation and struggle.
The Emotional Ride (Pranamaya Kosha): The powerful, shifting waves of emotion—joy, sadness, love, fear—flowing and transforming like currents in an endless ocean.
The Physical Experience Ride (Annamaya Kosha): The most vivid and tangible of all, where we fully feel sensations, physicality, and material existence in all its intensity.
Here’s the beautiful part: While we consent to explore these rides, we never truly become them. We are simply here to experience them.
In truth, you are the infinite, open space where all of this unfolds. Beneath it all, unity consciousness is already present, always holding everything with effortless grace. It’s only when we choose to play the role of individuality that we seem to experience separation.
But that separation is only part of the game. Everything—thoughts, emotions, sensations—arises like waves on the vast, boundless ocean of your being. The ride of separation is just a playful illusion, and yet, through it all, you remain whole, free, and untouched.
What if, instead of getting lost in the ride, you simply enjoyed the experience, knowing who you truly are?
With love,
David Bingham
