Panchakosh as per Vedic philosophy describes humans with five layers of awareness, or sheaths, that filter all experience. The word "pancha" is Sanskrit for "five" and "kosha" means "sheath". The five sheaths, from outermost to innermost, are: (1) Annamaya Kosha:The food sheath (2) Pranamaya Kosha:The vital sheath (3) Manomaya Kosha:The mental sheath, (4) Vigyanamaya Kosha:The intellectual sheath (5) Anandamaya Kosha: The bliss or enlightenment sheath.
The theory suggests that each person's unique perspective of reality comes from their identification with each of the five sheaths. When all five sheaths are balanced and integrated, a state of wellbeing is achieved.
This artwork moves from dark to light, from left to right, as the conversational journey with one’s own self is undertaken. Sharp lines and rough structures gradually smoothen to waves and moving lines, merges into a human mind with conflicting thoughts and emotions. But leads to knowledge and finally arrives at the eternal enlightenment through Sri Yantra.
The Panchakosha theory proves that people can be trained to transcendence from lower self to highest self and change the personality. In todays times and society, people in their lower self-triggers crimes, conflicts, wars, genocide that leads to disturbance of world peace. Traversing the dialogues through Panchakosha can generate internal peace in the most atomic unit of our society, the human being.