Passage 2

In English

The human body is constituted by the (five elements), (five sheaths) - (food), (Life-force), (mental), (intelligence) and (the sheath of Bliss). While other living beings have only the first three sheaths, the human species alone has all the five. Man is encompassed by attachment to worldly desires, which produce delusions of various kinds related to the three (, and ). To attain liberation man has to rid himself of these desires. The mind is the cause of both bondage and liberation. It is only by controlling the mind that man can achieve liberation.