# The Four Bodies **1) When we do finally succeed in bringing the inner winds to stay and dissolve in the central channel, we become the angel of a billion worlds.  This angel has four forms, or bodies; name them in English and in Sanskrit, and describe briefly.** (a) The Reality Body (Svabhava Kaya, SvÉav kay) In a way, we already posses the first part of an Angel, and we always have.  It is the simple fact that we are not what we are: you are not the person they give that word, your name.  Rather, the name—the seed picture—came first, and then made you you.  Since you are not you any other way, you are available to become something else—an Angel.  And you always have been.  This availability is your first body.  It is sometimes described as the emptiness of the other three bodies. (b) The Knowledge Body (Jnyana Dharma Kaya, }an xmR kay) When you do become an Angel, you possess omniscience: a direct perception of all events and all places—past, present, and future.  This should not be confused though with omnipotence, which is the power to do all things.  Not even enlightened beings can act outside of the rule that everyone makes their own world, by how they treat other people.  This “body” is essentially then your enlightened state of mind. (c) The Paradise Body (Sambhoga Kaya, sMÉaeg kay) This is your “home” body, the central body in paradise in which you reside.  A perfected physical form. (d) The Emanation Body (Nirmana Kaya, inmaR[ kay) These are the countless physical forms that we send out to help others, on countless planets, the millisecond after our enlightenment. **2) What is one logical possibility that we can deduce from the fact that we ourselves will one day gain the ability to send out countless clones of ourselves to help other people?** If it’s the case that we ourselves will one day gain the ability to send out countless clones of ourselves, in different forms to help countless other beings, then it’s logically possible that every person we have ever met—every person around us at any given moment—is the emanation of one or more enlightened Angels. **3) What is it that allows us to change the physical elements of our body into those of an enlightened Angel?** When we grasp that the way we look—our physical appearance—is also empty or “available” in the same way as the first of the four bodies, this empowers us to begin the hard work of collecting enough seeds to change the actual physical elements of our body into those of the Angel. **4) Give a traditional list of the eight low-level powers which we can use to help others in a limited way, and which come from using the combined effort.** There are different forms of this list of eight worldly powers.  One of them goes like this: (a) The Sword allows you to travel anywhere. (b) The Pill enables you to become invisible or assume any outer form. (c) The Eye Ointment helps you see minute or very distant objects. (d) Swift Feet is the ability to travel at high speeds. (e) Taking Essence is the ability to live off nothing but tiny bits of sustenance. (f) Sky Walk is the ability to fly. (g) Disappearing is the capacity to remain invisible. (h) Underground is the power to pass through solid ground like a fish through water. **5) The eight worldly powers transform into divine powers once we ourselves reach a higher level of spiritual evolution.  Name and describe briefly these eight divine powers.** (a) The first of the eight divine powers is the "holy body."  This refers to the ability to emanate many bodies at once. (b) “Holy speech” is the ability to teach the Dharma to every living being in his or her native tongue, all at the same time. (c) “Holy mind” means perceiving knowable object there is, while simultaneously remaining in a state where nothing is conceived as coming from its own side. (d) The divine power of "performing miracles" refers to the ability to perform limitless miracles at will. (e) Being “ever-present” is the quality of reaching to all places and all times. (f) “Fulfilling all wishes” is the ability to bring about, in its entirety, whatever one might wish for. (g) “Creating all things” is the power to show oneself, with no more effort than simply wishing it, as a whole variety of worlds and the beings who walk the surface of these worlds. (h) “Possessing high qualities” means to possess all the high qualities related to the ten powers of an enlightened being. **6) Master Patanjali says that we “will master the main thing, the messenger of the mind.”  Why does he call the mind “the main thing”?** With this reference, the Master is again summarizing the only way that we could reach the four bodies of an Angel.  In the end, the mind underlies all things—projecting everything we are aware of, even ourselves.  At the end, the mind then fulfills its true capacity, of seeing directly every one of these objects—past, present, or future. In one final mental twist, we need to understand that even our understanding of how all this works is itself a projection: a mental picture presented to our mind when extraordinarily rare and powerful seeds break open.