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What is the soul, in your opinion ?
With experiments on the human brain, people have been able to isolate the areas of the brain which contain memories, language, thoughts and even personality - and by removing the neural paths to these areas have been able to clear memories, clear language skills, thoughts and change personalities, proving these things are physically stored in the brain. What is left to belong to the soul ? What part of you will exist in Heaven ? If you believe all of your memories and thoughts, etc will be with you in heaven - the memories and thoughts when you died ? (in which case what happens if you had alzheimers before you died)
With memories being physically stored, by removing part of the brain people can lose all memories of who they loved, etc. So the idea that you'd meet up with your loved ones in heaven is impossible.
Those who believe the body rises as well, which body goes with you ? The decrepit body that caused your death at the age of 100 ? If you die as a baby, do you stay in your baby form for eternity ?
To those that define the soul as our "essence" - what is our essence, if it's not a function of memory and thought ??
Prabhupa.... : I personally don't agree with the existence of this soul, too much of our existence and individuality can be traced through the brain, without the need for a supernatural soul. However, I do respect your views, as there's something to be said for the positivity from Krshna (and also from Buddhism) which is lacking in the Abrahamic religions
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- 1 decade agoFavorite Answer
the "soul" is just a label for things we don't understand yet.
- ?Lv 45 years ago
The souls of persons have been created for companionship with God (the full). The development that God used to create souls grew to become into the development of God's very own Spirit. The spirit is life. From the spirit, the ideas builds types. From the ideas, the actual creation is the end result. this is how the spirit, the ideas, and individuality, grew to become the development for souls. this is how reason, action, and effect grew to become the development for each thing. First there grew to become into the spirit (the 1st reason); then there grew to become into the action which withdrew spirit into itself; then there grew to become into the ensuing individuality of God. The spirit of the guy existed in the previous their soul grew to become into created. The spirit keeps the certainty of its identity with God. The soul has the skill to journey the events of the ideas in a fashion become self reliant from God.
- ?Lv 61 decade ago
When I was rock bottom from psycho terror by my ex husband, I had a wonderful dream one night: I stood on the cliffs of Mull, below me the dark blue and calm sea. There was a bright light closing in and resting above the sea, just in front of me but still a few miles out. Without hesitation, I moved towards this light and was greeted with immense love. As I lifted my arms as I would embrace somebody, I looked down and saw my body fall into the sea. It was like a black shadow, and the light said to me: You don't need it. I was happy and I felt that I was an aetheric something, as light as nothing I can think of. --- I woke up and left my ex husband the same day. Whenever I think of souls, I think I saw and felt mine. I don't know how to explain. I don't know what exactly it is but I firmly believe that they ARE.
- Anonymous1 decade ago
Hinduism gives a clear answer to this. We have known for millenia that the real "you", the atman which gets reincarnated is not your memmories or your intellect.
The real you is the divine spark of God, veiled by a causal body of Karma. This gets reincarnated over many lives until at last the soul can free itself from karma. Through meditation it is possible to experience the real self, and know what it is "to be" without thought.
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- PrabhupadanugaLv 41 decade ago
Mind intelligence and ego carries the soul to the next body
this is the process of transmigration. Brain is instrument like you have a typewriter but still there is an individual who operates a typewriter.
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Prajapati: Srila Prabhupada, are thoughts made of matter or spirit?
Prabhupada: Yes. Thoughts actually made by spirit, but it is covered by matter.
Bg 15.8 P The Yoga of the Supreme Person
At the time of death, the consciousness he has created will carry him on to the next type of body. If he has made his consciousness like that of a cat or dog, he is sure to change to a cat's or dog's body. And, if he has fixed his consciousness on godly consciousness, he will be transferred to Krsnaloka in the spiritual world and will associate with Krsna. It is a false claim that after the annihilation of this body everything is finished. The individual soul is transmigrating from one body to another, and his present body and present activities are the background of his next body. One gets a different body according to karma, and he has to quit this body in due course. It is stated here that the subtle body, which carries the conception of the next body, develops another body in the next life. This process of transmigrating from one body to another and struggling while in the body is called karsati or struggle for existence.
SB 4.29.64 P Talks Between Narada and King Pracinabarhi
In dreams we sometimes see things that we have never experienced in the present body. Sometimes in dreams we think that we are flying in the sky, although we have no experience of flying. This means that once in a previous life, either as a demigod or astronaut, we flew in the sky. The impression is there in the stockpile of the mind, and it suddenly expresses itself. It is like fermentation taking place in the depths of water, which sometimes manifests itself in bubbles on the water's surface. Sometimes we dream of coming to a place we have never known or experienced in this lifetime, but this is proof that in a past life we experienced this. The impression is kept within the mind and sometimes becomes manifest either in dream or in thought. The conclusion is that the mind is the storehouse of various thoughts and experiences undergone during our past lives. Thus there is a chain of continuation from one life to another, from previous lives to this life, and from this life to future lives. This is also sometimes proved by saying that a man is a born poet, a born scientist or a born devotee.
Source(s): Changing Bodies (LCFL) Dr. Singh. People want more proof. Srila Prabhupada. What more is required? The eternality of the soul is a simple fact. I am an eternal soul. My body is changing, but I am not changing. For example, I am now an old man. Sometimes I think, "Oh, I used to jump and play, but now I cannot jump because my body has changed." I want to jump, but I cannot do it. That jumping propensity is eternal, but because of my old body I cannot do it. Dr. Singh. Opponents will say that according to their observation, the nature of consciousness is that it lasts for only one body. Srila Prabhupada. That is foolishness. In Bhagavad-gita (2.13) Krsna explains: dehino 'smin yatha dehe kaumaram yauvanam jara tatha dehantara-praptir dhiras tatra na muhyati "As the embodied soul continually passes, in this body, from boyhood to youth to old age, the soul similarly passes into another body at death. The self-realized soul is not bewildered by such a change." Just as this body is always changing (as I can see in my daily experience), there is a similar change at the time of death. Dr. Singh. But according to the scientists, we cannot actually observe this last change. Srila Prabhupada. Their eyes are so imperfect that they cannot observe many, many things. Their ignorance does not make the Bhagavad-gita unscientific. Why don't the scientists admit the imperfection of their senses? They must first admit the imperfection of their senses. Their seeing power does not determine what is and what is not science. Dogs cannot understand the laws of nature. Does that mean the laws of nature don't exist? Dr. Singh. Well, the scientists admit that argument, but they say the way to become perfect is through objective information and experience. Srila Prabhupada. No. That is not the way to become perfect. No one can become perfect through imperfect thinking, and our thinking must be imperfect because our senses and minds are imperfect. Dr. Singh. Srila Prabhupada, another question can be raised. is it not possible that the soul may accept three, four or five bodies and then die? Srila Prabhupada. You are accepting millions of bodies. I say that your body of yesterday is not your body of today. So, if you live for one hundred years, how many times have you changed bodies? Just calculate. Dr. Singh. Thirteen. Srila Prabhupada. Why thirteen? Dr. Singh. Medical science says that all the bodily cells are replaced every seven years. Srila Prabhupada. No, not every seven years--every second. Every second, the blood corpuscles are changing. Is it not so? Dr. Singh. Yes. Srila Prabhupada. And as soon as the blood corpuscles change, you change your body. Dr. Singh. In scientific terminology, can the eternality of the soul be compared to conservation of energy? Srila Prabhupada. There is no question of the conservation of energy, because energy is always existing. Dr. Singh. But according to scientific terminology, the law of conservation of energy is that energy cannot be created or destroyed, which means, I think, that it is eternal. Srila Prabhupada. Oh, yes, that we admit. Krsna is eternal; therefore all His energies are eternal. Dr. Singh. Is that why the living entity is also eternal? Srila Prabhupada. Yes. If the sun is eternal, its energies--heat and light--are also eternal. Dr. Singh. Does it follow from this, then, that life cannot be created or destroyed? Srila Prabhupada. Yes. Life is eternal. It is not created or destroyed. It is only temporarily covered. I am eternal, but last night I was covered by sleep, so I think in terms of yesterday and today. This is the condition of the material world. Author: His Divine Grace A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada Srimad-Bhagavatam (SB) Bhagavad-gita As It Is (BG) Life Comes from Life (LCFL) The Science of Self Realization (SSR) Krsna, The Supreme Personality of Godhead(Krsna Book) KB Srila Prabhupada letters(SPL), Lectures, Conversations "We request you to chant HARE KRISHNA HARE KRISHNA, KRISHNA KRISHNA HARE HARE, HARE RAMA HARE RAMA, RAMA RAMA HARE HARE, and your life will be sublime." Further readings please try these sites: http://prabhupadabooks.com/?g=155635 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ http://krishnastore.com/compact-30-volume-srimad-b... ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ - djmantxLv 71 decade ago
Gen 1:26 And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth.
Gen. 2:7 And the Lord God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul.
The soul is the marriage of body and spirit.
The spirit is eternal that God breathed into a man.
When resurrected you will be made new with a incorruptible body.
- Anonymous1 decade ago
Souls don't exist, it is just a concept created by religion to keep the sheep in order.
- Tapestry6Lv 71 decade ago
When Jesus arose from the dead it was all of Him mind, body and soul. The soul gives the body life and immortality in the next. Since it is spirit it is never going to be weighed, measured and cataloged by scientists, either you believe this or you don't.
- TheresaLv 61 decade ago
The soul is the eternal essence of who you are - the part of you that was created in the image and likeness of God.
The body is just a physical manisfestation of your soul.
- AMIE™[CCFC]Lv 61 decade ago
I believe there is a soul. And I think it is just everywhre inside of us. Because when we die, our body is just dead, gone, because our life is our soul. And when we die, I think the soul leaves our body. And our body for our lifetime I believe it's just a sort of storage place for our soul. I think our real body is our soul. And when we die it leavs the body, and moves on to Heaven or a new body. So I think our soul is just evrywhere, no particular place.
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- Anonymous1 decade ago
The life-force.
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