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What do you meant by Soul?? What is Soul Exactly?

Update:

@Prema -- Living Force is Different from Soul

@Factual Information . com -- If Soul is unobservable then what we meant by self-realization??

@Jesere -- Soul is in heart.

@Jesus Christ -- Is God Soul's or mine Soul same??

@David Smith -- it means if our physical body got destroyed our soul got destroyed??

@img2lknss -- if animals souls are not eternal then its human souls which are taking animal bodies?? if not then how animal species are going??

Update 2:

Thanks all for such a beautiful answers....but here we see everyone's view is slightly different from other

@J -- Nice Thought but missed slight. Soul is Spiritual in Nature and Ego is first manifestation from Soul's Consciousness which is material in nature. The false ego — "I am," and "It is mine, which constitute the basic principle of material existence.

Source -- http://vedabase.net/bg/7/en

@Flute -- Its Super-Soul(God) which is conscious in all constituents of universe.(Isaavaasyamidam sarvam) Soul is Conscious about a particular body. (Aham brahmaasmi)

Update 3:

@Schumbug... Right... Soul is Minute Spiritual Spark which is atomic in size and it provide consciousness or aura to whole body.

Source -- http://vedabase.net/bg/2/17/

Update 4:

@trueprob.. Thanks Buddy In addition there are two more remedy for the ailment caused by MAYA.

Self-realization is knowing one self but two other realization are Paramatma Realization & Bhagavan(God in personal form) Realization.

Source -- http://www.harekrsna.com/philosophy/truth/para-tat...

Update 5:

@Forget Me Not -- Opps how can i forget you to say thanks :)

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  • Anonymous
    8 years ago
    Favorite Answer

    Soul is our true self. A aspect of the consciousness that pervades and creates the universe.

    A soul is not something that we have, it is something that we are.

    A body is a good example of something that we have that isn't something that we are.

  • Leda
    Lv 5
    8 years ago

    The soul is a quality of the mind. Nature seems to have instilled it in the human brain, but it's not a living entity, except as a part of the many functions of the brain, and possibly the most debated. It is possibly humanity attempt to reach out for something greater, more powerful, purer and nobler than itself.

    The soul, in its essence, is an abstraction, an idea which we have invested with the nobility, grandeur and transcendence our humanity seems to refuse us. It has generated what we call religions, which are also attempts to formalise and ritualise our longing for that very transcendence that seems to elude us, the sacred.

    But the soul is an abstraction generated by the human mind, just like mathematics, which is also an abstraction, which also does not exist as an entity, which is also generated by the mind. Yet we wouldn't call mathematics anything but a phenomenon of the mind. True, it does't move us like the notion of the soul, but our distinction, our human logic has nothing to do with the sacred, the transcendent.

    Source(s): thoughts
  • Anonymous
    8 years ago

    Soul is Ego; there is One Ego; individualized Soul is a purpose of Creation: "spirit-sparks" as permanent atoms of Being in the "body of God."

    Sources: The Path of the Higher Self, Mark Prophet

    Man, Master of His Destiny, Omraam Aivanhov

  • 8 years ago

    Hello Speaking Soul,

    Life is everywhere. Even atoms have life

    material physical body

    Physical brain

    Mind uses this tool to execute whatever it wishes to perform

    Mind is possessed by spirit

    Spirit is a bound field

    This boundary laid by the unbounded soul

    Soul in sanskrit is Atman

    For convenience, to get right understanding about the cosmic performance we classify this soul as living soul (jeev atman) and supreme soul (param atman)

    Soul is only one TRUTH which is beyond time and space. This is pure conscious state.

    As pure consciousness becomes conscious of itself there creation begins - Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

    Self realization is the only remedy for the ailment caused by MAYA.

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  • Flute
    Lv 7
    8 years ago

    Soul is the consciousness in all constituents of universe without any exception, representing the power of the Holistic Almighty that is pervading all. (Isaavaasyamidam sarvam). Hence the upanishad statement, "Aham brahmaasmi".

    @Speaking soul:

    That is the very mistake we commit, in assuming there are two independent entities-soul and supersoul-Actually the soul is the amsa (dependent fragment) of supersoul, just as the relationship between ocean and its droplet. If this is properly understood, the soul is understood as well. A droplet of ocean is not as powerful as the ocean, yet, the droplet can not be dismissed as not the amsa of ocean

  • Prema
    Lv 7
    8 years ago

    Is prana, the living force, the self. The body is a dead matter, and appears to be alive because the sou is there. As soon the soul leaves the body, the body is a useless lump of matter.

  • Jesere
    Lv 7
    8 years ago

    The Soul is who we are,

    The Mind is where our Soul/Spirit reside

    while in the shell called the Human Body...

    Anyone who has had an OBE (Out of Body Experience)

    knows that the body is a temporary place the Soul dwells

    while experiencing the Physical Plane..

    I have had OBE's for over 48 years

  • 8 years ago

    You are the soul living in your body. The body is your attair in this life. You may take different bodies in different times but you remain for ever, eternal.

  • 8 years ago

    I think the soul is an aura of an individual

  • 8 years ago

    in terms of human souls that are eternal individual souls

    which animal souls are not

    the soul is the record of its spiritual choices

    the state of the soul of humanity was i think as paul says in the bible in romans

    now when this happened i do not think a close understanding of the original language of the bible

    greek.

    i dont think this happened with the fall of adam

    as the hebrew word for adam appears in chapter 1 of genesis tho hardly english translations indicate this...this adam was humanity as a whole

    the adam of adam and eve was an individual soul

    and according to the american psychic edgar cayce

    was one of the 33 incarnations of jesus

    his incarnatin before he came as jesus is spoken of in zechariah

    when all his sins were removed

    Zec 3:2 And the LORD said unto Satan, The LORD rebuke thee, O Satan; even the LORD that hath chosen Jerusalem rebuke thee: is not this a brand plucked out of the fire?

    Zec 3:3 Now Joshua was clothed with filthy garments, and stood before the angel.

    Zec 3:4 And he answered and spake unto those that stood before him, saying, Take away the filthy garments from him. And unto him he said, Behold, I have caused thine iniquity to pass from thee, and I will clothe thee with change of raiment.

    in chapter 1 of genesis

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