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What is Soul?
This site is a new one. Nobody has yet asked the question about soul. We are giving the questions here those were asked earlier by some of the disciples and the replies given by Swamiji.
Question: What is soul ? Does it really exist? How can I believe that the soul exists ?
Answer: “Soul” is self-evident and a subject of self-experience. “Soul” does not require external factors to prove that it exists. One has to believe automatically in the existence of the soul, if he/she believes in his own existence.
When you say “this is my book”, the books is a different thing than “you”. When you say,” this is my wrist watch” the watch has to be different from you. In the same way when you say, this is my hand”, “this is my head” or “my mind is upset today” etc., these body organs and your mind must be different from you. You are neither your body nor your mind. You always experience that you can have control on your mind and body too.
Like, you know that you should not touch the live electric wire. When the electricians work, they put on the hand gloves. Still we see that the incidents of deaths occur due to electric shock. This is a clear proof that your hands, legs, nose ears or any body part has no decisive power. Even there is no final decisive power to your brain. Brain does not decide or has no answer to this question, “which are the things you should think over immediately”. It is “you” who decide.
The body is made up of seven basic elements. There is no eighth thing in the human body.
The first is the Rasa. Rasa means food. To explain more correctly, our food and water intake is converted in to a homogeneous syrupy liquid before digestion. Our body throws away the unwanted solid and liquid part from this syrup, and the remaining syrup becomes part of the body. This is called Rasa. The second is Rakta i.e. blood. Rasa (syrup)is further converted into blood. The third is Masa (flesh), fourth is Meda (fats), fifth is Majja (tissues), sixth is Asthi (bones) and the last i.e. seventh is Virya (semen).
Every organ of the human body is made up of one or more of the above seven essential elements. Our brain is not an exception to it. Like, if any organ is separated from the body, for example the hand, it will not have any sensation. If a leg is cut off from the body it will not have any sensation. Similarly, if our brain is cut off from the body it will not have sensation. It proves that the brain is just like other organs of the body and has specific work to do. It can’t initiate thinking.
So, when one says, “I am a Man” or “I am a woman”, it is not meant that he or she is the body. It is therefore, in vogue that we say, “this is my hand, this is my leg” etc. When we say “I”, we are not the bodies or the body organs but we are the owners of this body, like we are the owners of the book, when we say, “this is my book”.
You must be thinking that if “I” is not a body then “I” must be the mind? No, sorry! We are not the mind too. We are able to stop the functioning of the mind by controlling respiration; so, we govern the mind, but we are not mind.
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This site is a new one. Nobody has yet asked the question about soul. We are giving the questions here those were asked earlier by some of the disciples and the replies given by Swamiji.
Question: What is soul ? Does it really exist? How can I believe that the soul exists ?
Answer: “Soul” is self-evident and a subject of self-experience. “Soul” does not require external factors to prove that it exists. One has to believe automatically in the existence of the soul, if he/she believes in his own existence.
When you say “this is my book”, the books is a different thing than “you”. When you say,” this is my wrist watch” the watch has to be different from you. In the same way when you say, this is my hand”, “this is my head” or “my mind is upset today” etc., these body organs and your mind must be different from you. You are neither your body nor your mind. You always experience that you can have control on your mind and body too.
Like, you know that you should not touch the live electric wire. When the electricians work, they put on the hand gloves. Still we see that the incidents of deaths occur due to electric shock. This is a clear proof that your hands, legs, nose ears or any body part has no decisive power. Even there is no final decisive power to your brain. Brain does not decide or has no answer to this question, “which are the things you should think over immediately”. It is “you” who decide.
The body is made up of seven basic elements. There is no eighth thing in the human body.
The first is the Rasa. Rasa means food. To explain more correctly, our food and water intake is converted in to a homogeneous syrupy liquid before digestion. Our body throws away the unwanted solid and liquid part from this syrup, and the remaining syrup becomes part of the body. This is called Rasa. The second is Rakta i.e. blood. Rasa (syrup)is further converted into blood. The third is Masa (flesh), fourth is Meda (fats), fifth is Majja (tissues), sixth is Asthi (bones) and the last i.e. seventh is Virya (semen).
Every organ of the human body is made up of one or more of the above seven essential elements. Our brain is not an exception to it. Like, if any organ is separated from the body, for example the hand, it will not have any sensation. If a leg is cut off from the body it will not have any sensation. Similarly, if our brain is cut off from the body it will not have sensation. It proves that the brain is just like other organs of the body and has specific work to do. It can’t initiate thinking.
So, when one says, “I am a Man” or “I am a woman”, it is not meant that he or she is the body. It is therefore, in vogue that we say, “this is my hand, this is my leg” etc. When we say “I”, we are not the bodies or the body organs but we are the owners of this body, like we are the owners of the book, when we say, “this is my book”.
You must be thinking that if “I” is not a body then “I” must be the mind? No, sorry! We are not the mind too. We are able to stop the functioning of the mind by controlling respiration; so, we govern the mind, but we are not mind.
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