Who am I?
When somebody asks us who are you? This is our answer
I am Suresh /Ramesh by name or we say I am an Engineer/ Doctor/ Lawyer by Profession or we say I am an Indian,American by Nationality or we say I am Hindu,Muslim or Christian by Religion. Is this introduction right?
No Not at All
Then who are we?
We are Life, Jeeevan, Athma or the Soul who live in the body.
So LIFE + BODY = Living Body
ie Skeleton + Athma or Soul = Jeeva Athma (Living Body)
For Example a car how ever capabilities it has , it needs a driver to drive it. Like wise the body requires a soul to operate a body with out a soul it is a dead body.
An other example is that of a GSM Phone. The phone is like the body, the SIM in it is the Soul. once the instrument gets repaired we can use the sim in an another GSM phone.
Where is the Soul Located in the body?
The Soul is located in the center of the fore head.
What is the size of the Soul?
The smallest living being on earth is the amoeba or virus or Bacteria. They can be viewed only through a microscope. So its soul should be smaller than the amoeba itself to reside in it.So the size of the Soul is very small that we cannot see through our naked eye.We can see only our body that is made up of pancha thathuva (5 elements of nature ie Earth, Air, Water, Fire & Ether) in a mirror and not our soul.
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Always discriminate—your body, your house, the people around, and the world are all unreal like a dream. Always think that this body is only an inert instrument. And the Atman within is your real nature.
- Swami Vivekananda
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What is there in the Soul?
Soul consists of 3 elements namely Mind,Intellect and the Sanskar.
Mind:- Our Mind creates 32 thoughts per minute , Thoughts are of 4 Types they are the good thoughts,bad thoughts, useful thoughts and waste thoughts.One can reduce the thoughts per minute by the use of Raja Yoga Meditation. It is impossible to make it to 1 or 0 thoughts per minute.One will have thoughts till he is alive
Intellect:- The duty of the intellect is to judge the thought and advices us to the right thing.The action performed is depended on how powerful the soul is.If the Soul is powerful the mind listens to the intellect and performs the act. If the Soul is weak the mind does what it thinks and does not go with the intellect.
Sanskar:- If we do good it is called Puniya , If we do bad deeds it is called Pava. This is recorded in sanskar of our Soul. We take different births based on the good deeds or bad deeds that we do, That is why we say if some one is born in a rich family we say he has done good deeds in his previous birth, If some one is seriously ill or handicapped by birth we say he has committed sin in his previous birth.
Characteristics of the Soul :- Soul is an energy. It can neither be created nor it can be destroyed.
I would like to conclude this topic with a Story. There was a person he had 3 friends. One would be with him 24/7 and the next friend once in a week's time and the 3rd friend used to visit him once in a year.
One day He had a serious problem, So he asked the help of the friend who is available 24/7, He quietly refused saying that I can be with you 24/7 but cannot help. Then he asked the help of the friend whom he used to meet once in a week.He also denied saying the same.He was worried , his 3rd friend met him occasionally and saw him sad and enquired the problem. To his surprise the 3rd friend was ready to help.
Do you know who are these friends
1. The first friend is his body,it will not come with him when he dies
2. It is his relatives , even they will not come when he dies
3. Third is his sanskar his good and bad deeds, which will accompany him to his next birth
My humble request to all who read this is that let us do only GOOD and avoid doing BAD to others, As this is the only thing that we can carry from this birth.
When we look in every one as Souls we do not have discretion in the name of religion,caste,nationality etc.
