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Who am I ?
Nature of the SOUL
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Who am I ?
My real identity
isNOT this temporary BODY,
but...
the eternal SOUL !!!
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Proof for the existence of the Soul
•Common sense
•Intuitive understanding
Difference between the dead body and the living person
The real self “I” distinct from body, mind and intelligence
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•Astral body travel
•Consciousness - the symptom of the existence of the soul
•Near Death Experiences (NDEs)
•Past-life memories
Consciousness distinguishes a dead body from a living one
Consciousness gives circumstantial evidence of the soul
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Knowledge of the Soul
The Soul is :
•indestructible
BG 7.7
nainam chindanti sastraninainam dahati pavakah
na cainam kledayanty apona sosayati marutah
The soul can never be cut to pieces by any weapon, nor burned by fire, nor moistened by water, nor withered by the wind
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•individual
BG 2.12
na tv evaham jatu nasam
na tvam neme janadhipah
na caiva na bhavisyamah
sarve vayam atah param
Never was there a time
when I did not exist, nor
you, nor all these kings;
nor in the future shall any
of us cease to be
BG 15.7
mamaivamsho jiva-loke
jiva-bhutah sanatanah
manah-sasthanindriyani
prakrti sthani karsati
The living entities in this
conditioned world are my
eternal fragmental parts.
Due to conditioned life,
they are struggling very
hard with 6 senses, which
include the mind.
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•sat-cid-ananda
Eternal, full of knowledge, full of blissBody is asat, acit, nirananda
•changes bodies
BG 2.22
vasamsi jirnani yatha
vihaya
navani grhnati naro 'parani
tatha sarirani vihaya jirnany
anyani samyati navani dehi
As a person puts on new
garments, giving up old
ones, the soul similarly
accepts new material
bodies, giving up the old
and useless ones
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BG 2.13
dehino 'smin yatha dehe
kaumaram yauvanam jara
tatha dehantara-praptir
dhiras tatra na muhyati
As the embodied soul
continuously passes, in
this body, from boyhood
to youth to old age, the
soul similarly passes into
another body at death. A
sober person is not
bewildered by such a
change
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•infinitesimal
Kesa agra sata bhagasya
Satadha kalpitasyaca
The size of the soul is 1/10,000 the
size of the tip of hair.
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•inconceivable
BG 2.25
avyakto 'yam acintyo 'yam
avikaryo 'yam ucyate
tasmad evam viditvainam
nanusocitum arhasi
It is said that the soul is
invisible, inconceivable
and immutable. Knowing
this, you should not
grieve for the body.
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Material energy is formless. But form, and all properties, are inherent in spiritual energy, and are perversely reflected in material energy.
Why can it not be argued that there are no qualities of one's own nature, at all, but all qualities are merely acquired by association?
For several reasons; some of them are:
1. While there are instances of qualities being acquired, there is never an instance of the property of having qualities itself being acquired.
2. An entity that has no quality similar (even in being opposite) to the one being acquired, cannot even form the association necessary to effect the acquisition.
3. Considering that the qualities of good, indifference, and evil cannot be said to reside in the Lord or in inanimate nature, the question arises as to where they are being acquired from.
Material qualities are inconceivably different from the spiritual.
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dwindles Dies
stays
Produces offsprings
Grows
Takes Birth
Material energy undergoes transformations.Transformations occur under the influence of the Three Modes of Nature, and Time
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Spirit soul does not undergo these transformations. It is transcendental to the Modes, Time, etc.
BG 2.20
na jayate mriyate va
kadacin
nayam bhutva bhavita va na
bhuyah
ajo nityah sasvato 'yam
purano
na hanyate hanyamane
sarire
For the soul there is
neither birth nor death at
any time. He has not
come into being, does not
come into being, and will
not come into being. He is
unborn, eternal, ever-
existing and primeval. He
is not slain when the
body is slain
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•can never become GOD
Am I GOD ?
We are :
•not GODS
•Qualitative oneness
The unitive aspect of religious doctrine is a qualitative monotheism, not a numerical unity!
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Soul
•Infinitesimal (anu)
•Cognizant of one’s body
•A loving instrument
Supersoul
Infinite (vibhu)
Cognizant of everyone and everything
Eternally a loving predominator
BG 18:61
isvarah sarva-bhutanam hrd-dese 'rjuna tisthati bhramayan sarva-bhutani yantrarudhani mayaya
The Supreme Lord is situated in everyone's heart, O Arjuna, and is directing the wanderings of all living entities, who are seated as on a machine, made of the material energy.
•Marginal FreeWill
Ablative, Causative,Locative omnipresence
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We are one in quality with GOD, but different in quantity. Our salvation depends on the acceptance of this reality.
False Ego is the antithesis of this.
Simply saying is not enough, one should act accordingly
By chanting mantra,Person becomes “Brahmabhuta prasannatma”
BG 16:8
asatyam apratistham te jagad ahur anisvaram aparaspara-sambhutam kim anyat kama-haitukam
They say that this world is unreal, that there is no foundation and that there is no God in control…
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“Krishna as Object of worship is one-Half, and, as the Support of His worshipper, He Himself is the other Half of the Whole. The variety of reciprocal activity of these Two Moieties constitutes the Fullness of the Divinity. Krishna is the complete realization of the Support of His worship. ”
“The Prime Cause of all effects should not be mutilated or manufactured through the agency of our unblossomed prerogatives. We are limited entities, but the Unlimited Infinity minus our infinitesimality would give us, as a result, an almost infinite gulf.”
< H.D.G. Bhaktisiddhanta Saraswati
H.D.G. Bhaktivedanta Swami >
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If one gives up his subtle body before the time of death, he gets liberated
SOUL
Intelligence
Mind
Senses
False ego-consciousness
God-consciousness