Body and Soul

We are composed of two things - the body and the soul. The body is destructible and subject to decay through passage of time. However, our soul is indestructible and indivisible. It cannot be blown away by air, drowned into water or burnt into ashes. We are conscious of our body through our five senses. Only when we think deep and nurture with the idea of immortality and the future of our life after death, we become conscious of our soul. At that instant the idea of our body becomes absent.

The effect of whatever we think or utter or whatever we do does not end with the act. Actually these have a deep-rooted impact on us. All our thoughts, utterances and deeds get transformed and go into a subconscious state within us. One area where it resides is possibly our memory, but there may be other areas as well. These things reside within us for some time in a potentially nascent form. After some time, which may as well be indefinite, these nascent forms emerge again and make themselves evident with true characteristics. These manifestations design, mould, and shape the life of a man in many a ways.

This way, a man is primarily not bound by any principle other than what he designs for himself. By his acts, thoughts and utterances he transforms a potential energy into an active energy. That may have a good effect or evil effect. It depends upon the nature of the act, thought or utterance. The great Roman emperor, Marcus Aurelius, once said, "Our life is what our thoughts make it." So true!

The individual soul of a man is a part of the universal substance. It exists with an eternal nature. It has neither a beginning nor an end. The primary characteristic of the soul is to manifest its true nature, which is moving towards a state of total perfection and purification.

A thought or action is considered good if it helps the process of perfection and purification of the soul, and conversely bad if it hinders the process. All powers and abilities of a soul are within it. These are not derived from any external source.

When a soul loses its body in which it was residing, it takes up another body. In this way it goes on perfecting and purifying itself in a very complex manner. One should always try to provide the soul with a sound and healthy body, because it is in a body that a soul resides and carries on with its purification work.

At some point of time the soul moves to the heaven with a totally blemishless form. However, its love and sympathy for humans remains. So a soul, time and again, may reincarnate to set this world free from all evils and show mankind the enlightened path to the heavenly abode.

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