What is soul? This particular question’s answer may be known to all yet in bits and parts, not the entirety .The scientific explanation to the soul has been beautifully portrayed in the Vedas*, Upanishads* and Gita*. Yet they are not so simple for the common public who want to know more about the soul. Our one of the most loved and popular slokas* from the Bhagavat Gita is
“Basansi jirnani jatha bihaya
Nabani grihnati naranparini
Tatha sarirani bihaya jirna
Nynyani sanjati nabani dehi”
(Gita--2/22 )
Which states that as a human being discards old clothes and wears new ones so also the soul who uses the human body just as a garment, sheds it away as it becomes old and unusable and takes up another new body for its use. Many a people who love the Bhagavat Gita simplify these verses to explain the common public of the immortality of soul, yet the question here is, whether the same people follow the principle of using their body just like a garment. Take for example a particular cloth that we are using …show more content…
In this part of the book, I have tried to pen down my own experiences and different Atma (soul), Jiva atma(living being), Preta-atma (spirit) and Para-atma (supreme soul). I feel if the readers utilize my work for more research, I shall be gratified.
1-Parambramha(Supreme Cosmic Consciousness)
The entire world, the cosmos or the creation is filled with Bramha or the Supreme Cosmic Energy. Every atomic particle from the microcosm to the macrocosm in the universe contains the same cosmic consciousness of the Param-bramha and is filled with the same supreme energy and consciousness, that which is immutable, intransient and omnipresent. The Supreme Cosmic Consciousness or the Prarambramha has no shape. He whom the Upanishads depict as,
“ Purnamadam Purnat purna Mudochyate Purnasya Purnamadaya Purnameba