Soul is important

Expressions researched:
"important as the soul" |"importance of the soul" |"soul is important"

Bhagavad-gita As It Is

BG Chapters 1 - 6

The body is born and is destined to be vanquished today or tomorrow; therefore the body is not as important as the soul.

BG 2.11, Purport: Arjuna argued that religious principles should be given more importance than politics or sociology, but he did not know that knowledge of matter, soul and the Supreme is even more important than religious formularies. And because he was lacking in that knowledge, he should not have posed himself as a very learned man. As he did not happen to be a very learned man, he was consequently lamenting for something which was unworthy of lamentation. The body is born and is destined to be vanquished today or tomorrow; therefore the body is not as important as the soul. One who knows this is actually learned, and for him there is no cause for lamentation, regardless of the condition of the material body.