Category:Questions On... Spirit Soul
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- About Guru dasa prabhu's point, when the heart transplant, the soul stays in the subtle body. Is that sound?
- About the eternally conditioned souls and eternally liberated souls. I'd like to know what's the meaning of eternal in both those statements?
- Accepting that there is a eternal soul, how is the soul distinguished, then, from the body or from the machine since things like the senses, the mind, the intelligence, desire and hate, which people accept as the symptoms of the soul...
- After that seven months of unconsciousness in the body, in the womb, what does that spirit soul experience from that time till it comes out?
- All they're (the scientists) doing is creating the conditions for the jiva to enter, actually. Isn't it?
- Am I separate from matter?
- And who is that (everyone is puffed up with his body. Nobody considers even that "When I say this finger, 'my finger, my head, my leg...'") "my"?... Who is that, saying it, "my"?
- Are more souls falling all the time?
- Are spirit souls alike, or are they different?
- Are there individuals in these bodies?
- Are there many living entities within the body?
- Are they equal and the same, or are they just equal (those who are actually learned, they do not see the outward covering, either human being or animal)?
- Aren't you in a sense eating another soul too if you're eating vegetables? Not only if you're eating meat?
- As Arjuna he (Nara-narayana) acts as an ordinary jiva?
- As far as I can gather, the self - no-self thing, Buddhism was denying that you're the atman, I think. Could you perhaps say something about that?
- As long as I continue my identity that "I am so and so, I am this body," or "I am a person, or atma seated in this body, or dwelling in this body," when I dislodge my body from atma, then what is the position?
- As soon as the modes of nature are no longer working on the spirit soul, then he experiences that he's no longer changing his body?
- As You have explained in "Two Essays", that as body is covered by shirt and coat, similarly, soul is covered by mind, intelligence, and false ego - if it is so, then who are mind, intelligence and false ego? Who controls them?
- At the time of death, soul goes with the actions, the past?
- At the time of death, when the soul leaves the body, at that time the body is destroyed. So at the time of sleeping, when the soul leaves the body, how is the body maintained?
- At the time of sleeping, when the soul leaves the body, why is the body not destroyed at that time?
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- Because they do not understand the difference between the soul and the body, that's why they don't understand what you are contributing… Do you think that...?
- Before the body, the soul is still there?
- Bhagavad-gita says that the conditioned soul is subjected to four defects. Does that refer to the body or the soul?
- Body is finished and atma is emerged. So, what, why the atma suffers next generation for the deeds done by the body in this life?
- Boy. That's Visnu within their (birds) heart?
- But does this not imply - one ten-thousandth the size (the size of the soul) - does that not imply measurement, that it can be measured?
- But even accepting that the soul is the living force, they may say that "Well, we're living in this material world and we have to deal with matter, so what is the importance of all this knowledge?"
- But how can they (scientists) prove the existence of the soul through experiment?
- But how would the soul develop a particular body...?
- But is each cell an individual living entity?
- But Srila Prabhupada, the living entities, the jivatma within the..., and the Paramatma within, why the living entities suffering even the Paramatma is directing the living entity within?
- But the innocent souls, they're not surrendered to Krsna?
- But the personality is changed (what about the heart transplant? The spirit soul is within the heart, but when the... in the medical science nowadays, the old heart can be replaced by a new one. So what happens with the spirit soul with the old one)?
- But what is the stage at which it is atma gets merged with Paramatma? If atma would get merged with Paramatma then...?
- But who was responsible for bringing this body into existence? ... The owner?
- But why should He (God) create them (the jivas) in the first instance?
- But, sir, if we are drop of the same ocean, why should we be impure at all?
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- Can a hydrogen molecule desire to become part of water and be given that body? Does it have the independence to desire something and take a body accordingly? The hydrogen molecule, does it have a life?
- Can a self exist without a body?
- Can one say that soul and life are identical?
- Can one say what qualities the atman has?
- Can the seed extract anything without the spirit soul being present there?
- Can you explain to me just a bit more, if the soul is undying, does everybody's soul go to be with God when they die? Do you have a belief in a heaven or a hell?
- Can you not say that this knowledge is an atma-vidya, that we are trying to come to the knowledge of the atman (this is our main business, that is, jivasya tattva-jijnasa, to inquire about the Absolute Truth)?
- Cannot be done, then (take the chemicals and combine them together in a test tube so that a soul can enter into)?
- Could they (liberated souls) ever misuse it (their independence) ?
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- Did all the souls that were in the spiritual sky fall out of the spiritual sky at once or at different times, or are there any souls that are always good, they're not foolish, they don't fall down?
- Did Krsna create us to serve Him? And to enjoy us?
- Did you say that for the atman, are part of the eternal? For the atman, it is... A need for the being is for the purpose, ananda
- Do (the jivas in vegetables that are offered to Krsna) they just get liberation or do they go directly to Krsna? They go to Krsna or do they only get liberation? Do they go to Goloka Vrndavana? What kind of liberation?
- Do different spirit souls have different activities, spiritual activities?
- Do the fallen souls leave the spiritual world all at once or gradually?
- Do the five direct rasas take place between jiva souls also when they are...?
- Do the liberated souls also seek after this Krsna consciousness? Those who have become free
- Do you believe that the soul and God is one as Ramanuja and Sankaracarya says, or as Madhvacarya says...
- Does Krsna know ahead of time that a soul is going to be foolish and fall?
- Does that mean that the atom is living entity?
- Does that mean to some extent that the soul is dependent on a material condition?
- Does the self exist without the body in this world?… In this life?… As a spirit apart from the body
- Does the soul ever become weak or strong on account of its association and contact with material nature?
- Does the soul reincarnate?
- Does the soul suffer with the mind, or he's always enjoying?
- Does the soul which passes from body to body, does it or he experience the pains and pleasures of my body?
- Does the table have a jiva soul?
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- Eternally individual, so how do the impersonalists attaining their goal merge into the impersonal brahmajyoti?
- Even a drop of water, when you take it from the glass and put it on this one. Another drop of water will come and when you put it in medicine won't come in water. Like that, atma, will it not merge with the Paramatma?
- Even between the atoms of matter there is a spiritual life, spiritual force?
- Every time I make lot of rats, I'm asking for rat souls. Why then I can do it? When I can, or when I want them to be here, they will be here, not on the will of God
- Everything is being controlled ultimately by Krsna. Either by inferior energy or superior energy. His activities (of the jiva) are never independent?
- Everything that exists wants to enjoy?
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- Has my soul ever been liberated? If I was once liberated...
- Has the universe existed forever, or does soul have a beginning?
- Have the conditioned souls ever seen Krsna? Were they with the Lord before being conditioned by the desire to lord it over material nature?
- He asked about heart transplants, where does the soul go in heart transplant, when they change the heart from one body to another body?
- He says his understanding is that this living force inside all of us is the spirit of God that is in every one of us?... But there must be something more than just these words. There must be some way of experiencing that, of realizing that?
- He wants to know exactly what is the form of the body. If spirit soul is nonmaterial, what is the form?
- He wants to know if the senses, the material senses we now have, originally belong to the soul which has been covered by the material body
- He wants to know, is this consciousness within us (the soul means consciousness. It is just like sunshine. The soul is very small particle, but it is shining as consciousness)?
- He's asking how can we prove our point (that body and soul are two things)?
- He's asking is the form of the soul material?
- Her soul is still alive, and she is still functioning spiritually, even though her brain is dead. Is that what...?
- How and from where did the conditioned souls fall?... If someone has a relationship with Lord Krsna on Krsnaloka, does he ever fall down?
- How are the individualities (of the spirit soul) accounted for?
- How can a spirit become so ignorant?
- How can we feel the transmigration of the soul?
- How could you measure the spiritual phenomenon with something like one-thousandth of the tip of the hair? Hair is material.
- How did the atman come into being?
- How do you know the animal has a soul?
- How do you know there's a soul?
- How do you teach your disciples to become aware of this force which is no matter that makes matter alive?
- How does he become conditioned when the jivatma is eternal full of bliss and knowledge?
- How does one get to know the true spirit?
- How does the cosmic force become ignorant of itself and fall into this condition? If before he was this form he was the cosmic energy, how he can fall down into ignorance and become an individual, limited, conditioned soul?
- How does the jiva get out of the atom and take a gross body?
- How does the spirit soul of a beast enter into the form of a human being?
- How is it possible, Srila Prabhupada? We're so tiny, one ten-thousandth the tip of a hair, and yet we can become so puffed-up as to think that even I am God or I am the controller of the material nature like the scientists are thinking?
- How is it that the soul is also a person?
- How is it that the soul wants different things and then the material body acts according to the desires of the soul?... What is the connection that spirit causes matter to do so many things?... How is that contact there?
- How is the soul degraded (by lust, anger and greed) when it is transcendental to the body? Doesn't that imply that the soul has changed?
- How is the spirit held in the system till it finds a new body?
- How Krishna is with the spirit soul in the spiritual world?
- How the eternal spirit soul becomes so completely absorbed that he completely forgets about the future and simply he becomes absorbed in some temporary sense gratification?
- How the impersonalists mistake the difference between the soul and the Supersoul?
- How to find the...? How to get to the atman, the inner body?
- How to measure it then (the soul)? What is the measurement?
- How to prove that the soul is eternal?
- How was the soul originally created?
- How we know about soul?
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- I am the constant change, the process (you remember, that "I was a child." But the child body is no longer. So you remember or not remember, the body is changing. This is the answer. This is self-realization)?
- I know that our bodies are not eternal, and we have to leave them, and some are made male bodies and some are made female bodies. But our spirits, our souls, are there any difference?
- I realize that we're all considered spirit souls. But can a woman be first-class if she...?
- I think you were saying that within the atom there's also a living entity. So when that living entity leaves the atomic particle does the particle break apart? Or doesn't it?
- I understand that our souls are also part of God, as a drop of water is part of that ocean. How... Is there any knowledge or information of how we incurred this first separation from God?
- I want to realize the soul. What is the shortest way?
- I wanted to know what processes happen to the spiritual soul between a beast and human life
- I was just wondering if the spirit soul being in the spiritual world is eternally liberated, how can he return. By desire?
- I was wondering if it is within every conditioned soul's heart to be an impersonalist. Is it.... Does every conditioned soul have the propensity for impersonalism?
- I would like to know more about the, the soul in so far as, does it have beginning? Does it have end?
- I'm not sure that I understand the process by which one might be thinking of something in his mind, and how that soul is put into a body similar to what that thought is. In other words, how can the soul be subject to what the mind is thinking of?
- I've read some of the Upanisads where they say that atman is Brahman?
- If everyone is spirit soul, then isn't sex life also spiritual?
- If God is to uplift the soul of all the persons, all the livings, why there is a chaotic situation?
- If I was to remove myself from karmic influences, would our souls be the same or different?
- If matter is inferior to the spirit soul, then isn't it correct to say that the spirit soul is more complex or sophisticated than matter? If matter is inferior?
- If some scientist can change the genes so that the jiva can have a different kind of body, he still would have the previous desires?
- If someone develops the form of a boy, cowherds boy with Krsna, is that an expansion of his potency, of that living spirit soul's potency?
- If the Mayavadis don't believe in the difference between the soul and the Supersoul, then what is their explanation of reincarnation?
- If the soul cannot be burnt, why does the desire to be burnt in the material world there?
- If the soul is eternal and passes through one body after another, how is not possible that it accepts, let's say, three, four, five bodies and then dies?
- If the soul is inside me, then should I be able to feel God inside me?
- If the soul is the active force, then at what stage are the activities of the soul realized as distinct from the activities of the body?
- If the soul leaves the atomic particle, then does the particle break apart. Isn't it?
- If this body is pure soul, then why it gets engaged with worldly matter?
- If two people are Krsna conscious, is their soul the same?
- If we be the parcels of God, then what about prarabdha? We are suffering from pain and pleasure...
- If we have not already achieved perfection, then how can the soul achieve the perfection? It seems that he has to reincarnate slowly in time to achieve the perfection
- If you take that logic and use it the other way... If you say the animal has no soul... then you'd have to say human beings would have no soul, wouldn't you?
- In Bhagavad-gita, it says that the soul is immovable. In the Second Chapter there is a verse that says the soul is immovable. What does that mean exactly? Are we not moving?
- In further reference to your question about the form of the spirit soul of the conditioned living entity...
- In Hindu philosophy, what is the nature of the atman?
- In Krsna consciousness, are the actions of the jiva similarly controlled by Krsna's superior energy?
- In order for a body to perceive itself, it needs a mirror. But how does one body perceive its soul?
- In the beginning how does the spirit become ignorant, falls into ignorance?
- In the Krsna teachings, the person is not the body but the soul, which is like many religions. Also, some animals, animals also, are not the body but the soul. This is true? Like the cow and the dog and the cat?
- In the scientific terminology the eternality of the soul can be compared with the conservation of energy?
- Is getting the soul out from this awkward position of matter a higher understanding than understanding the soul by itself?
- Is he allowed to associate with Krsna in the beginning?... As jiva, as jiva is...
- Is it (the occupier of the body) transcendent?
- Is it a question of just understanding it (recognition of the spirit soul within this body, that is first education. Unless one understands this simple fact, there is no question of spiritual advancement)?
- Is it actually Krsna who's maintaining the life in the body then? The life of the body is maintained by Krsna or by the individual jiva?
- Is it possible for a spirit soul never to regain the state of God consciousness?
- Is it possible for any spirit not ultimately, after his various transmigrations through bodies, is it possible for any spirit never to regain contact with the Lord?
- Is it possible for the soul to enjoy the material nature?
- Is it that the Supersoul controls every movement in this world through the agency of Maya and the inferior energy according to the desires of the dreamer-jiva?
- Is it the same living soul, Arjuna, in each universe, or a different living being may be taking that position?
- Is it the spirit soul which is desiring or is it just karma?
- Is that (the spiritual kingdom) where they (the souls) will all end up again when the universe comes to an end?
- Is that the difference between jiva-tattva and Visnu-tattva (there is some soul who can come under influence of maya in the spiritual sky)?
- Is that the heart of the soul or the heart of the gross material body (you are our student. You are saying there is no heart (some of the insects don't even have hearts). That means you do not carefully read)?
- Is the (living force) in the same quantity in every body, in every living body? I mean the energy, the amount of energy
- Is the body really affecting the soul? Does the body really have a causal influence on the soul?
- Is the brightness of a diamond because of the presence of a jiva?
- Is the human soul then limited or unlimited?
- Is the living entity in the area of the heart, in the heart, or in the lotus of the heart?
- Is the most subtle form of creation the desire of the living entity to enjoy this material world?
- Is the original body of the spirit soul a human form?
- Is the soul dependent upon the body for its existence?
- Is there a difference between Arjuna's body and his soul, and how does this apply to all Krishna's eternally liberated souls described in the scriptures. Is Arjuna always the same in his appearances with Krishna or is a new soul taking his body each time?
- Is there a fixed number of souls or fixed number of spirits in the universe?
- Is there a jiva (a spirit soul) in every sperm cell? Does the spirit soul only come to a particular sperm cell, or is there one in every sperm cell, and the condition isn't right, so then it dies before, I mean, it leaves before it actually forms a body?
- Is there an animal soul, Swami?
- Is there any particular reason why some spirit souls become directed toward Krsna Consciousness in the first place?
- Is there such a thing as having pure spiritual desires in the soul or not?
- Is thinking a necessary function of the soul? He says, well for instance an oyster. How does he know whether or not an oyster thinks?
- Isn't there also individuality and difference (soul, as spirit soul, pure soul, they are all equal. Even in animal)?
- It (Bhagavad Gita) starts in Chapter Two with the question of what is atma?
- It is explained that the intelligence is the next door neighbor of the soul, can you explain exactly what that means, Srila Prabhupada?
- It is prohibited to consume, consume flesh, meat. It's because there is soul in the body and if we kill it, therefore we are doing a sin. I think it's because that we can't consume meat according to the Vedic literature. But what about plants, Swamiji?
- It is said that the soul glows with a light brighter than a thousand suns. In the Vedas. Yes?
- It is written in Gita the soul never dies. When the soul does not die, where does it go after that?
- It seems that he believes in the Paramatma present within all beings but does not believe in the jiva along with Paramatma. Is this a typical impersonalist position?
- It's been said sometimes, Prabhupada, that you have said that some rocks have life. Some rocks, some stones, are actually souls in them?
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- Jiva atma is also a person?
- Just like at the time of disintegration of this body, the living entity leaves this body and the body disintegrates, so does the atomic body also disintegrate when the living entity leaves it and moves to a higher body?
- Just like if it suddenly got cold, the spirit soul would desire to be warm so he would evolve a body with hair?
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- No, most of them, they have lived, a very short times. But still is it a fact that the soul is transplanted from one body to another body?
- Now it's true that a soul must evolve through perhaps many lifetimes in order to reach the point at which he is ready to attempt renunciation. Right?
- Now, a question concerning the 8,400,000's of lives which man has to evolve through. A spiritual being, having entered, or placed, the way of man, can he ever gain a reincarnate in the kingdom of animals?
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- One last statement from Aristotle. He states, in his Politics, he says, "The beauty of the body is seen, whereas the beauty of the soul is not seen." Is this true?
- Original form... Which is the form of the body (he (the soul) has got his original form)?
- Our soul is just like the controlling soul. Can you explain that (that the body is made up of many different entities. Living entities. That within each cell is like a living entity. The soul is just the controlling, or that each cell is a living entity)?
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- Prabhupada, I read in the Srimad-Bhagavatam, Volume Three, that when one becomes a liberated soul, he attains perfect freedom, and even sometimes that freedom is on the same level as Krsna or even more than Krsna
- Prabhupada, I would like to know if the Supersoul is, and the spirit soul, are they the same in the heart of...
- Prabhupada, is every jiva given a chance in the beginning to go in the spiritual world? Then he falls down, or... sometimes the jiva may choose directly...?
- Prabhupada, is it possible that a living entity, a jiva soul, can have pastimes in relation to God?
- Prabhupada, when the living entity, when the jiva leaves the body at death, is there any interim period before it takes up another body or does it happen immediately?
- Prabhupada? When the soul transmigrates from one body to another, the consciousness of that gross body, does the person retain some of the consciousness of his past lives with that transmigration?
- Protect your mind... Wed it to the soul and taken away from all extraneous things which are made up of maya, is that not the meaning?
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- Regarding your final question, what does marginal potency mean?
- Regarding your inquiry about the individual soul present
- Regarding your question about the difference between mind and soul...
- Regarding your question about the individual soul becoming all-pervasive...
- Regarding your question about the relationship between the living entities and Krishna...
- Regarding your question as to when the soul leaves the body, it is when the heart stops beating
- Regarding your question: how can the spirit soul fall down if it is eternal and changeless?
- Regarding your questions concerning the spirit souls falling into Maya's influence
- Regarding your second question, have the conditioned souls ever seen Krsna? Were they with the Lord before being conditioned by the desire to lord it over material nature?
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- Sanatana is eternal. It is eternal religion. It is the religion of the soul and not of the body, dies. Soul is eternal, so religion is eternal. I am right, sir?
- Scientists say there's no soul?
- Should I be able to feel God inside me because my soul is a part of God?
- So how is material (material nature) forcing something spiritual (the spirit soul)?
- So if a scientist or someone who has some degree in science comes to our movement, should we encourage him to try to prove through science the Krsna conscious principle of transmigration and eternal quality of the soul?
- So is the spirit soul implicated in that decision in any way, or is it simply the three modes of material nature working?... So how is the spirit soul involved in it? Is the spirit soul choosing, or is the decision already made by his karma?
- So one condition you say is that as soon as the body dies, then there is no more movement. But what is there to prove that the soul has left the body or that there was ever a soul in the body?
- So that means jivatma, he is... responsible for any good or bad deeds for my life?
- So that mind is part of the soul. It's just, it's polluted?
- So the pain is experienced by the consciousness that is spread all over the body?
- So the seed of.... The soul is within the vapor?
- So they say that if we are to verify this proposition, to prove that it is true, then we have to know what conditions under which it is true. What are those conditions under which it is true?
- So those eternally liberated souls in the spiritual sky will never come here because they choose not to?
- So we say that the soul is in the heart. So how can we convince the other doctors, for example, of the presence of the soul within the body and especially within the heart?
- So when the jiva soul descends into the material world, it is like a hallucination?
- So when this body is finished, why shall the soul be gone?
- Sometimes great souls, they will cheat people also for their own benefit?
- Soul is already everywhere. But what do you say? Everywhere means only on the earth, not away from the earth, and then outer space. You want to say... Do you mean outer space also?
- Soul will not merge into that light, Krsna's light?
- Spirit soul, it is also luminous like that (in the Vaikuntha, each and every planet is glowing)?
- Spiritual form is there but due to the bond man has taken this form?
- Srila Prabhupada, does the soul, the ghost, enter into the other man's body? The soul is occupying one body, and the ghost, as another soul, does he enter that body? There's two souls in the one body?
- Srila Prabhupada, how is it that they describe the soul, the impersonalists?
- Srila Prabhupada, in our fully developed state in the spiritual sky, are we still one ten-thousandth the size of a tip of a hair like we are now in conditioned state?
- Srila Prabhupada, in the Srimad-Bhagavatam or the Krsna Book, you state that even clouds have souls. But then again they dissipate, in the rain they dissolve. Does that mean they die?
- Srila Prabhupada, is there a jiva, is there a spirit soul in every sperm cell?
- Srila Prabhupada, originally the desires come from the subtle body or from the soul?
- Srila Prabhupada, the pure devotee's spirit soul is not trapped by the gross and subtle bodies?
- Srila Prabhupada, what about the heart transplant? The spirit soul is within the heart, but when the... in the medical science nowadays, the old heart can be replaced by a new one. So what happens with the spirit soul with the old one?
- Srila Prabhupada, what does it mean that the soul is immovable?
- Srila Prabhupada, what happens to the soul when you have an abortion, though? Where does it go?
- Srila Prabhupada, when the jiva soul desires to enter the material world, is that an illusory desire?
- Srila Prabhupada, you were saying about misusing this human form of ours. Is there any gracious defense that makes a soul non-eternal?
- Srila Prabhupada, you were saying that because the body has arms and legs, then the coat has a similar shape. Then does the spirit soul that's within our body have arms and legs like that?
- Srila Prabhupada? The spirit is supposed to be stronger than matter. The spirit is superior than matter... What happens when the body dies? Is the spirit forced to leave or does it leave on its own accord?
- Suppose I am doing some sins? So how atma can be controlling. Suffering...?
- Suppose if the individual soul falls down from the human platform, to some other lower species, but in the course of again evolutionary process, at some stage along the path he'll come to Krsna consciousness. Is this...?
- Swamiji, can you tell us why we're in this material contamination? Why is it that the spirit soul has material contamination?
- Swamiji, in one of Professor Sanyal's books he says that the mind is an organ of the soul. Is that correct? I always thought the mind was part of the material, the subtle body, the subtle material body
- Swamiji, they read a lot that Bhagavata says that our body is a temple for the soul, and the soul is a temple for the spirit. Would you kindly enlighten us on this point?
- Swamiji, would you say that the soul is locked in the third eye?
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- That dharma by which the soul becomes fully satisfied, can it be found anywhere else aside from Krsna conscious?
- That there can be an impurity of the soul?
- That's a jivatma?
- The actual perception of the soul is not... (this is physical, but subtle (consciousness is not a physical phenomenon))?
- The answer to your question about the marginal energy...
- The atman, there is one to a person, or there is only one atman?
- The body is the dress of the soul; so when the body falls off and dies, where does the soul go?
- The Christians say that there is soul, and they say that there is God, so then wouldn't our question be: "What is the relationship of the soul to God?"
- The evolution stops when the spirit soul reaches the eternal abode in the spiritual (world)?
- The individual soul has a little independence to choose? So we have no free will?
- The jiva soul in the heart and the jiva soul within the cells, they are separate?
- The jivas inside the atom, are they like impersonalists who are in the Brahman?
- The life symptoms are maintained in the body still (when the seer has left the gross body)?
- The living entities, when the soul is inside a body, they're much more flexible than the, the aeroplanes or cars that are made by the scientists?
- The old machine continues to change after the spirit soul leaves, it deteriorates?
- The pain is experienced by the consciousness that is spread all over the body?
- The person is the atman?
- The relationship of mind to the soul, how the mind comes to know that it has or that there is a soul
- The soul is all-pervading, throughout the body?
- The soul is eternally existing with God in some form?
- The soul is going on always, changing one body to another body, then how the soul is liberated?
- The spirit is eternal... in the sense that in the beginning all spirits were contained within the Deity,... and at the end all spirits will refind themselves in the Deity... Would you ever admit that a spirit could fail after his last chance...?
- The spirit is manufactured in the body, is it not, sir?
- The spirit soul must necessarily have a body, either spiritual or material?
- Their (scientists') theory may be right about how the body forms, but they're missing the soul?
- Then how can the dog then become a higher soul, a higher form after the dog?
- Then there is some distinction, between the nature of the soul and the nature of the body?
- There is a form of soul, according to you?
- There is something constant within the body though it changes. What is it? How come this is, changes body but still we can recognize someone from his youth to his old age
- They ask, "What is the force that combined matter and the atma, matter and life, matter and the jiva or atma? What is the force behind it?"
- They can't even see that in an animal other than human there's soul. So how can they understand the Deity?
- They counter that if God is all-powerful, He can do anything. So why not He can create a soul and that soul can then be eternal from that point?
- They wonder how is it possible that if there is soul, that there could be two souls within one body?
- This also shows the eternal nature of the spirit soul? Because I'm conscious?
- This body of a table, it's not an individual personality is it? There's not one jiva soul in charge of this table?
- This body that we inherited, the bodies that we're in now, are the results of the behavior of our souls when we were in our previous... And then can we sort of, by looking at ourselves, can we get the sort of person we were when we were here before?
- This is possible to understand... but what is sometimes difficult to understand, where does... where does originally the soul come from?
- This suffering is all due to the desire of the individual souls?
- To know who is the driver of the car (purpose of the movement is to know who is the driver of the car)?... And who is that?
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- We are superior to animals by superior intelligence. Just like a human child. His father is superior than the child because the father has got superior intelligence, not that the child has no soul
- We can accept that the soul is not burned, but what about the body?
- We were just discussing whether the Paramatma and the jivatma is still there even in the living cells?
- Well, then, how is the individual soul eternal if it has a beginning?
- What about hell? How does the jīva soul go to hell?
- What about reincarnation, Srila Prabhupada? What about transmigration of the soul? 'Cause we were thinking to do that for a next film, because it seems like a very natural thing
- What about the other atoms within me or the dog? Do you understand what I'm getting at? There are millions of atoms
- What am I? Is the body itself matter, or spiritual soul, or a combination of both?
- What are the activities of the soul when it unites with God?
- What distinguishes the soul from the body? Because here we're mentioning everything that is the field of activity, but then what is the soul?
- What do we say that something is (that something is missing within the body, therefore it is dead)?
- What do you call that force?
- What do you know about the soul leaving the body? Maybe when the body leaves the soul, the soul also dies. I think it is same thing.
- What does it mean: "We are all originally Krsna conscious entities"
- What happens if the universe ends and there are some souls that have not yet transferred themselves to the other universe?
- What happens to the jiva souls who were fruits and vegetables that were offered to Krsna?
- What happens to the mind, intelligence and false ego when the soul is liberated?
- What he wants to know is, when the soul leaves the body completely, what happens after that?
- What is a simple solution to understand soul? I would like to understand soul in a simplified form
- What is meant by conditioned soul?
- What is our true identity?
- What is the "we" that has to change? What is constant between one life to the next?
- What is the condition of the soul, innumerable souls, within the body? Like the cells. All are living cells. These all contain individual souls... So what these individual souls are doing to support the bigger soul?
- What is the difference between mind and soul?
- What is the difference between Paramatma and atma?
- What is the difference between the jiva and soul? Is it good to learn the differences and understand the depth of these things?
- What is the difference between the mind and the soul?
- What is the difference between the spirit souls comprising the Brahmajyoti and the spirit souls here in Maya?
- What is the form and what is the definition of soul, and how to know whether there is soul?
- What is the meaning of the word atma?
- What is the nature of the jivatma?
- What is the position of a soul that's in a sacred tree like a fig tree?
- What is the soul's, the spirit soul's, relationship to actions performed both in material consciousness and in spiritual, in Krsna consciousness?
- What kind of a capacity is knowledge? Does that depend on the previous body of the soul?
- What made the soul take birth in the very beginning?
- What prompts the soul to misuse his independence or improperly use...?
- What proof do you have that a human being has a soul?
- What proof have you got, then, that a human being has got a soul?
- What should the soul do if he cannot imitate God?
- What will happen to the souls who have not become Krsna consciousness at the end of Kali-yuga? What does Krsna do with them?
- What you are trying to say? What symbolically it means, very small (the soul). Is that what it means?
- When a heart is transplanted does the soul stay in the heart?
- When a person dies, his soul will take another body? Then why is the population today increasing?
- When a spirit soul first falls from the spiritual sky into the material world, does he first go to the lowest of the 8,400,000 species of life, and then gradually come up, or can he fall to the middle or anywhere?
- When Lord Christ appeared he seemed to be conditioned in his growth. Was he a specific incarnation or a conditioned soul who became liberated?
- When our soul gets out from our body, it goes to the hell or... hemisphere or it take birth immediately afterwards?
- When some new animal or person is born, is the soul always a reincarnation of some previous soul?
- When someone is sleeping and dreaming, has the seer left the gross body?
- When the body dies, the body is finished, but what about the soul?
- When the Paramatma and the jivatma are within the same material living body, so the...?
- When the soul is entering, they are all complete?
- When the soul was in the spiritual sky, it also had a mind and an intelligence like here?
- When the souls that were never conditioned at all..., do they also have the independence?
- When the spirit soul leaves the body, the body continues to change, it deteriorates?
- When this time comes when all physical things end, will any of the spirits fail to reunite with the Godhead?
- When you come to the living entities, then the individual soul is also there?
- Where are the spirit souls coming from that are taking microbe bodies?
- Where are those living entities (the men that were living so many thousands of years ago) now? Where they have gone?
- Where is the soul and where does it come from?
- Where were the souls before the universe began?
- Whether or not it is possible for the soul to exist without having this external gross and subtle body covering it?
- Who is "you" (the soul)?
- Why couldn't spirits grow without taking this body? Why couldn't spirits grow in the spiritual world without taking this material body.
- Why does the soul come into the body in the first place?
- Why does the soul forgets, forget his relation... with Krsna?
- Why is it in the Vaivarta Purana, after traveling 8,400,000 species of life, we get this human form of life? Is that contradiction with the desire of the spirit soul?
- Why is there soul and Supersoul in the body when soul is part and parcel of Krsna?
- Why it seems that when the soul comes into contact with material nature it becomes contaminated?
- Why not (the personality is not changed after a heart transplant)?
- Why should there be a conflict between the two (body and soul)?
- Why should we accept that the living entity will not die?
- Will that extend to animals also? According to our Hindu philosophy, I understand everything has a soul
- Will there come a time when all these conditioned souls will become liberated?
- Without the consciousness, what happens to the soul when the body dies?
- Working on the driver of the body. On the spirit, right (people are generally working on the body. And we are working on the driver of the body. That is the difference)?
- Would it be possible for them (scientists) to make a body and have a living entity enter into it?
- Would that also be due to that soul's karma, that he has gone from being aborted on to another body?
- Would the spirit soul that is within, say, a cow's body, is in a different shape?
- Would you think that their souls are of different value, the soul of the dog...?
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- Yes, that means I am not the body, I am something beyond body. And what is that beyond body?
- Yesterday you gave an example of a man who was lying asleep in bed, and he is transported somewhere in dream, walking on the beach. What is the full analogy?
- You say that our souls are..., we will always go on. But you are getting more and more people. No, we are getting more people, aren't we?
- You say you do know, so why don't you produce it (soul) and put it back in the body and make it work?
- You very clearly explained to me once in a letter that if the spirit soul then goes into the brahma-jyotir, he is considered still fallen. Still fallen. Does that means the whole brahma-jyotir is composed of fallen souls?
- You're really talking about the atman? Aren't you?
- Your first question about the jiva's form with particular reference to Bhagavad-gita 8.18 purport "during the nighttime they have no form"