Category:What Is The Soul
Theme Analysis
The quotes in this category expose the profound ignorance of modern civilization regarding the most fundamental reality of existence, namely what is the soul. Śrīla Prabhupāda emphasizes that a society lacking education on the spirit soul, its transmigration, and its eternal relationship with God is no better than an animal society. The entire Kṛṣṇa consciousness movement is built upon this essential science, aiming to elevate humanity from the bodily concept of life by teaching what the soul is, its ultimate spiritual necessity, and its eternal function.
- The Mark of Human Civilization: Unlike animals, human beings are meant to inquire into the nature of the spirit soul and their eternal relationship with the Supreme Lord.
- The Failure of Modern Education: Modern educational and religious institutions are completely blind to the science of the soul, focusing only on the temporary material body.
- The Essential Prerequisite: Before one can understand advanced spiritual topics or the highest pastimes of the Lord, one must first clearly understand the basic science of the soul.
- The Foundational Science: The Kṛṣṇa consciousness movement provides the exact education needed to understand what the soul is, why it is suffering, and how it can be liberated.
- The Limitation of Material Science: Because the soul is a spiritual particle, it can never be understood through mundane scientific methods, but only by hearing from higher authorities like Kṛṣṇa.
- Explore the synthesized essence of this category in this Vanipedia article: The Urgent Need to Know What Is The Soul.
Pages in category "What Is The Soul"
The following 33 pages are in this category, out of 33 total.
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- A society in which there is no discussion on religious principles, what is dharma, who is God, what is a spirit soul, these questions are not inquired into, understand that society to be of cats and dogs only
- Anything material, it will burn, it will be cut into pieces, it can be dried up, it can be moistened. Because we cannot see the soul, Krsna has explained in a negative definition what is the characteristic of the soul
- As soon as there is some money, they become busy in purchasing things for their children and others. Such persons are never interested in understanding the values of life - what is God, what is the individual soul, what is its relationship with God, etc
- At the present moment, people are in such darkness that they do not even understand the soul. Therefore Bhagavad-gita (2.13) first of all teaches what the soul is
- Atmaramanam, self-satisfied. There are two kinds of men: atmarama and apasyatam atma-tattvam (SB 2.1.2) - one who does not know what is the soul and what is the business of the soul
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- Necessities of the body is material, and the necessities of the soul is spiritual. But unfortunately, although the spirit is there, we are so much absorbed in material consciousness, we do not understand what is spirit soul
- Nobody knows what is soul; nobody knows what is the goal of life; nobody knows what is the necessity of the soul. These things are not discussed, neither they know it. So-called religious institution or so-called . . . they do not know
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- One who has not been trained cannot distinguish between gold and stone. Similarly, fools and rascals who have not learned from an expert spiritual master what is soul and what is matter cannot understand the existence of the soul within the body
- Our Krsna consciousness movement is not on the bodily concept of life. It is the movement on the basic principle of the soul - what is the soul, what is the soul's necessity, how the soul will be peaceful, happy
- Our only request is that you are all students - you do not neglect this subject matter, this science to understand what is the soul
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- The so-called Christians and Mohammedans, they cannot understand. They (are) simply fanatics. Cannot understand what is soul, what is God. They have got some theories and they are thinking we are religionists
- The soul after destruction of this body is being carried by the desire, but they have no eyes to see what is that desire, what is that soul, what is that intelligence. They are saying, "There is no soul" This is mostly stupidity
- There is no education at all in the principles of the soul and what is God, and what is transmigration of the soul in the next life
- There is no possibility of understanding what is soul by material scientist. The only process is to take it from higher authorities like Krsna
- There is yoga, and there is yogamaya. Yogamaya means forgetfulness. First of all we have to understand what is the soul
- There should be an educational department to understand what is soul, what it is nature, how it is working, what is the future, wherefrom it is coming. So many things there. But there is no education for this prime factor
- These are correlative terms. If you understand what is soul, then you can understand what is God
- They cannot even understand what is the soul. A minute particle of spirit, it is . . . but they do not understand, big, big scientist, big, big philosopher. But the entire subject matter of Krsna consciousness is not of this material world
- They do not know the laws of nature; they do not know what is living entity, what is soul, what is God, how things are going on, how nature's law is working. Nothing of the sort. Simply like animals - eat, drink, be merry and enjoy, that's all
- They do not know what is liberation, what is transmigration of the soul, what is soul - nothing. Simply rascals, and they are leading the whole people. They do not know what is liberation. The Darwin's theory, bodily concept of life
- They do not know what is spirit soul. This is the animal consciousness. Dogs, cats, they think that the body, they are the body
- To understand what is the soul, to understand what is the need of the soul, why he is entrapped within this material body, how the soul can be liberated, and after liberation, what is the function of the soul - these things are our subject matter
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- What is the soul. A minute particle of spirit, it is . . . but they do not understand, big, big scientist, big, big philosopher. But the entire subject matter of Krsna consciousness is not of this material world. All, it is of spiritual world
- What is this soul? The soul is a part of the Supreme Lord. As we want to protect the hand or the finger because it is a part of the whole body, similarly we try to save ourselves because this is the defending process of the Supreme
- When one is advanced so much so that he inquires about the spirit soul. But there is no such inquiry. Like the cats and dogs, they cannot inquire what is spirit soul. So Vedic life means to become free as much as possible from the bodily disturbances