Who am I ?

Why am I here?

What am I to do?

What is the use of this life?

We are Borne why ?

Where did I come from?

Where am I going ?

What is the use of this life? And…….When I die where I will go ?

Who am I ?

We are moving towards a new age and in this new age we have some new questions. This doesn't surprise us, as it is a common nature of humans, after all new questions brings new discovery in our life. In today time people have a huge interest in knowing of self and as result people don’t hesitate in asking some question like this - What is my real identity? How do my thoughts and feelings interact with the body? Why do we come under emotions, feelings, tension and stress, How does an individual develops behavioural patterns, traits etc; how to transform them, How to enjoy this precious life? How to lead a life of peace and bliss? I shall be providing some answers to these questions. For that we should know about SOUL and BODY

Soul And Body

The human body is a complex pattern of physical energies. Atomic particles build together to form the organic structures and inorganic minerals, which perform the body’s chemical interactions, thus forming the basis of the hormonal and nervous control of the body. What we see as the old or young, male or female, are also the differing levels of physical energies. However marvellous a machine the body may be, it is the presence of the non-physical conscious energy, the soul, which makes it function. So it means that I am a living entity different from the body. I am a soul that controls this body but how it can be? If I am soul then what is the role of a body? Let understand this with the simple example.

Just as a person who speaks with the help of a telephone or listens to a call with the help of that instrument, has his entity different from that of the telephone – he himself being a living person who has the faculties or characteristics of feeling, thinking, willing and making effort. Similarly, the conscious entity in the body which uses the word “I” is different from the body which has eyes, ears, nose etc. as its components. I am not the eyes, the ears or the mouth but I see with my eyes, speak through the mouth, hear with the ears and am their master. I am a soul (Atma आत्मा), eternal and immortal. The body is mortal; I have got it to do actions and to experience the result of my actions. I am the doer and the one who experiences.

I am a soul (Atma आत्मा)

The soul is like a driver in-charge of the body, which serves as a carriage to the soul. The soul is a diamond, the body being the casket for it. When the soul leaves the body, the body is declared ‘dead’. Then people set about cremating it because, it’s valuable owner, the soul, has already left and the body is of no use. When the soul has relinquished the body, people say, “The light (which is soul) has gone, that which lived in it has departed and the drama is over”

Faculties of a Soul

The soul is a living or a sentient being. It is said to be living because it can think and reflect; it can experience pleasure and pain, so also bliss and peace; it can bestir itself and make efforts and actions, soul has three faculties – mind, intellect and predispositions.