Body & Soul
Bodies are temporary and made of matter. “Soul” refers to the self/person/spirit within the body. Bodies come in many varieties sizes, shapes, colors, species—but spiritually all beings are equal. The soul/self/person inside is what makes any body go.
Souls are permanent and made of spirit. A body without a soul is called “dead.” Souls can live on their own, without bodies. Only in this world do we see souls stuck inside bodies. Spiritual beings are meant to live in a spiritual rather than a material world.
What’s the difference between spirit and matter?
Spirit and matter are two seemingly incompatible things which, when combined, make up “the world as we know it.”
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Important questions in life
Whatever the questions of life are, which are enduring, which are absolute type of questions, when they are answered, then our doubts, our misgivings, our fears, our ignorance, is dissipated. Those are the type of questions, which are considered most important.
Now whether it is going to rain tomorrow or not? This sort of a question may be there in many of our minds after so many days of rain, but this is something, which is not like an eternal problem. Eventually it is going to stop raining and the sun is going to come up.
But question like, "Who are we? Where have we come from? Where are we going to after this life is over? What is this world? What is life? Is there a creator? Is there an origin to life? Is there an ultimate or absolute truth? Is there transmigration of the soul? etc.etc... so many questions for which if we had the answers, we would solve so many problems. These are considered spiritual questions that invoke transcendental knowledge when we get the answer.
So in the Bhagavad Gita we find that there are a series of questions and answers. Like Arjuna asked different questions, and Krsna gives the answers. His basic question was that he was suffering and that he was in anxiety; and he wanted to know how to get out of it? There are some other questions too.
Souls are permanent and made of spirit. A body without a soul is called “dead.” Souls can live on their own, without bodies. Only in this world do we see souls stuck inside bodies. Spiritual beings are meant to live in a spiritual rather than a material world.
What’s the difference between spirit and matter?
Spirit and matter are two seemingly incompatible things which, when combined, make up “the world as we know it.”
Read More...
Important questions in life
Whatever the questions of life are, which are enduring, which are absolute type of questions, when they are answered, then our doubts, our misgivings, our fears, our ignorance, is dissipated. Those are the type of questions, which are considered most important.
Now whether it is going to rain tomorrow or not? This sort of a question may be there in many of our minds after so many days of rain, but this is something, which is not like an eternal problem. Eventually it is going to stop raining and the sun is going to come up.
But question like, "Who are we? Where have we come from? Where are we going to after this life is over? What is this world? What is life? Is there a creator? Is there an origin to life? Is there an ultimate or absolute truth? Is there transmigration of the soul? etc.etc... so many questions for which if we had the answers, we would solve so many problems. These are considered spiritual questions that invoke transcendental knowledge when we get the answer.
So in the Bhagavad Gita we find that there are a series of questions and answers. Like Arjuna asked different questions, and Krsna gives the answers. His basic question was that he was suffering and that he was in anxiety; and he wanted to know how to get out of it? There are some other questions too.