THE SOUL

The Soul is an entity apart from and behind all these functions. It is not seated in any particular part of the body but pervades the whole of it and all the senses, unaffected by the law of "extension" even as ether was taken by the physicists to pervade the whole of space and matter. Not only man, but every animal and plant, every living thing, has a Soul. The body is but the field of action, the Kshetra, in which resides the Soul, who is the Kshetri or Kshetrajna.

The Soul does not cease to exist when the body dies and is buried, burnt or eaten up by wild birds or beasts. Grief over death is foolish, the Soul being incapable of death. It is the body that is cast off in death even as we cast off old clothes.

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