Am i body or soul?

Am

i

body

or

soul ?

Truly speaking you are the soul embodied in the body.

The difference between dead body and living body is the presence or absence of the soul.

living body means the soul is present and dead body means the soul has left the body.

Consciousness is the proof of souls existence.

According to our desire we keep getting and changing bodies by the wonderful arrangement of the mother nature, who works under the Supervision and direction of the Supreme Personality of Godhead lord sri krishna, as it is confirmed in the holy texts of Bhagavad Gita.

If it is asked "who are you?"

what will be your response?

as usual, " i am man, i am human being , i am indian, etc etc."

But if carefully observed and noted, all theses answers are just designations "of or on"  the body.

Nobody is able to say, who is that "I" ?

Because of our misidentification with body we mistakenly say i am body, which is actually not a fact.

Let me give you a crude example for better understanding:

Say a theater artist plays the role of a thief.

He by hearts the entire script, learns how to walk as , talk as , and dress himself as a thief.

Because of his intense absorption and prolong association with thief character , how will it sound if he starts thinking himself a real thief ?, which in fact he is not.

This is called mis-identification with something else which you are not.

Our situation is exactly like that ,we as a soul are sitting inside the body ,

But misidentifying ourselves to be bodies, because of our long long association with different kinds of bodies from time immemorial.

A driver sitting inside any vehicle is separate identity other than vehicle.

No sane driver will ever say ,if asked ,"who are you?",

That,  "i am FORD  car , i am MARUTI car, or Rolls Royce car etc etc.

Because he is aware of his identity.

Similarly we must also become aware about our identities as a separate entity other than the body and this is known as "self realization".

It is because of our ignorance we are thinking ourselves to be bodies, therefore knowledge will help us to come out the dense darkness of ignorance.

The more you become realized of the knowledge you will see yourself separate from the body.

To feel and realize the presence of soul one must undergo the disciplined way of, "life and living ",as suggested by the vedic literatures and acharya's, then gradually one becomes "self realized".

Lord sri krishna has beautifully analysed the soul in His teachings of Bhagavad Gita:2.13

dehino ’smin yathā dehe
kaumāraṁ yauvanaṁ jarā
tathā dehāntara-prāptir
dhīras tatra na muhyati

Translation:

As the embodied soul continuously passes, in this body, from boyhood to youth to old age, the soul similarly passes into another body at death. A sober person is not bewildered by such a change.

Bhagavad gita:2.22

vāsāṁsi jīrṇāni yathā vihāya
navāni gṛhṇāti naro ’parāṇi
tathā śarīrāṇi vihāya jīrṇāny
anyāni saṁyāti navāni dehī

Translation:

As a person puts on new garments, giving up old ones, the soul similarly accepts new material bodies, giving up the old and useless ones.

These are the few verse which give clear, logical and scientific understanding of the soul's existence.

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