An Inquiry into the nature of the Soul

Spirituality
#121

The whole matter of the original nature of existence has been far too misunderstood by so many, that perhaps it would have been better to say nothing whatsoever about the matter. Because the problem always arises that once you come to a direct experience of one’s essential nature, once you are out of that experience now you have to deal with the problem of the intellect - which is going to interpret it according to it’s own prejudices. And if you have been entering into the matter with all kinds of assumptions, beliefs, and speculations - the mind is such, that it is going to see whatsoever it wants to see according to one’s attachments.

Those who have been saying that everything in existence is of the nature of consciousness are simply fanatics. Desperate to see one’s own reflection, one leaps into the water. It is simply a projection of the mind. Consciousness is a limiting quality, and that which is the original nature of things is simply empty of all limiting qualities. Raise a thought and declare “this is it!”, and you miss it.

But there is some truth to their statement that the original nature of existence is consciousness. It is not because it is consciousness, but because it is experienced as pure consciousness. But it being experienced as “pure consciousness” does not mean that it is pure consciousness. Neither is it the case that when one penetrates through to the so called “anandamaya kosha”, the sheath of bliss, that the original nature of existence is bliss. Bliss certainly may accompany the experience as far as one’s own being is concerned, but that does not mean that one’s true nature is bliss. These are all simply mistaking the finger for the moon, the fragrance of the lotus for the lotus flower.

Let it be known without a doubt - that Truth is not something that is to be included as part of one’s knowledge. The moment you try to understand the Truth in terms of knowledge, you are trying to impose a limitation upon it. Truth is by it’s nature inexpressible beyond even the idea of the inexpressible. In illuminated ignorance, let there be a silent understanding and nothing more.

#122

As answer to the very statement in this thread, “What is the nature of the soul?”, I would like to change it as What is soul?. Everything we find in this universe is simply the manifestation of energy. Means all the forms are originated by the union of energy and matter. All the substances has got a body (matter) and an innate attractive force (internal force of union). The innate energy has got its level of vibration. In living beings with the presence of mind and feelings, the vibration of the innate energy create certain or different types of feelings. That quality made us to think and discuss like this in this forum. So think and discuss in many ways. But know it is nothing the vibration of energy. Thanks to our thought capability.

The innate energy that gives us thoughts and memories make the soul thing.

#123

[QUOTE=thomas;43951]How can a soul be fooled into thinking it is not God?

This makes no sense.

If someone has a sense of being separate and distinct from God, it’s because he is. Otherwise, I am you and you are me, and we are all here just talking to ourselves, waiting until the day until we melt like ice cubes into one large puddle.

How could a “part” of an all-knowing, all-powerful, and infninite God be so fooled?[/QUOTE]

That’s the big mystery. I like the “until we melt like ice cubes into one large puddle”, because that’s exactly how I see it, or rather in Vedantic terms

#124

thomas,

“If someone has a sense of being separate and distinct from God, it’s because he is. Otherwise, I am you and you are me, and we are all here just talking to ourselves, waiting until the day until we melt like ice cubes into one large puddle.”

It is like trying to separate water from ice, or trying to separate a lotus from the fragrance it emanates. And it is impossible for one to return to that which one has never left. It is simply that, that dimension which has been called “divine” is something that is to be discovered. And although all beings are of one and the same original nature, very few ever come to realize it. It is like searching for one’s own own head outwardly in all directions - and yet when one comes to even a glimpse into his true face - one will immediately recognize it to have always been there from first to last. From first to last, one has always been a Buddha.

Outside of the ordinary, there is nothing beyond. Outside of the beyond, nothing ordinary.
Coming, there is no arrival. Going, there is no departing. Nothing added or subtracted - if you fail to recognize what is in front of your own eyes, in a split moment the whole cosmos is set apart.

#125

Nature of soul? Easy to find out when you are dancing with all your wildness.

Realise the sensorial patterns while you dance, which reveals the nature of your soul.