Soul dynamics

OM. In this blog I will try to explain the soul and why it goes through birth/re-birth. The soul [atma] is the purest or unmanifest form of the Universe. Whatever we see/feel around [matter] is its manifestation. So God [param atma] is the complete soul.

The purest form has no specific characteristics or to simplify it has everything but highlights nothing. So any manifestation of it has to be in polarities. We can take examples like male/female, good/bad etc. When needed the purest form can manifest to any form. And when everything is taken back we are just left with the complete soul.

Lets simplify life as we see, into 2 forms. One is the matter and the other the soul. The body we possess is the matter and the soul brings it to life. If there is no soul the body would have no importance. So the soul is the one that brings us to life and it has a purpose in doing so. The purpose is to get back to its purest form. So where did the soul attach with the impurity. It did so in the previous birth to be clear. When some living creature dies, the soul leaves the body taking all the memories of the life it had. So the memories stay with the soul and when it incarnates again [re-birth] we can get to those memories using Past life regression. The soul chooses the reincarnation [re-birth]such that it can pay off karma, fulfill any desires attached to it from past life etc. So if the karmas attached to the soul were good it would lead to a good birth or viceversa.Whatever is happening to you is due to your own deeds.

Religious texts simplify all of this with the concept of heaven/hell and ask us to be pious and perform good deeds. If we go deeper we would just come to know that Heaven/Hell are just conceptual and all of this is being taken care of by the soul and the memories attached to it. In this process of paying off karma in a birth, we do some new karmas and attach to them. So the birth-rebirth cycle continues. The cycle would end when you do not attach to the karmas you do and realize that soul is the truth and all of life is maya. Unless we get the atma gyan we would be caught in this cycle.

Lets take 3 examples.
1. Assume you aren't beautiful in this life and you have attached to it so much that the memory is the strongest of all of yours. The soul has to get rid of that
after your death. Lets assume the soul comes to life as a peacock in the next incarnation, it would address that memory. So the soul chooses births accordingly.
2. We have heard of sages in our scriptures who had the power to curse. How did that work. You do something unbearable to someone. First of all, the karma registers itself in your mind and that needs to be addressed. Lets assume the curse from the sage was, you end up in your next birth as a crow. So that birth is needed for remorse and purification of the soul.
3. Astrology says that the 9 planets are controlling us, but if we see truly all these planets are under the control of the Sun which isn't moving anywhere. To extend from it, the memories are taking us for a ride whereas the soul is stationary. So attaining moksha is just giving control to the soul and not let the memories control it.

The souls were the purest in their initial incarnations [krita yug, treta yug] and as time passed and the birth/rebirth cycle has gone a long way, the souls attached to so much that, we just see the attachments instead of the pure soul.To complete the picture the memories are taking us through the birth/rebirth cycles. This is at the individual level. Similarly at the cosmic level God's memories are taking the Universe through cycles. So when the materialistic end comes the souls retreat and bring an end to all the matter. And when the polarities join there is only perfection, the complete soul. OM.