Pros and Cons of having a soul

>>17862323

If you don't got one yet, don't bother. It's nothing but trouble. Only thing worse is having half of one, because then you're bound to whomever has the other half.

>>17862327
How do I know if I have a soul?

>>17862323
Are your eyes blue?

>>17862351
Blue-green

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You have unlimited soul because your plugged into everyone else's.

You can't completely sell your soul because your constantly replenishing without your awareness.

You can only catch up to the emptiness and keep down the affects your soul has on you and others around you.

There are pros and cons to accumulation and depletion. Learn them and find your freedom.

>>17862362
So there is a flow of soul that everyone is part of?

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>>17862393
Been that way since the beginning.

It's the difference between riding the wave and being the wave.

>>17862323
It is not YOUR soul. You do not HAVE a soul. You ARE the soul. You are not the body, not the mind, not the intelligence, not the ego - you are an eternal, living being - a soul.

> Bg 2.17 — That which pervades the entire body you should know to be indestructible. No one is able to destroy that imperishable soul.
> Bg 2.20 — For the soul there is neither birth nor death at any time. He has not come into being, does not come into being, and will not come into being. He is unborn, eternal, ever-existing and primeval. He is not slain when the body is slain.
> Bg 2.24 — This individual soul is unbreakable and insoluble, and can be neither burned nor dried. He is everlasting, present everywhere, unchangeable, immovable and eternally the same.

>Bg 13.20 — Material nature and the living entities should be understood to be beginningless. Their transformations and the modes of matter are products of material nature.
>Bg 13.21 — Nature is said to be the cause of all material causes and effects, whereas the living entity is the cause of the various sufferings and enjoyments in this world.
>Bg 13.22 — The living entity in material nature thus follows the ways of life, enjoying the three modes of nature. This is due to his association with that material nature. Thus he meets with good and evil among various species.
>Bg 13.30 — One who can see that all activities are performed by the body, which is created of material nature, and sees that the self does nothing, actually sees.
>Bg 13.32 — Those with the vision of eternity can see that the imperishable soul is transcendental, eternal, and beyond the modes of nature. Despite contact with the material body, O Arjuna, the soul neither does anything nor is entangled.

>>17863135
Souls - living entities - are a part of the infinite energies of the Godhead. We exist because God exists, and God is infinite. To leave us out would limit His energies.

In Vaishnavism, there are three main categories of God's energy, or sakti.
Internal - cit/antaranga - the spiritual
Marginal - tatastha - living entities
External - bahiranga - the material

Marginal means the soul can shift between spiritual and material. It can choose to act under the influence of one or the other, or attempt to maintain a lack of action (merging with Brahmajyoti, ego-death).

The soul has three main qualities:
sat - eternal existence
cit - awareness/knowledge
ananda - bliss