The Light of The Soul: The Yoga Sutras of Patanjali

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When our inner room is illuminated by the light of the soul, however, we can see and feel clearly. We don’t need to live in a state of fear – life is vibrant and fully alive.

September 1985). "Κεφάλαιο Γ' " (PDF). Ορθόδοξη Ψυχοθεραπεία (in Greek). Εδεσσα. p.Τι είναι η ψυχή . Retrieved 25 January 2023. {{ cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher ( link) If we understand the soul as the unique essence or essential life force of something, we can see that everything has a soul because everything has one-of-a-kind life force energy. No two things in existence are ever exactly the same (even identical twins have differences).Strong's 4983: Body, flesh; the body of the Church. From sozo; the body, used in a very wide application, literally or figuratively. Gurdjieff, George Ivanovitch (25 February 1999). Life is real only then, when 'I am' . London. ISBN 978-0-14-019585-9. OCLC 41073474. {{ cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher ( link)

This post is a follow-up to my previous post “ What is the Soul”, but if you have followed my other posts on World Mysteries you will notice that there is a message developing.We can observe this in the world around us: life is programmed to grow, change, and expand. All beings (trees, animals, galaxies, etc.) go through cycles of metamorphosis. And so do we. Judaism relates the quality of one's soul to one's performance of the commandments ( mitzvot) and reaching higher levels of understanding, and thus closeness to God. A person with such closeness is called a tzadik. Therefore, Judaism embraces the commemoration of the day of one's death, nahala/ Yahrtzeit and not the birthday [61] as a festivity of remembrance, for only toward the end of life's struggles, tests and challenges could human souls be judged and credited for righteousness. [62] Judaism places great importance on the study of the souls. [63] Then Yahweh God formed man of dust from the ground and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and so the man became a living being. The mind perceives and expresses the soul, but when our minds are contracted, polluted, attached to thoughts, and filled with fear we cannot access this essential part of us. Working with the conscious and unconscious mind will help us to dissolve the ingrained patterns, conditioning, and habits that obscure the divinity within. Ensoulment & Spiritual Awakening The eye is the lamp of the body. If then your eyesight is good, your whole body will be well lighted;

Lorenz, Hendrik (2009). "Ancient Theories of Soul". In Zalta, Edward N. (ed.). The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (Summer 2009ed.). Metaphysics Research Lab, Stanford University.

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Deussen, Paul and Geden, A.S. The Philosophy of the Upanishads. Cosimo Classics (1 June 2010). p. 86. ISBN 1-61640-240-7. In Helena Blavatsky's Theosophy, the soul is the field of our psychological activity (thinking, emotions, memory, desires, will, and so on) as well as of the so-called paranormal or psychic phenomena (extrasensory perception, out-of-body experiences, etc.). However, the soul is not the highest, but a middle dimension of human beings. Higher than the soul is the spirit, which is considered to be the real self; the source of everything we call "good"—happiness, wisdom, love, compassion, harmony, peace, etc. While the spirit is eternal and incorruptible, the soul is not. The soul acts as a link between the material body and the spiritual self, and therefore shares some characteristics of both. The soul can be attracted either towards the spiritual or towards the material realm, being thus the "battlefield" of good and evil. It is only when the soul is attracted towards the spiritual and merges with the Self that it becomes eternal and divine.