Is thinking done by the mind or by the soul?
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so is thinking, feeling, willing the function of the mind but isn’t it the soul that feels and sees, the mind is the tool it’s like is the eye seeing or is the soul seeing the soul is seeing but for seeing the eye is the organ eye is the tool although soul has the capacity to see, the soul cannot see with the hand so it needs an appropriate tool for doing that function so the mind is the tool for doing thinking, feeling, willing that’s one thing but you can say with the I can say that the soul sees with the eye but we can put another way also the eye shows to the soul that means that at one level if I want to look here, I look here but then I might be looking somewhere and suddenly something else comes in which I don’t want to see so that means seeing is two ways, according to the soul’s choice and also according to whatever is coming in the visual range of the eye so like that when we think, feel or will, at one level it is the soul’s choice, it is the soul who is thinking feeling, willing using the tool of the mind but along with that the mind also has its conditionings because the mind has its default programs from which certain thoughts, feelings intentions may pop up and when they pop up at that time we just come in our consciousness and if we are not discerning then we start thinking about them we start experiencing desires along with them so it is always the soul who is doing thinking, feeling, willing but the soul is doing this through the tool of the mind and because the mind has its default programming through it certain thoughts may pop up and that’s why it may appear that the mind is thinking so the mind in one sense proposes and then the soul if the soul is not careful, it is not discerning the soul just accepts it the soul is also not thinking about it, the soul is desiring it the soul is just thinking, ok this thought has come let me not worry about it too much that’s it I said the soul also has its physical patterns do they even fall in the way of do they fall in the way of material mind they means what? the soul’s spiritual faculty in the conditions while existing in the material world is primarily consciousness the soul in the spiritual world has a body, mind it will all be spiritual but here the soul is basically a spark of consciousness so does it have spiritual eyes? soul originally has eyes definitely at this level it is primarily a spark of consciousness and that spark of consciousness when it connects with the appropriate tools for cognition or action then accordingly the perception or the reaction to the perception appropriately happens ok thank you so how does