Does the level of consciousness indicate the strength of the soul?
The level or degree of consciousness indicate the strength of the soul strength may not be the best word for it because often we have the idea of strength in terms of physical the soul itself is not physical so we could say that the soul always has the capacity for consciousness but based on the kind of uses that it puts the consciousness to the capacity becomes channeled more or less that means for a grass actually for the Bhagavata explains that all all living forms they have souls just like you and I have now a grass also has a soul like you and a blade of grass but the whole purpose of a blade of grass is simply to grow maybe half an inch taller one inch taller now it's consciousness has shrunk so much yeah please come you can start serving its consciousness has shrunk so much that it cannot perceive anything more now why is this happening because the soul in that soul in previous lives has chosen not to tap its higher powers not to use its consciousness for any higher purposes and this whole consciousness gets more and more shrunk by that so rather than saying that the level of consciousness represents the strength of the soul we could say that the level of consciousness represents more the karma of the soul the kind of activity that the soul has done in the past based on that its present consciousness is shaped so some people are very thoughtful very introspective very intelligent some people are very dull and dumb no offense intended but just there are some people like that so even if we take tell them things they just don't register in them so why is that that is just based on the way they have acted in the past now this is not unchangeable even in this life just like if somebody has muscles they don't use the muscles the muscles are trophy but if they use the muscles muscles become stronger so like that we can also develop the faculty of consciousness more and more so the present level or extent of consciousness of the soul you can say that it reflects the past karma of the soul. Does this answer your question?