During heart transplants does the soul remain the same or does a different soul come into the body with the new heart?
From: Vikas Dhawan
From the BG we understand that Sri Krsna said that the soul rests in the region of the heart.
My question is that in case of a heart transplant operation the doctors remove the patients heart and transfers another heart (from a dead body, within a certain amount of time within which the heart is still living) into the body. however it has been medically observed that no trait of the person changes, so how does the soul transfer itself from one heart to another heart.
Semen question from Vikas Dhawan Prabhu from the Bhagavad Gita we understand that Sri Krishna says that soul rests in the region of the heart my question is that in case of a heart transplant operation the doctors remove the patient's heart and transfer another heart from a dead body within a certain amount of time within which the heart is still living into the body however it has been medically observed that no trait of the person changes so how does the soul transfer itself from one heart to another heart answer actually the soul is not inextricably or intrinsically connected with the heart it is just located in the region of the heart just as a king sits on a throne and if the throne has some damage the throne is moved aside and another throne is brought there and the king sits on that throne so similarly the soul is situated in the region of the heart the heart is the throne for the soul and whenever the heart is damaged if it can be transplanted then another heart is brought in the soul is situated in that region we shouldn't think of the soul as another material entity which needs a material location to be situated inside the body no that is the general region where it is situated that is the region of the heart but the soul has no intrinsic or inextricable connection with the heart that's why the heart transplant does not lead to any change in personality because the soul remains the same the soul remains the same the person who has died that person's soul goes to the next destination and the body has some movement which some sort of sense of life or movement which goes on because of inertia or momentum which are both the same thing the body was growing just like the hair in the body the nails of the body grow on for some time even after the person is declared medically dead and the soul has departed that is because there is some reserve energy that is stored in the body and that reserve energy carries on the tempo so like that the heart can be judged as living in the sense that it has the functionality to support life for a certain amount of time and after that time the heart is transplanted it will not work but during that time the heart from the other person is brought here then it is not that the soul is brought here and it is not that the heart was alive the heart was only exhibiting functionality because of the reserve sort of energy or momentum that was there because of the prior presence of the soul and when the heart is transplanted into this body at that time the soul that was there in this body then situates itself in the region of the heart and then continues to animate the body so because the soul is the same there is no personality change thank you.