How are the soul, mind and body brought together?

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so now how exactly is the soul the mind and the body all linked together are they determined by what is the change of say the soul from one body to another determined by see broadly the soul is unchanging the soul is called vikar is transformation or change Krishna says in 2.25 in the Bhagavad Gita the soul never changes the soul eternally remains the same now the soul’s energy is consciousness soul’s energy is like say we have a torch light the torch light is at one place but torch light is focused on the ground it’s here it’s rays will go only up to this point if I focus it up it will go up to the ceiling if I focus it straight ahead it’s rays will go to a longer distance so based on where the torch light’s rays are focused they will go up to a particular distance so like that so the torch light’s beam you could say that is like it’s energy the soul is at one point it’s energy spreads out in 13.34 in the Gita Krishna states that just as the sun located at one place illumines the whole universe like that the soul situated in the body illumines the whole body it illumines it with consciousness so now the soul itself doesn’t change but it’s projected energy the consciousness changes just like the torch remains the same but the area extent to which the consciousness the beam is going that may change so what determines this change that determines that is based primarily on how the soul uses the consciousness the soul is soul is the source of that energy but that energy is directed outwards and depending on how the soul uses that energy it’s further capacity to use it is determined that means that if the soul focuses simply on bodily pursuits say pandering to the needs of the body eating, sleeping, mating defending then the result is in the next lifetime the soul gets a body which is more customized for this it’s not customized for any higher functions you know in human body and animal body we all do these four activities eating, sleeping, mating, defending but in human body we have the capacity to inquire beyond these immediate biological drives what’s more what more is there in life how can I achieve that more things that we have the capacity to inquire so when we don’t inquire then we are given our consciousness becomes shrunk and then we don’t have the capacity to inquire and that’s what happens in non-human bodies so basically the consciousness shrinks or expands based on how it is used that’s the broad principle of how the soul’s consciousness changes from one body to another or the soul remains unchanging now when we talk about shrinking or expanding of the consciousness how does it happen what is the mechanism through which it happens so basically every body that the soul gets it has certain capacities it’s like somebody may have a may take a 3 BHK house somebody may have just a single bedroom house somebody may have a mansion now those particular houses are got by the person based on two things their desire and their budget so like that the soul based on its desires and based on its karmic budget it gets a future body where in the future body it may have greater capacity to control things or lesser capacity to control things somebody may give a very handsome healthy powerful body somebody may give a not so good looking sickly weak body like that the soul can get different conditions that is determined by how the soul acts in this body so as a result of the how the soul uses its energy of consciousness soul gets smaller or greater capacity to use its consciousness in its future life now in this connection of the soul with the body the mind acts like the interfacing mechanism and the mind goes with the soul from one body to the next body the mind is the constant companion of the soul in material existence and that’s why the psychology of different of two children even if they are twins is different even if they are what science calls as monozygotic twins that means there is only one zygote which split into two that means they are not just genetically similar they are identical their whole genetic content is the same and still they are two distinct personalities just yesterday in the manner I was speaking the same point I have spoken the topic of near death experiences and there also a question came up when I was speaking the same point of monozygotic twins so then after that one man he got up and he said actually I have a twin who is monozygotic what you are saying is exactly true although we are exactly completely similar physically psychologically you couldn’t have me two different people two people are more different so the mind is what goes with the soul from one body to another so genetically they are similar means their bodies are the same the soul is spiritual soul is unchanging as I said the bodies are identical but still two persons are different so what is making the difference soul is similar the body is identical what is making the difference is what is in between that is the mind so the mind is shaped by the kind of experiences they have had in the past and those experiences are stored as impressions in their mind and they shape their psychological patterns of thinking feeling willing so those go with the soul from one body to another and the soul’s consciousness is shaped by the way it functions in this life and then that those impressions are stored and after those impressions they carry over to the next body then the soul starts functioning accordingly suppose say I have been working on one computer and I have been working on that for a long time say I operated I got a gmail id and I searched in google and I got my bookmarks on all this computer then I go to new computer now as soon as I log in through gmail what happens all my bookmarks appear again all my search preferences appear again now the whole set of information that I have got it all appears automatically because that that logging in is what connects me it’s a completely new machine but that logging in has connected me with the whole information that has been stored from the past so like that the soul the soul may get a new body but the soul is logging in to the new body with the same id the mind is the same so because the soul logs in with the new body with the same mind from x so that’s why even in the new body the psychological patterns from the previous body go on so liberation requires so anyway at the time of death we are going to lose our physical body but losing our physical body does not entail liberation it simply entails transition from this body to another body based on the kind of desire that are there in the soul but only when the desires that are there in the mind it’s only when the mind becomes purified when the mind becomes purified of selfish desires at that time that the soul becomes ready for liberation at that time it’s the soul leaves the the soul leaves not just at that time when the pure soul dies that time they not only leave their physical body but they leave even the mind behind and then that pure soul gets liberated out of material existence and attains the kingdom of God thank you Hare Krishna