How do we differentiate between the mind and the soul?

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so how do we differentiate between the mind and the soul you say the user and the software are two distinct things but inside us we don’t know how do we differentiate between the two so can we do a simple thought experiment it will take a minute or so so just close your eyes sit comfortably, close your eyes and just try to focus on whatever appears on your mental screen you may be thinking what is there for food now I have to do this work, whatever it is don’t just be attached to that, just try to observe whatever appears on your mental screen now as you are observing try to step back and look at the observer you are observing something on the mental screen and there is someone who is observing try to step back and look at the observer, you will notice that if you try to step back and look at the observer the observer steps back try once more, try to look at the observer of the mental screen, no matter how much we try we can’t find the observer because what we are looking for is what we are looking with what we are looking for is what we are looking with, take a deep breath you can open your eyes now so here when we close our eyes what we see going on we see a lot of things going on that is the mind so mind is like our inner screen we have the outer screen on which you are seeing this power point projection but whatever we are seeing it comes on inner screen, so for example right now you are hearing me speak you are hearing her speak smelling the fragrance of the food coming from there you are feeling the cold of the AC over here all these sensations from the various senses are coming in and they are integrated and presented on a screen the screen on which they are integrated that is the mind shotram chakshu sparshanam cha rasanam grhanam eva cha adishtaya manaschayam vishayan upasevate so adishtaya manaschayam, just like the five fingers of a palm five fingers of the hand are integrated around the palm like that the five senses are integrated around the mind but the mind is the integrator and based on what gets integrated say for example if the food is smelling very delicious then that perception may become very prominent and we may think I want to eat the food and that desire may become prominent and we may start salivating, so now what is happening over here on the inner screen something may come and it may come so fast that it may stimulate a reaction within us and because all this is happening inside us we may not realize it, something flashed on the inner screen, I saw it, I sensed it I desired it and now I am looking for it but what appears on the inner screen is different from the observer of the inner screen, so the mind is the inner screen and the soul is the observer of the inner screen and to the extent we are attached to something, to that extent the inner screen and the observer of the inner screen, they seem like one for example if there is some food which I love then as soon as that food comes in front of me even if I don’t think about it, I will go and eat it but if there is some food which I don’t like then I see that food then I start eating it if I say no, will this person who is having the food, will they feel bad, can I just get away by not saying no so what happens, when something is desirable it comes in the inner screen, when something is undesirable also it comes in the inner screen, but when it is desirable because we are attached to it, the action happens instantly and in that sense we can’t separate the screen and the observer of the screen but when something is unpalatable something is not so, unpalatable also we just turn away and not realize also we are turned away from it sometimes when you just go through a menu you just not take a particular food, you don’t even think much about it, no I don’t want this then somebody asks, why didn’t you take this, then you start thinking no, why didn’t I take this, maybe I had to think of a reason why I didn’t take it, so when there is extreme attachment or there is extreme aversion, at that time the mind and soul in a functional sense become almost like one but when there is deliberation should I do this, should I not do this then we can see that there is a perception coming in and there is an observer who is perceiving and then by separating the two we can understand that the two are separate so the mind is the screen on which the stimuli come in, either from external perception or even from internal recollection, but the soul is the observer and the soul is the decider should I do this or should I not do this thank you very much