If the soul is inconceivable, why should we bother to conceive it?

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there is no contradiction in this inconceivable means that we cannot conceive of it by our own independent efforts we can get some idea about it but we cannot understand it completely just by our own intellectual efforts we need scriptural assistance to understand it so inconceivable doesn’t mean a blanket impossibility of conceivability it means incomplete conceivability by our own efforts and why should we try to conceive the soul? because without understanding the soul we can never understand our true identity or our true purpose and nor can we gain real happiness in life it is like if I don’t know who I really am then how can I make myself happy so we are actually the soul just as if I get a first step in a mathematics some wrong, everything else goes wrong or if in a medical diagnosis if the diagnosis during medical treatment if the diagnosis itself is wrong all subsequent treatment becomes unproductive or counterproductive similarly if we don’t know about the soul then we live basically like animals, eating, sleeping mating, defending and not doing anything productive in life and that’s why it’s important for us to conceive about the soul the Vedanta Sutra says we all have to enquire about spirit but how do we enquire about it? the Vedanta Sutra itself says the first sutra is second is and third is that that Brahma, that spiritual reality can be known only through Shastra so means that we should not just try to speculate using our own puny intellect but we should use our intelligence to receive knowledge from scripture and then understand the soul and thereby fulfill our ultimate potential for eternal ecstatic existence. Thank you.