Plz give geometrical dimensions not just one ten thousandth of hairtip. As soul is unchangeable, does it remain as it is when it goes back to spiritual world?

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Question. When the scriptures say that the soul is unchangeable, does that mean it will remain as it is when we go back to the spiritual world? Please give geometrical dimension, not just one ten thousandth of a hair of soul. Answer.
Firstly, regarding the dimension, the scriptures basically give us an indication of how tiny the soul is through the measure of केशागर्षितभागस्ति शत्धागर्षिजी It is an indicative measure. It is not a literal measure. Because if it were a literal measure, then it would not be using a generic denominator for that measure.
Generic denominator is the tip of a hair. Now how do we measure the tip of a hair? Different people would have different ideas of what comprises a tip, how long is a tip. The point is, when we use the word tip of a hair, we understand it is small.
Extremely small. And if we divide it, make a thousand, केशागर्षितभागस्ति शत्धागर्षिजी And we divide it ten thousand times, it will become extremely small. So the first point is that this is an indicative measure, it is not a literal measure.
At the same time, it is not just metaphoric. The soul, although it is spiritual, that doesn’t mean it is formless, it has form. And giving this measure indicates that the soul, even in present state, is not just a formless light.
It is a higher dimensional entity with a concrete existence of its own. And along with that, when we talk about the soul being unchangeable, So, अविकार्योयमुच्छते, the Bhagavad Gita 2nd chapter talks about this. Now the whole section from 2.11 to 2.25, where for example this अविकार्योयमुच्छते comes, then अविकार्योयमुच्छते means that which does not change.
So here if we look at the descriptions that are given in the preceding and the succeeding verses, the emphasis is on differentiating the soul from the body. On explaining how the soul and the body are not the same. So for example it says, नैनंचिन्दनिशिस्त्राणि नैनंदःतिपावका that the soul cannot be cut by weapons, the soul cannot be burned by fire.
वायचेद्योयमणायोयम् It is unbreakable, it is insoluble, it is non-inflammable. So like that, the emphasis is on contrasting between the body and the soul. So अविकार्योयमुच्छते also indicates that it is in that same thread of thought, the contrast between the body and the soul is being made, where the body undergoes changes, the soul does not change like the body.
So what are the changes the body undergoes? There is creation, there is growth, there is maintenance, reproduction, deterioration and destruction. These six changes the body undergoes. The soul does not undergo any of these changes.
The soul is नित्य, eternal. It is beyond the changes that the body undergoes. So अविकार्योयमुच्छते indicates primarily the unchangeability of the soul as contrasted with the changeability of the body.
But here the focus is on primarily helping a person understand the soul. This is not referring to the destination of the soul when the soul goes back to the spiritual world. Actually when we go back to the spiritual world, will the soul change? Well, it’s not a change in the sense that something new which was not there that has come about, just like in the body.
Some new cells which were not there come in and some old cells go away. But in the case of the soul, when it goes back to the spiritual world, it’s not that something new is coming in. Actually that which is unmanifest now becomes manifest.
The same soul which has its own svarupa in the spiritual world now is presently in a vijayarupa, in the form of a seed. And when the soul goes back to the spiritual world, then that original svarupa will become manifested. So it’s not a matter of that soul changing, it’s simply manifesting.
So we could say that manifestation also is a change. It’s not a change like the six changes of the body undergoes, which are cyclic and which go on with every new embodiment the soul has. So within the material world, as long as the soul is there, the soul is unchangeable.
And when the soul goes back to the spiritual world, at that time also the svarupa is eternal. And when the soul goes from the material world to the spiritual world, we could say there is some kind of change, but that is not primarily a change, that is simply a manifestation of what was within. And avikarya doesn’t mean the soul will remain in a beach, even in the spiritual world.
It simply indicates that we should know that the soul doesn’t undergo the changes the body undergoes. And that’s why whatever we attain at the spiritual level will be eternal, unlike whatever we attain at the material level or at the body level, which will be temporary and perishable with the destruction of the body.