Rahu is a severed head and since the Soul resides close to the Heart where does his Soul reside?

From Ashishkumar Puri

Transcript

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There is a series of questions here about the location of the soul in the heart.
Rahu is a severed head and since the soul resides close to the heart, where does his soul reside? The point is the soul resides in the region of the heart and that also is primarily described for the human beings. I mean other living beings also the soul may reside in a similar part but it is not essential. And as far as Rahu is concerned, ultimately the existence of a person, of a soul in the body is not dependent on the location of the soul in a particular place.
It is ultimately dependent on the arrangement of the Lord. So the Lord through this fast time wanted to demonstrate the glory of the Amrita. And so although the soul was separated from the body, or rather the head was separated from the body, but because the Amrita had touched the head and gone to the neck and the Chakra then cut off the head from the body, so the head became immortal.
And so for all practical purposes, it is not impossible for the Lord to relocate the soul from the heart to the head. And moreover, although the demigods look like us, but their bodies are not necessarily entirely similar to us. Of course, Rahu is not a demigod, he is a demon.
But even the demons are, they may be lower in consciousness than humans, but as far as power in terms of bodily capacity is concerned, the demons are more powerful than humans. And so they can do many things which we humans can’t do. So their bodies are not necessarily like ours.
So firstly, we don’t have to presume that for all living beings, the soul is present necessarily in the region of the heart. Because there are, for example, unicellular organisms in which the body is not differentiated into heart. But still the soul is present in the body and animates the body from there.
So even for those living beings who have the soul in their heart, it is not precisely in the heart, it is in the region of the heart. And it is not that the soul has to be present over there itself for functioning. In fact, the whole process of Ashtang Yoga and Kundalini Yoga involves raising the prana.
And along with the prana, the soul also is said to rise from the heart upwards. And it can rise up to the Ajna Chakra also. It can rise up to the head also.
So the prana primarily rises. Normally speaking, the prana is said to surround the heart. So of course, in most cases, this kind of rising doesn’t happen.
It’s extremely rare, although it can be claimed to have happened. But irrespective of whether it happens among people today or not, the important point is that the soul’s functionality in the body is dependent not on its location in a particular place, but on the arrangement and sanction of the Lord. And in the case of Rahu, the Lord sanctions that in a different way.
Because the Lord wants to demonstrate through his example the glory of Amrita. That’s why even if he has a head alone, the Lord can arrange for the soul to be present in the region of the head and to animate him accordingly. Thank you.