When incubation is done externally where does the soul come in the picture?

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So if incubation is being done externally then if you are taking say the egg from the female the sperm from the male and uniting it then where does the soul come into the picture? That way we can ask where does the soul come into the picture? Normal reproduction also.
Isn’t it? Normal reproduction again the soul, the man and woman unite. So the point here is the soul cannot be perceived at the physical level. The soul’s presence itself leads to some significantly different characteristics manifesting in matter.
I already talked about how this mic and the hand, what is the difference between the two. I said it’s not aware of its existence, this is aware of its existence. Another way to look at it is that matter normally undergoes three states.
There is creation, there is deterioration and there is destruction. Now this table was built. If somebody bangs it, it will break.
Then afterwards it will break down completely. On the other hand if we are conscious beings, we go through not, living beings go through not three but six changes. After we are created, we grow.
We can’t have, no matter how sophisticated a computer we have, the computer is not going to grow. Then we maintain ourselves. If my hand gets cut, it clots and heals itself.
Homeostasis is the whole process in the body to protect itself. There is no such thing in, you could say normal matter. And another is reproduction.
We reproduce. So with all our scientific advancement, we don’t know why some matter goes through these six changes and why some matter goes through these three changes. What is it that is different from our visible perspective? This matter and this matter are made of the same components.
It’s not the process of reproduction that is important. It is the principle that is there which is different over there. So yes, sometimes the reproduction can happen through normal means.
Sometimes the reproduction can happen through non-normal means. In fact, in many of the Vedic texts also, they describe at times how the sperm would be taken from a sage and that somebody else would take that sperm and preserve that sperm and from that a new person would come up. So that’s not a… What is advanced in this is the technology.
Earlier we may not have the technology by which we could incubate outside. But no matter how much we develop the technology, the point here is what is the principle? Why is it that this matter is behaving this way and this matter is behaving this way? So, with respect to the specific question of where the soul is present, actually one of the characters of the soul described in the Bhagavad Gita is that it is Sarvagataha. It is capable of being present everywhere.
In our own bodies, more than the number of cells in our body, several times more are the number of germs that are present in our body. By germs I don’t mean negative germs but just microbes and they are needed for the functioning of this body. So, now each of those microbes is a soul.
So, basically souls are present at various places and wherever they get a suitable biological medium to become embodied, they take that biological medium. So, nature may create that biological medium in the womb or we may create that biological medium in technology in an external level. That doesn’t matter.
What matters is that this matter, what matters is that the certain you could say biological matter, actually matter that embodied matter or matter that is living that exhibits fundamentally different characteristics from matter that is non-living. And why that difference is there? That is something which has no material explanation. That is because there is something higher present which animates.