When the soul obviously moves, how do we to explain the Gita 2.24 statement that the soul is immovable?

From: Sri Gaur Das

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Question from Shri Naisheen Bhagavad Gita 2.24 Answer Achalo yam sanahata ka The verse says that Achala, the soul is immovable.
Now if we look at the full Bhagavad Gita, we will see very clearly that the soul moves. In the 14th chapter Krishna says, Madhya tishthanti rajasa Jagannivudh vittistha dham lakshanti tamasa Krishna says that those who are situated in goodness move upwards to the heavenly planets or to higher species. And those who are in passion stay here, those who are in ignorance go down to the lower species or lower planets.
So obviously the soul moves. And the ultimate goal of life in the Bhagavad Gita is to go back to the spiritual world, which also in one sense is a movement of the soul. So then, what does it mean when this verse says that Achalo So if we look at what is happening in the second chapter, Krishna is primarily contrasting the nature of the soul with the nature of the body.
And when he is thus contrasting, for example, the two verses before this is Nainam chidman shastrani Nainam dhahati bhavakam that the soul cannot be in fact the verse before this only soul cannot be burned by fire, soul cannot be withered by wind. So essentially, the point is that there is a contrast between the material and the spiritual natures. And that is what is being emphasized.
So this particular verse also vityah sarvatah sthana achalo yam sanatana sanatana, the soul is sanatana, the body is not sanatana, the body is temporary. So in that sense, here achalo means that the soul is not movable like material objects are movable. Material objects are movable by material force.
But the soul is not movable by any material force. The only thing that can move the soul is its own desire. No material force, it’s not that if somebody attacks the heart, the soul will in fear move away from the heart to the head or something like that.
Nobody can force the soul to move against its will. The essential point of the discussion is that material forces and factors don’t influence the soul. So even when the at the time of death, the Yamadutas come and take the soul at that time, actually speaking, they with the Yamadutas, they carry the subtle body and they drag the subtle body.
So the soul is attached to the present body and doesn’t want to leave. So when the subtle body is tugged along, it is attached to the subtle body. Just like if a person is, a very powerful person is watching and if thieves want to rob the, thieves want to abduct that person, and the person is very powerful, they can’t abduct him.
So thieves come and carry away the TV. And this person, he is so absorbed in watching the TV that when the TV starts moving, in order to keep watching the TV, he also starts moving with the TV. So like that, the soul is moved, so the subtle body is like the TV through which we are connected to this virtual reality of the material world.
And the soul is like the person watching the TV. So the Yamadutas come and catch the subtle body and drag it with their robes and the soul goes along because the soul is attached to the subtle body and to the material enjoyment that is promised through the subtle body. Akshala means essentially that the soul does…