Where is the soul located in the body?
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Where is the soul? Yeah. The soul is non-material. So, it does not restrict in a physical sense to any particular location.
The soul is basically a spark of consciousness. If I have a spark, from the spark, light radiates outwards and then it illumines. So, like that, the soul is a spark of consciousness and that spark radiates consciousness all over the body.
So, it is because of the presence of the soul that we are conscious. Now, this chair is made of ultimately the same material, same atoms and molecules that my body is made up of. When it is not conscious, I am conscious.
It is because the soul is present. And in yoga, there is a description of different kinds of airs in the body. We talk about oxygen, that is the air that we breathe in.
But yoga has a different model of the body where it is described that air inside the body itself is classified in different ways. And different forms of air perform different functions. So, for example, there is air which we use for breathing.
Then we have peristalsis, when we digest food. There is air required for that. When we swing round and round, we get vertigo.
There is air which maintains equilibrium. And when we move round and round, that air gets disbalanced. That is why we feel like falling.
So, the point is that these five airs, there are five kinds of airs, and these five airs act in the body in different ways. So, in physics, you know there are vectors, directed forces. So, these five airs are like vectors.
And they direct the energy or the flow of air in different directions. So, the result, the soul exists in the body at the point where the resultant of these five vectors is zero. And usually that point lies in the region of the heart.
So, the soul doesn’t reside in the heart. The soul resides in the region of the heart at the point where the resultant of the vector of the five airs, that comes neutral. Thank you.
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