Buddha, Hinduism, Mithraism, Baha'i, & etc.You are not the bodyOk. Then what part is the immortal part? Obviously the material body is not immortal. Then it must be the spirit, right? So then, we are the spirit, and because we are currently in a material body, therefore we are called "soul"? Does that sound right? In my understanding, based on Vedic knowledge, it is similar to this, except that we say the Lord has 3 categories of His energy: His internal potency, His external potency, and His marginal potency. The internal potency is the Lord's Personal energy. It is characterized by being 'sat-cit-ananda'. 'Sat' mean eternal existence, 'cit' means full of knowledge, and 'ananda' means full of bliss. The external potency is what this material universe is made of. It is sometimes manifest and sometimes not. It's forms are illusory in so much that they are fleeting. Then the marginal potency is the Lord's part and parcel "souls" (or spirits) who are prone to fall into the external energy. So we say internal potency (i.e. the spirit-soul) + external potency = marginal potency |
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