Parmatma/cosmic soul/ supreme being/God.
Parmatma/cosmic soul/ supreme being/God.
Unless someone understands what the soul is, that person cannot understand the divine. I have tried to explain as much as I can about the soul. The following verses specify a brief understanding of the soul.
न प्राणेन नाक्पानेन मृत्योर्जीवती कश्चन ।
इतरेण तु जीवन्ति यस्मीन्नेवावुपाश्रिंतौ ।।
“Life is neither the refuge of the living nor of the dying, it is the refuge of another thing, over which the soul and the wonself depend for their existence.”
नैनं छिन्दन्ति शस्त्राणी नैनं दहती पावक: ।
न चैनं क्लेदयन्त्यापो न शोषयति मारुतः ।।२३।।
Bhagavad Gita Chapter 2 Verse 23
From the above verses, it can be understood that the soul is the owner of the living being, that is, it is the powerful element that governs the living being. God is the almighty element that runs the universe. The word Parmatma is a word associated with the soul. In explaining God, God is the best and the highest. Parmatma means the supreme soul. The soul is a partial element of God, while God is the soul of the whole cosmic power element.
“अतीव सूक्ष्मं परमात्मतत्वं न स्थूल दृष्टया प्रतिपत्तुमर्हती ”
Meaning: The divine element is very subtle. Nobody could see and nobody achieved it through their naked eyes. God is formless, innocent and spotless , omnipresent, subtle, very subtle, imperishable and the whole universe is visible or invisible, including all the planets, stars, roots, invisible, vegetation and living beings. Parmatma has supreme power to govern all these things. We can say that the Almighty element is Parmatma.
The name of the divine energy must be God / Spirit, where the whole universe resides in the body of the cosmic soul. We must agree that our soul also is a subtle element produced from the Supreme Spirit, which is a very subtle one just like a dot. For example, the soul becomes part of the divine. Our consciousness does not recognize the form of the soul. Which is a subtle part of God.
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prasad/pundary aryal