Mind - spirit - body and soul

Body, Mind and Soul are different forms of spiritual energy. Purest or Densest form of Spirituality that can merge with Lord Almighty God and create anything and everything is called the Soul. Then the less pure Energy Form which can not create but imagine anything and everything is called the Mind. Still less pure Energy Form which can neither create nor imagine anything but only act as a medium through which the mind can interact with others and Experience pleasure and pain is called the body.

Body- The external most covering of our self comprised of 10 senses (5 knowledge acquiring - eyes, ears, nose, skin and tongue and 5 working-hands, legs, belly, mouth and genitals). Everything at thus level is combination of 5 elements (earth, water, air, fire and ether) called the gross matter. Why it material? Because when body is still in good condition, just at the time of death but there are no movements of the senses, implying that movements have a source within, different from body (called the soul, which we will dicuss later).

Mind- The next covering of our self comprised of subtle (invisible but experienceable) elements, and their activities are exhibited by thinking, feeling and willing (to do something), still it is material. HOW? Even though, the person is declared died, it has been found that, the neurological wirings of mind still remain intact for some time, but there has not been found any recording of psychological symptoms, observed in terms of brain waves, when person is alive and thinking or dreaming.

Soul- From 1 and 2, we have proved that there is something inside the body and mind layers, that makes the person alive, and without whose presence, the entire system will be stay inactive, that self is called soul. There is no positive definition of soul except that is part and parcel of supreme spirit, who is the soul of every-thing that is perceivable by our senses and imperceptible by senses and mind. There are many negative does that soul is not this, not that- all to break our conception of definitions set for material things like soul cannot be burned, cannot be killed, cannot be dried, cannot be wet etc. Shrimad Bhagwad Gita tells, "na hanyate hanyamane sharire."

So, Soul is the real living person, although very small in dimension (1/100,00th of tip of hair- "kesagra-sata-bhagasya satamsah sadrsatmakah" i.e. imperceptible to our eyes, and also of different nature which is beyond our experience of material, called the spiritual nature. Body is the physical aspect of our existence. It can be considered to be the hardware of the human computer. Just like a computer has a keyboard, screen, hard disk, our body has blood, skin, bones and kidney, heart, brain. What is the mind? The mind is like the software of the computer, the operating system.

The human computer has thought, intellect, memory, and ego. It is known as the inner instrument in the ancient scriptures. The inner instrument is nothing but a group that is considered to be the mind, but in reality, it is mind, intellect, memory, and ego. The Soul is the power that gives us life. It is like electricity that makes the computer work. The human computer collapses the moment the Soul, the life, the spirit, the Atman departs. It is the Soul which arrives at conception, when the first cell of the zygote is created.

Consider that our body is just like the hardware of a computer, it is a physical entity and it is the combination of things required to harbor a mind. The mind is an abstract but real thing which makes something conscious(self-conscious), just like programs running on a computer. The soul is supposed to be a vital essential thing just like electricity without which a body doesn't work.(Spiritual and hypothetical concept). Body is visible and tangible.we can see ,touch or do anything with it. The mind is software of our body which think and take decision on its own wisdom.

Our soul is what you experience in a thoughtless state.i.e.when you have zero thought in your mind.you experience something we may call soul .this thoughtless state is advanced experience of meditation.there are other ways of getting thoughtless state meditation is one one of them. The body is that part of our existence which is the gross physical aspect of our body. The body consists of not just the skin and the bone but also the flesh, the blood, the nerves and the organs like brain, heart, kidneys. This is the body. The mind is the subtle body, that part of the body which cannot be touched and felt but we feel it exists because it thinks.

Therefore a bundle of thoughts is considered to be the mind. In fact there are four aspects of the mind which form the subtle body - the mind, the intellect which discriminates, the memory which remembers, and the ego that says it is I. This is the inner instrument known as the mind. But what is the Soul? The Soul is the power that gives us life, it is the energy, it is the Spirit, the Atman. It is easy to understand the body, mind and Soul, when you compare it to a computer that has hardware, software and power supply. Cheers!