About Human Soul

The soul of man is that organic life-force in Nature, which has the property of building a living material body for its habitation and use; and without which his living body could not be produced. His soul not only builds, but protects and moves his body and has further capacity of reproducing its kind under certain circumstances. The soul of man is therefore not the effect, but true and real cause of its body.

It is not identical with the imaginary or mythical Being called God, Nor is it his essence or his breath, nor is it his creature or child as certain Theologians assert, nor a mere combination of sensations and perceptions & c., that disappear at the dissolution of its gross body as is alleged by materialists.

The soul of man has gradually evolved in millions of years from the non- living forces of Nature. When our Earth became sufficiently cool and solid and hence fit for the evolution of life in it, then in due time and under favourable Environment some non-living forces develop in them, the quality of sensitiveness of a rudimentary character. These primitive or rudimentary life-forces have been found to still exist in certain metals by Dr. Sir J.C. Bose, M.A., D. Sc., C.I.E., F.R.S., the well known scientist of our country. These life forces give their characteristic response when stimuli are applied to them. Further, in course of time certain forces in Nature developed certain properties in them, which transformed them into organic life-forces & they were able to build living material bodies of one living cell, for their habitation and use. Gradually these unicellular living beings developed into multicellular living beings, and according to the law of Variation or Differentiation, various kinds of multicellular Vegetable and Animal forms were evolved. In the course of Evolution of the Animal world, man appeared with his progressive intellect. Thus the soul of man, with its various emotional an intellectual power is the result of Evolution for millions of years, and has not been suddenly called into being by any supposed Deity or God.

The individual human soul begins its career its in the womb of a woman, the ovum is thus fertilized and the female and male cells by their mutual attraction being united, become thereby one new living cell with a new Life-force, and this new Life-force or infant soul receives by this process the needed power of building or constructing a very complicated living machinery of human body.

When the infant soul is properly established in the womb, it begins its constructive work from the material which is supplied to it by its own ovum in the beginning, and then by the blood of its mother. If no mishap happens, it completes its bodily organism in about forty weeks, and then it comes out of the womb, in a new world and commences its career here. It then gradually develops not only its body with its brain, but along with it, its emotional and mental powers as well, and in time becomes conscious of his own individual being or entity.

According to the immutable Law of Nature, not only the organic life-force of man, but every organic life-force, whether in a plant or an animal; builds its own living body. For instance, if we sow a living grain of wheat or gram, having sufficiently strong constructive power in it, it builds up a plant body for itself under favourable conditions according to its own type. But if we kill or sterilize this Life-force in the above grains by heat or poison &c. no matter however favourable conditions they may be placed in, they would not germinate or be able to build up any living plant body. Similarly, if we take an egg of a hen which contains in it a life-force having sufficiently strong constructive power, it will under favourable conditions build up, in due time, a living body of a chicken. But if the Life-force of the egg is killed by boiling or by some other means, it cannot under any circumstances produce a chicken.

Hence, the organic Life-force or soul of man is the builder and cause of the production of his living body. It is also under favourable conditions the nourisher, sustainer and mover of his decomposed by surrounding destructive forces. The organic Life-force or soul, therefore, is the most essential or most important thing in man’s existence, which is made up of an organic Life-power and a living body.

The scientific truth about human soul is that it is not only part of Nature but is also under the laws of change, of growth and decay. The philosophy of Devatma is spiritual not only in the sense that it awakens one to the consciousness of the reality of his soul and its laws of growth but it provides the conditions for the soul to attain its fulfilment in the form of Moksha and Vikas. It provides the true seeker of the evolution of his soul rapport with Dev Atma, which besides giving the spiritual aesthetic experience of the highest beautiful soul, helps to liberate him from low loves and low hates and to cultivate noble altruistic forces which constitutes the true destiny of human soul.