Some more facts about
soul.
Soul is all
encompassing God as argued by non dualism. Why?
How is it possible that
God to get overpowered by Maya(physical Nature)? Maya works with
power of God, at the will of God. Something that is servant of will
cannot overpower the owner. For example the senses, say hand work at
the will of an individual. Hand cannot overpower the individual. In
fact, hand derives its motion from the vitality of the individual.
Hence individual dictates the terms with the senses. It is not
possible for senses to dictate terms on the individual.
To more precise, hand
cannot order individual to do something on the contrary individual
gives order to its hand.
Therefore, God who all
powerful, gives orders to Maya about creation of universe rather God
empowers Maya to create this universe. It impossible for Maya to
overpower God while we see that the individual soul is overpowered by
Maya because of which soul fails to realize its divine properties.
Hence soul cannot be all pervading personality.
Hindu further states
that after leaving the body, soul travels upwards , over the moon to
his destination according to his deeds either to hell or to heaven.
It then returns after spending time in hell or heaven to this world.
Return to this world does not mean that it gets human form. In most
of the cases, soul has to spend time in other life forms to suffer
from the outcomes of the deeds done in human form.
Is soul then equal to
the size of the physical body? No. Hindu says soul is extremely
minute. It fills the body with vitality just as fragrance is filled
in the flower. again if the soul is of body size then what about when
soul has to don body of ant? How is it possible to accommodate soul
of elephant in the ant?
Thus soul is a micro
element of God.