Posted on: 05 May 2023
1. Does the soul exist simultaneously in the upper energetic worlds while also existing in the gross body?
[Mr. Talin Rowe asked: Praises and highest salutations to Shri Datta, More questions regarding the nature of the soul, if it’s Your will please help to enlighten me in regards to them. Thank You for being so excellent and straightforward. At Your Holy Feet, and well wishes on You, -Talin Rowe.
Does the soul exist simultaneously in the upper energetic worlds while also existing in the gross body?]
Swami replied:- This is not possible in the routine administration of God because there is no need for such possibility. Of course, anything at any time is possible for the omnipotent God.
2. Does the soul move in a spatial sense in the energetic worlds? Does this correspond with movement in the gross realm?
Swami replied:- Space is common to the human world and to the upper energetic world. Movement also is common. The only difference is that the energetic beings and their actions are not visible to the human world due to the divine power of God. By God’s grace, a soul can see the energetic beings and their actions.
3. Do all souls share the same Atman and then manifest into individual jivas?
[Do all souls share the same Atman and then manifest into individual jivas? Or are they sharing the same cosmic energy with different atmans?]
Swami replied:- Atman or inert energy is generated by the food taken by an individual. Of course, there is no qualitative difference between Atman and cosmic energy. Hence, Atman or soul and Jiiva or individual soul are specific for a specific human being. The individual soul is highly specific because of the specific ratio of the three qualities (Sattvam, Rajas and Tamas).
4. Why doesn’t a soul degrade into its fundamental energetic makeup due to the second law of thermodynamics after death?
[As a gross body degrades back into the 5 elements, why too doesn’t a soul degrade into its fundamental energetic makeup due to the second law of thermodynamics? Same being for the Atman into the greater universal inert energetic state?]
Swami replied:- The human being is an imaginable item of the imaginable world. This imaginable world is perfectly studied by science and follows all the laws of science. I have already told about the application of first law in the human being. If you take an example of a student attending the examination, the food taken by him be 100 calories (Q). This is equal to the rise in the internal energy (E) and work (W) done by the student in writing the examination. Q= E+W is the first law. Rise in E is the tension of examination. If all the energy supplied is spent in E only, W = 0. This means the brain of the student will not work at all and he can’t write the examination. If tension becomes zero, all the energy supplied (Q) = W. This means that all the energy is converted as work and the student will write the examination in an excellent way.
Coming to second law, this deals with the conversion of energy into heat. The flow of the heat from the system to the environment and vice-versa is the topic here. Awareness is also a specific form of inert energy and hence, conversion of it into heat is possible. When we think a lot, our heads become very hot. If we go on thinking continuously without supplying energy to the body through food, the body temperature goes down since the inert energy consumed into awareness goes down as indicated by the lowering of the body temperature. Suppose this process continues, since the individual soul (made of awareness) must be also consumed so that there is no individual soul to leave the gross body and go out. This doubt will not come because when such situation comes, the individual soul leaves the gross body by entering into a new energetic body so that the individual soul will not be converted into internal energy (awareness is inert energy). Hence, the individual soul is not converted into inert energy since before this situation comes the individual soul will enter into the new energetic body and leave this gross body. Such arrangement is made by God so that the individual soul remains forever. Without recognizing this point, we should not mistake that the individual soul is eternal. The connection between awareness and inert energy is explained by the Veda in a topic called ‘Satsampatti Shruti’. At the time of death, the speech merges with mind, mind merges with heat of body and the heat energy of the body merges with ‘Sat’. Here, ‘Sat’ means the cosmic energy because the entire creation has absolute reality of God and hence, cosmic energy, a part of the cosmos can be called as the ‘Absolute reality’. If you mean the body heat as the individual soul (because inert energy modified is awareness), the individual soul can reach God Datta, who is exactly the Parabrahman or Absolute reality for the sake of enquiry of the deeds (God Datta enquires through deities like Yamadharma Raaja.).
5. Are there any metaphysical energy mechanics or esoteric truth associated with the human body, or anybody?
[Are there any metaphysical energy mechanics or esoteric truth associated with the human body, or anybody? Such examples include reiki, inner energy processes, acupuncture, chakra channels, and such fields along these.]
Swami replied:- The unimaginable power is the main in any miraculous process. Separately, the processes of inert energy taking place in the world exist. You can’t mix the unimaginable power with the imaginable inert energy and try to get an intermediate state between inert energy and unimaginable power. For example, in Reiki the healing takes place by bringing a mental change in the patient so that the nervous energy of the patient, which is a mild current interferes with the pain of nerves and bring a mild heal. There is no involvement of cosmic energy here as the technicians imagine. The technician is not capable of involving with the cosmic energy without a suitable instrument. Hence, this is a pure technique of psychological nervous energy of the patient only. The technician cannot involve with the cosmic energy with his superpower without a systematic equipment to transfer the cosmic energy through the palm of the technician. The process done by him (touching with palm) is only bringing a mental change in the patient that uses the mental energy of the patient only without any supernatural technique of transferring of the cosmic energy. Mind and nervous energy of the patient act as the medical equipment in the healing process. Therefore, there is no mixing of the unimaginable domain with the imaginable domain so that the scientist can claim that he has the connection between the two domains. If a devotee of God cures the pain by his prayer to God, it is completely the unimaginable domain.