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What part of the soul is referred to in the Gita in the verse 'nainam chhindanti' that cannot be destroyed?

[Shri Durgaprasad asked:- Paadanamaskaaram Swami, Gita says that the soul cannot be destroyed by fire or weapons (nainam chhindanti...). But in the first place, the soul is not generated due to a possible shortage of food for a living being (as understood from annat purushah...) . Then what part of the soul is referred to in Gita that cannot be destroyed? At Your lotus feet, -Durgaprasad]

Swami replied:- Soul means the inert energy that is generated from oxidation of digested food in mitochondria cells. Such inert energy is the source of awareness or individual soul (which is a bundle of thoughts) since this inert energy enters the brain-nervous system to get transformed into awareness. Awareness is also nervous energy, which is a form of inert energy only like light, heat, electricity, etc. Energy or any form of energy cannot be destroyed by weapons, etc. It cannot be burnt by fire. It cannot be made wet by water. It cannot be dried by air. The Vedic statement “Annāt puruṣaḥ” means that the awareness in a Zoological living being was created from the Botanical food. Such process of production is given above. God-space-air-fire-water-soil-plants (Botanical living beings without awareness)-Zoological living beings with awareness is the sequence of the divine creation as per the Veda.

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