The Pure Soul

 

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The Pure Soul

In our body, in the centre of the heart, there is a contact point to the soul. According to the Upanishads the soul is omnipresent – it is the ultimate reality which surrounds everything and is prevalent everywhere – but for the individual the contact point is in the centre of the heart. It is from that point that you are plugged into the ultimate reality.

It is just as if you have fixed an electric light bulb to a very small socket, but it has a large flow of electricity behind it. If you affix a five-watt light bulb you will get light of five watts, if you put a 50-watt light bulb, you will get that much brightness and if you affix 200 watts that is what you will get. The flow of electricity is continuous and perennial and you will get light as per the power of the bulb that you have.

All our souls are the same because we are all connected to the same ultimate power source. The contact point to that reality in us is called the soul. Then according to the capacity of our ‘candle or bulb’ we can take light from that source. An ordinary person will probably get 5 watts of light, a meditator may get 10 watts, a more experienced one 50 watts and so on till one reaches the state of nirvana like the Buddha who would have say 5000 watts from the same ultimate power source. We are all plugged into the same ultimate power source.

For the soul to light up luminously, a degree of purity is required within the individual without which such luminosity is not possible. That purity can only come from meditation and total and unconditional surrender – the purity of a child, the innocence of a child. If you are successful in attaining that level of purity then that great source will manifest through you.

Great souls like Swamiji in the present time have attained that level of purity and that is why we see the great source manifest through him – souls of this level are those whom we call Avatars, tirthankaras, buddhas – then it is not appropriate to call them as just human beings: we need to realise that they have transcended the state of ordinary human beings and have merged with the great source.

The soul itself is pure consciousness and hence it retains its pure conscious state but it doesn’t retain the individual consciousness which is part of the mind. Once that state is achieved then the mind falls apart just like a dream when you wake up. The mental consciousness varies constantly. All your thoughts, ideas, emotions, experiences are stored in the mind and not in the Self.

The soul is a mixture of Self and mind – in other words, the soul is a reflection of the Self in the mind, the mental mirror. Once you raise your consciousness to pure consciousness, the mind does not remain, it evaporates. You attain the state of no mind – pure consciousness – that is when along with the mind, this mental dream goes away and the Pure Soul manifests.