where is soul situated in humans body.?

Answer 1

Hold on this will take a second...

I don't know where the other people got their information, but there is certainly nothing in the bible (or any other book for that matter) that definitively says where the seat of the soul might be.

God knows that there have been enough guessing. Some people have said that your whole body is infused with your soul. Then if I have a kidney donated, or I loose a leg, am I less of a person? Obviously, this explanation does not quite satisfy.

What about a particular organ - lung or pituitary, let's say? Well, I am not sure if that makes sense either. What if my life was in danger, and I received donated lung or some other organ? (According to something I read recently, we can now transplant everything but the brain.) Well then what, am I part me and part someone else?

In chinese medicine the heart houses the chi, the life energy of you. However, I am not sure if you stretch to say that chi and soul are synonymous.

What are we left with then? I think the best explanation is the Platonic explanation (although even that breaks down after a while). Plato thought of the soul as the animating force of living beings- whether people or animals.

So we are left with a two diametrically oppposed ideas. First the soul must infuse every part of the body in order for it to be alive. however second, there must be a part that is us, apart from our body, no matter what happens to the body.

I think we are ultimately left with a mystery that only God can solve for us.

God Bless,
Vic

Answer 2

The philosopher Rene Descartes claimed the 'mind' lived in the piuitary gland, which is located in the brain. This is from the fourth chapter of his reading 'Meditations', where he goes on quite a lot about the cogito - cogito ergo sum - I think therefore I am - and a demon called the evil deceiver. His arguments are flawed though, as he relies a little too much on speculation and not on science. His theory is basically that if the mind and the body are separate, then we cannot be sure the body exists at all. We can't even be sure our mind tells us the truth. We do not see, we merely perceive. So he goes on a journey dispelling what we can and cannot know for certain. Descartes comes to the conclusion that if we can think, then there must be something doing the thinking - hence proving we exist (cogito ergo sum).

At least thats what I can remember from A Level philosophy, and that was four years ago...

Answer 3

The usual residence of the soul, (spirit, awareness of awareness unit....YOU) is in the skull or near the body.
The soul can be in one of four conditions.
1. Entirely separate from a body or bodies.
2. Near a body and knowingly controlling the body.
3. In the body (the skull).
4. An inverted condition, compulsively away from the body and unable to approach it.

There are degrees of each of the above 4 conditions.
The most optimum of these from the standpoint of man, is the second.

Answer 4

Bhagwat Gita 15.15: I (soul) am seated in everyone's heart, and from Me come remembrance, knowledge, and forgetfulness. By all the Vedas, I am to known. Indeed, I am the compiler of Vedanta, and I am the knower of the Vedas."

Bhaktivedanta VedaBase: Śrī Caitanya Caritāmṛta Madhya 19.140

keśāgra-śata-bhāgasya
śatāḿśa-sadṛśātmakah
jivaḥ sūkṣma-svarūpo 'yaḿ
sańkhyātīto hi cit-kaṇaḥ

SYNONYMS

keśa-agra — of the tip of a hair; śata-bhāgasya — of one hundredth; śata-aḿśa — a hundredth part; sadṛśa — equal to; ātmakahÌ£ — whose nature; jÄ«vahÌ£ — the living entity; sÅ«ksÌ£ma — very fine; svarÅ«pahÌ£ — identification; ayam — this; sańkhya-atÄ«tahÌ£ — numbering beyond calculation; hi — certainly; cit-kanÌ£ahÌ£ — spiritual particle.




"'If we divide the tip of a hair into a hundred parts and then take one of these parts and divide it again into a hundred parts, that very fine division is the size of but one of the numberless living entities. They are all cit-kaṇa, particles of spirit, not matter.'

PURPORT

This is quoted from the commentary on the portion of Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam wherein the Vedas personified offer their obeisances unto the Supreme Personality of Godhead. Lord Kṛṣṇa confirms this statement in the Bhagavad-gītā (15.7): mamaivāḿśo jīva-loke jīva-bhūtaḥ sanātanaḥ. "The living entities in this conditioned world are My eternal fragmental parts."

Lord Śrī Kṛṣṇa personally identifies Himself with the minute living entities. Lord Kṛṣṇa is the supreme spirit, the Supersoul, and the living entities are His very minute parts and parcels. Of course, we cannot divide the tip of a hair into such fine particles, but spiritually such small particles can exist. Spiritual strength is so powerful that a mere atomic portion of spirit can be the biggest brain in the material world. The same spiritual spark is within an ant and within the body of Brahmā. According to his karma, material activities, the spiritual spark attains a certain type of body. Material activities are carried out in goodness, passion and ignorance or a combination of these. According to the mixture of the modes of material nature, the living entity is awarded a particular type of body. This is the conclusion.

Answer 5

It is Invisible, it is a Spiritual Machine (Super-Computer)
it House's your MIND (second) WILL and EMOTION's.
Kinda like the old Sci-Fi Movie's, where the Astronaught wear's the Glass Fish Bowl over his head to go into Outer Space. The Fish Bowl represent's your Soul. It hover's around your BRAIN and they work together to do thing's for you.
King David talked to his Soul alot, and told it what to do.
Hope this helps.

Answer 6

It isn't situated anywhere. According to the book of Genesis, when God created Adam, Adam "became" a soul. He wasn't given one. So YOU are a soul, you don't HAVE a soul.

Answer 7

Good question. All over. I would say the whole body is a soul. B-cuz we are so full of energy that it makes sense.

Answer 8

Your thinking is too 3-dimensional. To answer this I believe that you'd need to think beyond 3-D. I suggest reading the book: Flatland by Edwin Abott.

Answer 9

a human consists of 3 areas.....
1. body-- our flesh and bones
2..soul---our mind and will and emotions make up our soul
3. spirit-

Answer 10

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