where is the soul?

Answer 1

The spirit soul is situated within the heart of each living entity, some learned persons state that they are the body and they possess an eternal soul, but actually we are the eternal soul that is temporarily covered by a material body.

Instead of being a material person having a spiritual experience, we are eternal spiritual persons having a temporary material experience.

The material nature is temporary, full of ignorance and suffering, the spiritual nature is eternal, full of knowledge and blissful.

That great fountainhead of wisdom, the Bhagavad Gita As It Is has this to say about the soul:-

Chapter 2 Verse 16

Those who are seers of the truth have concluded that of the nonexistent [the material body] there is no endurance and of the eternal [the soul] there is no change. This they have concluded by studying the nature of both.

Purport by HDG A C Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada

There is no endurance of the changing body. That the body is changing every moment by the actions and reactions of the different cells is admitted by modern medical science; and thus growth and old age are taking place in the body. But the spirit soul exists permanently, remaining the same despite all changes of the body and the mind. That is the difference between matter and spirit. By nature, the body is ever changing, and the soul is eternal. This conclusion is established by all classes of seers of the truth, both impersonalist and personalist. In the Viṣṇu Purāṇa (2.12.38) it is stated that Viṣṇu and His abodes all have self-illuminated spiritual existence (jyotīḿṣi viṣṇur bhuvanāni viṣṇuḥ). The words existent and nonexistent refer only to spirit and matter. That is the version of all seers of truth.

This is the beginning of the instruction by the Lord to the living entities who are bewildered by the influence of ignorance. Removal of ignorance involves the reestablishment of the eternal relationship between the worshiper and the worshipable and the consequent understanding of the difference between the part-and-parcel living entities and the Supreme Personality of Godhead. One can understand the nature of the Supreme by thorough study of oneself, the difference between oneself and the Supreme being understood as the relationship between the part and the whole. In the Vedānta-sūtras, as well as in the Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam, the Supreme has been accepted as the origin of all emanations. Such emanations are experienced by superior and inferior natural sequences. The living entities belong to the superior nature, as it will be revealed in the Seventh Chapter. Although there is no difference between the energy and the energetic, the energetic is accepted as the Supreme, and energy or nature is accepted as the subordinate. The living entities, therefore, are always subordinate to the Supreme Lord, as in the case of the master and the servant, or the teacher and the taught. Such clear knowledge is impossible to understand under the spell of ignorance, and to drive away such ignorance the Lord teaches the Bhagavad-gītā for the enlightenment of all living entities for all time.

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Answer 2

The Spirit or Soul (2 words, mean the same thing)
This is described as having no mass, no wave-length,no energy and no time or location in space except by consideration or postulate.
It is not something you HAVE, it is what YOU are.
The spirit is not a "thing". It is the "creator" of things.
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 3

Man has a physical body, a spirit and a soul. The physical body is self explainable, the spirit tells you right from wrong...I'm sure you heard someone say he has an evil spirit about him... but never an evil soul, and the soul is the part that tells you that your alive or the waking moments that your alive might be better...and on the same token you probably heard people say that a poor soul...basically saying the he has a good spirit but his situation is poor or that's a shame. Knowing that your alive has knowing to do with right or wrong. Biblical speaking we do have all 3 enmities. As for the physical body it knows no right or wrong.

Answer 4

one time I was being moved from the operating room to where ever, and I heard this person saying over and over "it hurts it hurts" and the nurses were saying keep him quite and I thought poor guy and noted the sound was coming from closer and closer and then i opened my eyes and heard myself saying it hurts. The pain was not much more than I had experienced at other times but it did not feel good but I directed that body to calm down and be quiet. My belief is that which listened was my soul, and was conscious of the body but the body was not concious of the soul and for a while they were separate for what ever reason

Answer 5

To have knowledge of where a soul is located one must first prove that souls exists.

Without knowing if the soul exists, the question can never be properly answered.

Answer 6

What is a Soul?
Right in the very first book of the Bible, Genesis, we are told that the soul is not something you have, it is something you are. We read of the creation of Adam, the first human being: “The man came to be a living soul.” (Genesis 2:7) The Hebrew word used here for soul, ne'phesh, occurs well over 700 times in the Hebrew Scriptures, never once conveying the idea of a separate, ethereal, spiritual part of man. On the contrary, the soul is tangible, concrete, physical.

Look up the following cited texts in your own copy of the Bible, for the Hebrew word ne'phesh is found in each of them. They clearly show that the soul can face risk, danger, and even be kidnapped (Deuteronomy 24:7; Judges 9:17; 1 Samuel 19:11); touch things (Job 6:7); be locked up in irons (Psalm 105:18); crave to eat, be afflicted by fasting, and faint from hunger and thirst; and suffer from a wasting disease or even insomnia as a result of grief. (Deuteronomy 12:20; Psalm 35:13; 69:10;) In other words, because your soul is you, your very self, your soul can experience anything you can experience.

Does that mean, then, that the soul can actually die? Yes. Far from being immortal, human souls are spoken of in the Hebrew Scriptures as being “cut off,” or executed, for wrongdoing, being struck fatally, murdered, destroyed, and torn to pieces. (Exodus 31:14; Deuteronomy 19:6; 22:26; Psalm 7:2) “The soul that is sinning, it itself will die,” says Ezekiel 18:4. Clearly, death is the common end of human souls, since all of us sin. (Psalm 51:5) The first man, Adam, was told that the penalty for sin was death, not transfer to the spirit realm and immortality. (Genesis 2:17) And when he sinned, the sentence was pronounced: “For dust you are and to dust you will return.” (Genesis 3:19) When Adam and Eve died, they simply became what the Bible often refers to as ‘dead souls’ or ‘deceased souls.’

Answer 7

I believe the soul to be your unconscious thoughts, feelings, and emotions. To me it is the driving force inside of you that tells you good from evil. It is your spirituality and your consciounce. They say it is your soul that travels to the other world when you die. If you look at it that way, then it is your existence and your every thought or emotion. That's what I think it is anyway.

Answer 8

Your soul is in your body. It's what goes to heaven when you die. Scientist's have actually weighed humans at the point they died and detected the slight decrese in weight as the soul departed.

Answer 9

Soul is not located in any particular "place". It is formless, perfect, invisible, and part of the Reality behind the word, "God"; it cannot be harmed in any way, for harm is unreal, and only the real exists.

Answer 10

According to chakric healers it is located at a point about 1 foot above your head and focuses at the crown Chakrah. This is also where the Akashish record is located.