2007-03-19 04:15:00 · 13 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Let us know what Bhagavad gita speaks about Atma.
Bhagavad-gita-2.12 & 13
Never was there a time when I did not exist, nor you, nor all these kings; nor in the future shall any of us cease to be. As the embodied soul continuously passes, in this body, from boyhood to youth to old age, the soul similarly passes into another body at death. A sober person is not bewildered by such a change.
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. That which pervades the entire body you should know to be indestructible. No one is able to destroy that imperishable soul. Bhagavad-gita-2.16 & 17
An excerpt from the purport by Purport by A.C.Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada, Founder-Acharya of ISKCON,
(International Society for Krishna Consciousness).
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 Vishnu Purana (2.12.38) it is stated that Vishnu and His abodes all have self-illuminated spiritual existence (jyotimsii vishnur bhuvanani vishnuh). The words existent and nonexistent refer only to spirit and matter. That is the version of all seers of truth.
Lord Krishna gives further information in chapter two, verses 22 to 25,
As a person puts on new garments, giving up old ones, the soul similarly accepts new material bodies, giving up the old and useless ones. The soul can never be cut to pieces by any weapon, nor burned by fire, nor moistened by water, nor withered by the wind. This individual soul is unbreakable and insoluble, and can be neither burned nor dried. He is everlasting, present everywhere, unchangeable, immovable and eternally the same. It is said that the soul is invisible, inconceivable and immutable. Knowing this, you should not grieve for the body.
2007-03-20 03:47:13 · answer #1 · answered by Gaura 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It is not understood what is your query.
Individual Atma exists in each person . It is a part of the whole. Like an atom , this Atman is indivisible . This Atman , through its development , can try and test all the religions of the world . Atman is not religion , it is far above that . Rather we can say , all religion is in Atman , like knowledge .
Atma creates religion or knowledge , it is not the other way round.
Knowledge and religion are absorbed in each individual Atma , which dissolves in the Whole Atma (God) and makes this richer and richer.
So your answer is Religion and Knowledge is divided into finer realisations and segmented into the realms of Atma.
2007-03-22 23:10:30 · answer #2 · answered by ssen1232006 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
ATMA or SELF is one only. It doesn't get divided into segments etc. The illusory bodies seem to divide the Atma. The Atma pervades all the bodies in the cosmos and extend even beyond. No body has so far seen its boundaries nor anybody can imagine it. Human intelligence extends only upto a limit. Beyond that human can only guess. When Atma itself is SATH, CHITH AND ANANDA(Omnipresent, knowledge and Bliss) and everything emanated only from Atma how our limited intelligence can gauge the Supreme which is beyond all illusions whereas we are constantly steeped in illusion. It is as futile as the attempt of an ant to measure the Ocean. All religious knowledge are a gift of the Atma to mankind. nagarajan.
2007-03-20 00:28:17 · answer #3 · answered by nagarajan s 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Atma or spirits who roam in the world and don't go to heaven or hell are as foolish as we are. Only after they reach heaven they understand the truth. This is because Maya (the goddess of illusion) rules the planet earth. So every body living or dead lives in illusion.
2007-03-22 06:28:18 · answer #4 · answered by dragon77 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I don't understand what you are trying to ask.
The Atma is the Self.
~ Eric Putkonen
2007-03-19 04:30:05 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Religion today has become a commercialised commodity to promote trade, commerce, boundaries, politics and power
A dead person does not feel any of the above... So I am sure the soul is not divided into any religion
2007-03-19 06:42:39 · answer #6 · answered by Hungry soul 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
no, the atma is unified. it is beyond religion. it has nothing to do with religion. one birth u might b a muslim another u might b a hindu. but the atma's changeless
2007-03-19 14:33:53 · answer #7 · answered by hari s 2 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Yes. Divided in Believers and Misbelievers. The Monotheists and the Polytheists.
2007-03-19 04:36:54 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
No. faith will consistently be extra of a divisive stress than a unifying stress on a international point. it could unify various communities, yet those communities will consistently be at odds with one yet another. faith is between the main detrimental forces in the international immediately.
2016-10-02 09:26:22 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
No. All spirits do not die and are judged by GOD whether to heaven or hell.
2007-03-19 04:26:19 · answer #10 · answered by Tribble Macher 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋