Since practically no one understood my question, let me ask in a different way-?

Question

Acording to the ancient Vedic wisdom, animals and all living entities have an eternal soul. Why are humans able to realize their eternal ralationship with God and animals or other species of life are not able to do that? Also what happens to the soul of an animal when it dies? (Remember the soul is eternal)

Because Rosemary it is explained by God in the Vedas that animals don't pray or have the intelligence to know God. That is how I know. I didn't make this up out of my own mentle speculation.

Animalgirl avatar-Who said anything about punishment to animals. Whey do people think so extreme.

Psychic Cat. the Vedas have proven all Truths if you don't accept that is your misfortune. I would rather ask in Phelosophy than Religion because These truths are not religion they are science and Facts. BLa Bla bla.

actyally the reason whey many people don't get my questions is because hardly a soul knows the science of the soul and the purpose of human life. Thats ok. That is why I ask so maybe someone will see the correct anser when it comes and get enlightened. Peace to all.

Answer 1

I believe its supposed to be because only humans are endowed with intelligence or logic or some such thing.
For instance a lion will kill to eat and not think twice about it, but a human has the ability to think about the consequences of such actions and rise above their natural instincts.

The soul of an animal would be reincarnated into another form of life, perhaps human, perhaps animal.

Answer 2

I don't know what your previous question was, so I can't comment.
First I'd like to say, respectfully, (as I may have before), that most of you recent questions are not appropriately posted in philosophy. You might get more satisfactory answers in religion & spirituality.
When you begin with "Vedic wisdom," you've crossed the boundaries of philosophy. You ask for a SUBJECTIVE PREMISE to be answered.
What is soul? Does it exist? If so, do only humans have it? If not, why would an animal's soul have a different destination?
We must accept that a soul exists before we can state that it is eternal, correct? Do all humans have an eternal relationship with God? Could you know absolutely if animals did or not?
I'm not debating the validity of one religion or another, or non-religion. This isn't the place for such a debate.
I'm only posing these questions so, hopefully, you can see that there is no way you can be answered with logical reasoning.
You comment on rosemary, & say that you "know" because it's explained by God in the Vedas that animals don't have the intelligence to know God. Whose God?
You also totally misunderstood Animal Girl. She only said she believed an animal's soul goes to heaven, (as they cannot sin), thus, GOD doesn't punish them. You think her opinion is extreme?
THINK. I'm trying to help you.

Answer 3

Thats is the difference between Human beings and Animals. Human beings have IQ, EQ and SQ but animals have only IQ and EQ. The spiritual quotient makes all the difference.

According to Vedas, the souls will be punished by putting on various forms, in which Human form is in the highest level where it can shed all it's karmas and unite with the god. Unfortunately many human beings don't understand that and behave like animals. In that case they will be again sent back to animal form, they have to complete the cycle of being in various animal forms to return back to human form.

Thats why Vedas emphasize that human form is the most sacred one where we have a chance to get mukthi from this material world and reunite with super souls that is Sri Krishna Paramathma.

Human form is the only gateway to get mukthi, provided we use it properly.

Answer 4

Well- most of all our ( and I mean us humans) presumptions about our existence- and relationship with "God" are assumptions throughout the milennia.

The ancients beliefs are nowhere even close to what current organized religion theorizes, and that is normal. (difference in books, difference in teachings) The ancients attribute the courtesy in assigning a "soul" to everything that exists. Most aboriginals or pockets of humanity never yet brainwashed by religion believe in the same thing.

There is a sacred balance. We are connected to nature, the trees, the wind, the animals, heck even the rocks.

Your question applies the teachings of one to the teachings of another, so there is no answer. Difference in dogma. You may say that the problem with organized religion is the careful insertions of the church into our connection with God . One cannot achieve this connection without them(Clergy) brokering this step. Examples: you have to come to church regularly, you have to get the human part of permission, forgiveness, ceremonial duties, from birth to death and a lot of support of money in between.

Your answers can therefore be found in your heart, in your own conclusions of your earthly trip. What do you believe?

I will let you on one of my favorite assumptions combined from various animist theories and several ancient beliefs.

During the times we as a species were living on the verge of extinction from the last extinction floods, we have stayed together as packs to survive, every living thing. We learned to let the others grow, and survive so in turn we all survived. We have learned very fast to to destroy everything meant a sure death.

Our souls stay within that pack, meaning that if no babies were about to be born, we would be reborn as a baby animal within the pack. So, to cut the story short, when your beloved animal dies, its soul will stay around you until it has found a new life to get reborn into (if it chooses), because it was the recycled soul of your human relative who has passed on anyway, etc.

Answer 5

I believe animals have a subtle relationship with God. Sure they may not read holy books but they don't cause war, pain, or damage to the earth. Through this, they are respecting God. I believe that when an animal dies their soul goes off to heaven as they cannot sin so why would God punish a innocent creature?

Answer 6

As a Muslim we believe (and I am taking this from a book as I don't think I can explain it as well off the top of my head): Before God made people He offered the gift of self-awareness and free will to every living and nonliving thing in the universe. The mountains, the animals, the angels, the planets, the stars, any of these could have accepted and become beings with a power unlike anything in the virtually programmed universe. Anyone or anything that accepted those gifts, called "the trust" in the Qur'an, would transcend nature and be able to conceive of itself and make decisions using an intellect and the power of reason.

Of course with such a gift would come a large measure of responsibility for one's actions. There is no wrong if a squirrel steals a nut from another squirrel; it's just what squirrels do. But when you can CHOOSE whether or not to do wrong, then you ascend to a whole new level. Now you have RIGHT and WRONG, GOOD and EVIL. The Qur'an declares that every object in the universe declined this "gift" out of fear of the consequences.

Then God finally made the offer to us. Humans weren't around in physical bodies on Earth. Instead we existed only as a murky prototype and we were with Allah in a sort of primordial soup of spirit matter. Think of all our souls packed in one large ball, none being individual or unique. It is from this mass of spirit material that each individual human would later get it's spirit or soul.

Allah offered the gift of self-awareness to that spirit-collective, and it accepted the challenge. Humans, when they appeared as physical creatures on Earth, would have free will, self-awareness, intelligence, reason, and a moral compass called a fitrah, or natural inclination, to help guide them through life.

If you study the layers of the brain you will see we have an extra layer than animals and this layer deals with morals and seeing right from wrong. It's very interesting. Animals go to Paradise right away when they die. There is no judgement on animals. :D

edit: We also believe that all creation prays (as in worships, not supplicates or asks for things) to God. Everything worships Him in their own way by doing what they do naturally and they are in complete submission to God all the time.

Answer 7

Soul reveals when body-Mind awareness I dissolved. Mad people too are similar but soulful person is not Mad. Soulful person has Feeling and care for Body and Mind but has control over it . If you are able to master your body and mind then Soul will reveal itself . I remember a quote ‘Satiated ones are Silently Snoring and Hungry keeps Hovering Around’

This may sound vulgar but it has context here. Soulful persons knowing soul keeps silent (satiated ones are silent) and persons trying to know soul are making efforts through mind intellect, reaching out to guru, and guides ,(hungry keeps hovering around) in the process these too will get Satiated but only after they have become Worthy.

Answer 8

Because humans have self awareness and animals do not. Humans are able to see them-self as separate from creation because of the ability of the abstract mind. Animals do not tap into the abstract mind, they have simple consciousness as compared to human consciousness. Humans have "individualized' souls while animals are part of "group souls"........For example your soul is like a drop of water that has been removed from the sea, but an animals soul has never been removed, it remains in the sea.

Answer 9

Seest thou not that it is God Whose praises, all who are in the heavens and the earth celebrate, and so do the birds with their wings outspread? Each one knows his own mode of prayer and praise. And God knows well what they do.

There is not an animal that crawls in the earth, nor a bird that flies on its two wings, but they are communities like you. We have left out nothing in the Book. Then to their Lord shall they all be gathered together.

Answer 10

humans are in an exalted state over animals as reward for past actions (or non-action really). Animals are souls that have not done so well so they lack the ability of self-awareness.

As for "relationship to god" gods are also on the same journey, in fact, humans are in a better position than gods to attain samsara. That statement sounds like a xian context to me.
the order is something like:
human
gods
animals
insects
hungry ghosts
with far more detail at each step of course
EDIT: poor widow, this is not a xian context, please read the question carefully.

omg, could one more person please not read the question and answer in a completely different context?