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The Human Soul… Z. Haider and H.R Rezania / (15
The Kina Upanishad says: doesn’t have any movement
Atman moves the body, and thoughts, plants are able to
heart, senses and all grow and rise not to move.
parts of the body.
(Benaris, 1927: 246) The Proofs of the Human Soul
The Transcendent Wisdom
Some Jogees asked about proves the soul by authentic
the soul from their Guroo: reasons like:
What is the Atma? He said: 1. The soul is the cause of
Atma sees, hears, smells, feels different impacts of the
different tastes and has various body; we see around us
names: it is the power of different kinds of beings
feeling, verifying, determining that have various impacts.
the truth and false, willing So; what is the cause of
power, source of the life, different impacts of
affirming and desiring power. various bodies? We can
(Dara Shikoh, 1975, V. 1: 311) see two factors in natural
According to the Transcendent bodies: The matter of
Wisdom; the soul is perfection things, and the physical
of a natural body. This definition forms of them. Could
contains three kinds of the soul: you think that the cause
vegetal soul, animal soul, and of different impacts is
human soul; but the statement matter of natural things?
of the Upanishads about soul Or could you conclude
“the cause of thinking and that the cause of different
moving”, this statement is not a impacts are the forms of
complete definition of absolute bodies? It is impossible
soul because vegetal soul that the matter or forms
