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The Human Soul… Z. Haider and H.R Rezania / (17
physical function of the soul “Atman that is in
body. It is the characteristic your body protects the
of the soul. (Sadr al- body, when Atman gets
Mute'allihin Shirazi, 2004, released from the body,
V. 8: 39) the body will be dispersed
but the soul is not
The Upanishads; don’t give harmed’’. (Dara Shikoh,
arguments to prove the soul 1975, V. 1: 235)
independently and should not • The Atman is the mover
have expected, since the of the body. Without the
Upanishadic philosophy is the soul bodies don’t have
beginning of the Indian any movement because
philosophy, in fact, the Indian bodies qua bodies can not
jogees give brief sentences move. If it were possible,
about explaining their spiritual the stones and mountains
experiences and we make would move, so it is
arguments by these sentences impossible but we see
to prove the soul. some bodies move and
• Atman protects the body their movement is the
from scattering. The impact of the soul,
body without soul disintegrates “bodies are not able to
as it disintegrates after move and mover of the
the death; but we see bodies is the soul”.
that body does not (Ibid: 236)
disintegrate before death • Atman is the source of
and the cause that knowledge; bodies can
protects the body, should not know and understand
be immaterial that is the
anything. The bodies are