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and is indivisible. “Atman According to the both
is just light not body and schools of philosophy the soul
is in various bodies”. is immaterial and is not
(Dara Shikoh, 1975, physical but the Upanishads
V. 1: 222) claim: the soul is immaterial
• The body is created and from the beginnign while the
mortal but the soul is Transcendent Wisdom says:
pure from physical precepts. soul gets immateriality in the
“Atman is not born and journey of perfection gradually.
not mortal, knower of all The Relation of the Soul
things, has no cause and
not is a reason, it is and the Body
eternal, ancient, body Mulla Sadra says:
could be killed but soul At the beginning, the
could not be killed”. soul is just a natural
(Ibid: 221) form of the body and
• The truth of the soul is could not be immaterial;
in the body but it is not if it were immaterial
physical, it is in from the beginning and
changing things but does connected with body,
not change, (Benaris, could not make a
1927: 463) Just physical specific species because
entities are changing incorporation of a material
since they have chance object with immaterial is
and ability to be changed impossible. (Sadr al-
but the entity has not Mute'allihin Shirazi,
this possibility that is 2004, V. 8: 12)
not material.
