what is the soul ?
There are two kinds of people in the world. They are: one is materialistic or atheists and the other is spiritualist. Before writing anything about the soul here, it is necessary to know the views of materialists (atheists). This is what the materialist can do in this life after being born. It is wrong to say that the fruit of one’s good or bad deeds will be found in the next life. Spiritual people believe that the soul is compelled to get the prize and punishment of their deeds for their reincarnation. They are bound by the divine, birth, rebirth and karma.
“It’s over when people die. No dead person is born again, no one has seen it, nor have I been like this in the first birth, and it has been confirmed that I was born here in this birth.” If anybody said these sentences to a spiritual person, nobody believed it. But a materialistic person would believe it. Charvaka is a philosophy of materialists who rejected the notion of an afterworld, karma, liberation(moksha), the authority of the sacred scriptures, the Vedas and the immortality of the self. They are not believed to soul, rebirth and karma. This Sanskrit verse is supported by them.
न स्वर्गो नाक्पवार्गश्च आत्मा नो पारलौकिकः ।
यावज्जीवं सुखं जीवेद् ऋणं कृत्वा घृतं पिवेत् ।।
The meaning of the above verse is as follows: “There is no heaven, there is no salvation, there is no existence of the soul going to the afterlife. So people should enjoy happiness as long as they live. Happiness must be lived. Even if you take a loan, you have to eat ghee, ”he said. Earlier atheists used to talk about eating ghee by borrowing at least and ghee used to benefit them physically. But modern atheists say, “Eat, drink, and have fun.” They do not hesitate to do whatever it takes to get rich. He has no concern for sin.
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-Prasad/ Pundary Aryal
