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How Does the Soul Interact with the Body?

vpribish@sparc3.aero.nd.edu (vincent pribish) wrote:
 
>If the soul which would then be non-physical and possibly infinite
>uses the physical brain as an I/O port then it must violate the
>law of conservation of energy.
>scenario:
>   the soul decides something "hmmm i want to move my hand.".
>   somewhere in the brain a slew of neurons fire and the hand
>   moves.
 
>SOMETHING PHYSICAL has to trigger these neurons! the only thing
>to do this is another physical thing...another neuron.  The non
>physical soul can't cause the _creation_ of a jolt of electricity
>from nothing.
 


The interface between the soul and the body is the many circles of air that flow
within the body. These airs are controlled by the soul. That is the connection.
 
The soul [the person] is seated in the heart along with the supreme soul [God].
They are described to be like two birds sitting on a branch in a tree. One bird is
trying to enjoy the fruit of the tree and the other [God] is observing him, giving
him knowledge, enabling him to remember and also helping him to forget
sometimes...
 
The soul is something like a driver is seated in a motorcar. He is steering, he is
putting his foot on the breaks... The soul is in the same position within the
"veichle" of the body...
 
 
                          isvarah sarva-bhutanam
                          hrd-dese 'rjuna tisthati
                         bhramayan sarva-bhutani
                            yantrarudhani mayaya
 
"The Supreme Lord is situated in everyone's heart, O Arjuna, and is
directing the wanderings of all living entities, who are seated as on a
machine, made of the material energy."
 
So actually we can't do anything without the sanction of God... Man proposes and
God disposes...
 
>maybe the soul somehow influences quantum effects so to start
>the chain reaction off....but i have no idea where to go with
>this idea.
 
Read the Vedic scriptures, the Bhagavad-gita and the Srimad Bhagavatam. That will
give you plenty of ideas.
 
 
Thank you. Hare Krishna!
 
Madhudvisa dasa       
(madhudvisa@krishna.org)     /sudarsana
 
All glories to His Divine Grace A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada!
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