Spiritual Journey - Nature of the Soul

A Human being is the most superior menifestation of a Soul on this planet earth. It is in this manifestation that a Soul gets the required means to start its journey for truth, to cleanse itself from all impurities and finally realizes itself and get connected to the source of all creations in this universe. The power to discriminate (right or wrong, truth or lie, good or evil), to think, to question are the means which have been given to the soul through a human body. No other species on this planet have all these powers and so no other insect, plant or animal can aspire to find the truth or get on to the spiritual path to realize the Soul inside. All other species are just bound to spend their lives in completing their daily chores and eventually die and subsequently enter a new body to menifest the Soul again.

Though we humans are so much superior than other beings still we live in ignorance and never try to explore the spiritual path to find truth which is the actual purpose of existence of human beings on earth. We are not more than any other living species on this earth if we are not using the powers given to us. Yes, we used fraction of these powers in development of science, social structure which helped humans to get continuosuly evolved and get advanced but that did not answer any of the questions related to the ultimate truth. Questions like life after death, creation of the universe, purpose of life can not be answered or found by scientific theories.

The nature of the Soul is such that it always has craving to find its source i.e. to reach the ultimate goal, cleanse itself from all impurities i.e. to attain a stage of perfection. Since human is an intelligent being therefore he is capable to give actions to these two characteristics of a Soul. So, all the activities in our lives are guided by these two objectives. Any person doing any kind of work in this world is being guided by these two very objectives at the core. If we closely observe we always evaluate ourselves in life on these two parameters. We always ask ourselves where we are? where we stand? and we always ask how better we are? how much we have improved?. So these questions lead to comparisons we do in terms of where we have reached and how much good we are at our work. Goals which we set and achieve by doing karma in material world are ephemeral and temporary and so we are always resetting our goals after one is attained. It is because the nature of your soul is to always make efforts to achieve something or to reach somwhere.

By above discussion it should not be interpreted that material world is not required. What we saw is that soul has to perform two things. First it has to cleanse itself from all impurities to become a perfect soul and while doing that it has to explore and find its destination i.e. its has to find the truth, its source. The sould can cleanse itself by performing positive karma as guided by Lord Krishna by means of Bhagvadgita. Since, karma can be performed in a material world by means of this material body so material world is needed to move up on karma index and to cleanse ourselves. Also, one has to perform karma to carry out his duties towards his family, society and nation. The crux of the problem today is that we only set materialistic goals and all our karma are guided by cravings of the senses of our body. We should always perform our karma with a sense of perfection like a true karmayogi without worrying much about the results. Its imperative that if we perform our karma with a sense of perfection, dedication and honesty then results are bound to be amazing attaining the set goals(materialistic goals). We do have materialistic goals in life which are temporary but those should not be our ultimate goals. We should not set goals of our life like to hoard lot of money or to build a house in most posh location or to look most handsome or beautiful or to attain maximum power. Even these life objectives are temporary. Also, achievement of these goals are not going to give you peace, sense of satisfaction because achieving such goals are not going to stop the craving of your soul. It is because these were not the actual goals of your soul. So, our goal of life should always be to find truth, to reach god. To start this search one has to perform activities of spiritual world. One needs to medidate to realize the self, be free from greed, lust, proud, anger, sin and ego, attain purity of thoughts, to remember the creator and worship him. One would say that setting materialistic goals is good for the progress in life. That is correct but one should ask himself that what he would do with loads of money, big house, great power or fragile body in end days. One has to leave everything material here itself even their bodies. Every material you achieve over here is perishable so what are you running after all your life is temporary and so it is a lie.

Only human beings can differentiate between good karma or bad karma, only human beings can perform higherdeeds other than the daily chores what other living species do and it is only human beings who can use their intelligence to find truth or search the secrets of their creation and existence.  All those who have born as humans have covered many manifestation before and now its time for them to take the spiritual path and start their search of truth.