I am not really a follower of spirituality, not that I am against it or anything. I have not just gotten into it as much! But the little that I know about it, they say Body is mortal, while soul is not. Does that mean it is any less important than soul?
Well if we are talking about the life beyond this world (that none of us has really seen); may be 'yes', but right here where we all live, on this earth, in this world - that doesn't seem like the case to me! I don't really have a lot to say, because others might have strong opinions about this topic. The point of my post here is not to argue against spirituality or against anyone's beliefs.
I was watching this movie the other day - Just Like Heaven - that made me ponder on this. Deep down somewhere, even I believe that we will all leave our bodies and our soul be part of the eternal power. And at the same time, I also believe in respecting the body that God has given us. We must take good care of it by exercising, giving it what it needs to stay healthy. But I had never looked at it from a different perspective.
What if our soul and body are both alive - but disconnected!!
May be it's not even possible in reality, but the movie portrayed something like this - Elizabeth met with an accident that put her into an indefinite coma. Her soul was no more connected to her body and that's what made the soul so helpless!! The body was there, lying on that hospital bed, still breathing, but totally disconnected to the soul. And there was the soul, healthy, but not able to talk to anyone (well not 100% true, but lets not add any more drama here than there already is :-) ), not able to touch anything, not able to make it visible.....Sounds funny or stupid?? Well it might be, but just think for a sec, what if this was true? Although the soul is our real being - we really need it's visible existence to connect to rest of this world. And while we are alive, its this world that we care about right and not the unseen afterlife world? Our body gives our being a visible existence and that's something we need to be able to live in this world, be able to do things, be able to give this life a meaning....
Hi,
ReplyDeleteJust came across your blog while doing some random surfing. Really liked this particular post and couldnt stop myself from commenting.
I feel the soul cannot be (and should not be) disconnected from the body as long as the body is alive. However, since body is mortal while soul is not, the body's goal should be to act as a ladder for the soul. i.e. all actions performed by the body should be such that they enrich the soul and take it to a higher level. So that when the time for soul to leave the body comes, it (soul) should be good enough to connect with that "eternal power" :)
And Of course a prerequisite for a healthy soul is a healthy body!
Thanks Nayan. And you have put it in a very nice way. I can't agree more :-)
ReplyDeleteNice thoughts on soul-vs-body Neelam! Btw, I came across an interesting article on spiritualiy from a scientific perspective - of course it does not really talk about body-soul interconnect as you have mentioned, but is more on what we can think of the soul as.
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