Re: Are our souls eternal like that of Brahman or created by Brahman?
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" Are our souls eternal like that of Brahman or created by Brahman? "
To understand it we have to understand the basics of Brahman and Soul. Apparently it is a comparison between apple and orange.
Like say we have ocean. The basic characteristic of ocean is the water and this is permanent and unchangeable. Now there are waves which provides forms and shapes to the same water. Can we compare water with waves ? No. Neither water is wave or wave is water. Wave is a transient phenomenon.
It provides an apparent discreteness to the same water and we can distinguish the waves.
This water is analogy of Brahman and the wave the analogy of soul and maya. The same Purusha looks like Prakriti in forms, shapes, colors and discreteness which is where the maya part is born. This discreteness is also the birth of "I" or ego.
Just like each wave will be having its own uniqueness however minor it is, similarly all the discrete souls which spans into all 14 lokas.
Just like a wave is born out of the water due to certain residual forces and when that forces are removed the waves die, similarly the souls. All the apparent discreteness which are created due to residual forces (desires, ego, etc), will also die though the time span is almost infinite when one reaches satyaloka. In Satyaloka, the "I" part is taken out and thus the discreteness.
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