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Hinduism
According to Hinduism, marriage is defined as two souls which comes together and unite with each other in spirit and that make a perfect marriage. The more strongly they become united, they concentrate less on sex.
The more they are in love with each, they become united with God.
As stated in the holy book of Hindus, Srimad Bhagavat Gita, by Lord Krishna,
Chapter 2, verse 22
vasamsi jirnani yatha vihaya navani grhnati naro’parani
tatha sarirani vihaya jirnany anyani samyati navani dehi
Translation
“As a person gives up old and worn out garments and accepts new apparel, similarly the embodied soul giving up old and worn out bodies verily accepts new bodies.”
So the soul neither be created nor be destroyed. It’s just the two souls united at the marriage and work toward to accomplish the purpose needed by each other.
Buddhism
Contradict to the Hinduism; Buddhist doctrine rejects the idea of an immortal soul. Also, it clearly states that there is no concept of soul.
I just noted this point here as it is one of the biggest religion followed by many, and I don’t want go in depth analysis on this as it’s not relevant to this analysis.
Christianity
In the New Testament, the Greek word for “soul” is transliterated as psuche or psyche.
Psuche denotes one’s inner life or actual personhood. God, who has created the “soul,” can also destroy it.
Jesus said: “Be afraid of the One who can destroy both soul and body in hell” (Matthew 10:28).
Here, Jesus differentiated between the “soul” and the body. “Do not be afraid of those who kill the body but cannot kill the soul,” he said (verse 28). His words indicate that while the body is corrupted at death, the “soul” continues on, though both “soul” and body can end in soul-destroying hell.
So the soul is considered to be there on the earth as well as on the Hell or Heaven. But that considered to a mortal one.
Jainism
Jainism believes in the existence of the soul from human to plants and even the micro organisms like bacteria and viruses.
The basic concept of this religion is based on the existence of the soul. And they classify the soul into two categories.
- Liberated Souls: The souls that attained the Moksha, and which will not be part of lifecycle again.
Moksha (Sanskrit language): emancipation, liberation or release from the birth and death life cycle.
- Non-Liberated Souls – The soul which are struck in the lifecycle based on the karma of the individual soul. There is no start and end of the soul.
According to Jainism , the soul is eternal and just changes the bodies till it attains the moksha. The concept of the soul is similar to the Hinduism.
Judaism
In modern Judaism, the soul is considered to be a thing given to the person upon his first breath.
And it relates the closeness of a person to God, which is based on the quality of the soul with one’s performance of the commandments.
Sikhism
Sikhism considers the soul as an integral part of the God and the God within the soul. Once the soul departs from the body, it becomes lifeless and the soul is believed to be the driver of this body.
Out of many oldest religions in the world, four religions came from India namely, Hinduism and the subset of this religion, Sikhism, Jainism and Buddhism.
Among the four Indian religions only one religion,the Buddhism, contradicts to the soul concept and this is the only religion in the world that doesn’t believe in the existence of the soul. All the other religions except this religion, believe in the existence of the soul and they have their own descriptions and the closeness of the soul to the God.
Thank you for defining the differences between the worlds religions so succinctly in defining the soul. We forget that is actually the heart of the matter. Most helpful.
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Thank you so much for lovely comments. This is one of the part of my research, you can navigate to the other two parts on my soul search. Part I and Part II, there are two more parts to be published soon.
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I think this is about ‘Soul’… The body. Which is Indeed, immortal. And, your research about Soul, and concept about birth and death, in all the human made religions is quite commendable, however, my question is, what about ‘Soul mates’??? Does any of these religions speak about this term. No offense, Just my point of view 😉
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Thanks for your comment. I will try to answer in next posts! 🙂
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I did not know Buddhism rejects the concept of a soul. How interesting. Thank you for your post.
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Thanks. I also wondering. It’s just because the guy who founded the religion was a king, his name Gautama Buddha,a Hindu, and he has modified and rejected those Hindu concepts of soul as one the modifications of the Hinduism into Buddhism.
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I am a Christian but was fascinated to read about the other definitions of the soul. I look forward to more posts and thanks for taking time at “When Women Inspire” the other day 🙂
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it’s my pleasure, you can also share what Christianity say about soul. This is not my an elaborated study.But, still I would be delighted get more insights.
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True said
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Thank you so much
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I enjoyed the knowledge taught. The more we know. The less we fear things unknown. Thank you for sharing your words and thoughts.
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Thank you so much for your comment, it keeps me moving for Part IV. I will post soon 🙂 thanks for the support
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I believe people fear what they do not understand. Must be taught. We are the same and want the same things.
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True!
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I liked the ” Hinduism”, part.
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Thanks a lot. Yes even I like it, it holds good even in the modern era. It’s an interesting fact
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Very interesting. I too, have written about the Egyptians, and the Indian religions. I took a course in college about Religions of the World. Wish I had paid more attention then. Who would have thought I would be living it in Incredible India!
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🙂 thanks for the comment, I think you read the Part II of this research which has details on the egyptian mythology! Are you living here? not frequent visitor? I thought you visit India frequently!
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We visited Egypt years ago and only once. We were in India with other architecture students for 4 months in 2013! I used to teach Egyptian mythology and their beliefs and gods. Kids love it!
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That’s interesting, I like too, the oldest mythology
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Yes! Ra in Egypt and last weekend we went to the Modera Sun Temple in India!
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Oh that’s great 🙂
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i like this information, i’ve been going back and forth to india, personally have been involved in catholic order/benedictine, also have had interest in hinduism, …. and buddhist…. ps i’ve not got any awards either haha….
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hey thanks for stopping by 🙂 personally after doing this research I fall in love with Hinduism, and Egyptian mythology and Christianity 🙂 you can check out other two parts of this research and few more yet to come!
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great i went to egypt a few years back and not sure if you’ve been to india but a great place is a mountain called arunachala…holy mountain of shiva
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Oh yea , you remember the name of mountain 🙂 Himalayas! Thanks for your lovely comments!
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no worry, yes Arunachala means hill of the holy beacon around Christmas they have ‘night of shiva’..it sure was something, i stayed in the ashram called ramana ashram, very famous
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oh I know this ashram, I am from near to the place of this head ashram, where the saint Ramana born!
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oh you are Indian?
Peeling onions
This onion takes forever to peel
My eyes keep crying
And my truth keeps
Moving
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wow so true 🙂 we have been thinking together! nice poem! like you!
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yes i was lucky to stay there for a week
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that’s great. I am an Indian, doesn’t look like?
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haha..can’t see your face..but i’m sure its nice…
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haha 🙂 you will see me soon 🙂 girls say im so cute haha..
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haha…intrigued….
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🙂 face is the index of the mind! 🙂 you know my mind,,,face ..draw it!
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ah…now this is mystical…
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haha,..not really 🙂
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My daughter is interested in Buddhism. Thanks for putting up this post. I need to talk to her. And I am flattered that you like my site!
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You are welcome and you can read other posts on this topic as well. Thanks
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Getting deeper into the meaning of soul in different religion is interesting….
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thank you much for the read
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Wow the way u have extracted from each belief system is commendable👍🏻👍🏻
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thanks a lot friend
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Thank you GB… I appreciate you giving me an award and am lazy in redoing the same..But I acknowledge your award..
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Wow! Loved the way you explained everything thoroughly!!
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thank you
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Thanx for giving information on soulmates alien
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welcome
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Reblogged this on Pencliff.
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