What is a soul really?

Hi everyone,

So there's talk of soul family and soulmates but what is a soul exactly? Obviously in the 5 years that I have been delving into spirituality I have heard of past lives and souls splitting and soul evolution but I'm still having a hard time understanding what it is. What's a soul really?

Thanks for your help 🙂

[FairyCrystal]

I've posted it before on here, maybe it helps you.
It's the clearest explanation I've found.

http://www.wisdomsdoor.com/rc4/hrc4-07.php

Originally Posted by FairyCrystal

It's the clearest explanation I've found.
http://www.wisdomsdoor.com/rc4/hrc4-07.php

Interesting! Thank you very much

[CosmicWonder]

I see my body as my soul, in a way. I don’t belief in some external piece of me. It’s all within. Just my opinion.

Much kindness,

CW

[lostsoul13]

Legend I was first born I went into my soul spirit- it was kinda transparent energy vibrating: I felt connect to the vastness and held matters of enlightenment far greater than materialistic I’m quite materialistic so it was a awakening- I didn’t fear reincarnation, or pain they were body constraints—- I was free: until the real body showed up which is deep in the rabbit hole and matrix! I felt plugged in to the matrix from my birth into existence- and knew this would be the pain world it was inevitable…

But it wasn’t as i was standing in my soul I had beaten the ‘matrix we live in’

[iamthat]

For me the simplest way to understand the Soul is Consciousness.

The Consciousness which gazes out of our eyes, the Silent Observer which watches our thoughts and emotions and actions, the Consciousness which will eventually discard the physical body and move on to other realms of activity.

If we struggle to connect with the Soul, it is not because it is so far away but because it is so close that we are unaware of it. It is what we are.

Peace

[Still_Waters]

quotE 6 EXCERPT:

Originally Posted by iamthat

For me the simplest way to understand the Soul is Consciousness.

The Sufi Mystic Hazrat Inayat Khan, under whose son I practiced for years, said pretty much the same thing and I use his definition for the "soul".

He simply said that "the soul is energy loaded with consciousness".

Originally Posted by iamthat

For me the simplest way to understand the Soul is Consciousness.

One thing to keep in mind is it's not the consciousness we perceive as being local. It's the illumination of that perception of local consciousness.

I'm not a big fan of Sadhguru but he said something that helped me and that is to open a small space between mind and Consciousness, and I was able to relate that to the experience of deep and effortless meditation.

[Miss Hepburn]

Originally Posted by JustASimpleGuy

...open a small space between mind and Consciousness...

Whoa, what? LOL

Originally Posted by Miss Hepburn

Whoa, what? LOL

It's probably the ultimate viveka. Discernment between I Am and That which illumines the knowing of I Am. Between pure consciousness and consciousness reflected in mind.