Soul means Atma, Atma means Self. The one who has experienced the Soul has relished its beauty. While peace is the nature of the mind, bliss is the nature of the Soul! Bliss means a state of eternal happiness. Param Pujya Dadashri says, "The true meaning of Atma is the Self, one's Real form. Eternal happiness, bliss, is within you. Soul cannot exist without atma whereas atma does not need a soul to exist. Since atma is a miniscule form of mine, it is self illuminating. The miniscule form of mine that exists in your body is called jiva atma. This is so because this gives light only to a particular jiva. My absolute form is called para atma or paramatma. When loosely translated, the soul and the self both refer to atma or atman only. However, the Abrahamic soul and the Hindu atman are not the same as one can see from the following explanation. First, the self in Hinduism may point to an individual self (atman) as well as the supreme self (Brahman). In the body it is the lord of the body and mind. There is no distinction or duality between God and the soul except in our perception. God and the soul are one and the same. There is nothing like a soul separating itself from God and then entering the body as a separate entity. The soul has never been separated from God and would never be. .

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