[quote="astrosoul"]for that matter, everything is an Illusion - Maya.
Paramatman is all that there Is, our bodies, minds and everything else are just tiny -- whatever_s. Under influence of Maya we refer to each other as your mind my mind - your body my body - your soul my soul - when The Creation is Essentially ONE.
Proof of anything lies only in it's Realization - no-one can explain to the other what an apple tastes like - despite giving the best of explainations and logic - or even prove that there is any taste to it. Whatever we would say re. the taste of the apple would just be 'another explaination' - not 'the experience of the taste' that we would be ever able to give the other. At best it may incite the other to take a bite.

[quote="rohiniranjan"]

I do not believe there is any evidence of the mind and body 'housing' the soul, AS. In fact there is no evidence that the 'mind' exists within the body either! The two are connected but not in the same space. It is like the song coming out of your radio is emanating from a distant reality (radio station). The song (mind) does not live in the radio (body).

The concept of soul is even more ambiguous and though treated as a 'separate' entity in classic literature attributed to presumably Higher Minds from past may just be a way of explaining simply a rather complex phenomenon.

When we use these astrological correlates such as sun for soul (or whatever) it is best to do so with the realization that there is no way of proving or testing the correlation. Not everything about the mind is encapsulated in the moon and not everything about the body is captured by studying lagna.

As was mentioned by some members earlier, there is a lot of experimental and novel thinking going into jyotish and newer models being created or older models being revealed etc. The very necessity for so many models and nuances tell me that it is best not to oversimplify and put too much attributional responsibility on one or even three astrological indicators.[/quote][/quote]

Okay! If that works for you B-))

[quote="astrosoul"]for that matter, everything is an Illusion - Maya.
Paramatman is all that there Is, our bodies, minds and everything else are just tiny -- whatever_s. Under influence of Maya we refer to each other as your mind my mind - your body my body - your soul my soul - when The Creation is Essentially ONE.
Proof of anything lies only in it's Realization - no-one can explain to the other what an apple tastes like - despite giving the best of explainations and logic - or even prove that there is any taste to it. Whatever we would say re. the taste of the apple would just be 'another explaination' - not 'the experience of the taste' that we would be ever able to give the other. At best it may incite the other to take a bite.

[quote="rohiniranjan"]

I do not believe there is any evidence of the mind and body 'housing' the soul, AS. In fact there is no evidence that the 'mind' exists within the body either! The two are connected but not in the same space. It is like the song coming out of your radio is emanating from a distant reality (radio station). The song (mind) does not live in the radio (body).

The concept of soul is even more ambiguous and though treated as a 'separate' entity in classic literature attributed to presumably Higher Minds from past may just be a way of explaining simply a rather complex phenomenon.

When we use these astrological correlates such as sun for soul (or whatever) it is best to do so with the realization that there is no way of proving or testing the correlation. Not everything about the mind is encapsulated in the moon and not everything about the body is captured by studying lagna.

As was mentioned by some members earlier, there is a lot of experimental and novel thinking going into jyotish and newer models being created or older models being revealed etc. The very necessity for so many models and nuances tell me that it is best not to oversimplify and put too much attributional responsibility on one or even three astrological indicators.[/quote][/quote]

Okay! If that works for you B-))

so long   :-I