About the Book
Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 64. Chapters: Soul, Chaitanya Mahaprabhu, Karma in Hinduism, Shri Gaudapadacharya Math, Maya Tiwari, George Sudarshan, Fifth Veda, Chinmayananda, Christian Ashram Movement, Achintya Bheda Abheda, Bhaktivinoda Thakur, Rama Tirtha, Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati Thakura, Chattampi Swamikal, Nome, Akhandanand, Brahma Sutras, Bhagavan, Gauri Ma, Baladeva Vidyabhushana, Pravrajika Vrajaprana, Jnana, Paramatman, Kalpataru Day, Umar Alisha, Santhananda, Ksirodakasayi Vishnu, Swami Jyotirmayananda, Canchupati Venkatrao Venkaswami Rao, A.R. Natarajan, Mahavishnu, Eli Marozzi, List of teachers of Vedanta, Sister Gargi, Anandamaya kosha, Tapovan Maharaj, Self Knowledge, Garbhodaksayi Vishnu, Bhedabheda, Swami Prakashananda, Samanya Vedanta Upanishads, Prasthanatrayi, nanda Bha a. Excerpt: A soul, in certain spiritual, philosophical, and psychological traditions, is the incorporeal essence of a person or living thing or object. Many philosophical and spiritual systems teach that humans have souls; some attribute souls to all living things and even to inanimate objects (such as rivers); this belief is commonly called animism. Soul sometimes functions as a synonym for spirit, mind or self. The Modern English word soul derived from Old English sawol, sawel, first attested to in the 8th century poem Beowulf v. 2820 and in the Vespasian Psalter 77.50, and is a cognate to other Germanic and Baltic terms for the same idea, including Gothic saiwala, Old High German seula, sela, Old Saxon seola, Old Low Franconian sela, sila, Old Norse sala as well as Lithuanian siela. Further etymology of the Germanic word is uncertain. A more recent suggestion connects it with a root for "binding," Germanic *sailian (OE s lian, OHG seilen), related to the notion of being "bound" in death, and the practice of ritually binding or restraining the corpse of the deceased i...
