Body,Mind and Soul

When we say "I am", we are referring to our physical existence in our biological form or body.

In reality, our existence is not just the aliveness of the physical body. In a deeper state of meditation, we can realize and feel that "I am" means not just the alive physical body, but something within the body.

In our daily lives, we have seen that when a person dies, the physical body remains, but something slips out of the body which senses its aliveness and says "I am" when the person is alive. We are something more than just a body because our mind thinks about it.

Science says that our mind is the storehouse of the senses we receive from our sense organs in our day-to-day lives. It records, analyzes, calculates, and gives us logic based on experience, and it thinks in terms of the past only. It cannot be analyzed in terms of the future because it has no records of the future. Therefore, our mind must be dependent upon the body and senses. The outer world and environment influence and shape our minds.

As our meditation becomes deeper, our thoughts slowly disappear, and the mind also vanishes. In that silence, we exist as a soul.