Without believing or being aware of the soul, all give importance to it!:-
An object is seen in the same way by all. For example, all- irrespective of cast, creed, religion, age, sex, etc, consider a car as car. What about human beings!? One calls a person as father. Another calls the same person as husband, son, friend, colleague and so on. If man is just like a machine or object, how could these relations built up?
In some cases, one changes his religion; say a Hindu gets converted into a Muslim. Then his friends may become his enemies. If man is nothing but a combination of flesh, bones and blood, how could these be possible? Hence it is clear that there is an entity inside the body that uses, or controls the body. This has high influence on (the self as well as) others and society. So the major influence is not the physical power or matter that is contained in the human body(flesh and bones), but is the thinking characteristic, intellectual ability and behavior which comes out of that body. This intelligence, character is not present in non-living objects. It is subtle(not corporeal). It is in the soul and that is the real āIā.
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