Does the soul knows ?

In Hinduism, the body that the soul has on earth is temporary. After death, this body decays.. the soul however remains. It does not directly pass on into another body again.

In short summary, the soul stands trial for its karma. Based on it it goes through heaven/hell.. At the end of some time period it is reborn. The birth may not be in the same species.. Say for example, a man may not be reborn as man again.. He may be reborn as a vulture or a cat or a cow.. It depends on his sins and karma. The cycle continues until its final liberation attaining Moksha. This would take numerous different births to achieve.

Most souls do not remember their previous birth. It is said that when one is in the trails in hell, they remember all their past births and karmas. The child within a mother's womb remembers it but the minute it is born, the memory vanishes.

It is however also considered that our sub conscious retains some of these memories.. especially the punishments from hell and this is why sometimes we stop ourselves from doing something fearing a dire consequence. We call it instinct, consciousness.. etc.

For some though, it is possible to see their previous births and their future. the Rishis could do it. Perhaps there are exceptions to even men and women in this accord and they see their previous births? I am not sure.

Originally posted by: Justlikethat1

In Hinduism, the body that the soul has on earth is temporary. After death, this body decays.. the soul however remains. It does not directly pass on into another body again.

In short summary, the soul stands trial for its karma. Based on it it goes through heaven/hell.. At the end of some time period it is reborn. The birth may not be in the same species.. Say for example, a man may not be reborn as man again.. He may be reborn as a vulture or a cat or a cow.. It depends on his sins and karma. The cycle continues until its final liberation attaining Moksha. This would take numerous different births to achieve.

Most souls do not remember their previous birth. It is said that when one is in the trails in hell, they remember all their past births and karmas. The child within a mother's womb remembers it but the minute it is born, the memory vanishes.

It is however also considered that our sub conscious retains some of these memories.. especially the punishments from hell and this is why sometimes we stop ourselves from doing something fearing a dire consequence. We call it instinct, consciousness.. etc.

For some though, it is possible to see their previous births and their future. the Rishis could do it. Perhaps there are exceptions to even men and women in this accord and they see their previous births? I am not sure.

@sumedha I have heard that in Kaliyug chanting the name of " Hari" itself earnestly grants moksha to someone.

First, whether a soul exist? Is so, does it have memory? If it has, will it decode the same in his new shell/body? All these questions can be answered if and only if we believe the bottom line that our inner consciousness can act without the signal from brain.

To know how our current scientific world treat the concept of soul (theory of biocentrism), read the link, if interested.
http://www.sott.net/article/271933-Scientists-claim-that-Quantum-Theory-proves-consciousness-moves-to-another-universe-at-death

@Ramya I know that aspect. I have read something on it when I was reading Dan Brown's " The Lost symbol". It had dealt with the measurement of existence of soul. At that time I had read some aspects on whether any scientific theory exists on this aspect or it is purely writer's imagination.

@Shruthi: Theory of biocentrism is not accepted by the scientific world but the scientist Dr.Lanza works on it. Though, it can't be proved as of now, you can't deny anything in the scientific world.
Search for soul in pubmed and you end up with 100's of scientific publications (not from Indians)

@Ramya have you read " The Lost symbol". In the book actually the scientist proves the existence of soul through an experiment on a dying man. First the man is weighed to some 6th or 7th decimal point. And immediately after death happens he is measured again. And it shows a slight weight difference showing that difference is the weight of the soul that has left the body . I am not sure whether it is possible in the real world.

@Shruthi: No, not read the book. It seems to be Sci fiction.

It is not science fiction. Actually Dan brown's books Da vinci code, Lost Symbol and Inferno are controversial in their own way.