It is vitally important to study the nature and the psychology of soul as only knowledge of its nature and understanding of its needs can resolve all differences in what is called “life”.
The Author
This is a must for any society to have a philosophical concept based on which it forms its life style. The Aryan philosophy is presented in their Bible, the Bhagavad-Gita. It is the earliest scripture which complete presentation here may not be appropriate. In general, the ideology presented there may be described as follows.
One is born in this world and at first sight it does not depend on him/her in which conditions he/she is born. Someone is born dark-skinned and lives in Africa, someone is red-skinned and lives in America, someone is white-skinned and lives in Europe. One is born in a poor family, another is born in a rich family, one is beautiful, another is ugly, one is healthy, another is ill. All living beings are born in different conditions and they do not have an answer on the question: why does this happen? Despite differences in living conditions, all living beings in this world show three common tendencies:
1) The intention to exist eternally and have the perfect body.
2) The intention to be happy (via pleasures and power).
3) The intention to develop the knowledge (or be always able to acquire it).
By contrasting these three intentions to real conditions in which we live (a temporary and completely defective body; the whole chain of sufferings: birth, illness, ageing and death which cannot be escaped by anyone; imperfect senses which are not capable to give the objective information on the surrounding world), the Bhagavad-Gita leads us to search for a certain element which is the source of the above mentioned intentions of any individual.
This brings up the question: if we are only these bodies, then why are we striving for eternity? Be that, our consciousness would indifferently refer to the idea of disappearance like the dead (inanimate) matter. Why do we resist the idea of disappearance? Why did the Mother Nature (of course, if it was its initiative) have to give us temporary bodies and the desire of eternal existence? Where do these contradictions between our desires and capabilities come from?