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Growing cuttings from established plants & nature of soul

Posted by Krishna Mukherji on August 30, 2013 at 4:29pm in Soul

When the branches of a banyan, a pipal, or other trees are cut and planted elsewhere, exactly the same type of trees grows there as well. Has that one soul been dissected into two, or has another soul entered the new tree? If you say it is the same soul, then how has a soul been divided? A soul is said to be whole and indivisible. Please answer the question.

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  • Speaking Soul August 31, 2013 at 7:12pm

    BG 13.15: The Supersoul is the original source of all senses, yet He is without senses. He is unattached, although He is the maintainer of all living beings. He transcends the modes of nature, and at the same time He is the master of all the modes of material nature.

    BG 13.16: The Supreme Truth exists outside and inside of all living beings, the moving and the nonmoving. Because He is subtle, He is beyond the power of the material senses to see or to know. Although far, far away, He is also near to all.

    BG 13.17: Although the Supersoul appears to be divided among all beings, He is never divided. He is situated as one. Although He is the maintainer of every living entity, it is to be understood that He devours and develops all.

    Hare Krishna, Prabhuji

    When we cut the plant into two, it doesn't mean we cut the Soul into two but we have to look the source of Soul as Super-Soul. There is no existence of Soul without Super-Soul...

    Soul is the expansion of Super-Soul, So when tree is cut into two parts we have to consider the source of soul as super-soul, and whatever comes from complete is also complete. so now there are two expansions of super-soul. Not like the one soul is divide into two part.

    Iso Invocation — The Personality of Godhead is perfect and complete, and because He is completely perfect, all emanations from Him, such as this phenomenal world, are perfectly equipped as complete wholes. Whatever is produced of the Complete Whole is also complete in itself. Because He is the Complete Whole, even though so many complete units emanate from Him, He remains the complete balance.
    As it is stated in the Upaniṣads, there are two birds sitting in one tree; one is acting and enjoying or suffering the fruits of the branches, and the other is witnessing. Kṛṣṇa is the witnessing bird, and Jiva is the eating bird. We are not different from Krsna but at same time we are that is our philosophy.
    "Although the two birds are in the same tree, the eating bird is fully engrossed with anxiety and moroseness as the enjoyer of the fruits of the tree. But if in some way or other he turns his face to his friend who is the Lord and knows His glories — at once the suffering bird becomes free from all anxieties.
    The living entities in this conditioned world are My eternal fragmental parts. Due to conditioned life, they are struggling very hard with the six senses, which include the mind.
    According to the Vedic version, the Supreme Lord manifests and expands Himself in innumerable expansions, of which the primary expansions are called vishnu-tattva and the secondary expansions are called the living entities. In other words, the vishnu-tattva is the personal expansion, and the living entities are the separated expansions. By His personal expansion, He is manifested in various forms like Lord Rama, Nrisimhadeva, Vishnumurti and all the predominating Deities in the Vaikuntha planets. The separated expansions, the living entities, are eternally servitors. The personal expansions of the Supreme Personality of Godhead, the individual identities of the Godhead, are always present. Similarly, the separated expansions of living entities have their identities. As fragmental parts and parcels of the Supreme Lord, the living entities also have fragmental portions of His qualities, of which independence is one. Every living entity, as an individual soul, has his personal individuality and a minute form of independence. By misuse of that independence one becomes a conditioned soul, and by proper use of independence he is always liberated.
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    Mohini Madhavi August 31, 2013 at 1:43pm

    in the reality main soul of that big tree is in its root.

    So when some branches are taken away and put in a situation where life can survive then new soul enters to that branch and that starts to grow.

    Some plants grow from seeds which already contain souls. Some trees grow from leaves called as vegetative growth ...so in this way it is not that main tree's soul but another new soul which already might be in the body of a tree or which will enter in the future. 

    Your servant, 

    • Krishna Mukherji > Mohini Madhavi August 31, 2013 at 2:59pm

      Mataji, your answer is most logical. Indeed, a new soul enters the cuttings since the soul is indivisible.

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        Mohini Madhavi > Krishna Mukherji September 1, 2013 at 3:57pm

        for example potato plant has one single soul in the root but when fruits appear in one potato there are so many souls. 

        When we take a single potato and cut that into many peaces and plant they will grow. So in this way there are many souls in  one body but not in gross body but in subtle waiting to take chance to have gross body and wash their karma.

        Your servant, 

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