Mysorean

C. Rajagopalachari in his English translation of the Bhagavad Gita has this to say about the Soul:

The first step in religion is the realization of the existence of an entity behind the apparent body, i.e., the soul. The visible body is not the whole reality. There is in it an unseen but ever-active master of the house, the Dehi, the possessor of the body, whose existence we should realize before we can live the true life. This entity, the Self, should not be confused with the intangible functions of the brain. It is not mere thought, perception, emotion, will or discriminative intelligence. These are all but functions of the physical body. The Soul is an entity apart from and behind all this functions. It is not seated in any particular part of the body but pervades the whole of it and all the senses, unaffected by the law of "extension" even as ether was taken by physicists to pervade the whole of space and matter. Not only man, but every animal and plant, every living thing, has a Soul. The body is but the field of action, the Kshetra in which resides the soul, who is the Kshetri or Kshetrajna.

The Soul does not cease to exist when the body dies and is buried, burnt or eaten up by wild birds or beasts. Grief over death is foolish, the Soul being incapable of death. It is the body that is cast off in death even as we cast off old clothes.

Translation of a Shloka from Chapter II, Shloka no. 11.

The Lord Said:

You grieve for those who are not to be grieved for, yet you speak words of seeming wisdom. The enlightened grieve neither for the living nor for the dead.

Tomorrow: Mr. Geelani: Who did we acquit?