ABSTRACT
Soul is a conscious entity of purely spiritual quality. Soul in essence and in nature is a spirit and a conscious being, but unlike God is limited in power and knowledge. The Rig Veda proclaims that human souls are uncreated and immortal but are limited in powers, potentialities, knowledge and other attributes. The attributes of All-Spirit-God on the contrary are without blemish, complete and All-Powerful. The soul is free to act according to the capacities it has developed, capacities due to past impressions and tendencies and deeds done in former incarnations. The soul when it has completed a sinful act becomes subject to the operation of the all-just laws of God, and thereby reaps the consequences of its sins. Having inner powers within the soul it is possible for each soul to know and enjoy and bathe in the blissful effulgence of God.
