Do Plants have soul ?

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According to Advaita soul is not some object to have it or not to have

it. It is all pervading reality - as existence-consciousness-happiness.

The principle of existence is the soul. The principle of

consciousness is the soul and the principle of happiness is the soul.

The very principle of life itself is the very manifestation of soul.

Depending on the degree of the anatomical evolution of the

body-mind-intellect equipments the expression of life is different -

these are limitations of the equipments. In human all the three

(body-mind-intellect complex evolved to the maximum (at least in some).

At the animal level body-some elements of mind and intellect are

evolved. At the plant level body - and according to Jagadeesh Chandra

Bose - some elements of mind are there. Anatomical evolution is

different from the evolution of the jiiva. Jiiva can transmigrate to

different bodies - human-animal-plant - perhaps even stone (like Ahalya

in the pouranic stories) to exhaust vasana. Nature provides appropriate

body to exhaust the vasana-s. Vedanta has no problem with Darwin's

theory of evolution and do not to the notion that animal and

plant kingdom are created for the human enjoyment. Everything is

created for its evolution.

 

Hari OM!

Sadananda

 

 

--- Vimal Wadhawan <vimalwadhawan wrote:

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> Do Plants Have Soul ?

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> There is a difference of opinion among the scholars on the issue,

> "whether plants bear soul."

> Amongst others, motion and growth are the features of soul.

 

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to Him - Swami Chinmayananda.

 

 

 

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This is what Aristotle said about this (comes from my eBook):

 

The word “Psychology†means “Science of the Soul.†Aristotle was the

first

to classify psychology as a science by which he meant:

 

· Nature, the form, the first activity, the first actuality of a living being.

 

· A living being that nourishes itself, grows and reproduces and is endowed

with the faculties of sensation and thought or at least possesses one of these

faculties.

 

 

 

By this Aristotle did not imply that plants have a consciousness. However, he

did believe that the soul pervades the vegetative realm by virtue of which it

feels and looks alive.

 

The Bhagavad Gita describes food as Sattvic, Rajasic, and Tamasic

In addition -- On Sattva, Rajas, Tamas, this what Bhagavad Gita has to say:

The mysterious power that burns in the fire is God – the visible flame is

divine nature. This flame has three inherent qualities:

 

SattvaRajasTamas

Light corresponds to Sattva Heat corresponds to Rajas

Smoke corresponds to Tamas

Luminous & Healthy The Nature of passion, the source of

thirst and attachmentBorn of ignorance, deluding all embodied beings

Binds by attachment to Happiness and by attachment to knowledge

Binds the embodied one by attachment to action

Binds fast by heedlessness, indolence

and sleep

Leads to happiness Leads to action

Leads to heedlessness

When the light of wisdom shines every gate of our body, then it may be known

that Sattva is predominant Greed, activity,

the undertaking of actions, restlessness, longing – these arise when Rajas is

predominant Darkness, inertness, delusion and

heedlessness -- these arise when Tamas is predominant

If the embodied one meets with death when Sattva is predominant, then he is

released from the birth-death cycleMeeting with death in Rajas, one is born

among those who are attached to action Dying in Tamas,

one is born in the womb of the senseless

The fruit of Sattva is good action and Purity

The fruit of Rajas is pain

Ignorance is the fruit of

Tamas

>From Sattva arises knowledgeGreed arises from Rajas Heedlessness,

ignorance and delusion arise from Tamas

Those who are submerged in Sattva go upwards

The Rajas dwell in the middle Tamasa,

abiding in the function of the lowest [guna], go downwards

 

 

 

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concordance909 wrote:

> There's a book out there called "The Secret Life of Plants". I am not

> aware of any debunkings of it, but they might exist too. Anyway, if

> the book is accurate, it makes a strong case for the sentiency of

> plants, in which case vegetarianism becomes a matter of health rather

> than compassion.

 

The Bhagavad Gita describes food as Sattvic, Rajasic, and Tamasic.

 

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