When does a soul enter the body...

[Guest guest]

At what point does a soul enter the body?

Is it at conception?

Are there any references in Gits or other sacred texts?

 

 

Hare Krishna

[theist]

Here is a verse that is specific to your question.

 

The Lord as Kapiladeva is speaking.

 

 

The Personality of Godhead said: Under the supervision of the Supreme Lord and according to the result of his work, the living entity, the soul, is made to enter into the womb of a woman through the particle of male semen to assume a particular type of body. Sb 3.31.1

First entrance into gross matter is into a particular spermatazoa. The Lord then empowers and directs that spermie with the necessary power to swim all the way to unite with egg.

[Bhakta Devarsi]

In there with the sperm, not consciously aware until the 7th month.

 

SB 3.31

 

TRANSLATION

Thus endowed with the development of consciousness from the seventh month after his conception, the child is tossed downward by the airs that press the embryo during the weeks preceding delivery. Like the worms born of the same filthy abdominal cavity, he cannot remain in one place.

PURPORT

At the end of the seventh month the child is moved by the bodily air and does not remain in the same place, for the entire uterine system becomes slackened before delivery. The worms have been described here as sodara. Sodara means “born of the same mother.” Since the child is born from the womb of the mother and the worms are also born of fermentation within the womb of the same mother, under the circumstances the child and the worms are actually brothers. We are very anxious to establish universal brotherhood among human beings, but we should take into consideration that even the worms are our brothers, what to speak of other living entities.

 

 

Here it is, the other bit of info on the soul coming to the body, the one about the raindrops.

 

"Spirit souls are everywhere. They are trying to come out of the earth. [Points to the grass.] As soon as there is an opportunity, they want to express their consciousness. Those souls who descend from higher planets to this planet sometimes fall down to the ground in raindrops. Then they become grass and gradually evolve to higher forms of life.

from Life Comes From Life, The 13th morning walk, 1973"