I would like know why god creates souls and puts them into the world.Why is the all powerful God allowing souls to get into reincarnation?How were we first seperated from God?Some say soul is always distinct entity which is not created by God.Then why did the soul got associated with Body,mind etc...Please provide your views and explain how the scriptures support them.
My belief is that the souls are an eternal aspect of God. They never were created and can never be destroyed. One aspect of the Lord is his material potency. I think that this is an eternal aspect and the souls within the material are representative of God in this aspect. We just are as everything that is just is.
Well, you know I've explained the concept of the Viraj in a different thread. The main reference I can find is in the Brihadaranyaka Upanishad. It starts with:
"In the beginning, this universe was the self (Viraj) alone, in the shape of a person."
It goes on to describe in what I strongly believe is an allegorical story, the creation of the universe. It says things like:
"He (Viraj) realized: "Indeed, I am the creation, for I produced all this." Therefore He became the creation. He who knows this becomes a creator in this creation of Viraj."
To be honest though I am finding it very difficult to find proper references online at the moment. There are writings about Prakriti, who is God as material nature. He manifests for the sake of the souls (us).
We know that the souls are breathed into and out of Maha Vishu in the beginning of creation and during the dissolution. This seems (to me) to symbolise our oneness with the divine.
There are BG quotes such as:
"I am the Soul, O, Arjuna. I am the Soul which exists in the heart of all beings; and I am the beginning and the middle, and also the end of existing things".
I'm somewhat frustrated...there are many references to the soul in scripture but I'm having bad luck. Let me return to this later.