We know that the body has a place for the soul. For those animals, with a spine, the seat of the soul can be anywhere from the base of the spine till the crown. The chakra system may also vary from being rudimentary to advanced. For unicellular beings, the soul can be inside the nuclei and for the tree, soul can be somewhere in the main trunk possibly near the base and so on and so forth.

For humans, there are 7 major chakras where the soul can be positioned. Out of the 7, the top 3 are temporary locations for humans engaged deeply in the worldly affairs. In humans the ideal place for the humans for the soul to reside is in the heart chakra.

Some transcendental meditation practitioner may move his soul along with the Kundalini sakthi into the temporary locations, viz the top 3 chakras. This may be part of his mediation routines to perfect his spiritual experience or as a sadhana to develop new capabilities.

When such a person is ready to leave the world or when is ready for the grand merge, the soul and the kundalini sakthi together may exit his human body through the crown area. A super soul is born if the soul exits the human body, at the time of the death, from any of the top 3 chakras. In fact, if the intent to merge was predominant, the soul exiting via the crown experiences the grand merge and is not coming back!

Another important observation about the seat of the soul is on the form itself.

If the soul is powerful enough to require a large body but is basal and rudimentary, residing somewhere in the basic chakras, the form taken by the soul can be that of a wild animal. On the other hand, a powerful enough soul capable of taking a human body but with impressions matching that of an aggressive person, may take the human form with his seat of soul being in the lower chakras and this person, born thus, is likely to be aggressive with lot of insensitivity and lacking empathy.

When a human soul is connected to the higher chakras, we get what we term it as 'Aathmadehavathigal' (energy loyalists) or something similar to the term 'holy ghost' where the chakra system is in advanced and well developed state. On the contrary, if the human soul is connected to the lower chakras, we get what we term it as 'Dehathmavadigal' (mass loyalists) or something similar to the term 'zombies' where the chakra system is not advances and is in a rudimentary state.

The strength of the bond between the soul and the body leads to other important observations. This bond is the strongest when the soul is connected to the body in the basic chakra areas. Such a body (like that of the wild animals) possesses qualities like size/speed/strength and attributes like ferociousness/being territorial/being self-centred etc.,

For a good-hearted human, this bond between the soul and body lies at the heart chakra and may not be that strong like that of the soul of the wild animal, and this makes his core strength lie in the intellectual space and not in the physical space. His well developed manipura chakra can also lead to the development of strong will power to learn and excel. A studious student is expected to have a strong well-developed manipura chakra. Alternatively, a dull student who can meditate and strengthen his manipura chakra can become studious eventually!

A human with the soul in the heart area, may be warm to others exhibiting qualities like love,mercy, kindness, empathy and more. He may have other attributes like inviting others to share his territory and his joyous life styles, playing music just to make others happy or being delighted to cook dinner for others!

All these observations are a very generalized empirical observations and we may easily note the exceptions. For example, we have intelligent animals like dolphins and dull headed humans with rudimentary intellectual capability. We may have animals that love us and birds/insects that hate us!

What is evident by this is that the various permutations can combinations of souls, soul qualities, residual karmic loads, runanubandha, divine interventions, favourableness of eco-systems with some matching species (not to mention Her eagerness to reuse, to repurpose, to create motifs, to recycle, to use patterns, to use symmetry, to use balance etc., ), the urgency experienced by souls to take births, etc., present us with a bewildering range of enormously diverse set of species just in this earth realm!

Multiply the above complexity with 3 of the 5 Panchabhootas - earth, water and air - we have additional life forms with new capabilities.

Since "Fire" is considered an ultimate purifier, no life form may exist inside it. Thus the Panchabhoota that is considered much more subtle than fire - 'Space' (where in even the ultimate purifier is not existent) in its purest form may not have life forms inside it. Thus, it is an interesting hypothesis that any life form may need earth, water or air or any combinations and permutations of the above mentioned 3 Panchabhootas only.

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