If you are a person whose ideologies cannot expand or extend beyond physical and material existence, kindly forgive me, this article will not appeal to you in the truest sense.
Everyday we live our lives that has, kind of, fallen into a monotonous routine and there is no time for us to spare for the raw anlaysis of our soul or spirit that is the immortal essence and the incorporeal thing of our very existence.
Various questions arise in our mind when we talk about the existence of soul and its existence even after death!

• What is a soul?
• Where was it before I was born?
• Where will it be after my physical death?

Well, Soul is not an entity.
It is unbounded, so, how do you call something an entity when it cannot be restricted.
For human understanding, the ancient Hindu culture has tagged a name soul, self, atma or whatever.
But the ethereal existence of the soul cannot be denied.
It is beyond all identification, all everything.
It was there before you, it will be there after you.
The inner realization of the "oneness" of your soul with the entire universe is something ecstatic and mind you, I'm yet to be awakened! The mysterious mysteries unravelled till date cannot match this or supercede the mystery of understanding the real nature of the soul.
The "experience has to come from within.
" Yogics say that there are seven births or lives for an individual (and it is not necessary that you be born a human being with all the luxuries you are enjoying currently all the seven times).
They talk about karma or past action that defines your current life position and relationships and the lives yet to come.
It is believed that only due to your past good deeds, you are a person enjoying the privilege of being in this earth.
Whatever the nature of your actions in this life will determine the dimensions of your next birth.
It is really amazing to know that soul searching is even above your intellect or the sixth sense and it cannot be felt with your mind but only with your heart which stores the sediments of your previous lives.
Eternity is not a mere word to be awed at, it is a journey that everyone will and must go through at some point of time.
The saddest part is, most of us are awakened only when our lives come to an end.
Great yogics and Sadhus have their homeland as India since it is a nation that comprises of the Himalayas, the abode of Lord Shiva, who is considered to be the vibrating atom and Goddess Sakthi the nucleus that holds the atom.
They are emancipators of human souls from the miserable bondage of human life and relationships and make us "one" with the unending cosmic energy.
It is only the energy level that keeps us going and when you fall short of energy, your life ends! Only from hearsay and through reading I have tried to explain things that has captured my memory.
The subject is very deep and lot of inner research is going on inside me.