Layers above pure soul

Our body is a very complex machine/vehicle and we are its driver, without our direction the body cannot go anywhere. As mechanic cannot repair vehicle without knowing the mechanism of the vehicle in the same way we cannot repair our psychological problems without knowing the mechanism this body works. We actually have two bodies one is Gross Body which can be seen by naked eyes and the second is Subtle Body which cannot be seen easily by naked eyes but can be understood and felt by experiences. Every one has such two types of bodies but its hard to differentiate between them. For example people judge easily someone by his looks and make a definition of him and behave with him in that way.

See the above picture of the punk. What do you think about him? Any normal person would start judging him on first sight by defining him like He may be rude, lost to drugs,aggressive,etc. But without knowing him personally how can we judge some one?

Lets see other example:

See the person in above picture. Any normal person (who don't know him) would think that he is a decent man playing with baby, a good guy, etc. But he is Pablo Escobar one of dangerous Drug mafias. But why we judge someone by just looks without meeting personally?

We judge people due to experiences we had in our lifetime. These experiences can be added to us by movies, or any other means which affects our psychology. Like in first example the guy who looks like a punk maybe a decent person having good morals and character but he changed his look like punk because may be he liked punk like look.

In this way everyone possess two types of bodies. We can understand this by considering thinking on ourselves. Just see yourself in the mirror/photograph and try to judge yourself (its hard I know it) by your looks from a third person perspective. And think once again that however you look and the judgement you get for your looks are you truly that? The answer would be definitely NO. Everybody has a personality within which he lies and works. And as explained in my last post this personality is developed due to temporary modes of Nature. So we should never judge anyone by just looks as everyone has a deeper personality which can be understood only by knowing that person.

Fig: Coverings of soul

The above image gives a conceptual understanding of the coverings on top of Pure soul. The Pure Soul (Atman) is covered under these two bodies The gross body is the body which is purely made of matter or atoms and the subtle body which is our personality developed due to influence of modes of Nature and False ego and we the soul is more deeper than this subtle body. All the psychological insecurities, qualities, etc is our subtle body. This cannot be seen by naked eyes but its existence cannot be denied. The soul here is called pure, because it is nirguna or without any qualities or personality.

So one should know him(her)self to be transcendental and should not fall prey to insecurities of the personality and should act beyond the boundaries created by the personality. The depression is one of the major disorder of today's world and person understanding and applying this knowledge will not have any depression or negative thoughts.   

How should I utilize this knowledge in normal life?

What would you do if someone becomes angry on you? dependent upon your personality and without this knowledge the you may react in different ways like counter anger, listen silently and hold grudges which will further lead to revenge, etc. But a person in this knowledge will keep himself silent and won't hold any grudges on the person becoming angry because he knows that only the modes of nature due which his personality has developed is making him acting like this but he is not the way he is acting instead he is soul. I think marketing or sales guys should learn this knowledge and utilize it in their works, it will definitely help them to bring in positive results. Because marketing or sales person needs to face many rejections and disappointments which can decrease his confidence but having armed by this knowledge he won't be affected by disappointments.

You can utilize this knowledge in any phase of life and act without any expectation knowing that you cannot control behavior of the person you are dealing with and he/she will act according to his/her personality.

I hope I explained in easy language if you have any doubts then ask in it comments.