In the course of creation, the Almighty God impregnated all bodies with a part of His energy to give birth to life. He enters all living bodies as breath and fire, and He dwells in the heart of all living beings as a silent observer. We name the God who lives in us as the soul. The soul is encapsulated in the body, in the middle of the chest- more precisely in a secret chamber inside the heart chakra. We are living due to the presence of God inside of us. Our body is mortal in that it is made of physical matter. But our soul is eternal just like the God who created us. All this is confirmed & agreed upon by all major religions. The human body has often been described as more sophisticated than the most advanced computer ever designed.
The soul is feminine by nature. When she is firmly attached to the five senses by serving them, then she is lost & is not even aware of her true nature. She is forced into the region of the changeable & is confused. When she is made aware of her real identity, then she moves to the other world, the region of eternal life, where she finds her freedom. That state of the soul, when she has stopped being a slave to the senses of the body, is described as wisdom.
To simplify the explanation of soul & body, just imagine the battery of a car that supplies electric energy to the lights, music player, on-board computer, Bluetooth, etc. It is the same scenario with the soul. For someone who does not know how a car functions, that person will be bewildered by the different functions of the car. But for somebody who knows about the functions of a battery inside the body of the car, then for that person, there is absolutely no mystery. In the beginning, science taught us about atoms & molecules being the indivisible smallest representative of all matter- this is basic chemistry taught to secondary college students. But what has happened today? That same science has discovered that atoms are made up of other smaller particles! So, you see, science is sometimes not reliable but is the driving force of the material world- it makes us believe things and then, after some more research, it changes its version of the truth with new findings. Then, this means the original findings were not the truth!
The function of the soul is to send vital energy to the different energy centres or chakras inside our body. In turn, these chakras provide the necessary metabolic energy to that part of the body where they are situated. The soul is divine energy. Energy can neither be created nor destroyed but simply transformed into other forms of energy. Now, God is said to be unborn, originally existed, will never die & can take any form. Do you note the huge similarity between energy & God? God also has no body & shape and is thought of as an infinite reservoir of love & light. What is love & light? They are both states of energy. And when we go back Home to where we originally belonged, there is a beautiful merging of the individual soul or individual energy with the Highest soul or Highest energy, that is God.