Acharya Prashant clarifies the distinction between the soul and the Atman, explaining that while the soul is often equated with consciousness, the Atman is the supreme truth, the origin, and the dissolution of consciousness itself. He suggests that in religious narratives where God breathes life into a body, God is the closest counterpart to the Atman. He emphasizes that the Atman, or God, exists independently of time and space; therefore, creation is not a historical event that happened in the past but a perpetual process occurring in the present. The speaker argues that the common human intellect mistakenly places God within the stream of time, which he describes as a fundamental misunderstanding of the divine source.
