This is regarding Arya Samaj’s answer ‘You are soul’ of eternal question ‘Who am I’ by Chitranjan Sawant in Faith Line, The Indian Express, Thursday, April 5, 2001.

Since the very beginning uptil now, the Arya Samaj as well as we all the missions of the world, being in the ultimate state of our respective processes and having any kind of power from that ultimate state to do anything, projecting ourselves to be the guides of scriptures, projecting ourselves to be the enlightened ones and preceptors(gurus), projecting ourselves to be the critics, projecting ourselves to be the rationalists, projecting ourselves to be the thinkers understand ourselves that ‘We are soul or souls’ in answer of this eternal question ‘Who am I’. But since the very beginning uptil now, this understanding of Arya Samaj as well as of us all the missions of the world is totally wrong according to scriptures. Since the very beginning uptil now, all the books written about this subject by us all and all the interpretations of scriptures by us all are totally wrong according to scriptures. Because scriptures do not say like this as we understand since the very beginning uptil now.Then the question arises that what the scriptures say?

If we finalize this eternal question 'Who am I' ourselves without referring the scriptures, then it would be wrong as we have finalized it wrong since the very beginning uptil now. If we finalize this eternal question 'Who am I' according to scriptures, then it would be correct, that has not been finalized by us all since the very beginning uptil now. That is to say that neither you yourself nor I myself neither anyone else of us all himself can finalize this eternal question, 'Who am I' as 'You are soul' with his own individual understanding. Because Truth does not depend upon the individual seeings or revelations, believings or acceptances or understandings or finalizations of anyone of us all. So only the definition of soul (Truth) given in scriptures will enable us all to finalize whether we are soul or not. The question arises that what is the definition of soul according to scriptures? According to scriptures the definition of soul is unborn eternal… What is the meaning of unborn? The meaning of unborn is that “The entity, he who does not take birth”. As the soul, being