Is the dazzling mass the "soul" which could neither be created nor destroyed?

Hindu religion believes in the existence of the Almighty in each souls. Souls, I am told, are of two types. The outer and the inner souls. God resides in the inner souls. This means that if one wishes the proximity of God(s), he or she can do so by concentrating oneself through meditation that finally will manage him or her to be close to God.

Those who have been practicing meditation or Yoga have at times told me that after a prolonged period in meditation or for that matter in Yoga, one sees miraculous things inside his or her own body. This is, if true, could be a sort of dazzling light that apparently makes the practitioner to feel that he is closer to God and thus has attained a sort of eternal pleasure. The experience of swimming in the eternal pleasure if continues for long perhaps gives them, the practitioners of meditation or Yoga an opportunity to understand the materialistic world better.

I have met one gentleman who has been practicing Yoga for considerably a longer period. His own admission has been that he was not a man to be considered to be a gentleman at all prior to the practicing of the meditation or Yoga. After a considerable period of time, he began entering into a different world with all happiness and serene environment and that too in his own body. Later, according to him, each day he began enjoying the serene environment and total calm. The world in which he used to enter every early morning minutes after sitting in the Yoga position was simply unexplainable.

A dazzling light; total calm, pleasing environment; free from worldly problems and the likes he could experience during the meditation hour. The climax of it all, he said, was that he could see the movement of the various parts contained in his inner body, for example, the muscles, arteries, veins, intestines and all the material that compose the body could be seen all at a time.

Sounds incredible indeed but yet one has to believe.

The gentleman says now: "I am a changed man now. I can now control my emotions. I have now understood that the body, the outer body, is just a cover. What is important in the body is not the outer flesh but the soul that is the source of all pleasures which neither can be created nor destroyed.

Lord Krishna in the Great epic, The Mahabharata, has said that soul never dies. It changes its place.

Analyzing Lord Krishna’s analysis on soul, I am reminded of my own College days when I was taught that "energy" can neither be created nor it could be destroyed. I think, the soul in itself could be a form of energy which changes its form albeit but can’t be damaged for good.

So is it this bulge of dazzling energy, read the soul, that my friends claim to have experiences through their own inner eyes at time of practicing meditation or for that matter Yoga?

I wish some one could guide me in this regard.

Here is some addition: Practicing Yoga provides one with sound health. A sound health provides in turn a sound and constructive brain. It is said that Yoga regulates the flow of the blood in the body. A sound and healthy body is fit for meditation.

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