Jiva

MIND, MATTER AND GOD : JIVA, JADA AND ISVARA
M.M.NINAN
Ruah is the Hebrew word for breath or spirit, or it can mean the Holy Spirit.
Genesis 1:1-2
1: In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth.
2: And the earth was without form, and void; and darkness was upon the face of the
deep. And the Ruah of God moved upon the face of the waters.
The ruach is to the created nephesh (soul), so the Ruach Elohim is to God Himself, part
of God and identified with God. Ruach may be understood as the Author of the
animating dynamic of the created order, the underlying Principle of creation, and the
One that imparts the nephesh to the entire universe.
Thus just as the Nirguna Brahman would not start creating until It became separate
duality, Adam would not create until Eve was taken out of him and became separate.
The creative process started off then.
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