“Regarding the Christian’s Trinity, I believe it is called God, the Holy
Ghost, and the son. Person in Krishna Consciousness accepts this by the
name Visnu, Paramatma, and Jiva. God is a Person, the holy spirit or
the supersoul is a person, and the living entity is also a person. Also,
Mary is the representation of the energy of God. Either as internal
energy Radharani or as external energy Durga, the energy of Godhead can
be considered the mother of the living entities. ” (Prabhupada letter to
Sivananda, 19th April, 1968)
Jiva is naar BhaktVinod Thakura een gebonden ziel
When you read the Catholic enceclopedia it is not that easy, The
doctrine of the
Catholic Church concerning the Holy Ghost forms an integral part of her teaching on the
mystery of the
Holy Trinity, of which
St. Augustine (
On the Holy Trinity I.3.5), speaking with diffidence, says: "In no other subject is the danger of
erring so great, or the progress so difficult, or the fruit of a careful study so appreciable". The
essential points of the
dogma may be resumed in the following propositions:
but you can read it yourself follow this link,
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/07409a.htm
In
Hinduism and
Jainism, a
jiva (
Sanskrit:
जीव,
jīva, alternative spelling
jiwa;
Hindi:
जीव,
jīv, alternative spelling
jeev) is a living being,
[1]
or more specifically, the immortal essence or soul of a living organism
(human, animal, fish or plant etc.) which survives physical death.
[2][3] It has a very similar usage to
atma, but whereas
atma refers to "the cosmic self",
jiva is used to denote an individual "living entity" or "living being" specifically.
[4] To avoid confusion, the terms
paramatma and
jivatma (also commonly spelled
jeevatma) are used.
The word itself originates from the
Sanskrit jivás, with the root
jīv- "to breathe". It has the same Indo-European root as the Latin word
vivus, meaning "alive".
