Question: Though the soul feels apart from the different bodies, does it not feel one with God. Answer: Not even with God. How could it? A soul which is captive in a false conception, which cannot see a barrier lifted up between itself and its neighbor, how can this soul lift its barrier to God whom it has not known yet? For every soul's belief in God is a conception after all - because it is taught by a priest, because it is written in a scripture, because the parents have said that there is a God. That is all. That soul knows that somewhere there is a God, but it is always liable to change its belief, and unhappily the further it advances intellectually, the further it goes from that belief. A belief which a pure intelligence cannot always hold will not go far with a person. It is by the understanding of that belief that the purpose of life is fulfilled. It is said in the Gayan: "The uncovering of the soul is the discovering of God."