We can hear our heart beating, the clock ticking, as its pendulum keeps swaying with the passage of time; we can hear the beating of drums, musically, and martially, and we can hear all kinds of other beats, but there is yet another beat: that of the soul.  The beat of the soul is silent; while the heart may beat normally, in some instances, erratically, and under other circumstances, even miss a beat,  the soul beats soundlessly, the pendulum of its invisible clock, swaying in consonance with eternity.  We cannot define the soul in terms of our mortality; only within the scope of its metaphysical significance.

The Hebrew equivalent of soul is “neshama,” it being the vehicle of the life of the individual.  Being independent of the body in which is resides, it is believed, mostly in religious circles,  that its continuance is assured after the dissolution of the organism.  There is a good soul and a bad soul.  A bad soul infects the body in which it is housed, consequently causing an individual to do evil.  On the other hand, a good soul propels the spirit to do what is considered to be noble.

We can listen to our soul beating in our prayerful meditations and in our acts and performances that are  considered to be humanly noble.  There is not a single religion that does not believe in the soul’s existence. When the Hindus profess the philosophy of reincarnation,  the message conveyed is Karma. a theory of inevitable consequence.  In Judaism, the soul never dies, but returns to complete its full cycle of existence in yet another body.

In summary, the silent beat of the soul is articulated in everything that we do in our lifetime, embracing our mortality, in the true sense of its metaphysical significance.