The soul is the atma, jyot saroop and basically the one that knows the mool which is what it also is. MIND is much more than just a barrier. I stated above that the MIND makes us forget our mool and source and what we really are. The mind 'masks' our True self very well, such that it convinces us 'that we are Me and my body'--or EGO. The T.singh article is pretty good but he doesn't quite sum up the shabad near the end. His focus was more on the kalyug and todays time which is actually more a