The question seems something like why didn't someone think of it before! Why can't a body have multiple Atman. You have to think about why a body exists, and why an Atman pervades in it.
Atman, involuntarily or voluntarily, puts life into a body so it can run through its Karmas. It wants, in human life, to be made aware to not be identified with this life. To realize its been going through such lives multiple times, with memory getting wiped out since that stays in that life's mind. Only the Samskaras, the impressions-both good and bad, have stuck to it like a stain whose effects have to be run through. This much is well known.
Now, what Vivekananda has said, and is the crucial point to answer this question, is that Atman, the Purusha, that pervades and illumines all, actually manufactures these mind-body complexes, based on its previous Karmas, and to run through those effects. Vivekananda goes on to say that Karmas have to be run through in the nature where they were accumulated, the rest are held at bay for the time being. Thus, we were humans before, running through these Karmas, and getting them worked out. If we show animalistic tendencies, we might go back to occupy an animal body to work those out, since that's easier to wipe out. Animals behave purely on instinct that intent, so they are actually working out those Karmic effects without accumulating any more.
So if an Atman is generating this body to work out its Karmas, to wipe out these stains, then there is no question of another Atman also coming in here. It automatically answers the question. Although within this nature there are instances where a person gets possessed by a good or evil soul. I believe it has to be permitted, and does not automatically happen. You have to will it, else it will not happen.
Atman, involuntarily or voluntarily, puts life into a body so it can run through its Karmas. It wants, in human life, to be made aware to not be identified with this life. To realize its been going through such lives multiple times, with memory getting wiped out since that stays in that life's mind. Only the Samskaras, the impressions-both good and bad, have stuck to it like a stain whose effects have to be run through. This much is well known.
Now, what Vivekananda has said, and is the crucial point to answer this question, is that Atman, the Purusha, that pervades and illumines all, actually manufactures these mind-body complexes, based on its previous Karmas, and to run through those effects. Vivekananda goes on to say that Karmas have to be run through in the nature where they were accumulated, the rest are held at bay for the time being. Thus, we were humans before, running through these Karmas, and getting them worked out. If we show animalistic tendencies, we might go back to occupy an animal body to work those out, since that's easier to wipe out. Animals behave purely on instinct that intent, so they are actually working out those Karmic effects without accumulating any more.
So if an Atman is generating this body to work out its Karmas, to wipe out these stains, then there is no question of another Atman also coming in here. It automatically answers the question. Although within this nature there are instances where a person gets possessed by a good or evil soul. I believe it has to be permitted, and does not automatically happen. You have to will it, else it will not happen.
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