The word soul is very fascinating to me. To my understanding   we  meditate to find  or  experience our soul , then    practice to merge our souls into God, that is nothingness or the light that is spread all over the Universe. To my understanding  that’s  what happens once the soul leaves this body.
( Help  me if I am wrong )

Soul has  no gender. It is always free , does not have any companions or  mates  hence  it  merges  into nothingness or light! The mates, the friends  the companions are all to this physical body  which enjoys all the emotional relationships  and until  we find our selves free of all these relationships we can not  experience the realization of our soul .

This is what my understanding is. When we come across  the soul mate theory I am always confused..

Previously  there were discussions about the soul mates and multiple soul mates in our blogs. We have discussions about the soul mates in my blog

Is it possible to have multiple soul mates

indu-ram.sulekha.com/blog/post/2007/03/is-it-possible-to-have-multiple-soul-mates.htm

Still  whenever I come across  a poem , a blog  about  soul  mate    that triggers me to think about the soul mate theory  . Then again my search to know  more starts all over again.

If  we   experience that a person is our soul mate or if our soul finds its mate then both the souls must be above the  worldly emotions and    should never feel  lonely.

In one of my blogs Rudra said

It has to do with our energetic constitution and how someone else can augment or dampen it.

It is also possible for that energetic compatibility to diminish as either person (or both) change energetically. Our energy is in a constant flux, as a result of our mental and physical states.

When I  think on these lines , I wonder  that it is possible to find a soul mate and  to  loose them too.

So  the question is if our  soul   finds the soul mate, then  both the  souls  are   mates for ever .  Or  only for some time?

We experience emotional bonding with some people as soon as we meet them in life for the first time or many times  in this virtual world.
 What are the reasons for this emotional attachment?

Can we say that people with whom we experience this connection are our soul mates? 
 

We  believe that the soul  has  no  gender . It comes into this world all alone and leaves the world without any companion. If that is so what is the purpose of the soul mate. Does  the soul really needs a mate?

Hope  all of you share  your thoughts on this.

Indu