Body, Mind and Soul vs A Cup of Coffee.
     
                  Every individual, we know, is made up of a body and mind and probably, a soul. The soul in every living being is considered to be a drop of a Universal Soul.
                   The body is simply a physical frame, composed of various elements. The mind is a more significant feature of the individual.
                   Body, mind and soul of an individual can be compared correspondingly with the cup, coffee essence and water of a cup of coffee.The quality of the coffee does not depend on the cup. The cup is only to contain the coffee and is discarded when the coffee is finished. Even then, the cleanliness of the cup is of paramount importance. The coffee will be rejected, if the cup is dirty. So is the body. The body has to be clean and healthy, but it does not play much more role in the nature of the individual.
                    The quality, flavour and taste of the coffee is determined by the quality of the coffee essence. We have great many numbers of flavours and qualities of coffee. Similarly it is the mind of the individual  which determines his or her status and quality. Kind, moral, ethical, wicked, cruel, all these qualities are fixed by the mind.
                      The water is a universal product, common to all cups of coffee. Water by itself has no colour or taste. The soul is also similar. It is not qualified by good or bad characters. It may be contaminated by the bad qualities of the mind or adorned by the respectable qualities of the mind.
Otherwise, the soul is pure and common in all beings. Anytime the soul is cleared of cotaminations and passions, the soul will be liberated to become one with the Universal Soul.