Svetasvatara Upanishad says:
"tvam stri tvam puman asi tvam kumara uta va kumari
tvam jirno dandena vancasi tvam jato bhavasi visvato mukhah"
You are the woman, you are the man, you are the boy and you are the girl. You are the old man tottering on his stick. You have taken birth facing every direction. Dvaitins, Visistadvaitins or Advaitins recognize the basic divinity of the soul in theistic terms or absolute terms.
" samam sarvesu bhutesu tisthntam paramesvaram
vinasyatsy avinasyantam yah pasyati sa pasyati
samam pasyan hi sarvatra samavasthitam isvaram
na hinasty atmanatmanam tato yati param gatim"
He truely sees who sees the Supreme Lord dwelling equally in all beings, deathless is dying. For seeing the Lord equally existent everywhere, he injures not Self by Self, and so goes to the highest goal. Advaita Vedanta teaches the Supreme Brahman and the innermost self are one and the same, it follows that there can not be a plurality of selves, it is one and the same self or Atman, which dwells in all beings, and that self is none other than the Supreme Lord. Thus the doctrine of the oneness of existence gives the logical corrollary of the divinity of the soul.
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