What is the soul...

 ...as revealed  in the Kashmiri recension of the Bhagavad Gita [Chapter Two]

B.G. DVD 2a (46:20)

na jayate mriyate va kadacin-
nayam bhutva bhavita va na bhuyah /
ajo nityah flaflvatoh yam purano
na hanyate hanyamane flarire // 21//

This soul, which has come in the body as an incarnation (in each and every body there is incarnation of soul), he has come in this body as an avatar does, but [it is] misfortune for that person who does not understand it. It is misfortune for that person who does not understand it that I am incarnation. I have come to elevate this whole universe. Being the elevator he wants to make others to get himself elevated.
Do you understand?
No . . . for instance, I have come in this body. Actually in body whoever has come, who has come in this body, he wants to make you understand that you are Parabhairava, you are one with Bhairava. There is nothing less than Bhairava in you also. In anybody. In a feeble person also, he is also Parabhairava. He has come in this body to elevate the whole universe.
This you cannot understand very easily. This is the cream of Shaivism.

(source: Chapter Two of Bhagavad Gita ch1-6, by Swami Lakshmanjoo)

Original transcripts contain diacritical marks and verses in Devanagri script, 

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