Board Thread:Naruto Discussions/@comment-26135923-20150707130017/@comment-26275777-20150709023700

Souls don't work like that in Eastern mythology though. Souls transmigrate, but souls are not people. You enter each life as a blank slate. So a soul doesn't just randomly manifest its past lives' consciousnesses. It's more complex than I can explain here but basically yeah.

It's implied right in the same convo that Naruto and Sasuke have more than just Ashura and Indra's chakra. I mean, Naruto compares it to being possessed by a ghost and Hagoromo follows that up by saying that Ashura (not "Ashura's chakra") reincarnated into him (last page of Chapter 670). Naruto isn't surprised by the revelation, and Hagoromo surmises that Naruto has somehow already felt the presence of Ashura inside him and could feel Indra inside Sasuke long before meeting Hagoromo (chapter 671). How is that "just chakra"?

And Naruto isn't even Ashura's descendant. He's not a Senju.

Also the mind's consciousness is not the soul. Damnit, I'm terrible at explaining this shit so here's a wikipedia link instead: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soul#Buddhism And of course souls and chakra aren't the same thing; what I'm saying is that souls are chakra constructs (just like the bijuu are giant chakra constructs but have bodies and souls). And your soul is what gives your chakra its particular...flavor?