Subtle, gross body and soul


The idea of subtle body by the seeing of gross body is very natural and it was also common in Greeks, Pythagoras claimed that subtle ethereal clothing for the soul apart from its clothing when united with the body.

Vedanta took this thin and transparent (Sukshma Sarira) soul as a seminal or potential power and at the time of death leaves the corpus without being injured itself. The function of Yoga is subduing away of the self from all that is not self, in the highest object of this philosophy, by ascetic exercises delivering the self from the fetters of the body and the body senses.

 Samkhya also hold that senses are different from the soul and in order to prove he argued, “If each sense could perceive by itself, each sense would perceive its own object only, the eye color, the ear sound, the skin warmth and that what perceives all their impressions together at the same time and in the same object must be something different from the several senses which is the soul.” The question that whether the body is same as soul, a question which was never came to Vedanta but Samkhya asked it and solved it a the body has been once destroyed by being burnt, the consequences of good and evil deeds would cease to pursue the self through endless series of births and rebirths, the perplex minute philosophers meet with the question, why with the dual organ of vision, there is no duality of perception, why if memory is supposed to be a quality or mode of the self, mere remembrance of an acid substance can make or mouth watery.

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