Page 436 - Bodhayanti Parasparam Vol 1

BODHAYANTI PARASPARAM
But it is in a sense located within the body being very suksma and also an atomic thing. It is an atomic conglomerate or aggregation or skandha. Some hold that it is a conglomerate of manas, suksma indriyas, ahamkara and buddhi. The atomic nature of each of the components would however entail quite a sizeable sarira. Does it by any means mean that it is of the size of the thumb (angustamatra purusah) for it is described so even in the Savitri episode when the soul of Satyavan was taken out of the body by Yama with his pasa, binding rope?
Some make manas a vibhu or vast whereas some make it anu (minute). Some make the soul vibhu but somehow claim that it can be bound by manas etc., entities. Undoubtedly Buddha denied the soul behind the conglomerate though he did not affirm as to what was left after the break up of the skandha or aggregate.
Whatever may be the condition, the astral body is within the physical body and is limited by it in such a way that there is no freedom for it except when it is released by the physical during dreams or when it is in some sense taken out of the physical body in trance
states or yogic or occult states. In dreams thus the 432