Sukshma-sharira
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sukshma sharira (Sanskrit: sukshma, "subtle, unmanifest, dormant") — is the energy body, the subtle body, the light body of form consists of manas (mind), buddhi (intelligence) and ahankara (ego).
The atma (the Self) functions in the sukshmaloka (astral plane), the inner world also called antarloka.
The suksmah sharira includes pranamaya-kosha (the pranic sheath), manomaya-kosha (the instinctive-intellectual sheath), and vijnanamaya-kosha (the cognitive sheath) kosha) — with the pranic sheath dropping off at the death of the sthula-sharira (physical body).
The subtle body is the vehicle of consciousness with which one passes from life to life and to accompany us even after the death of the physical body.
