How can the soul carry subtle elements from one body to another?

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The question is, how can the soul carry material elements or material energy, such as the mind, intelligence and false ego, after leaving the material body? The soul, even when leaving one material body and going to the other material body, still, the soul is in the material world.
And the soul cannot function in the material world without some kind of interface. So, that interface, in the intermediate stage, is the subtle body. So, how can the soul carry? Because the subtle body is a part of the innate apparatus of the soul.
And in fact, liberation is characterized by the destruction of the subtle body. And as long as we are in the material existence, the subtle body will follow us wherever we go. And when we go from one body to another body, the soul’s attachment to its conceptions of enjoyment still remains.
And the external apparatus for that enjoyment is damaged or destroyed. That’s how the soul leaves the world. So, because the soul needs some kind of interface, without which it will not be able to interact in the material world at all.
It can’t perceive, it can’t act, it cannot do anything. So, the soul is just like, say, some astronauts go from the earth to the space. They need a space suit, without which they cannot function.
So, like that the soul needs a particular kind of covering. And there are two levels of that covering. Subtle body and gross body.
The gross body is destroyed at the time of death. Subtle body is destroyed at the time of liberation. Because the subtle body’s longevity is much more.
Subtle body changes. Conceptions change in the subtle body. But the subtle body itself remains the same.
It simply evolves from species to species. So, subtle body’s destruction is called as the the ultimate destruction. And that destruction actually comprises liberation from material existence.