How is the body sustained when the soul leaves the body?

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If the soul leaves the body for dwelling, how does the body not decay? Will it not decay or how will it not decay? That’s the question he asks.
My answer is that there are two different things over here. There is the presence of the soul, which we say is the source of life. That is true at one level, but at a deeper level, it’s not the soul, it’s a super-soul, which is the cause of life.
Because even when the soul is present, right now I’m speaking. Now, I actually don’t know how I’m speaking. I just have the thoughts in my mind and I desire to speak.
And then how the sound balls in the throat move in a particular way to produce particular sound vibrations, which mean certain things. It’s a whole complicated system, which I know that. So, we do not sustain the body.
It is Krishna who sustains the body. And that sustenance he does based on our particular karma. So, even if the soul leaves the body for some time, if that soul has a karma to stay on with the body, then Krishna will maintain the body.
And for that, for Krishna to maintain the body, the soul itself does not have to be present. The soul’s karma is longer than the body.