Is citta a part of the subtle body?

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is the chitta a part of the subtle body? this is a little technical chitta is actually the embodied consciousness the atma is sat-chit-ananda that has three characteristics or three integral features of it one of them is chitta, chitta is consciousness so chitta is consciousness which is innate faculty of the soul innate feature of the soul chitta is the embodied consciousness of the soul suppose a person is going to watch a movie in a theater now in a theater what happens? firstly one light goes off and another light goes on, isn’t it? the lights all around go off so that attention goes to the screen and then the lights go on over there and we see various things over there now the person who is watching a movie they can actually see who is their neighbor, they can see here they can see there, but the more they get riveted to watching the movie then their consciousness goes into that movie and they don’t see anything else so like that there is the avaranatmika shakti and there is the prakshepatmika shakti the avaranatmika shakti is that which will make all lights go off so we don’t see anything else prakshepatmika shakti is throwing, so the light on the screen goes on our whole consciousness goes over there and then we get caught in that consciousness so the the person who is watching the movie they can see here and there but they are absorbed in the movie and then their whole consciousness, all their emotions and everything is based on whatever they are seeing in the movie so like that the mind and the body basically the gross and subtle bodies they are in front of the soul, the soul is different and the mind we could say is like the monitor or the screen on which the movie on which everything that is there in the world is being displayed so the soul’s chitta is the original consciousness it’s like the person who can see here and there everywhere, that is chitta but when the soul’s consciousness gets rooted into the body, into the mind and through the mind into the body, then that embodied consciousness is called as chitta so just like the person who is watching the movie and the person loses awareness of everything else so chitta is the embodied consciousness so chitta is the original consciousness chitta is when the consciousness is rooted into the body so Krishna says in the second chapter of the Gita that consciousness comes from the soul 2.17 but later on in 13.6 and 7 he says that chetana in 13.7 he states that chetana is akshetra vikar, kshetra is the body or field and vikar is transformation so he says chetana is a transformation of the body now what does it mean? Consciousness is not coming from the body what is he saying? He says consciousness is a transformation of the body, what that means is the consciousness that we experience right now is based on what is happening in the body and the stimuli connected with the body, just like when a person is watching the movie, all their emotions are based on what is happening in the movie so like that presently our emotions all that we experience is connected with the body and in that sense chitta is the original consciousness of the soul chitta is the consciousness of the soul that is rooted into and is practically trapped in the body and the mind intelligence, ego, they are a part of the subtle body so we could say that they are like the screen and the whole mechanism by which whatever is being displayed on the screen is being displayed so chitta and mana, they are different chitta is basically the consciousness being rooted into the subtle body and thereby through the gross body so the chitta is not a component of the subtle body, rather chitta is what is being rooted through the subtle body chitta is the energy of consciousness that is being rooted through the subtle body does that answer your question? thank you very much