Who experiences pain: body or soul?

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Who experiences pain, the body or the soul? Answer, it is the soul because of misidentification with the body. When we are watching a movie and we see the hero getting beaten up by the villain, then who is it that is experiencing the pain? Actually the hero, or the image on the screen, is not actually conscious directly. And we experience the pain because we identify with the hero and we feel as if we are beaten up.
Similarly, the soul is transcendental, the soul is Satchitananda. The soul is always joyful, just as the person sitting on the comfortable chair in a theater is safe, is unhurt. But because of the misidentification with the movie protagonist, movie hero, when that hero gets beaten, the person feels shocked, the person feels horrified, pained.
Similarly, because of misidentification with the body, the soul feels pain. The body cannot feel pain because the body is always unconscious. The soul, if it were in its pure transcendental consciousness, would not feel pain because the soul is Ananda.
It is Ananda by its inherent characteristic as Satchitananda. But when the soul misidentifies with the body and with the things connected with the body, then when those things undergo a change that is threatening, that is painful, then the soul by misidentification feels the pain.