Is the subtle body that leaves the gross body the soul? No it is NOT the soul, that line of thinking is incorrect, and wrong according to vedic teachings

Is the subtle body that leaves the gross body the soul?

No it is not the soul, that line of thinking is incorrect, and wrong according to vedic teachings

The subtle body or astral body is a MATERIAL vessel of mind, intelligence and false ego.

The subtle body is NOT a spiritual  body, it is material, a vessel that carries the none material soul (jivatma) also decribed by Prabhupada as anti-matter.

This subtle material bodily vessel is what exists on heavenly and hellish worlds also, such living entities there do not have gross biological bodily vessels or container.

The subtle body is also a ghost body also, when one dies they leave their gross biological body in a subtle material vessel, the subtle is NOT spiritual in anyway.

The spiritual bodily form is who one really is.

Both the subtle and gross material coverings have nothing to do with the "the real self known as the individual jiva tattva which is an anti-material perpetual bodily form one is as their full potential in Vaikuntha or Goloka Vrindavan the Kingdom of God.

Unlike the subtle material body or the gross material body that ONLY exist in the material universes.

This material universes are NOT our real home, we should not even be in this temporary universe that is always in need of intense maitanance because the material universes are always in a state of decay and decline governed by Birth, disease, old age and death.

Vaikuntha and Goloka Vrindavan in the perpetual Spiritual Sky, are our REAL home.

These ever youthful and fresh abodes of Lord Krishna are nothing like that horrible place called the material creation.