Daimon v Suksha sharir

 Good and deep question 🙏. Let’s carefully unpack this.

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Daimon (Greek tradition / Plato / depth psychology)

• The Daimon is an impersonal inner guiding force or spirit.
• In Plato’s Symposium and later in thinkers like Socrates, Hillman, and Kastrup, it is described as the inner companion that “calls” you to your destiny.
• It is not exactly “you,” but something within and beyond you that gives direction, purpose, and even compulsion.
• Think of it as a guiding principle or archetypal destiny rather than a body.

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Sūkṣma Śarīra (Vedānta / Indian philosophy)

• The sūkṣma śarīra = the subtle body in Vedānta.
• It consists of:
  
• Manas (mind), Buddhi (intellect), Ahaṅkāra (ego)
• Prāṇa (vital energies)
• Indriyas (sense organs, in subtle form)
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• It is what transmigrates after death until liberation.
• Function: acts as the vehicle of experience connecting the soul (Ātman) with the physical body (sthūla śarīra).

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Comparison

• The Daimon ≠ Sūkṣma Śarīra.
• Why?
  
• Daimon = guiding archetypal principle / destiny / inner calling.
• Sūkṣma Śarīra = subtle energetic-mental body that carries impressions (saṃskāras) across lives.
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• However:
  
• The Daimon could be seen as functionally similar to the guiding role of karma stored in the subtle body, or even to the idea of Antaryāmin (inner guide) in Vedānta.
• Some might loosely map it to the causal aspect of the subtle self (kāraṇa śarīra), which shapes one’s destiny.
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✅ So, short answer:

They are not the same.

• Sūkṣma Śarīra is part of Indian metaphysics: a subtle body.
• Daimon is a Greco-Western archetype: a guiding inner spirit or destiny.

But both point toward something beyond the ego that directs life.

Would you like me to make a side-by-side comparison chart (Greek vs Vedānta) so you can clearly see where they overlap and diverge?