[betty boop]

Thinkers and seekers of the truth, as well as spiritual practitioners from all religions, have concluded that the self is the eternal soul/atma, and the body is a temporary vehicle or covering that is in our possession, for a time.

Are you suggesting that this establishes "property rights" in one's body? Soul or atma cannot begin to express itself in the space-time plane without the organic body to which it is inseparably joined in physical reality. The bodily manifestation is simply part of the same energy continuum that is the self. I mean, it's not like a shoe or a suit that one puts on, or takes off at will.

[First Amendment]

The bodily manifestation is simply part of the same energy continuum that is the self. I mean, it's not like a shoe or a suit that one puts on, or takes off at will.

Actually, according to the Vedas, it is exactly that - it is compared to a vehicle that the atma (or soul, self) is temporarily wearing.

And it is not of the same energy as the body. There are two energies - the material energy, prakriti - which changes its manifestation, and the paraprakriti, or spiritual energy which manifests eternally. The soul or atma is the paraprakriti, and the body is prakriti.