When you are identified with the body, you are identified with a bundle of crying needs. Remember, the body has its needs—consciousness, too, has its needs—but they are diverse and unending. Even in the last moment of your life, you still require air to breathe, right? It might be your last moment, but you still need air. The needs of the body continue till death—and these needs are not at all deep. Shallow, but very widespread needs. ‘I want this! I want this!’ Little things. Little but endless.
