Acharya Prashant explains the relationship between doership and body-identification. When you are identified with the body, you are identified with a bundle of crying needs. The body has diverse and unending needs that continue until death. For example, even in the last moment of life, one still requires air to breathe. These bodily needs are shallow but very widespread, like an infinite XY plane that has no height or depth. They are numerous, like the countless molecules in each breath, and unending, like the constant need for clothes or food. In contrast, consciousness has only one need: liberation. This need is very deep, like the Z-axis, which has no area but has an ambition to reach higher and deeper. While the needs of the body are truly unending, the need of consciousness for liberation, though an infinite pursuit, is somehow attainable. When you choose to serve the needs of consciousness over the needs of the body, you find that the needs of the body, which are on the XY plane, become less relevant as you move higher on the Z-axis. This is spirituality: creating distance from the plane of bodily needs. Doership is necessitated by the feeling of incompleteness. The thought, "I am not okay, I'll have to do something," is the root of doership. We often pride ourselves on our doership, but the stark fact is that it is necessitated by our inner poverty, disease, and hollowness. We are not the doer; we are forced to be the doer. Life is like a rabid dog chasing you, and you are forced to run. This is bondage. The liberated one, on the other hand, indeed appears to act, but is not forced to act; their actions are sovereign. They work not for a reason or a reward, but because work is their joy. Therefore, one must ask whether they are acting or being forced to act. If you are not great within, even if you chance upon great work, you will be a misfit. The right use of the body is to create a launchpad to serve the one deep need of consciousness.