The very first thing that one who has embarked on the path of self-awareness needs to do is to distinguish himself from his body. It is very important that everyone who wants to escape from the power of death and enter the spiritual world understands: “I am not a body, but a spiritual soul.” But it’s not enough to just say: “I am not the body,” you have to really realize this, which is not as simple as it might seem at first glance. Despite the fact that we are not a body, but pure consciousness, one way or another we are trapped in the body’s cage, and if we really want happiness and independence, over which death has no power, we must return to our original state, that is, become pure consciousness, and always remain in it. We identify ourselves with the body, therefore our ideas of happiness are similar to the ideas of a person in delirium. Some philosophers argue that in order to get out of the delusional state of identifying oneself with the body, it is necessary to renounce any activity. They say that we should stop all material activities because they are a source of suffering for us. They consider the height of perfection to be a state reminiscent of Buddhist nirvana, in which a living being ceases all activity.