Identification with the limited, mortal body-mind

Because of this separative act of self-contraction, we end up identifying with a limited, mortal body-mind, and suffer all the limitations of that restricted identity.

Because all these apparently separate, apparently distinct beings (which are all only the One Divine Consciousness trapped into identification with a limited body-mind, again and again) have lost their fundamental, direct awareness of God and their own Nature (through chronic, lifelong self-contraction), they instead completely identify with the body-mind with which they are associated.

All such body-minds are mortal, possessing a "consciousness" that is identified with the body-mind through self-contraction. They thus suffer greatly the sense of (apparent) separation from everything and everyone else (particularly, and unconsciously, the sense of separation from their Source).