What is the body I was thinking to myself as the answer came in form of these thoughts: It is also a part of our misperception of the greater truth. We perceive ourselves as different and separate from the rest of the being and the others. This is our perception which lives in our minds. And the body is also just to strenghten this misperception: I have a body, the others have other bodies so we are separate. Most people even think about God as a person with a body sitting on the clouds, don't they? It is just another argument for our mind...