Physical & non-physical

There is a field of knowing, which is the field of pure awareness of the sentient being that knows. This expands beyond the boundary of the physical body. It sees the body externally as well as knows it internally. It perceives the body as something emerging out of it, introducing limitations of boundaries of the body on the physical plane. But the knower clearly knows that is beyond the physical plane. It sees body as its extension, which is connected to it but it itself is beyond the body. 

So, there is a physical entity that is subjected to the laws governing the material objects. And then there is a "beyond-physical" entity that is out of bounds of any laws governing the physical world. It is even beyond time and space.

Between these two, another illusory being takes birth, which seems to exist, but it does not exist in a real sense. It feels that it is maintaining and controlling the body. It thinks that it is doing all the activities performed by the body and it is keeping the body alive. But when looked at closely, one would see that it is nothing but a virtual bundle of non-real things, such as beliefs and false identities, which continuously get added onto a growing heap through conditioning and influences from various experiences and interactions with the environment. These are stored like patterns in the subconscious mind and start controlling the being as robots.