Just like identifying yourself with the physical body is a sign of underdeveloped spirituality, so is identification with the subtle body, albeit at a mature spiritual level.
We understand it's a mistake to identify ourselves with the physical body even with a little probing. We identify ourselves with our minds and thoughts and take our body for granted except when in pain or illness.
We the expiry of the body, "we" leave the body. But it's only a fall from one trap to another. The subtle body (Jivatman) which includes our minds and sense powers, move to other planes and suffer/enjoy the results of our actions (quite similar to the Abrahamic religions' theory). And then again take rebirth to suffer/enjoy some of the leftover results and make another effort at liberation.
True liberation is realising, while in this physical body itself, that one is not even the Jivatman, but the one illuminating the Jivatman itself.
This is what makes Moksha harder, and also why we need the help of the scriptures to realise this. Without the medium of the physical body, when in the subtle planes, it is not possible to achieve Moksha.
Even the Gods have to be reborn as humans to realise Brahman. So make use of this human life to the highest level!
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