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Namah Vol. 23, Issue 4, 15th January 2016
believe that it’s just a matter of practice. beautifully:
In time, I find that one gets a greater
understanding of this communication. It “This then is truly the truth, you are upon
is a language without words but for earth for that, surely. All individual beings and
something as presently finite as the body, all the little concentrations of consciousness
words have an immense impact. So why not were created to do this work. It is the very
invite the Truth as interpreter too? Wherever reason for existence: to be able to become fully
Truth reigns, natural order is resumed and conscious of a certain sum of vibrations
this normalcy implies joy, peace and bliss: representing an individual being and put
things which are only our natural birthright. order there and find one’s way and follow it
Somewhere in this world of ignorance, this (7).”
condition has been lost and the process of
alignment returns it back to us. Hide and seek
Sometimes the deeper I probe, the more I I find I sometimes get lost in the outside
realise just how many ‘causes’ there actually world. At those times when I identify with
are! Frequently, one might conceal others in it, I fall prey to outer circumstances and this
separate layers underneath. Like boring into undermines my alignment. I lose connection
very hard ‘crust’, the rock often gets harder with the Truth of my being. I also lose touch
and harder the deeper one goes. Many of us with the presiding part of my nature. The
go through lifetimes with these causes shift happens spontaneously and often
entirely hidden from our gaze. Like trapped without catching my attention. Sometimes
memories, they gnaw away at one’s well- a great amount of concentrated effort is
being without being noticed. It explains why required to settle again at a truer inner poise.
so many people live a life of tension, unease There is a danger of losing this inner poise
and misery. One knows something isn’t the moment one opens one’s eyes after
right but can’t put a finger on it. It is the aligning oneself inside. The eyes need to
practice of yoga, or more specifically this be opened slowly, integrating the newly
detailed observation, which can shed light gathered presence and surroundings into
on the hidden corners of our nature. the body. I need also to expand my
consciousness before I open my eyes. When
I find these disfigurements from the past I am ‘back’, I might do some stretching or
very difficult to efface: they just keep coming gentle movement to remind the body of
back, if only in a slightly different guise. its natural alignment. It is important for the
Being so hidden, they are easily able to physical to sustain the contact for as long
undermine our psychological balance. They as possible.
are chronically embedded in our nature,
most stuck in our subconscious. One has to This inner poise and contact are so essential
go deep down, right down to the bottom of to alignment. When our consciousness
the root. strays outside, it gets scattered and all
control over the nature is relinquished. The
The Mother herself describes this work so body is left to stumble on through in its own
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