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Namah Reflections

Force itself: the pranna circulating in the body. patience and about humility, as my raison
I can share that this consciousness is independent d’être used to be the non-profit organisation I
of the mental, the vital and even from the had created, all the structure which had fallen
body itself. The more we penetrate those apart with the accident. Then came gratitude,
planes of consciousness, the more we become gratitude to witness how the body and mind
aware of the Life-Force at work. It seems that could regenerate, how I was being helped by
it is a vibratory modality that oscillates from so many people: then perseverance, courage,
one state to another, discovering new layers in progress. In the back of my mind was the will
the infinite consciousness. The most difficult to infuse this experience to people, but how?
part is to be able to drive and manipulate its
mass density, as it is energy expanding to So five years ago, Yoga Nidra came to me!
Infiniteness and to Oneness. I was oscillating Since then , in my attempt to remain a simple
from one world to another, as if my body was vehicle, I have been using this fabulous
like a house where the central electrical system Tool of the Mother and implementing the
had blown up and where an unknown little ‘Twelve Qualities’ into Yoga Nidra during
candle had started up on its own. What was this sessions at the Unity Pavilion in Auroville
Life-Force that is capable of switching different and at SAICE (Sri Aurobindo International
vibrational frequencies with complete authority Centre of Education). During those sessions,
over our life-survival process? like a miracle, I feel collective Peacefulness
expanding into Oneness. “Always there is the
At the hospital, an MRI showed that I had need to love, to know and to fight!”
experienced a cerebral oedema (water in the
brain). It took me a few years to completely References
recover, and to learn what I had to learn. The
first thing I learnt was to accept the invisible 1. The Mother. Mother’s Agenda, Volume 1 (English
handicap I had (for almost a year I would translation). Paris: Institut de Recherches Évolutives;
not be able to remember what I was doing, 1979, p. 343.
or speaking about...) The Mother says that,
“The work consists of changing the conscious 2. Ibid., p. 251.
basis of all the cells (5).” During those years
of recovery I very much remembered that 3. Ibid., p.127.
specific moment of floating into the Divine,
and I recalled where the Mother said, “The 4. The Mother. Mother’s Agenda, Volume 3 (English
body suddenly finds itself outside of all habits, translation), 1982, p. 182.
all actions, reactions, consequences, and then,
it’s like a marvel, and then it disappears. It’s 5. The Mother. Mother’s Agenda, Volume 10 (English
so new that each time we feel we’re at it, the translation), 1993, p. 67.
consciousness has a moment of panic (6).” In
those moments of panic when the synapsis 6. The Mother. Mother’s Agenda, Volume 11 (English
was not working properly, I learnt about translation), 1993, p. 201.

Veronik Menanteau is a visual artist, writer and Yoga Nidra teacher alternating between Paris and Auroville, India.

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