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Namah The body — our perfect teacher

form. We do this through communication; we enormous effect on our health because any
have to allow the body to speak to us. Much type of illness or disease is an anathema to
maligned or taken for granted, its signals are the Truth. Whatever problems have beset it
often ignored. If the Truth were absent, the in the past and whatever scars may still be
body would be totally inarticulate. Most of apparent, there will be an enormous wellness
us will have felt the body’s alarm call when that radiates from inside.
harm or danger is imminent. This happens
when the Truth suddenly addresses us. So the Over a period of time, I have become more
first step is to align to this Truth. We do this and more conscious of how good a channel
with the intention of aligning all nature to this the body can be. When the soul is present,
Reality. Each of us needs to embrace the fact it becomes our most perfect messenger. It
that we are all the Truth itself: essentially there offers the ideal gateway to our inner world
is nothing else. Even the body, which some and provides such a detailed insight of our
consider to be engulfed in Maya, contains inner psychology, where every conceivable
this Truth in each of its cells. Everything is formation gets imprinted in its cells.
That. But we live also in shadows and initially When a true connection is present, each
we may find the physical nature somewhat will find release and rise to the surface.
reticent. We have to realise though, that the This brings me back to what I term the
body is only doing its best. Its consciousness ‘sacrifice of the body’. It is on the body that
certainly has shortcomings but there is an nature and soul are forged; here indeed
innate ‘simplicity’ and ‘goodwill’ about it is the anvil of transformation. When a
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that makes it a worthy candidate for this work. memory is awakened, bringing a stab of
So we learn to connect it with the psychic pain to the body, it is offered to the soul
influence. We have to somehow build a bridge to take it away. Every distortion has to be
between body and soul. vividly felt on the physical before it can
be transformed. The body lays everything
As we do this, our body-consciousness bare for the Consciousness to resolve. When
gradually and securely refines and develops. active, the Consciousness does the rest; it
As the body-consciousness expands and keeps its station above the body and does
grows, the physical structure somehow not identify with any distortion or pain. But
becomes more luminous and transparent, it goes inside and experiences, albeit with a
an ever-more perfect transcript of the Truth unique perspective. It goes inside, always
that has been waiting inside. An independent, maintaining its alignment to the Truth. It
living consciousness starts to awake; it also imparts knowledge on all it sees: once
begins to reflect the treasure that lies inside. a problem is seen it becomes known and
As this consciousness develops, it becomes once it is known it becomes resolved. It is a
more and more pliable and transparent. It simultaneous process and this knowledge
becomes imbued with Bliss. This has an truly heals. The implications of this work are

1 “In fact the physical being has a simplicity and even a goodwill, which is not always very
enlightened, far from it, but still a simplicity and goodwill which put it in a closer relation with
the psychic than the passions of the vital and pretensions of the mind (1).”

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