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Namah Vol. 29, Issue 2, 15th July 2021

Erect your cinema screen your consciousness upon them? In certain
cases, given the right poise, there can be
Close your eyes and relax the body, though immediate resolution.
not in an inert state. You need to be attentive
and alert. Centre yourself as much as possible If the grief is too overpowering and if it is
and call the Divine for guidance and help. If too difficult to maintain this disinterested
you have a connection with the Mother, ask and centred poise, do not fret or judge
Her to take over. Turn your consciousness yourself. Just extend this with a loving
inwards and focus on the subject of your acceptance. This doesn’t define you at all.
grief. Try to separate yourself from what Allow the emotions to naturally arise in
you view as a film that you are replaying on you and come to the surface. Above all, do
a cinema screen in front of your inner eye. not suppress them and just accept it with
Let the plot unfold and try to be as present love. It is very important to experience the
as possible.You are the director of the film furnace of this grief. How can one offer
although you are also playing the central something that one has not experienced?
role in the drama that is taking shape on
the screen. As the director you can change You are the director so the conclusion is entirely
your own actions and responses in the film up to you. Do whatever spontaneously comes
or allow them to naturally arise. to you and conclude the film.

Play back any memories that spontaneously Offer everything
come to you. Don’t select the sequence; just
play whatever your memory evokes, good Then offer all that this film brought up
or bad. Grief is a complex emotion and does within you to the Divine. If your connection
not always stimulate pleasant memories is with the Mother, offer it to Her. Offer
and moments, there may be anger, guilt, your part in the film and all the other actors
fear or passion intermixed in the play that in the drama. Offer your grief and whatever
is taking place. other emotions the film has induced. Offer
your entire being to the Divine. Offer your
While watching, do not identify with the experience. Leave everything at her feet.
drama and the roles. Remain connected and
centred, knowing that you are also just a Finally integrate yourself. Apply whatever
spectator sitting in a cinema-hall. Watch way you use to integrate yourself. You can
yourself and the other actors on the screen integrate yourself through your body-
as disinterestedly as possible. It is right to consciousness because, of all the parts
experience the drama and feel the grief but try of the nature, it is the body that has the
to observe your own reactions from a more closest affinity to our psychic being or
central or higher station. Is there a part of soul. The Mother has commented on this.
you that is separate from this grief? Keep This is why the body is such a beautiful
your station and observe what happens to channel and barometer of our inner states.
your emotions as you do this. Does their It provides a detailed map of our inner
character change as you place the light of psychology and when one is armed with

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