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Namah Vol. 30, Issue 2, 15th July 2022

this continues, we are bound by nature and times it always says (Mother opens her hands):
the content of our interchanges. “As You will, Lord.” And within a few minutes
at the most, the thing calms down (2).”
Self-referencing nature
So this we shall propose as the second poise
Most of the time our body cells are also — to learn to turn the cells of our body
turned on themselves — on the experiences upwards to the Divine light, love or presence
that inpour and its memory imprints within. to whatever extent we are aware of in the
Our cells face the energies, pains, memories Now. It seems the practice would get better
accumulated and this is largely the inner when we can add a touch of vastness to it.
view or sensing of the cells. This sustains the We can learn to allow our body cells or small
current condition and comes in the way of parts to open and connect to vastness and
healing and the evolution of our body. point upwards.

Let’s hear the words of the Mother: How? This is a question our minds may ask. If
we answer that, we will only play ping-pong
“The being isn’t at all turned in on itself: there’s with our mind. Our awareness will withdraw
nothing, it’s like this (Mother stretches her arms from within our body. We need to be present
into the infinite). It’s like this.” with our awareness within our body to do
this work. It also can’t be done as an eyes-
“But the strange thing is that if the body becomes closed meditation alone. What do we then
conscious of itself... it doesn’t suffer, that’s do during the rest of the time as we live our
not suffering, but something which is ... an lives? Can we also learn to do this with eyes
inexpressible discomfort (1).” open amongst our daily work so that there
is continuity and intensity of practice built
So we need to learn to allow our cells to point through our lifetime?
elsewhere other than its pain and imprints
and sense something far more nourishing To learn to open our cells upwards to the
for it. We shall explore this solution as three Divine Creator or the Lord, let’s go within
other possible poises. our body and start observing it with our inner
senses. Sometimes we see cells as a flower, not
Opening the body to the Vastness and as an imagination but something that appears
Consciousness Above by itself in our inner sight as we pay attention
within the small parts of our body. Sometimes
Let’s first lean on some clues from the Mother: we feel it as a vibration, sometimes there is
a colour to it, some energy, some emotions
“The body knows it — it knows and doesn’t enmeshed, sometimes we feel cells cringing,
have a shadow of fear, I must say — it’s all the often there is some pain within the cells, etc.
same to it: “What You want will be fine.” At Now we aspire, how can this tiny part of me
times it feels a little suffering for one thing or or this cell connect to vastness? Not me and
another, a little friction (a pain here or there my mind thinking of vastness, but how can
… some pains aren’t too pleasant), and at such the cells themselves spread out and feel the

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