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

and see what unfolds. been lit inside. As much, as we are connecting
to the Divine Presence, in our heart we are
Condensing substance lit with an aspiration to discover the Divine
Presence in the very atom of our body. In the
We close this exploration with an insight. We depth of substance, there is an ever- increasing
can concentrate or condense substance at a radiance and light. This is the promise, faith,
subtle level. Say an inner part is dense, vague, aspiration and unfolding experience.
scattered, in pain or stiff. Place awareness
within a point of that region. As if you are Let’s say we are doing our daily work and
pinching the substance in the point of that suddenly we feel a drain. We immediately
region, condense the matter there. Hold the move our awareness within our body. We
condensed substance with your awareness continue to interact with others and in our
and open it to the pure substance in the depth work. As we move into our body, we may
of the region and to the Supreme Light above. notice a slight shiver in the body, a mild
Patiently wait till there is an in-swelling of freezing-up, a part of our body tensing
some goodness either from the depth or up as if bracing for a difficult moment
above within the substance in that region. Do and so on. We understand the first step
note that we are actually condensing subtle is to ease the body. So sensorially, we can
matter of our body in this way and opening connect to the vast space around and
it to the depth and above. hear the birds and thus open to vastness.
Then we drop our awareness back to our
cells, identifying and becoming our cells
we allow it to sense the vastness. We can
continue to work and interact with others.
We may notice now that the body cells often
do not fully relax and ease as it is feeling
into the cringing and the stress present.
This is our old conditioning as our body
keeps sensing outside to protect itself from
danger. We turn the cells to vastness, to
Summary — example of a practice sense vastness and to feel it. Concretely

and materially, when the cells get a sort of
Now when we are learning to turn our cells spread-out feeling and ease, we know they
from outer-facing to inward-depth facing, we are connecting to vastness.
need to remember to do it in our front and
back too. Often in our inner practice, we forget Now when we get the luxury of a few
the back which may lead to entanglements moments on our own, we can place our hand
there. in the spot that is tensed. We let our hands
become conscious and sense the cells on
So what could potentially our future look surface and within. We keep focussing on
like? Here is a possible scenario. Say we are deeper regions and if we sit like this for
engrossed at our workplace. Something has some time, say for 10 or 20 minutes, our

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