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To Touch Matter

Arul Dev

Abstract
This article is about making a tiny conscious exploration into one aspect, that we see explored by
both Mother and Sri Aurobindo, — to touch matter in the very substance of our body at the realm
of the physical or the subtle physical. To make this exploration we will take a few quotes from
Mother’s Agenda and Mother’s Log. We will do this exploration in a very concrete and tangible way.
As you read this article, you will find a few practices shared. Kindly do the practices as you read
and see what opens up for you. As a few individuals learn to touch matter, perhaps within our
bodies, in the rocks, in the crystals, in the mineral kingdom, within the earth, etc. it could make a
leap of progress within the entire humanity.

Mother.

The key question is, how do we actually
connect to our body and stay within to touch
its matter at depth? For most of us, even as
we connect to our body, our commentating
mind begins to comment more. We often lose
connection with our body and dart within
into an emotion or sensation or we get flung
Connecting to our body outside of us, pursuing something else that
is more captivating. Perhaps this could be
“’Evil’ is something that has been added to because we have not yet discovered the
enable us to touch Matter (1).” golden treasures that lie within the matter
or substance of our body. Our proposition
We will begin with this intriguing quote by is we can act in the world in a more centred
the Mother. Let us explore how to touch the and creative way by actually being in touch
matter within our body. We can then explore with the matter of our body. This could take
what could be this role of ‘evil’ hinted by us towards a life of New Creation.

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