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Namah Vol. 31, Issue 1, 24th April 2023

water too. If we are really aware, in air too the Mother’s sharing it is now easier for
there is a substance component, which is matter to receive the Divine.
why sometimes the breeze feels dense and
sometimes light.

When we move our awareness within our
body, we need to learn to move our awareness
into the mass or volume or weight of the cells.
Even if we relax our body a bit we will feel
a certain weight of the body’s substance.
Sometimes when people do yoga the lightness
part of the body is emphasised. The weight
or density of the body too is to be honoured,
to be able to touch matter and perhaps start
feeling its divinity. The inner practice here
is to move into the body and feel or see its
mass, density, weight or substance. We can
then discover a few practices that we can do,
seated within the substance of our body that We are reminded again by Her quote:
will support us to discover its divinity.
“It means that the supreme height touches
If still our mind is curious as to why do we the most material matter, without any
need to explore matter to touch its divinity, intermediary (4).”
we can read the quote below of The Mother
for our mind to chew on: It would be now easier to access the Divine
in matter’s depth within our body and also
“It is likely that the greatest resistance will in the core of the sacred earth. The ease of
be in the most conscious beings due to a how this could emerge for all of us is perhaps
lack of mental receptivity, due to the mind due to the work that the Masters did in their
itself which wants things to continue (as Sri physical body, are continuing to do in their
Aurobindo has written) according to its own subtle physical realm and a few others who
mode of ignorance. So-called inert matter is are working this out in their own body in
much more easily responsive, much more current times.
— it does not resist (3).”
When we read descriptions of Mother’s
Matter is a Source and Sri Aurobindo’s work on their body,
they become pointers of light for us. At
While we connect to the Divine in the the same time, we should not think that
heights of the Above or within the Cave of the transformation would happen exactly
our Hearts, it is now perhaps possible to as has been written or that the body’s
connect to the Divine in the depth of each transformation could be difficult for us as it
cell of our body. From what we learn from was for the pioneers. Much more work on

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