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Namah Vol. 33, Issue 1, 24th April 2025

balls played, you were able to take the right to play beautifully, you want to learn the
stance, maybe for one of those balls! What right stance, you want to hit the ball in the
is natural for you, what is effortless for you right poise. That’s a change of consciousness;
is — not to be able to take the right stance, you don’t want to be your old self, who cannot
and hit the ball rightly. What is unnatural take the right stance. There is a constant
for you but where you would want to go flaming aspiration in you to play correctly,
is — to be able to gracefully hit the ball which you cannot fully do right now.
in a right stance, and that too, not miss a
single ball. So gradually, as you put in hours of practice,
consciously correcting every error in your
Consciousness: its Change and Reversal stance, and using the right technique under
the guidance of an expert, and self-learning,
Well, Rome wasn’t built in a day, as they say. self-correcting too, you begin to see a shift in
So, now we realise the immensity and your play. You see that earlier you were able
challenge of the task. The only task for which to hit one ball out of 50 correctly, now you
we all are here — transformation of nature, can play more shots in the right manner, and
which must begin with a radical reversal of misses are much less frequent. Gradually,
consciousness (not just one reversal but a misses are fewer and right hits are better and
series of reversals). What does this mean? better. It depends on how conscious you are
It means a stage where it is impossible for about your play, and how much time and
you to hit the ball wrongly, in the wrong hours you spend on perfecting the play.
stance! We can’t reach there in a day or two
of practice. Now, as time passes, you give more and more
focus and consciousness to your body, your
Let us remind ourselves of expert tennis hands, your legs, the arms, the ball, the way
players, who are just too perfect in their you are holding the racquet, and readjusting,
sports, at least in a certain prime phase of correcting, perfecting each of the stances. You
their life. The body is so well trained after play consciously, demanding the best out of
hours and hours and hours of practice that yourself…. you feel regret when you can’t
it is impossible for them to play wrongly. play well, only to put in more consciousness,
And if they do play wrongly, they instantly more perfection into the play. Until the day
recognise and regret it, as something that
ought not happen. Even in dreams they can
play the right shot, take the right stance; it has
become their core nature. The wrong stance
is an anomaly. While as a beginner in our
example, the right shot is an anomaly. Out of
50 balls, it is okay for me to hit one rightly, by
taking the right stance, which will be ‘normal’
for a body not trained in tennis.

But once you are convinced to play correctly,

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