Purification to Radiance – Deeper Body Work – Jan to March 2026 – Session 1
Orientation: Entering the Dimension of Matter (Substance)
Date: Sunday, 18th January 2026 | Session 1 | Facilitator : Arul Dev
The core quest of this practice is to shift from a life spent thinking, emoting, and feeling to one lived within the body. While our awareness is typically “thrown out” into the world, this work invites an in-drawing of awareness to discover the body’s density and substance. The body is not merely a physical vessel; it has an absorptive capacity and contains the “memories of evolution”—from the Big Bang and minerals to plants and the remembrance of a future body.
Key Concepts for the Practitioner:
• Active Surrender: This is not a passive state but a way of “guarding the body” while connecting its substance to higher qualities like joy, vastness, or light.
• Aspiration (Agni): Success in this practice does not depend on perfect concentration or purity alone, but on the inner urge of the body to stay linked to its Source.
• The Goal-less Posture: Approaching the body with a specific agenda (e.g., “I must be healed”) can contaminate the process. The focus should be on discovering the truth of the body rather than achieving a result.
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Guided Inner Practice
This practice is organic. While these steps provide a framework, you should eventually follow the movements that start happening naturally within your own body.
Step 1: Establishing Physical Contact and Awareness
1. Close your eyes and touch your body with your awareness. Treat the body as “the Lord” to discover the divinity within it.
2. Use your fingers for assistance. Place your hand on different parts of the skin. Direct your entire concentration to the finger, using its mild pressure to help your awareness enter the body.
3. Feel the substance. Move beyond the surface skin to feel the density and pulsation of the matter inside.
4. Adopt a posture of surrender. Internally, find the feeling of “melting” or “vulnerability” that occurs when you feel true love or union with the divine.
Step 2: Unifying the Will and Dropping Agendas
1. Recognise the “Hurry”: Most practitioners feel a natural urgency for pain to leave or for a part to heal. Consciously drop this agenda.
2. Simplify your intent: Replace all goals with a single will: “I want to go deeper into the body to see its truth”.
3. Manage “Blankness”: If you get lost or your mind wanders, cut the practice and start again. It is better to do thirty seconds of correct awareness than ten minutes of sitting blankly.
Step 3: Navigating the Inner Terrain
1. Enter the “Entanglements”: You may encounter darkness, rigidity, or specific images (e.g., a flower, a rusted plate, or a person’s face). These are representations of your inner reality.
2. Occupy the sensation: Do not try to make the sensation go away. Instead, enter into the substance of that image, pain, or rigidity.
3. Spread your awareness: Occupy the area with your awareness, spreading through the “entanglement.” By coming into harmony with these parts rather than avoiding them, they lose their power to affect you negatively. Here harmony means each one is in its right place around a conscious higher center of reference.
Step 4: Integration through Breath and Descent
1. Unite with the natural breath: Without changing your breathing, follow its movement through the body.
2. Stir the matter: Focus on the tiny breath movements or pulsations under your hands.
Occupying these regions allows the body to open up and facilitates a natural descent into the deeper layers of being.
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Summary for High-Level Glance
• The Objective: To live from within the physical substance of the body rather than the mind alone.
• The Primary Tool: Aspiration (Agni)—the deep-seated urge to connect the body to its Source.
• The Method:
◦ Touch: Use physical touch to anchor awareness within body.
◦ Surrender: Maintain an active state of “offering” the body’s cells to the higher consciousness.
◦ Observation: Allow sensations to open up. Sense within. You will see, feel something. Whatever rigidities or images open up, let your awareness be present within them with the aspiration to understand their nature rather than to fix them.
• The Practice Philosophy: Quality over duration. If awareness breaks, reset and begin the contact again. Finish by resting to allow the process to complete
