About 65 of us come together on Friday 21 February 2025 for an hour and did this practice together as a way of wishing the Divine Mother and as a way of offering every cell of our body for the Divine Mother to manifest. We kept in place a vision for the formation of a Sound Body for Divine Manifestation. The mantras chanted and the deeper body work practices we did are shared here.
Becoming aware of our natural breath and connecting to and merging into The Mother’s image, we reflected on two quotes.
“The Mantra is one of these psycho-spiritual means, at once a symbol, an instrument and a sound body for the divine manifestation…”
~ Sri Aurobindo
“The function of a mantra is to create vibrations in the inner consciousness that will prepare it for the realisation of what the mantra symbolises and is supposed indeed to carry within itself.”
~ Sri Aurobindo
Practice : Receiving breath from Her, Sending our breath to The Mother.
(In breath AUM out breath MAA)
Chant : AUM MAA for 7 times.
Practice : Connecting / Opening to the above, not as our space but as connecting to HER vastness.
Chanting :
Mahima Tawaïwa prabho parama jitwara
Om, namo bhagavateh
Mahima Tawaïwa prabho parama jitwara
Om Tat Sat
Om Sat Chittapas Ananda
Om namo bhagavateh
Om my sweet Lord
OM, my Beloved
Practice : We want to create a Sound Body within us where our cells chant AUM and any mantra. Now we take our awareness deep within our heart, beneath all our emotions and stay there in the cave. From there we receive the vibrations of the mantra being chanted and allow our body’s cells to vibrate to it. We thus offer our sound body being formed to The Divine Mother.
Chant : OM – few times
Chant : Om namo bhagavateh
Chant : Two times
Om, Supreme Lord, God of kindness and mercy Om, Supreme Lord, God of love and felicity, Om, Supreme Lord, manifest Your Will, Om, Supreme Lord, manifest Your Truth, Om, Supreme Lord, manifest Your Purity, Om, Supreme Lord, manifest Your Perfection, Om, Supreme Lord, manifest Your Oneness, Om, Supreme Lord, manifest Your Eternity, Om, Supreme Lord, manifest Your Infinity, Om, Supreme Lord, manifest Your Immortality, Om, Supreme Lord, manifest Your Silence, Om, Supreme Lord, manifest Your Peace, Om, Supreme Lord, manifest Your Existence, Om, Supreme Lord, manifest Your Consciousness, Om, Supreme Lord, manifest Your Omnipotence, Om, Supreme Lord, manifest Your Felicity, Om, Supreme Lord, manifest Your Knowledge, Om, Supreme Lord, manifest Your Omniscience, Om, Supreme Lord, manifest Your Wisdom, Om, Supreme Lord, manifest Your Equality, Om, Supreme Lord, manifest Your Intensity, Om, Supreme Lord, manifest Your Light, Om, Supreme Lord, manifest Your Harmony, Om, Supreme Lord, manifest Your Compassion, Om, Supreme Lord, manifest Your Beauty, Om, Supreme Lord, manifest Your Love, Om, Supreme Lord, win Your Victory. OM
Practice: Connecting, Gifting the substance of our body & surrendering our Future body & being to The Mother
Chant : Two times
O my sweet Master, Lord God of Kindness and Mercy.
What you want us to know, we shall know, what you want us to do, we shall do, what you want us to be, we shall be—forever.
Om – namo – bhagavateh
For it is You who is, who lives and who knows—
it is You who does all things, You who is the result of every action.
Chanting : Six times
AUM Anandmayi Chaitanyamayi Satyamayi Parame
Link to guided audio recording of the practice is here:
Our lips and its inner substance seems to be carrying something precious that we can bring into deeper body work and healing. Long back there was a practitioner who used to do body work but had a challenge of getting distracted by thoughts. One day when she was in practice, the deeper body work was going on very good and she said in-between that she was getting distracted due to thoughts. There was a sudden intuition where the attention was brought to her lips. This intuition happened twice or thrice. And then she was told to bring her attention to her lips and connect her lips to her mind region, and leave it open to the Vastness above head. In a few minutes she became very calm and reported that the noise in her mind became calm and she accessed silence. All she did was to move her awareness and breath within her lips and kept it connected to her mind and also above her head. We have tested this practice in several retreats of ours and the same experience has been unfolding for many.
Before we explore more into this aspect of our lip and its healing for our body, let us examine the act of kissing. The lips have an inner substance. The act of giving a kiss is very different from the act of kissing as a sexual interchange. A kiss offered to a child, spouse, family member or a friend can actually be healing. The substance present within lips seems to have this capacity. For a kiss to be healing it should be done in a non-stimulative manner. When we deeply study the movement of a kiss, it is a master condensing and letting go movement. When we kiss there is a natural condensing of substance in both the giver and receiver. Then there is a natural let go which is an expansion of inner substance both for the giver and receiver. This kiss offered need not be with touch alone. Even a flying kiss or even a close connect with another human, without any physical contact has this aspect of a condensation subtle touch and a let go or expansion movement.
Let us take this insight and explore inner healing with our own lips. We can connect to the substance of matter within our lip. We can do this with our eyes closed or open and feel into the mass and soft substance within the lip. We can do our regular practices like be with our natural breath or connect our lips to the Divine or Consciousness above our head. With the substance of our lip and movement of condensation and expansion we can kiss each part of our body and its substance from head to toe. This can be done with eyes closed and eyes open.
Let us give an experiential description again. We keep our awareness within our lips. We can be with our breath and connect the lips to Consciousness above head. We should be feeling the inner substance of our lips. This will often open up a sense of joy or a feeling of light or subtle substance within our lips. Now from or with our lips we focus say on our head region. It is almost like with our lips we touch the substance of our head and kiss it. This will be like condensing the subtle substance of our head – not the physical actual head but the inner matter of head with is more pliable. We then let go but our lips is still in contact with our head. The letting go is natural expansion. We can do this once or twice and then travel through all parts of our body in this manner.
The same practice we have been doing with our awareness before. We take our awareness to different parts of our body. We condense and let go the part and connect the part of our body to Qualities present above our head. The same we are doing with our lips now. It is the substance of our lips which is doing the process for each part of our body. The lips seems to have some unique advantages. The substance within our lip can sense very deeply into substance of other parts, condense and expand and heal deep tissues. So we can kiss our inner substance of all parts of our body with the substance of our lips. Also the substance of our lips does not absorb entanglements. It seems to be able to be untouched more naturally, especially when we keep our lips linked to Divine above during this Sadhana.
Doing this process with our lips also seems to be giving a heightened sensing. For example when the lips are working on a pain area on our right shoulder blade, soon the pathway of pain can clearly show up. For example you may see a interlinkage to a specific point inside a jaw bone or tooth and which extends to a point in the right ear. We can gently allow our lips to continue the practice in the path shown until the point in the right ear.
Each part of our body that we are working on with our lips, it is good to keep that part of the body relaxed and soft. This helps the process to unfold beautifully.
A lips that is constantly chanting a chosen mantra or the primordial sound AUM has a greater capacity to heal in this manner.
You can also kiss the subtle substance of Divine Masters in a very humble and sacred way. Thus in a state of intimate union with our Divine or Divine Master, we receive Their sacred subtle substance within us, as much as Grace bestows upon us and as much as our body has the capacity to receive.
Keeping our lips with a mantra, offered to Divine above and connecting to each and every cell of our body and condensing and expanding it and connecting each cell to Divine above is this Sadhana process that is unfolding.
This is a practice that a mother or a father to be or both can do for the child in womb. The pre-conditions are that the couple or at least one of them are already in daily inner practice. That gives them the capacity to do this practice gently and lovingly for the child in the womb.
When the child is conceived and is in the womb the mother has nine months of nourishing time. All that she feels, thinks and experiences is a direct transfer to the child’s being, conscious and unconsciousness. All inner practices she does including her meditations, healing, chanting, joyful walks and the like, those vibrations permeate within the womb of the child. The child soaks in these nourishing vibrations.
Today we are going to share some very subtle, simple and profound practices that the mother and / or father to be can do for the child in womb. Now the true depth of the practice the couple transfers within the child, depends on their own individual sadhana. This they can separately build up and to that extent they can do this practice for the child.
Guidelines:
This can be done by the mother to be or father to be or both together as a couple.
First you do some practice to become as neutral as possible. For example, be with your natural breath for a few minutes. Or do any of the practices that connects you to the Divine or Higher Consciousness, for example connecting above head, cave of heart, vastness surround or sacred below. Only when you as a mother or as a father or couple feel more neutral, centered and connected to a Higher / Divine consciousness should you begin this practice.
Place your hand on the womb of the mother to be. Now any of the inner practices you do you can place your attention within the body and being of the child and do it there within the child for a very short time. It would be easy for the mother to do as anyway she would feel the child very intimately. The father needs to learn to be neutral and extend his awareness in a neutral way to touch the inner being of the child and wait. Then you would sense the inner body and being of the child and then you can do this inner practice. Some examples are shared below as illustrations.
Connect your breath to the child within the womb of the mother. There is no ‘how to’ for this and neither is it imagination. With a certain extension of your awareness you place your natural breath as it is now within the child in womb. For about thirty to sixty seconds breathe with the child and connect the child to the above, that represents Divine Consciousness and let go.
Another practice can be to take your subtle awareness and connect to the child’s body and being. Remember to keep an attitude of lovingness and an extraordinary good will for a beautiful soul to birth its full potentials with the Grace of Divine and come as a child into this world. And then connect the child to the domain above. Feel some quality that you regularly feel in the above like vastness, quietness, potent nothing-ness, beautiful being-ness, light-filled-ness, spread out joy-ness and a space made of love. Feel one of these qualities present in the above this moment and connect it to the child’s body or being. Do this for a minute or two.
Another practice can be to connect to the child in a similar manner and take your awareness in a neutral and loving way within the child’s heart to their heart’s cave. The mother or father to be can often hear or feel the heartbeat of the child. There a bit deeper you can pause for a few minutes and simply bow down to that space within the child’s deeper heart. Hold the attitude that you are meeting the Divine Being of the child in the womb, within her or his cave of heart. Bow down and offer one or two AUM chants and offer the space to the Divine. Care should be taken that you are doing this in a neutral way and not adding your individual agendas or goals for the child. No ‘masala’ should be added by us. Simply we should bow down to the cave of heart of the child in womb and simply we connect that space to the Divine. We can also close the practice by connecting the cave of the heart of child in womb to the Divine consciousness above. This whole practice can be done in about two or three minutes. When the baby is in womb the intensity of practice should be relaxed and calm. That is why just a few minutes of practice would be sufficient.
On this 21st February 2025, the birthday of The Mother, the Divine Body project offers ‘Mantra Mala’. Two of our facilitators will anchor the session. We will be offering mantra chanting alongside deeper body work. These mantras will be offered at the feet of The Mother, Above our head, within Cave of our heart and also in the depth of our body’s substance.
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We invite you to attend the full session. However if you are free only for a portion of the time you are most welcome to join too. Please sit in front of your sacred altar for this practice. Please keep a lamp lit if possible. Please keep your mike OFF all the time and simply soak into the space that unfolds.
We look forward to offer our best to The Mother. Look forward.
