The below message and inspiration was shared with us on 14th February 2025. This offers subtle insights for an aspiring couple to create a sacred womb in the mother who is or going to bear the child in her womb:
Sending you much love. This picture is a snapshot on Instagram about the Feb Moon inviting us to love ourselves and do the thing we love. However, if you ignore the text for a moment and just see this picture of the rising Moon reflecting on the gentle waves below – it appears to me to be a picture of an ultrasound. This could be a womb of an expecting mother creating space for the baby to gently bathe in the light of her inner sun. So if her inner flame is lit, the baby can bask in its warmth and love and light and truth all through the nine months. 🌅 If during this time, the mother can stay conscious by connecting her inner flame to the Divine, she can be the instrument of enabling this beautiful bond between the child and the Divine, and the bond between the child and the Divine can be established for his/ her lifetime. The father through the same mechanism of connecting his inner flame to the Divine and the mother & child can be a channel to establish a Divine bond of light, love and truth as a ring of protection around the mother and child through the physical & inner self through this time.
by Vrinda – A sadhika / deeper body work practitioner
Quote 1: “But I am not sure, for when I had this experience (not of the divine Presence, which I had already felt in the cells for a long time, but the experience that the Divine ALONE is acting in the body, that He has BECOME the body, yet all the while retaining his character of divine omniscience and omnipotence) well, the whole time it remained actively like that, it was absolutely impossible to have the LEAST disorder in the body, and not only in the body, but IN ALL THE SURROUNDING MATTER.”
Quote 2: “It is the result of the descent of the supramental substance into Matter. Only this substance – what it has put into physical Matter – could have made it possible. It is a new ferment. From the material standpoint, it removes from physical Matter its tamas, the heaviness of its unconsciousness, and from the psychological standpoint, its ignorance and its falsehood. Matter is subtilized. But it has surely come only as a first experience to show how it will be.
It is truly a state of absolute omniscience and omnipotence in the body which changes all the vibrations around it.”
June 6, 1958, Mother’s Agenda
INSIGHT:
Very humbly we need to examine this quote without any desire or ego or ambition or subtle spiritual pride stealing in. We are reading the work of the Masters. Here is quoted an experience of The Mother. This realization within the Body of The Mother has an impact on the ONE SUBSTANCE which is present in all our bodies. Without ego or desire it is very important for us to read and digest this quote, as it would make a significant shift in our own practice.
In the beginning in deeper body work we learn to bring our awareness within our body and connect to the Divine – Above, within cave of heart, as Divine Mother or Lord and the like. In the beginning we may be aware of the energy or sensations within the body. Matter itself can become our focus leading us to connect to our substance. Our inner senses will reveal the nourishing and limiting qualities present here. Yet our inner senses may not be able to sense the fullness or the depth of substance. There is a truth radar which by Grace of Divine shows to us a portion of substance which has some Divine Qualities like radiance, beauty, malleability and blissfulness. This portion of Divine substance at times expands and fills neighbouring cells of body or larger portions of the body too. At other times our awareness seems caught up with the inner dramas and the Divine substance is not in sight.
This aspiration and sadhana to build this Divine substance within each of our bodies is done by the Divine and Masters. It is a ‘Source’ that is available to all of us. As we internalise this our sadhana could take a new turn. We learn to be within our body’s substance, aspiring for Divine substance. We are with our breath, our mantra, our surrendering posture, our connect to Divine Above and the like. Yet we wait like a bridegroom waits to be with the bride and unite, we wait to glimpse this Divine substance and give space for IT to act, mould and grow within us.
Let us explore two quotes to glean some Inner Practices from Swami Vallalar’s intense, loving and Graceful Sadhana
“Fix your attention to the eyebrow centre with awareness, open it, see the light and get delighted. This is the mean of salvation; the last dance is coming from there.”
Page 136, Vallalar Messager of Grace Light by DhayaMesrobian
We connect to these two quotes and connect to the Presence and the White Subtle Divine Substance of Vallalar to guide us to do our own practices, on the basis of where we are in our own journeys. A lot depends on our purification and perfection of the different parts of our being on a ongoing basis. We offer few points for practice that has been emerging through our experiential research into Integral Yoga and some of the deeper body work practices we have been exploring in small groups.
INSIGHTS
Practice:
With humility we can take our awareness far above our head and above our mind. Where in the vastness and height above we find the Light present visible or as a felt sense?
We can access the Light ever present Above from the top of our head or we can take our awareness within our eyebrow center and we can wait. Waiting is the key aspect. We need to drop our goals and agendas here. Any benefit we wish to get from this too needs to be dropped. We are doing this practice to connect to our Masters and unite with our Divine. As we wait the silence, flame lit upwards or inner gaze opens up within our eye brow center, which by itself could expand. To be present even more here you can place your breath in this region and wait. Slowly the ‘eye’ of the gaze or aspiration can be turned to the ‘Vast Unbound Space’ Above head extending height after height to Greater heights. And in this posture we take the attitude to be prepared to wait till eternity. We take this posture during mediation, eating, working, exercising, working, conversing with others, and at all times.
As Grace Light descends from Above within our eyebrow center, we can learn to keep our body relaxed, conscious and more and more receptive so that the incoming Light can be experienced as an ‘inswelling’ of Light or Love in the subtle substance and cells of our body.
SUBTLE INSIGHT FROM A PRACTITIONER:
1) Keeping the body relaxed, conscious and more and more receptive is a prerequisite for the descent of the Grace Light
2) Once The Grace Light descends… Grace works. It is through our absolute surrender only Grace will work.
We need to lose and release all our so-called hold and control of ourselves. Until we are holding some strings Grace Light will not function fully, but partially blessing us with some subtle realm experiences to keep us steadfast in our faith.
RETREAT To Make Thy Inner Light Visible – A Sadhana residential retreat to assimilate Grace Light within our Body and Being
3 April to 6 April 2025 | Thursday 1 pm to Sunday 11 am IST | Venue: Arulville, Chennai – Pondicherry route
Facilitator: Arul Dev
Immerse yourself in a 3-day retreat surrounded by nature and a quiet, joyful setting. Experience inner practices that transform your body, senses, energy, emotions, thoughts, and memory imprints. This experiential portal will deepen your capacity for healing and integral transformation.
We will spend time to deepen our connect with Source Consciousness – Above Head, within Cave of Heart and Sacred Depth beneath feet. We will draw guidance from the subtle support of flowers for our Sadhana. We will learn to work at the level of inner vibrations and allow these subtle and loving intense vibrations to open up, what still lies untransformed within.
The retreat’s sweet spot is the possible discovery of subtle substance within the depth of the body and the loving intimacy of cells. The subtle substance is always self-lit, soft, joyful, pure and filled with love. This once touched within, fundamentally shifts the orientation of our body and life.
The vision for this retreat is to empower people to do Deeper Body Sadhana on a daily basis to Transform their Total Self.
The prerequisites to participate are an aspiration to transform inwardly and express creatively one’s Self in the world, a faith and connection with something larger – Nature, Universe, or Divine, and a basic level of love to do deeper body work.
This upcoming residential RETREAT starting on April 3rd 2025 seems to take us into our next era of deeper body work. Healing and transforming personal experiences within our body is a necessary part of our work to reduce the inner noise and entanglements. However we need to learn to do the Sadhana impersonally and give a lot of time and space to the main work – to link our body and its substance to the Divine’s (Higher Consciousness) Qualities and Substance. An intuition has clearly come to do this tangibly and concretely in this coming retreat.
The retreat is facilitated by Arul Dev. Every morning to open up our body we would have yoga and dynamic flow exercises by Shweta Rajurkar. And in this retreat we have a new addition as a session on day 1 to prepare us for the whole three-day retreat.
Post the ‘Decoding Shakti’ session on Women’s Day Dr. Vishwapriya Pillai who facilitated one of the sessions had an intuition to offer a session for this retreat participants. On day 1 she will be guiding us on connecting to the Divine energy within through the Shree Chakra.
The retreat Venue Arulville founded and run by Anthony Raj built with indigenous architecture is a beautiful space to run wellness programs and retreats: https://www.arulville.com/
To get a glimpse of what normally unfolds in these retreats do find a summary and some photographs from our previous retreat:
“THE EDUCATION of a human being should begin at birth and continue throughout his life.
Indeed, if we want this education to have its maximum result, it should begin even before birth; in this case it is the mother herself who proceeds with this education by means of a twofold action: first, upon herself for her own improvement, and secondly, upon the child whom she is forming physically. For it is certain that the nature of the child to be born depends very much upon the mother who forms it, upon her aspiration and will as well as upon the material surroundings in which she lives. To see that her thoughts are always beautiful and pure, her feelings always noble and fine, her material surroundings as harmonious as possible and full of a great simplicity — this is the part of education which should apply to the mother herself. And if she has in addition a conscious and definite will to form the child according to the highest ideal she can conceive, then the very best conditions will be realised so that the child can come into the world with his utmost potentialities. How many difficult efforts and useless complications would be avoided in this way!”
The Mother, Page 9 ‘On Education’ book
INSIGHTS
Right from the time or even before when the couple plans to conceive a child they can plan for tiny practices and habits to bring the following more within themselves, hold it together and allow it to be come present within their home:
Bring beauty and purity within thoughts
Invoke beauty, cleanliness and sense of harmony in the home
Let go of stuff that is accumulating in the house, especially in the bedroom. In the bedroom every object is to be kept consciously as an invocation for Divine Qualities to be present during conversations, act of intimacy and while being with each other
Connect one’s inner sensations, feelings and emotions to Divine Qualities through resonant mantras, chants, paintings, sculptures and the like
Learn to hold individually and together: A calm and clear will, perhaps within the cave of their heart or eyebrow center. Inwardly sense or see a child with the utmost ideal and higher qualities. The Divine chooses the child’s soul that would birth through you. To support the reception of a pure soul the couple can hold the aspiration for a child of fuller potentials to enter this world. It is a subtle art of holding a full aspiration with faith while at same time being with a full surrender to the Divine to take over the process of the birth of a Divine Child through you.
Sincerity of the couple to embody each day a bit more all the qualities of goodness as a prerequisite to receive a Divine Child, should be like a flame lit steady
