In these practices each Friday at 5 am IST for 30 minutes online we collectively practice one or more of the following:
Being aware of our body and subtle body
Connecting our Prana to our Body in all parts
Being aware of points / cells in our body from surface to depth
Building loving qualities in our awareness
Developing inner senses to become aware of our body’s substance – inner sight, inner hearing, inner taste, inner touch and inner smell
Holding choice within our body –‘It is not the job of this body to hold on to entanglements’
Learning to turn our awareness within body to open our cells to the Space / Consciousness above our Head
Practice expansion and condensation of our subtle substance – to dissolve limitations and re-center our body within Divine Qualities of Light, Peace, Joy, Love, Flow and Power
Offering the sound ‘AUM’ within body and being with its vibrations as it opens the matter of our body
Connecting our cells to Divine with a chant ‘Unto you oh Lord’
Detecting vibrations of fear, emotional churns and other vital flows to vibrations of Goodness, Change, Harmony and if possible Divine Love
Detecting ingrained memory imprints in body as a sensation across body. Connecting this sensation to Vastness and Light
Transforming past-life times, mineral, plant and animal memory binds in our body
Transforming thoughts to shift its center from past to future vision
Open our eye brow center to above, to receive light and intuition
Connecting to qualities within the cave of our heart – a sacred space
Open to layers of higher consciousness that exist above our head
Discovering pure substance that is self-radiant, lit and appears in soft supple colors in soft supple substance
‘As above so below’ is the formula. Discovering layers of sacred consciousness below our feet
Discovering the point of union above our head and below our feet
In these sessions we read select portions from Savitri of Sri Aurobindo and Mother’s Agenda that illumine Deeper Body work. The facilitators read and all present online for each session connect to the depth of their body, be with their natural breath and connect to Divine. Some days we connect to Divine as present above our head, or within the cave of our hearts or in the sacred below or within the pure subtle substance of our body. We then allow the words to land within the depth of our body and being. We simply listen and be very receptive. We focus within the words, on the Consciousness and the experiences of the Masters living beneath the words. We receive Their vibrations within our body’s depth, our vital life energy and our mind. We allow These vibrations to mould us.
Sessions are held online on Sundays from 5.30 am to 6.00 am IST.
Those who wish to join these sessions do send us an email at maadivinebody@gmail.com with your name, brief introduction and your whats app number.
Yoga Nidra – The blissful relaxation. Most people sleep without resolving their tensions. This is termed Nidra. Nidra means sleep, no matter what or why. But Yoga Nidra means sleep after throwing off the burdens. It is of a blissful, higher quality altogether. When awareness is separate and distinct from the vrittis; when waking, dream, and deep sleep pass like clouds and yet awareness of Atma remains – this is the experience of total relaxation.
Relaxation does not mean sleep. Relaxation means to be blissfully happy. It has no end. This is absolute relaxation. Sleep is a different matter. Sleep gives only mind and sense relaxation. Bliss relaxes the Atma, the inner self. That is why in Tantra, Yoga Nidra is the doorway to Samadhi.
We share with you here a 31 minute guided Yoga Nidra practice offered by Shweta Rajurkar. Find a quiet space where you will not be disturbed for this time, lie down and kindly do this practice.
“The external shivalingam is responsible for the awakening of your inner shivalingam. According to the science of tantra, kundalini and yoga, there are twelve places in the physical body where shivalingam is located in the same shape. Out of those twelve, three are considered very important. One is in mooladhara chakra (swayambhulingam), the second in ajna chakra (itaralingam) and the third in sahasrara chakra (paralingam). It is said that in sahasrara chakra the finest consciousness resides in the shape of an illuminated shivalingam. Maybe after some time, scientists will discover it, and certainly they are going to discover that man’s body and his evolution, man’s nature and its transformation, man’s consciousness and its awakening, are not influenced by external social factors such as religion, politics, ethics and morality, but they are manifested from somewhere within you. That somewhere is the Shiva in you, the finest matter in you, you in the physical body.
Lingam refers to the causal body.”
~ Swami Muktibodhananda
Hatha Yoga Pradipika – Bihar School of Yoga
INSIGHTS
When we do the deeper body work and take our awareness deep within the substance of our body in search of pure matter and pure substance, often people see the body’s substance in a subtle and soft colour. This region when discovered seems to be lit on its own and has its own inherent joy and love. Love itself is observed to be present as white soft substance, or in other soft subtle colours too. Some people see a lingam with their inner eye within the depth of substance of our body.
In our deeper body work we can wait within our body and keep offering our body’s cells to the Divine. This can be done by keeping our awareness both within our body and above our head, which has ranges of Divine Consciousness and its Qualities. This links our body with Divine. Our body initially could have many entanglements absorbed from others, our environments and embedded from our own past experiences. We take our awareness within our body and place our aspiration and choice that ONLY Divine Qualities should be present within our body. Slowly as inner purification unfolds we may discover more and more luminous substance present a self-joy and love.
Drawing insight from this quote shared we can place our awareness in the chakra regions mentioned. We can either connect to the subtle energy center in these locations or place our awareness in the depth of the body cells there. With our awareness in these regions, keeping our inner senses subtly open, we can open our awareness to the Divine Above or Divinity in any way that comes naturally for us. Slowly within the subtle energy center or within the depth of cells in our body we may notice the self-lit supple substance. This subtle substance is as real or even more real than our physical substance. It has inherent goodness, beauty and force that can be connected to the other centers of our body.
The aspiration slowly is for our entire body to be experienced as an inner lingam or a self-lit offered substance for the Divine to live in and manifest.
Now in another post we can explore how the Mother’s Force flows with all Her Qualities within us. Here the inner luminosity, subtle substance or inner lingam becomes a loving and stable base for Joy, Love and Her Flow.
This is a true story of a sadhak of The Mother on how she consciously conceived her child. We recorded her sharing and transcribed it into this sharing. Certain confidential details alone we have removed so that confidentiality would be maintained.
In 1988 when we decided to have a child, even during the physical interaction, physical act, I was praying. It was very clear that my aspiration was for a soul that would come here for Her, to do Her work. So it wasn’t necessarily that I was praying for a soul from the ashram. I just wanted a soul that was Hers, for Her, and to be dedicated to Her. So, even during the physical act, I was praying and aspiring, that this is for the purpose of conceiving a child. I think pretty much that same time I conceived.
This must have been July of 1988. That year was 8 8 88 and that year they had decided to open The Mother’s Room for 8 8 88. I lived in United States in those days and I decided to come down. For three days I went to the airport every day, every day, every day, but I couldn’t get tickets. And I said, Mother, if you don’t want me to come so be it. I mean, this was my prayer to her and my husband calls me and says that he can get me a ticket on Air India to go. I told him if you drop me anywhere in India, even hanging on to a tail of the aircraft, I will go, as long as I can reach Pondicherry. And thus I reached here at like 3 am on the morning of 8 8 88. I went up, came, did the darshan and everything. And then I told my very close friend here that I was pregnant. She said, how do you know? So I said, I am a day late and I am very, very, very accurate. She said that you can’t tell within a day. I said, no, I’m telling you I’m pregnant. So those days, there was the hospital, that was gloomy only here. I said I won’t have any needles stuck in me. But I’m happy to do a urine test. Urine test normally after three months comes accurate. Blood is the most accurate one. My report came on the 9th. I am positive. I still have that little piece of paper from them saying positive and I took it and I went straight to the ashram to pray to Her. And I stood by the pillar on the side when you enter. I always look up at her room and I chat with Her. My prayer is chatting with Her.
That day they didn’t put those covers on the top. It was a clear view to The Mother’s room. And, I said, I have conceived, give me a soul. My aspiration was for that soul who will come for Her. And this must have been, the lights were on, so about 7.00 or 7. 30 and it was evening. It was very clear. I could see this golden light coming straight from Her womb to enter my womb. And to me that was an endorsement, that was Her seal, that your aspiration, your prayer has been answered.
I went back to the United States and my entire pregnancy was there, the ntire nine months. I worked for three or four months during that, like from 11 am to 4 pm. Because my boss said to me that you need to come and you can come part time. Don’t quit, come part time. I used to travel by train to go to work.
I didn’t read any newspapers, no magazine, not even like a Reader’s Digest, no television. I only read spiritual books and I remember very vividly that I read Thoughts and Aphorisms and The Mother’s Volumes. I read the books cover to cover, cover to cover. I read the Mahabharata and I read the Ramayana. People kept telling me you can’t, you should not read Mahabharata because then they say, you know, you will have problems and conflict in the family. I’m not superstitious, I don’t believe in these things. So I only read spiritual books throughout. My due date, was supposed to be 14th of April.
That year, 14th of April, according to the lunar calendar, was Ram Navami. So I said, very good day, he’ll come on a very good day. On 28th of March, I had my water bag burst, so I had to go to the hospital. And my thought was, 28th of March, has no meaning and no significance. Okay, Mother, whatever you want.
So I go in, and it becomes midnight, and the date turns into 29th March. And my mind says at least it’s an even number. I did not know the significance of the twenty ninth of March. I had no idea what it was. He was born 29th of March and if you were to convert the US time to the India times it was near about the same time that Mother met Sri Aurobindo for the first time. And that was the year they were celebrating the 75th anniversary of Mother and Her meeting with Sri Aurobindo – 1914 to 1989 or 75 years.
We named him A…. We came home, and from the very first night we were home, he has slept to The Mother’s music. Like I had said before, Sunil Da’s music and Mother’s music, all this used to be played to him in the night. In his room it would be playing constantly and he would sleep. This boy, till the age of four, only spoke Hindi.
We speak different dialects, so we said let him learn one Indian language and let him learn it properly. My helper was a woman from Delhi. She spoke very good Hindi. So I said, okay, we have to speak Hindi with this boy. And when I grew up, my father always told me stories from the Ramayana, Mahabharata and all these stories. So that’s what I wanted to do for him. By then those Amar Chitra Katha comics, we didn’t have anything better quality than that. Then those Mahabharat serials and all were running on VHS, we could get them. That was the only thing he could watch on TV. He spoke only Hindi. He could tell you every story from the Mahabharat, from the Ramayana. He could challenge you on those stories. If you go into a temple, you don’t know whose temple it is because all the faces look alike. He could identify by the damru or the naag or the kamal in the hand whose statue this is. By those he would identify Ram, Sita, Radha, Krishna, Vishnu, Lakshmi, they have all these. And he would walk in, and even though they all look alike, he would walk, and he would say, yeh yeh hai, yeh woh hai, yeh woh hai, yeh woh hai, you know. The pandit also used to say, who is this child who knows all this?
One time when he was like two and a half, he was lying down like this on the couch. My mother asked him, “ab kya kar rahe ho” (what are you doing)? He said Yes, I’m Vishnu. I am resting on Sheshnag, you know.
So he, he had all those signs that he was showing till he started going to school at the age of four. When English takes over, the world starts influencing you. Within two weeks, he was sleep talking in English. He is 34 today and he still has this connection. He spent a lot of time in Pondicherry in his growing up years. He is now married and he’s leading a worldly life. All this is all there within you. It’ll come to the fore when She wants it. In his aspirations, my prayer is the same. He’s yours and with Her grace. I never became a possessive mother. I always had the sense of, I am a caretaker.
Yes, I bore the child because you need an instrument to do this. But, it’s not like this is my son or I’m possessive about him or I don’t want him talking to you or this or that. Her grace that I was not possessive.
