Breath to become a subtle living presence, a flame, where AUM and chants are offered.
This subtle breath then can be requested to flow into all parts of our body.
Practice Date: 28th February 2025 | Duration 30 minutes | Guided practice | Facilitator : Arul Dev
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Details of Practice
Intuitively for today, a practice is coming more on our breath. There are two insights which we need to bring into our experience. The subtle breath is something that can collect a lot of the new consciousness within itself and this breath needs to intermingle with our body’s substance so that the substance can get fully nourished, especially in areas where the body is holding some kind of an illness or memories and stuff like that.
Approach today’s practice with a complete space of the unknown, the mystical, allowing more nuances to get revealed each time. The freshness in the practice is what is very important. So touch your body with your awareness as if you’re doing this practice the very first time in your life ever. And just see how it feels to touch your body substance with your awareness across your body.
You will find that in many of the places, your awareness is not alive, it is not very fresh, it is not living and actually you can’t do much about it also. It’s almost as if we need to recognize another layer of consciousness, which is directly sensing our body.
Now keep your awareness outside your body perhaps in the aura region or perhaps beyond. Don’t define anything today. So just place your awareness outside your body. It’s neither inside your body nor is the awareness lost in some transcendental realms. The awareness is outside the body, but it is fully aware of the body. From outside the body, you will perhaps be able to sense the vastness incoming. So there’s an aspect of vastness that is expansive, where you get into the expansiveness, and there’s another aspect of vastness that is incoming, which acts on you. So with your awareness outside your body, catch that aspect of the vastness as it acts on your body.
You can easily do it if you completely identify with the domain of the cricket sound, as an example. If you identify with that zone of cricket sounds, you’ll get exactly this phenomenon. You’re not inside the body, but you’re not disconnected. And you’re in that vast circular field, which is acting on the body, in a way. This is just one way.
Now, slowly bring your awareness to your breath, especially in your heart region or anywhere else where it comes to you. We’re not talking about the In breath full and the out breath full, we’re not really focusing on that part of the breath. There is a part of the breath that is subtle which is always holding a Presence. Like if you take a flame, and if you really concentrate on the core, it’ll be soft. Similarly, there’s an in breath, out breath. There is somewhere in this breath a presence, a light, a dance. This breath will not be flowing up and down across the full body. This breath will be almost like a joyful light, like a flame. This breath will all be almost be like a flowing Lingam, present, upward rising, but at the same time it can be steady and collect something as a base.
The origin of this breath and what is being sustained in this breath is not necessarily from within your body, it’s from the beyond. So keep this breath connected to that field outside your body, which by itself is connected to the Infinite. And that’s what is nourishing this breath which can collect something from the beyond.
Very silently you can chant something into this breath. It can be a AUM, or let us say you use a particular chant regularly. Chant into the breath like the way you would do to a flame or like the way you would chant to a lingam. This is now a living breath filled with a Presence. You can chant into this breath whatever you wish, silently.
This breath, you’re just focusing in a tiny space within your body, which will sometimes almost feel static. It’s not going really up and down like your regular full breath and all. It’s just there, alive, present, connected to the field around, the incoming vastness, which is connected to the beyond.
As you chant into this breath, you would find something occurring in your body through the breath. This breath could feel localized inside your body or it could sometimes be even outside, it doesn’t matter. This breath is a Presence. Connect the rest of your body to this breath, to this Presence, to this living breath lingam that is present inside you somewhere.
Connect the rest of the body substance to this breath and it’s almost like you allow the body to breathe into this breath. Each part of your body has its own breath movement, and pulsations. So allow each part of the body as much as possible to connect to this subtle breath of Presence or Light, to breathe into this subtle breath and be nourished by this breath. And you can continue to chant into this subtle breath as you allow all other parts of the body to breathe into this subtle breath.
You observe and you can even do it in one specific part of your body where there is some persistent difficulty. This central breath Presence that you’re becoming aware and chanting into can act very minutely into any body region that you focus upon. It’s not you who are acting now in the body region. This subtle living breath itself will act directly on your body parts. We just have to request and direct this subtle living breath to specific body parts or body as a whole.
There could be a lot of stuck energies and old breaths stuck in a particular way. Keep nourishing your subtle breath. Keep connecting it to that part of the body you are working on. And you will notice the subtle breath itself acts. Let this Breath Lingam, act directly and you bring absolute faith, not on the problem, not on the history of your body or the challenges inside. But you bring absolute faith on this potent breath, on this subtle breath presence. You bring absolute faith that this subtle breath will act fully into the minute pores and cells in each part of your body.
Continue to nourish this breath flame throughout this week and let it act on the tiny pores and cells of your body. Thank you.