Connecting to our soul – De-identification with the gender of our body
This is a subtle exploration within our body.
- To be within our body
- To let go of the identification within our body
- In a simple way to drop the binding with our body’s gender
- To connect to our soul
- To connect to Divine Mother
Sharing the recording of this guided session offered by Shweta Rajurkar on 23rd May 2025.
Click to hear the 30 min audio guided practice : https://youtu.be/qR-EcSf0mfI
The audio practice begins after a 8 seconds of silence.
For those who wish to see the transcription of the practice offered, we share the same below:
What today we are going to touch upon, is felt personally also in my own journey and is what we see as a major obstruction. During this inner and deeper journey with our body, the difficulty, which we can call it as the identification of this body through a particular gender is explored. Now as we can see that in the world there is more and more complication you can say. That is coming up with the identity of the body.
It’s a consciousness. It’s still that level where it identifies itself only at the physical level and only to the gender of that body.
Take this deep plunge into the body today and try to resolve, try to untangle ourselves from those knots of thoughts, beliefs, criteria which keep this body and the consciousness connecting to this body only to its gender. So we go through a very simple process, a very simple, deeper explanation.
Just make yourself as comfortable when you’re sitting with the eyes closed or open.
Once again, we bring back that childlike curiosity of being or becoming the child of the Divine.
Even if we go quickly to the memory of ourselves as a child, a child never identifies itself as a girl or as a boy.
So what is that? Spontaneous, simple, innocent knowledge. Knowledge of being, just being. And not being as a woman, as a man, as a girl or a boy.
Take a few minutes to become more and more aware of this body. As it is at this moment with all its sensations, with all its being, the kind of form that we have got used to a certain level of stimulus. It is required to come to that neutrality, to that neutral observation, awareness and being. Slowly dropping all the tiny little urges of any sort of movement.
Try to remain inside the body. Let all the impressions through different teachings and karmas, be it through family societies, schools, education systems, all that reminds this body only as a body of a particular gender let them be revealed. As a thought or as a feeling as it comes to the surface, let us simply flip it, turn it towards the divine. Let us say towards the abode of the Divine, the vastness that we can feel all around us, that we can feel above us or below us.
While we do this, let us have a single focused aspiration for this body. Through this body to understand, see, and feel not only this body, but all the bodies that we come across as the body or as a body… which is a form taken by the soul. The major identification with the body as a particular gender,this is dropping. Know the body. See the body just as a body.
Now we don’t want to remain only in that memory layer of the body. We can observe that
with the rooted memories of centuries and the languages the different sensations. Through these sensations, through the deep rooted memories of this belief attached may come to surface. And instantly we are simply flipping it, turning it to the vastness That is the highest reality and not this narrow identification.
Will be quiet for the next two to three minutes. Let us all be single focused to come to a certain higher level of identification with the body, the body above and beyond its gender – Just an instrument of the divine.
The Mother advised, not only advised, but in Her universal motherhood, she has urged that we should not cling to the identity of this body. Only by dropping the traditional and old way of identification or the ordinary human way of identification, we may be able to penetrate deep within and know oneself just as a soul. The spark, the light of this knowledge is right there inside – the pure substance, the purity. A child like purity of this body. Let us have this aspiration to recover that simplicity. It is actually very simple to know oneself as a soul, as a psychic being. This can be our mantra.
We are not rejecting the body. We are rejecting that limited identification of oneself with the gender of this body.
First with this childlike simple, yet conscious act of dropping this limitation, just by the simple act, we are opening the doors of knowledge, of realization of that awareness, of that state of unification, state of union, state of being one.
We may call it the feminine and masculine, Purusha and Prakrithi or Shiva and Sakthi. Just by constantly dropping this long held identification, we come closer to a higher reality inside this body – The body, which is in a state of particular gender at the moment, but it holds the capacity of a higher realization beyond this ordinary or to say imposed realization.
Now let us come to the stream of our breath. Each breath absorbs the prana form the One Single Source, that source, the source of Supreme, which is open, which is available beyond
any limit, any classification, any division for all. As we become conscious of this absorption of Prana through each breath, let the body, let the mind, let our emotional being connect to that higher spiritual reality.
Deep down in our being we know this reality of Oneness which does not need any identification of the gender. As we remain consciously aware of our breath today, this day, as we open our eyes after the session today, not the physical gaze, but the gaze of a soul….let the gaze of our soul fall upon the fellow humans, the fellow beings. And with that conscious gaze, let us connect directly with the soul of their being.
Individually, I am connecting to that source reality with my conscious gaze. Collectively I am being and becoming an instrument to connect to this higher reality of a soul.
Try as much as possible TO BE with this sense of Oneness, as we open our eyes, let us connect to all the beings around us and souls and the bodies, The beautiful forms that has been chosen by that soul as its garb as its way to offer its duties towards the Divine.
Thank you.