The Vase of Contemplation
ADI DA SAMRAJ: You see contemplatives all around you, including your Master here, in the form of everything, except what otherwise in general human beings are doing and their effects. But apart from human beings and their effects, you see, there is a Universal State of Contemplation going on. And functioning… it’s just on the base of that contemplation. Essentially it’s not a fear world. The human world is the fear world.
All of nature, so to speak, is contemplating – constantly. Oh yes, there are breaks it seems, required action, but essentially it’s a culture of contemplation, including the Earth itself. There are doings, but in samadhi – except for the humans. All we in samadhi, notice this. Yes, the body itself is fear, doesn’t want to be lost. But when the body is given over in Divine Communion, thoroughly, then it becomes fitted differently. Its true structure, its fundamental structure shows itself, performs itself, in the body’s shape, and all kinds of things about it are changed by spiritual fullness.
This is how the body is relieved of fear. Be given up utterly to communion, the body itself. Just as the chameleons, the animals out there, can commune, be in the state of communion – given up. So can the body, you see, it’s like that chameleon out there in the kitchen, or the tree.
The body has that intelligence, that capability. If you don’t interfere with it. If you allow it to be rightly aligned, you see, it becomes spiritually full. But likewise, all aspects of your disposition, your consciousness, your awareness, your life. Characteristically, when you feel anxiety, fear, and so forth, you get a contraction, inward contraction, a cramp in your solar plexus. It’s a typical sign, right?
So what does it do? It prevents the vase you see, prevents the fullness. It constricts. It effectively ties on knot in this conduit, this frontal line, and you feel the discomfort of it, you see. Self contraction has that bodily sign, and others. So if you are given up altogether, with all your heart and soul and mind and strength, you see, into Divine contemplation, this True Yoga of devotion to Me, then you are giving permission for the body to become a yogic body, a spiritualized body, one that is yogically, spiritually activated. So what do you think about the non-human then, now that we’ve talked about it some?