Meditation on the Seven Bodies

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To do this practice we shall go somewhere where we can be tranquil and know we will not be disturbed and take a comfortable position which could be seated in a comfortable armchair, with our feet flat on the ground and the spinal column straight, or lying in the supine position, or in the position of the star or the dead man, we set ourselves to relax our physical body, relax the motor brain from the influence of our emotions, relax the emotional brain through the solar plexus and relax our intellectual brain, calming the mind.

We can aid this procedure with good music, which could be classical, zen music or any kind of music that inspires us and elevates us to the superior spheres of the consciousness.

We can also, before beginning the practice, smoke the room with some aromatic perfume or light some incense and also, in addition to music, have a lit candle for fire to be present, symbol of the LIGHT of CONSCIOUSNESS and the FIRE OF THE BEING, the SPIRIT.

Of great importance at the beginning of the practice is the psychological disposition that we have regarding the practice. We consciously assume therefore an attitude of physical and psychological serenity.

We take some slow and deep breaths, and working with the will and imagination in vibrant harmony we see how our whole body is being enveloped by a very pure BLUE LIGHT, by PRANA and the air’s ENERGY, which gradually gives us harmony, serenity, peace, tranquility and fills us with enthusiasm, with light, with strength and inner revolution.

Breathing consciously in a normal way, we also see how all negative emotions, sadness, anxiety, depression, fear, etc., leave the body, are withdrawn from our emotional center with each exhalation, and with each inspiration we deposit in our solar plexus positive emotions of LIGHT, HARMONY, LOVE, HAPPINESS, FREEDOM.

We do the same with the mind, allowing all thoughts to come, but remaining in self-remembering, we do not converse with them, nor with the mind and we let them come and pass. We do this while concentrated in the mid-brow, in the third eye.

Little by little, as there is no dialogue, thoughts lose strength and withdraw, resulting in the mind quieting, calming down. The key here to achieving this is to sustain self-remembering, to sustain the active consciousness from falling into identification and mental dialogue.

Once the physical body is relaxed and the mind has become tranquil we can pass on to the next step of our practice.

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We concentrate on the physical body and meditate profoundly on this marvelous vehicle and on all the services it provides us.

We try to comprehend that thanks to this physical body we can interact with the world of three dimensions and obtain precious information and knowledge of this world and simultaneously have all kinds of experiences in the world of forms.

Without a physical body, a person could not self-realize, it is very important to obtain certain experiences that in the higher worlds do not exist, however we are ultimately not the physical body and so at this point of the practice we will discard it mentally saying:

I AM NOT THE PHYSICAL BODY

Second, we concentrate on the etheric body, meditating profoundly on this vehicle and on all the services it provides us, that is, providing us with the energy to be alive, all the biochemical processes of the body, all vital functions, etc., etc., etc.

We can visualize this etheric body as an energetic aura of colors surrounding us.

But our true reality is not the etheric body either and we will discard it by saying:

I AM NOT THE ETHERIC BODY

We continue in the third place by concentrating on the astral body, meditating profoundly on this vehicle and its functions and services.

We try to comprehend that the astral body is related to all the emotional processes, desires, feelings that the human being has and that it is the vehicle which we use every night during the hours of rest in order to enter into the fifth dimension, into the astral world, the world of dreams or the world of the dead, allowing us to have experiences and receive teachings and knowledge in this region of the Universe.

But as ultimately, in reality we are not the astral body either, we will discard it saying:

I AM NOT THE ASTRAL BODY

We then continue to concentrate and meditate profoundly on the mental body, trying to comprehend that it is a vehicle which allows us to interact with the world of the mind and is related to thoughts, ideas, concepts, etc., allowing us to receive and process an immense amount of information that is useful for our learning and our journey through the path of life.

But neither are we ultimately the mental body and we will discard it saying:

I AM NOT THE MENTAL BODY

Then, in the fifth place, we concentrate on the causal body and meditate profoundly on its existence and its benefits, trying to comprehend that it is a vehicle related to all the volitional processes of the human being and that it is the vehicle of expression of the HUMAN SOUL, in other words it is that set of values and bodies which make it possible for a person to be called a HUMAN Being.

To stop being an INTELLECTUAL ANIMAL and become a HUMAN BEING, it is necessary to incarnate this SOUL on which we are meditating at this moment of the practice.

But ultimately, we are not the causal body either, and we will discard it by saying:

I AM NOT THE WILL

In the sixth place we will concentrate on the buddhic body, the body of the CONSCIOUSNESS and meditating profoundly on it, we will try to comprehend what it is and what its functions and services are.

We realize that this CONSCIOUSNESS is a semi-divine vehicle which has the faculty of interceding for us before our BEING and that it is what gives us the ability to capture direct knowledge in an intuitive way, beyond the intellect and beyond the depressive process of choice.

The CONSCIOUSNESS is an extremely useful vehicle for our spiritual work, but in final synthesis we are neither the buddhic body and we discard it saying:

I AM NOT THE CONSCIOUSNESS

Finally we will concentrate and meditate profoundly on the BEING, ATMAN, the INTIMATE, assuming a totally infantile attitude, trying to capture the reality of the BEING without thinking of anything.

After a few moments in this attitude, we will say:

I AM THE INTIMATE

There, trying to absorb ourselves in our INTERNAL BEING, HIM, HIM, HIM, we will say:

I AM HIM

Then we fall profoundly asleep, riding on physical sleep. Physical sleep is the bridge that permits us to pass from Meditation to SHAMADI.

After a while, we give infinite thanks to our Divine Mother and our INTERNAL BEING for the assistance we received and return to our physical body to conclude the practice.

HE IS HE.

V.M. Michael (The Awakening of the Consciousness)