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<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:
none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>THE Mother spoke once of
the body being like a fortress, a strong shelter protecting you against
enemy-attacks, the forces that are around roaming in the open spaces, the
forces of physical and even moral disruption. The ancients used to refer to the
body as a walled city the gates of which are to be carefully guarded. It is
also compared to a temple, a firm structure wherein God is to dwell, which is
to be kept always clean, trim and tidy. The body itself was worshipped as a
holy thing almost as a Divinity by certain schools of spiritual discipline.</p>

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150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>These
are, so to say various dimensions of the body; one more, somewhat of a
different category, may be added. The body is a battery, an accumulation of
energy, of energy and consciousness, of energy-consciousness. We are all
familiar with the modern concept of the material particle being con­centrated
energy: it is tremendously concentrated and that is why it looks as though dead
solidity. In reality its stilled high potency <span class=SpellE>harbours</span>
almost an immeasurable force of creation and destruction.</p>

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150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>The
release of energy, material energy, in matter, is the business of Science and
the scientist; the release of conscious­ ness, the energy of consciousness in
matter is the business of yoga and the yogi. The <span class=SpellE>tantrik</span>
discipline was in a large way occupied with this mystery. It found and
developed -its own method and process and its success in its own field is also
well recognised.</p>

<p class=MsoBodyTextIndent3 style="line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0">The body-content thus is essentially consciousness
consoli­dated, <span class=SpellE>crystallised</span>. The problem then is how
to release it. The first thing is that you must be conscious, you, that is to
say, your body must be conscious, must be aware always of what </p>
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none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><span class=GramE>it</span>
is doing: living, moving, acting; the body must be doing all that consciously,
almost voluntarily: there shall be no in­ voluntary movements. Each physical
gesture must know itself by feeling itself in the act. It is not that the mind
should know<span class=GramE>,</span> the mind can have only a memory, but that
the limb itself has to pursue its function knowingly, in full awareness. At the
beginning there is inevitably a mixture of mental knowing but that is to be
cleaned out and over passed</p>

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150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>One
is conscious, can be conscious only through conscious­ ness; consciousness is
born through consciousness. It manifests, it grows through incubation, through
self-<span class=SpellE>centration</span>. Energy <span class=SpellE>energises</span>
itself, as the Upanishad says, <i>tapas <span class=SpellE>taptva</span>. </i>Energy
is consciousness in movement and in moving it expresses itself, embodies
itself. A muscle, for example, when moving, awakes to its own activity, the
awakening is not confined to itself, but it extends gradually, extends to all
its constituent cells and even to contiguous cells. The process in this way
permeates the whole body and the entire material content of the body is filled
with consciousness and with its radiant energy.</p>

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150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>There
is however a basic preliminary necessity, a prepara­tory condition: the first
essential condition under which the body can be conscious of itself is its
freedom, its absolute freedom. The body must be liberated wholly and entirely,
it must feel its perfect freedom. As at present it is a slave: it never knows
its own will, it is always under the orders of either the vital or the mind or
both. Under the control of <span class=GramE>this dual masters</span> – a cruel
diarchy – the body has lost all its independent move­ments. The activities,
almost all, of the present body are not really its own, they are expressions of
an imposed will. In order to have and to be aware of its own wm the body must
be freed from its alien imposition and as soon as it gains its freedom, it will
know itself, learn itself, <span class=GramE>learn</span> its own movements. It
will gradually shred off all the wrong and distorted movements which form its
present habits. We shall find that in itself the body is a sane entity and it
is not in need of many things that have been suggested to it and instilled into
it by forces that are outside it, almost foreign to it, the mental and the
vital forces. The liberation will bring to it automatically the awareness of
its own self, it will become, <span class=GramE>that</span> is to say,
conscious of itself and this consciousness will bring with it a pure and fresh</p>

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which is that of its true self. As in the case of a subject nation the very
fact of liberation brings to it the energy of self-consciousness and an
exhilarating delight in the expression of the newfound selfhood, even as also
in the case of the indi­vidual human being when he is freed from serfdom and
slavery and bondages, he attains, realises the dignity of self-conscious­ness
and self-power, even so the material body too becomes illumined with its
freedom and rejoices in its power and energy to express its own truth. The
first effect of freedom after a long subjugation is likely to be a spell of <span
class=SpellE>erraticism</span>, but that is sure to die away if there is a
corrective central will.</p>

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150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>The
body-movements in the animal are more authentic and truthful for they are not <span
class=SpellE>subsidised</span> and suborned by the vital and mental
injunctions, and they are more ordered and controlled, not subject to
idiosyncrasies that sway the human character. They are <span class=GramE>more
free</span> and more natural: the same essential freedom and authenticity and
purity shall belong to the body natural of the highest mode of being and
conscious­ness.</p>

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150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>However,
in this age, at the present time the human body is inevitably moving towards
such a consummation – towards freedom and buoyancy and <span class=SpellE>radiancy</span>,
a new valency, a new self-law. The individual efforts are more than
supplemented by a Grace that is at work in a supreme effective manner: for this
is the hour of God – &quot;when even a little effort produces great results and
changes destiny.&quot;</p>
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