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KIT 43 - The Dance of the Cells

Jelal-ud-Din Rumi says, "I am so drunken with love. The whole
world appears as a vision of beauty, the Divine splendor shatters
me so deeply, and all I can say is, 'I am drunken with love.'"
That's the way of the Dervish. And he says, "I am dancing with the
galaxies by the power of love reaching beyond my body." We're
going to make a little visit to the galaxies.

First of all, start realizing the marvel of being able to
participate in the galaxies in your very body. Perhaps you could
look upon your body with a kind of overview and think , yes, I
have the privilege of somehow being able to connect up with this
chunk of the living matter of the universe. It is, of course, the
same manner as the as the planet but it's been so fantastically
improved, so marvelously processed. The cells of my body are like
the molecules of crystals. Just imagine, they are doing a lot of
extraordinary things; for example, they are burning. They are in a
state of combustion just like the sun. That is why I have a
certain degree of temperature. That process is called
phosphorescence; the cells are radiating light by burning.
Jelaluddin Rumi says, "Enough of metaphor; I want burning,
burning, burning." This radiant dance of light is the burning of
which he speaks.

The cells also act like crystals in that they have the faculty of
absorbing light, not only from the sun, but also from the stars
and from cosmic rays because the whole of the universe is not just
studded with lights as we imagine them to be, but the whole space
is an ocean of light and we are participating in that ocean of
light. I want you to feel the absorbing fact that the cells of
your body absorb the light of the stars of the universe, and
energized, dynamized by this light, they begin literally to dance.
The electrons within the atoms within molecules within the cells
start using that energy of the light to free themselves from their
routine sort of orbitals and begin to reach beyond the constraint
of the normal orbital and dance. The freedom that they enjoy
because they are feeding on light is something that one has to
experience. The dance of the atoms!  As matter of fact, they exult
in joy. If we become conscious of what's happening in our body
then our souls exult in joy and that is the reason for the
whirling of the dervishes. They give expression in that joy by
somehow participating in the choreography of the heavens.

Now when the electrons have used up all the light energy that they
are able to absorb, then any light remaining gets radiated as
fluorescence, so that our body is fluorescing, like fluorescent
light. That is what we call the aura. I want you also to
experience the fact that gifted with this energy, the cells
divide. They are using that energy, plus many other forms of
energy, to kind of explode, to proliferate. As they divide in the
process of mitosis, there is an explosion of light, so they are
flashing light. If you could just imagine the cells of your body
flashing light all the time, and the overall light of your aura
then radiating into the universe, then you would realize that body
is not that heavy sort of matter that you think it is. It is alive
with light, sparking!  The consequence is that you will start
becoming radiant. If you keep on being aware of this you will
enhance the light of your aura. More important still, your eyes
will shine with a lot of light and whenever you enter a room, you
will communicate light to people by the effulgence of your glance.


Your aura, your glance, the crown of light above your head ( the
corona) and the colors of the aura corresponding to the spectrum - 
red at the base, light blue and violet at the top, all different
colors of the rainbow in between - saffron, orange and gold and
green and blue, and then the whole array of rainbows around your
aura, intermesh as rainbows , changing their color according to
your attunement, shimmering at the top of the head with all of the
colors emerging, The aura is very bright around the body and the
more you concentrate on it the brighter it will become, so much
so, that if you have eyes to see and come across a great being,
you'll find that you can start seeing the aura.

The way see this is to cast your eyes - your glance - at infinity.
Remember that the light accumulates around and inside the body,
permeating the body. There is a continual exchange between protons
and electrons but the important thing to know is that the light of
you aura is hurtling through space at the speed of 186,000 a
second!  Since, according to physicists, light is matter, and this
is the matter of your body, your body is extending into the
galaxies. So it is purely illusory to think that we are bounded by
our skin. Our light is intermeshed with the light of all other
beings and the light of the stars forming a humongous wave
interference pattern of light. This also means that you are not
just here but you are everywhere, spread out in the universe. You
are without boundary; at least as far as your aura is concerned
there is no boundary. As a matter of fact, your aura is pulsing,
just like some of the stars. There is ebb and flow; it is
absorbing or converging light; it is radiating light as you
breathe in and breathe out, so try to feel that. That is a
centripetal/centrifugal cosmic dimension.

Now you can revert to the other way of breathing, moving up from
the bottom of the spine, holding your breath, exhaling downwards,
so passing in review the different colors as you inhale and all
the rainbows radiating out of each chakra. Pay particular
attention to the golden color in your heart towards the middle of
your inhaling. The heart is looked upon as a miniature sun by Pir-
O-Murshid Pir-o-Murshid Inayat Khan. As you inhale you keep moving
upwards from the heart to the pituitary gland - called bindu -
which is like a diamond, a colorless light which gives you the
impression of being white like snow. The whole array of colors
radiating from that diamond at the crown center is visualized
toward the end of your inhaling. Then, as you hold your breath,
you make a real quantum leap from identifying yourself with your
body and aura to identifying yourself with what you have been
prior to your incarnation, right in the beginning, before your
descent into the spheres. You were a being of luminous
intelligence. That's not light in the physical sense. Your aura,
your body and your magnetic field are the scaffolding, the
underpinning support system for the essential reality of your
being, which is luminous intelligence. 

Can you just experience the intensity of intelligence in you? 
That's what you really are - luminous intelligence - awareness
beyond ego consciousness. That is called illumination, when you
are able to see, when something clicks in you, you awaken from
your body identity and you suddenly realize. "This is what I am! 
I am the spectator; I am pure intelligence." Consciousness results
from intelligence when confronted with an object so you are even
beyond consciousness.

It's not light in the physical sense and that's why the early
Catholic Church fathers used to call it "the uncreated light." But
it's just like light; it makes everything clear. The Sufis say,
"It is the light that sees, instead of the light that is seen."
Now, as you exhale, you become aware of the impact of the
intensity of your luminous intelligence upon your aura. You know
how, when suddenly see a point which you hadn't grasped, all of a
sudden your face illuminates with a smile - Oh yes, I see that! 
Your whole aura flashes with light at the moment when you realize
that you are luminous intelligence. That is what is meant in The
Koran by "a light upon a light". As a matter of fact, your cells
begin to flash light more intensity than ever before and start
proliferating; electrons start dancing; your whole being is alive
with light!  

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