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!
