"The Akasha-Tattva is the subtlest field in creation... The people who reside there, their bodies are celestial bodies made of all light: that glow which you experience in meditation." ~Maharishi, 1959
It is a delusion to assume a duality between transcendence and the body. There are not two different paths, the path of transcendence and the path of embodiment. They are one, and our birthright is both, co-entangled as wholeness. To see an ultimate difference between transcendence and embodiment is only our experience at the gross level of perception. It is not the perception of wholeness, of Brahman.
When, through deep meditation, we take our awareness to the subtlest field of our nervous system, we experience a glow which is both spiritual and material. Transcendental awareness is the radiance of the essence of matter itself. And matter is the vibration of consciousness.
Resonant threads of pure awareness weave the subtle body, and with that vibrational structure of living consciousness the gross physical body is informed. The glow we experience in deep meditation is not an illusion conjured through visualization, imagination, or belief. It arises as the actual energy of the nervous system when awareness is in its deepest state of rest, of silence. Regular meditation every day cultivates the nervous system at this level of deep rest, so that the body can experience itself as what it is: the glow of divine light.
This luminosity is not just a touchy-feely mental concept or emotional glow. It is the real energy we are made of, the light of glory ("kavoth" in Hebrew), both physical and spiritual, both non-local and localized in every particle of the field. It is the illusive substance called "soma" in the Vedas, produced in the neurons of the brain as divine nectar, a celestial neuro-transmitter. You don't get this juice from mushrooms: you synthesize it by repeatedly, devotedly, day by day, taking your own physiology into the state of samadhi.
This space, the Akasha-tattva, contains distant worlds and galaxies. Yet it is the intimate blue sky of pure awareness within each brain cell. When we awaken this transcendental level of our own physiology, we return to our source to dwell perpetually in the first moment of creation: the space of the heart, where God is always saying, "Let there be light." Jai Guru Dev.
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