God is not an out of body experience. Do you think this flower has to get out of its body to become a divine radiance? Of course not. The divine seeks an ordinary miraculous earthly flower like this to express Herself in matter.
Mother Matter is God delighting in form. How much more does God delight in the light of your eyes, the curve of your lips, the roundness of your belly?You can never be out of your body. The softest wave of your anatomy is the fabric of space itself. You have no edges.
Your body includes every stranger. All races and nations co-mingle in the rivers of your blood. No one is excluded from the fireside gathering of your tribal heartbeat. Your physiology contains forests, deserts, mountains. Your pulse aligns the planets. Your breath turns the galaxy.
"Ano raniyan, mahato mahiyan" declares the Upanishad: "one atom of the smallest is greater than the greatest." A synapse in your brain, flashing with this moment of awareness, condenses the light of the Milky Way. Choir upon choir of heavenly beings stand in ranks of shimmering fire, like petals in a vast chrysanthemum, which is only one photon of your flesh.
Honor each rising and falling of your chest. Cherish your body.
Chrysanthemum, Japan, VCG Photo
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