"I" IS THE BODY OF LIFE Chapter Two: The Natural Vision THE SIMPLE TECHNICAL PRACTICE OF CONDUCTIVITY   The Disposition of Enlightenment (1) The Attitude of Conductivity : The world, the body, the mind, the self, and every state of experience or cognition is nothing but a form or state of the Radiance, Life-Current, or Shakti of God. Therefore, recognize all that arises to be such. Relax and surrender the body-mind to feel into the Radiance or Love-Bliss that is the Substance of manifest existence. (2) The Attitude of the Conscious Process : The world, the body, the mind, the self, and every state of experience or cognition is nothing but a contraction or modification of Being, Consciousness, or the Transcendental Divine Self. Therefore, recognize all that arises to be such, moment to moment, and so be Free. (3) These two primary attitudes coincide in every moment of true practice of the Way. Their simultaneity expresses the tacit Realization of Radiant Transcendental Being as the always present Identity and Condition of existence, and such Realization is always already established in That of which every arising condition is a transparent, nonbinding, temporary, and unnecessary modification. Treat Everything as Energy (1) The secret of conductivity: Treat or relate to the phenomenal world and self (body-mind) as Energy rather than mere matter. And treat or relate to every condition of the phenomenal world and self, positive or negative, high or low, as the same ultimate and total Energy (or Radiance of Transcendental Being). (2) Body and mind are the same Energy. Use every condition or circumstance as an incident of Transmission of the same Radiant Principle. Open to it, contact it, and circulate it. And communicate it in all directions and relations through love. Be Free and Powerful (1) Conductivity: Surrender into, receive (or contact), and circulate the Energy (or Radiance) of which everything (including the body-mind) is made. Preserve it with true happiness, which is equanimity, peace, and calmness. Through self-understanding and self-control, transcend reactive emotion, physical excess, exaggerated desire, and the dominance of either right-sidedness or left-sidedness of being. Keep the head cool (relaxed, open) and the vital warm (covered, relaxed, circulating). The head (or the entire upper coil) is the epitome of the highest vibration and the vital region (or the entire lower coil) is the epitome of the lowest vibration. The heart and the central current are the center of original or primary Radiance, prior to vibratory differentiations. The frontal and spinal lines are the circuit of transformations. (The lower, or vital and generative, force is circulated toward and transformed into the higher, and vice versa.) (2) Conscious Process: Transcend all the forms that arise from or in the Radiant Power. See them in the Transcendental Being (which is Self-Radiant), ultimately epitomized in transcendence of the basic knot of self-contraction or attention in the right side of the heart. (3) Thus, Awaken into the Condition of Radiant Transcendental Being and be Free and Powerful! Practice to Keep the Balance of the Body-Mind (1) Our practice must be one that maintains balance and the self-transcending wisdom of understanding (via the conscious process). We should relax into the Life-Current. We should not resist its changes, but we should not be fascinated with them or trapped by them. Work to keep physically, emotionally, and mentally relaxed and balanced. Dont intentionally let the abdomen get cold or the head hot. (These symptoms may arise, but practice to keep the balance. Dont add to them by failing to support vital health or tensing the head with worried concentration.) Open and Release the Feeling Heart (1) The heart is the central seat of the central current. Thus, it is not merely in the frontal line, nor is it absent from the spinal line. It is the feeling-attitude of constant Radiance, constantly transcending contraction and the limits on Radiance. It is Love-Bliss. Therefore, practice conductivity on the basis of the free feeling attitude of the heart (constantly Awakened in the conscious process). Surrender as the total body-mind into the All-Pervading Life-Current via the Radiant feeling-attitude of the heart. On inhalation, open the entire body-mind with the feeling heart and so receive the Radiant descending Life and Love-Bliss. On exhalation, release the feeling heart in blissful love-aspiration, thus channeling the rising Life-Current of Love-Bliss to its highest place. Do this breath after breath.

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"The perfect among the sages is identical with Me. There is absolutely no difference between us"
Tripura Rahasya, Chap XX, 128-133