20/08/2025
“Though ageing and death is certain, practising yoga keeps me away from this idea of age and death. Practice brings the diminishing body in contact with the eternal soul. The eternity of the soul does not remain as a mere ideology any more as I experience it practically. This union is a very complicated thing. Many people may not easily understand. Know that I do not stretch the body today, which I used to do in my thirties and fifties. Now I stretch the intelligence in my body to expand so that the intelligence stretches my body. Today I make the intelligence to trace and reach the body everywhere. That is why I say I was a seeker in the beginning. Being no more a seeker, I see and stretch my intelligence and make the body to stretch on its own. If I stretch my body I may feel the signs of fatigue, because the body feels the strain, the mind feels the exhaustion. Now I work with the intelligence so that I support the mind in the body and spread the Self everywhere. Previously, I was making my body and mind as the major important means in practice. Now, they are secondary and I move my intelligence firmly with the Self. The Self (as content) expands in my body and the fluidity of my inner body expands the solid body. In the early days I was using the solid body to make it fluid. Today it is not so, it is the fluid I make to come in contact with the solid body. It is a very subtle and sublime practice, which non-practitioners perhaps may not understand.”
- Astadala Yogamala Volume 6
