Ich bin fasziniert von der Synchronitaeten hier in Auroville. Die gedanklichen, gesitigen, spirituelle, physischen und emotionalen Raeume die sich hier verschraeneken tun dies oft ueber mehrere Tage scheinbar unbeschwehrlich, intuitiv, leicht.
I was exhausted. A friend had left his body, as they say here. The community had provided support for over a month, many had grown together. The death ceremony Karumadhi was held in a small circle, a certain kind of puja on the 16th day, when the soul leaves this world.
I have been studying the Prashna Upanisahd with my teacher for a few weeks now. The topic of rebirth and deep sleep are the parts that are particularly deep. Like every Saturday we met, but this time not on his terrace, but we drove to a ruined temple to continue our discussions there.
Afterwards I slept more deeply than I have in years, and I actually always sleep very well... Emerging from the night I went into a deep meditation on deep sleep, which has nothing to do with sleep phases, but is a state of being that lies before our consciousness, similar to deep sleep, from which consciousness virtually emerges and into which it dives again.
I then fell back into a deep sleep. The whole day actually, only to go to the temple around the corner in Irumbai. We are working on a project about the temple. A small case study on a 1000 year old Chola Temple, which is very beautiful and active, but actually nothing special in Tamil Nadu, but it is if you pay attention to the details, as most things are. There was a big celebration, the gods in the form of bronze statues would be carried around the temple, they would be the biggest of the other gods in the form of stone statues. And then they danced together. As if from another world, an intermediate realm, they came to life.
I slept again - all night. The next day I went to a yoga class with a new teacher. I learned that the asanas are actually just a preparation for Shavasana. I was curious because Shavasana was always a mystery to me. Of course, it made sense that there should be a relaxation phase at the end of a yoga class. But what should I focus on? Where should my mind go and what should my body become 'aware' of in the relaxation? Andres works towards this throughout the class with breathing exercises, concentration, body awareness and energetic exercises. And finally, in Shavasana, we consciously followed the nerve pathways, focusing our attention on the connections.
And I had to think of the 72,000 nerves in the Upanishads, and of the wrapping of the water jug with the thread during Karumadhi, because the thread symbolizes the 72,000 nerves of the body. And so Karumadhi, Shavasana, Prashna and the many stages of sleep and levels of meditation merged into one picture within a few days.
