Toss attachment for body aside, realizing I am everywhere. One who is everywhere is joyous.
- Prerequisite — face the raw fact: you must honestly see that you know yourself only as the body; ‘I am the soul’ is borrowed knowledge, not your experience. Drop that false reassurance and the hidden attachment surfaces as raw anguish — you literally start perspiring. This step is non-negotiable: you can toss attachment aside only once you feel it as a house on fire — and then you jump out instantly, without ever asking ‘how’.
- Attachment is attention, nothing more: wherever your attention is, you are there. In a hockey game, blood flows from your foot and you do not notice — you are flying with the ball. The body imprisons not by its walls but by your tether of attention. Move the attention and the prison vanishes.
- The mechanism — from somewhere to everywhere: confined in a body you are somewhere; the body is not the prison, your attachment to it is. Withdraw the tether and there is no ‘where’ to you — or equally, every ‘where’ is you: no location, no limit. (Close your eyes and try to find where in your body you are — you cannot; consciousness is not a space concept.)
- Joy is not pleasure — pleasure runs through the senses, through the body. Joy happens exactly when the body is forgotten: absorbed in music until there is no listener, only music; deep in play until blood flows unfelt. Tantra makes this methodological rather than accidental — the key is in your hand, the door opened at will.
- Love as prototype: falling in love expands your body-identification to include another — you feel lighter, almost weightless, freer. That is the secret key: the barrier dissolved for one person. Prayer is the same key applied to the whole existence. Those who truly love are ‘sooner or later bound to fall into prayer.’
- Practical drill — rehearse daily: when clouds move across the sky, let your attention move with them; leave the body on the earth. Every moment of absorption — sunrise, music, a child’s laughter — is the body being tossed aside accidentally. Use these moments consciously; do not miss any.
- Q&A nuance (Raman Maharshi): the end-state is not the absence of bodily pain but witnessing it from outside. Raman’s body was dying of cancer, in deep pain, yet his eyes held no pain — he watched the body suffer without being identified with it. Meditation does not interfere with the body’s process; it steps out of it. The body completes what it must; you are no longer inside it.