Meditation Practice

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X. The Touch of God

 

This is a devotional variant to the exercises on body sensations that you will

find helpful if you have reservations about calling the body sensation exercises

true prayer or contemplation. Repeat one of the body sensation exercises. Take

some time to experience as many and as subtle sensations as you can in various

parts of your body......

 

Now make the REFLECTION: Every sensation I feel, no matter how light and subtle

is the result of a bio-chemical reaction that could not exist except for God's

Almighty Power.... FEEL God's power at work in the production of every single

sensation.... Feel HIM touching you in each of those sensations that HE is

producing.... Feel the touch of God in different parts of your body: rough,

smooth, pleasurable, painful....

 

The experience of God need not be something sensational or out of the ordinary,

unless your devotion and Divine Love is developed. There is, no doubt, an

experience of God that is different from the ordinary run of experiences that we

are accustomed to: there is the deep silence that I spoke of earlier, the

glowing darkness, the emptiness that brings fulfilment.

 

There are sudden, unaccountable flashes of Eternity or of the infinite that

comes to us when we least expect them, in the midst of our work. One needs to do

so little, really, to experience God. All one needs to do is quieten oneself,

become still-and become aware of the feel of your hand. Beware of the sensations

in your hand.... There you have God, living and working in you, touching you,

intensely near you.... Feel HIM.... Experience HIM. Most of the devotees look

upon an experience like this as far too pedestrian. Surely there is more to the

experience of God than just the simple feel of the sensations of one's right

hand. This needs a long explanation to know the reality-Yet, you are assured

that these simple and humble exercises shall help you a lot to march towards

that reality.

 

We forget all too easily that one of the big lessons of incarnations is that God

is found in the ordinary also. Do you wish to see God? Look at the fact next to

you. You want to hear him? Listen to the cry of a baby, the loud laughter of a

simple party, the wind rustling in the trees. Or just quieten yourself, become

aware of the sensations in your body, sense HIS ALMIGHTY POWER at work in you

and feel how near He is to you.

 

to be continued...