Delight Matrix

Delight Matrix

Delight Matrix

Physical (1,1)

Sponging, moulding and stabilising substance into forms that are ongoingly being perfected through conscious activities

Chapter from the book 'Into Great Depth of your Being'

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The body is uniquely positioned among the parts of being because it is the one that speaks and responds to the truth the most. Unlike the mind, which may camouflage reality, the body never lies and shows its condition exactly as it is.

 

1. The Sponging Nature of the Body

The fundamental nature of the body is sponging. It habitually absorbs everything from its environment, its past, and its experiences.

• The Limitation: When experiences do not flow through they become embedded or stuck in the subconscient as entanglements.

• The Divine Potential: This same sponging property allows the body to concretely receive the divine. This is not an abstraction; when the body receives the divine, it manifests as actual subtle light, silence, and peace that feels like a dense substance. Simply recognising this sponging nature can shift the body from absorbing limitations toward receiving higher consciousness.

 

2. Molding: External and Internal

Molding refers to the process of perfecting the body’s form and substance.

• External Molding: This involves conscious physical activity, such as yoga, exercise, and proper eating. It is more effective to allow the body to open up rather than pushing it to risky limits, which can cause wear and tear.

• Internal Molding: This is a “labor of love” where one works on the inner matter of the body. Through patient practice, one can transform inner entanglements into a richness of subtle color, joy, and light.

 

3. Stabilising via Repetition

The law of the body is repetition; it is the only way to bypass old habits and form new ones.

• Consistency: Even the most intelligent person cannot bypass this requirement.

• Integration: Stabilization occurs when a practice is done not just as a meditation, but alongside daily work, repeating the movements of consciousness again and again until a new “circuit” is built.

 

4. The Subtle Physical Domain

Behind the visible body lies the subtle physical, an invisible domain that has the properties of the physical but is free from its usual entanglements. It is described as divine matter. By dropping deep into the substance of the body, one can discover this “pure substance” which is inherently lit with light and silence.

Guided Practices

This practice is designed to help the practitioner move beneath the surface of bodily sensations to connect with the divine substance.

 

Phase 1: Orientation and Connection

  1. Enter the Body: Close your eyes and bring your awareness inside. Recognise that Divine found inside the body and its own substance is more profound than anything searched for outside.
  2. Touch the Substance: Connect to the mass, weight, and density of the body.
  3. Inner Navigation: Do not remain passive. Ask your body to show you how to navigate its inner movements. It is an art of moving towards something deeper.

 

Phase 2: Witnessing and Offering

  1. Scanning for Imperfections: Move your awareness through the body. You will likely encounter physical imperfections, aches, or pains.
  2. Acknowledge the Truth: Do not hurry to “fix” or heal these parts formulaically. Simply be with the truth of the challenge. Avoid camouflaging the pain or being in a hurry to get over it, as this prevents the body from opening up.
  3. The Choice to Offer: Distinguish between suffering and offering. Suffering is getting entangled in the limitation; offering is seeing the truth and turning the gaze upward.
  4. Micro-Movements of Aspiration: Within the tiny cells of the “imperfect” part, build a thirst to connect to the divine source. Keep the awareness inside the part while aspiring for the divine to touch it.
  5. Subvocal Mantra: Repeat an attitude of offering, such as “Unto You, O Divine,” within the part itself. Make no attempt to force a result; have faith that the divine presence will restore what is needed.

 

Phase 3: Discovering the Pure Substance

  1. Seek the Silence: Identify areas in the body where you feel silence or see subtle colours like blue or white.
  2. Drop Deeper: In those silent areas, take your awareness deeper into the body substance, moving beneath the surface sensations.
  3. Glimpse the Pure Substance: Aspire to discover the pure substance—matter that is free, lit with gold, cream, or white light, and perhaps vibrating at a very high state, and thus appears silent.
  4. Worship the Matter: Once you sense this subtle body, you can pray to it or ask it deep questions. Use the aspiration: “Whatever this tiny portion of the body needs to hold or express in the world, may it occur by Divine Grace”.




Some physical supports to aid the body’s “sponging” of positive influences:

  • Oiling: Applying oil (coconut or ginger) to the head or stiff joints before practice helps the body “sponge” the oil, creating fluidity and protecting joints.
  • Conscious Sound: Chanting a mantra inside the body (rather than just externally) allows the vibration to be sponged directly into the body’s substance.

• Breathwork: Watching the natural breath allows its qualities of freshness and vastness to permeate the body.

In-depth Inquiries

The art of inner navigation transforms the body’s sponging habit by changing the direction and quality of what is being absorbed. Naturally, the body sponges limitations and past impressions from the “horizontal world”. However, through the “micro-movements” of inner navigation, the practitioner consciously shifts the body into an offering posture.

When the truth of a physical difficulty is acknowledged without “camouflaging” it, the body responds immediately by opening up. This openness allows the body to utilize its sponging property to receive the divine instead of environmental “noise”. By repeating these inner choices and movements, the body stops being a passive absorber of entanglements and becomes a receptive vessel for subtle light and silence, eventually stabilising these higher qualities into its very cells 

Differentiating between suffering and offering within the body is a subtle internal shift that involves a conscious choice in how one relates to physical or emotional challenges. While both states involve being aware of a limitation or pain, their direction and quality of consciousness are fundamentally different.

 

  1. Suffering: Entanglement in Falsehood

Suffering is characterised by getting entangled in the body’s experiences of limitation. This state is described in the following ways:

  • Falsehood: Moving solely into the experiences of limitation is considered a “falsehood” because any entanglement effectively hides the light existing behind it.
  • Unconscious Choice: Often, individuals unconsciously choose to suffer due to deep-seated habits or feelings like guilt.
  • Resistance: When one is in a state of suffering or mental hurry to heal, the body tends to resist, and no true receptivity is built. It creates a “struggle or a nodding” within the substance.

 

  1. Offering: Seeing the Truth and Turning Upward

Offering is defined as being fully present with the body’s condition while turning the gaze toward a higher source. It involves:

  • Acknowledging the Truth: One does not avoid, negate, or “camouflage” the pain or sadness; instead, one meets the body exactly where it is with neutrality and calmness.
  • A Conscious Choice: It requires a “conscious imposition of choice” to not succumb to suffering, but to instead turn the posture to connect to the divine.
  • Posture of Receptivity: The internal attitude of offering is one of acceptance, opening, and waiting. It is a “labor of love” where one sees the truth of the challenge but aspires for the divine to touch or fill that specific area.
  • Lack of Eagerness: Unlike suffering, which often includes a “mental eagerness” or expectation for the body to heal quickly, true offering makes no attempt to force a result, having faith that the divine presence will restore what is needed.

 

The Key Distinction: The “Moment of Choice”

The primary difference lies in the inner movement. In suffering, the awareness is trapped within the imperfection; in offering, the awareness stays inside the “imperfect” part but simultaneously builds a thirst or aspiration for the divine connection. Simply recognising the body’s “sponging” nature can help shift the habit from absorbing limitations (suffering) to receiving higher consciousness (offering)




Applying oil before physical activity is a significant practical application of the body’s natural sponging nature – both at physical and subtle levels. By applying substances like coconut or ginger oil to areas of stiffness or the head, the body absorbs the liquid directly into its physical substance.

 

The significance of this practice includes several key physical and preparatory benefits:

  • Fluidity and Lubrication: The oil moves into the body to create fluidity and lubrication, which is essential for protecting the joints during movement.
  • Safety and Injury Prevention: It makes physical practice safer; even if an injury occurs during intense exercise—such as the kicks found in the Kalari tradition—the presence of the oil helps mitigate the damage and “save” the affected part.
  • Healing: Oiling the specific part of the body being exercised assists in the healing process of that area.
  • Preparation for Reception: Within traditions, oiling is used to prepare the body to fully receive the intended benefits and influences of asana practice.
  • Mental Clarity: Some traditional perspectives suggest that applying oil to the head can even help an individual think better.

 

This practice serves as a physical parallel to inner practices, such as breathwork or chanting mantras inside the body, where the body “sponges” in freshness, vastness, or specific vibrations to transform its inner substance




Micro-movements of aspiration act as a subtle “art of inner navigation” that facilitates the restoration of cell-level connections by shifting the body’s internal posture from entanglement to receptivity.

 

The following sections explain how these micro-movements function at a cellular and substantial level:

  1. Navigation into the “Nook and Corner” of Cells

Inner navigation begins by moving awareness through the body substance—its mass, weight, and density—to identify areas of physical imperfection or “sadness” stored in the cells. 

 

Rather than avoiding these areas or using mental formulas to “fix” them, the practitioner takes their awareness into the very “nook and corner of the imperfect part”. This presence allows the body to stop “camouflaging” its condition and start speaking the truth, which causes it to respond immediately and open up.

 

  1. Building a “Thirst” for Connection

Once awareness is lodged within the “tiny cells” experiencing a challenge, a micro-movement of aspiration is introduced. This is described as building an internal “thirst to connect or feel a divine source”.

  • The Choice: This represents a conscious “moment of choice” where the practitioner decides not to succumb to suffering (entanglement in the limitation) but to adopt a posture of offering.
  • Submental Shift: This is not a mental analysis but a submental movement—staying fully present inside the physical challenge while simultaneously turning the internal gaze toward a higher source.

 

  1. Cell-to-Cell Communication and Restoration

As these micro-movements of aspiration are repeated, they facilitate a “cell-to-cell communication” and a “transfer of light, silence, and joy” at the substance level.

  • Receiving the Divine: Because the body’s nature is to “sponge” or absorb its environment, these micro-movements shift it from absorbing limitations to sponging higher consciousness.
  • Restoration through Presence: When a cell begins to feel a divine quality—such as silence or vastness—the practitioner maintains an attitude of offering (e.g., subvocally repeating “Unto You, O Divine”). By doing this with absolute faith and making no attempt to force a result, the divine presence fills the cells, allowing them to be restored on their own.

 

  1. Stabilisation through Repetition

Because the law of the body is repetition, these micro-movements must be practiced consistently to build new “circuits” of consciousness. Over time, this repeated aspiration helps the pure substance (divine matter that is free from entanglements) move from the “subtle physical” domain into the physical cells themselves. This ongoing “labor of love” gradually molds the inner matter of the body, replacing entanglements with a richness of subtle colour and light




Cells facilitate the transfer of light, silence, and joy by tapping into the subtle physical domain, an invisible realm that possesses the exact properties of the physical body but remains free from karma and entanglements. This process is not an abstraction but a concrete, experiential “cell-to-cell communication” occurring at the level of the body’s inner substance.

 

The Mechanism of Transfer via the Subtle Physical

The transfer of higher qualities into the cells occurs through a specific movement of consciousness:

  • Discovery of Pure Substance: Within the subtle physical domain lies the “pure substance”, which is divine matter. By dropping awareness deep beneath surface sensations and physical aches, one can glimpse this substance, which is inherently lit with colours like gold, cream, or white and vibrates with intense peace.
  • Cell-to-Cell Communication: When the practitioner identifies and remains with this pure substance, a cell-to-cell transfer begins. The light and silence present in the subtle physical move into the physical body, effectively displacing “sadness” or limitations stored in the cells.
  • The Sponging Nature: Because the body is naturally “sponging,” it can be trained to stop absorbing environmental limitations and instead “sponge” the qualities of the subtle physical.

 

The pure substance is the divine, inner component of the physical being that exists within the subtle physical domain. It is distinct from the surface physical body because it remains untouched by human limitations and serves as a bridge to the divine.

 

The key qualities of the pure substance include:

  1. Inherent Freedom and Purity
  • Free from Entanglements: Unlike the ordinary physical body, which “sponges” and traps past experiences, the pure substance is “matter that is free” from entanglements.
  • Independent of Karma: It exists regardless of whether a person is a “saint” or a “sinner” and is not affected by individual karma.
  • Divine Nature: It is explicitly described as “divine matter”.

 

  1. Luminous and Visual Attributes
  • Self-Luminous: The pure substance is “lit on its own”. When discovered, it manifests as actual, subtle light inside the body.
  • Subtle Colours: It is often perceived through inner sight as having specific subtle colours, most notably white, cream, or gold.

 

  1. Qualitative and Vibrational States
  • Silence and Peace: It is deeply associated with silence, quietness, and peace. Peace in this state is described as being as concrete as a “dense substance”.
  • Joy: It carries an inherent quality of joy.
  • High Vibrational Frequency: In a high state of discovery, the area near the pure substance may exhibit “super fast vibrations”.

 

  1. Transformative Potential
  • Cell-to-Cell Communication: Once recognised, the pure substance can initiate a transfer of light, silence, and joy at the substance level, moving from the subtle physical into the physical cells.
  • The “Pure Basis”: It serves as the deep foundation of the body. While the soul is often hidden by outer parts of being, the pure substance is always present in the depths, waiting to be “sponged” or received by the physical body.

 

To discover this substance, we suggest an “art of inner navigation” where the practitioner moves beneath surface sensations, dropping deep into the body’s mass and density to glimpse this underlying divine matte




Internal chanting is a powerful tool for shaping the body’s substance by leveraging its natural sponging habit.

  • Substance Transformation: While chanting a mantra externally is an occult phenomenon, taking the mantra inside the body and chanting it internally is a form of sponging.
  • Vibrational Exchange: Through internal chanting, a specific higher vibration is sponged directly into the body’s substance. Simultaneously, this process causes old or limiting vibrations to be released.
  • Cellular Habituation: Chanting at the cellular level—such as repeating “Unto You, O Divine”—is a method used by masters to transform the body. This repeated internal sound builds a new circuit of receptivity within the matter itself




Breathing consciously is a primary method for shifting the body’s subtle qualities from entanglement to receptivity.

  • Permeation of Qualities: When you watch the natural breath or engage in breath work, the breath begins to permeate through the body. It carries and spreads qualities such as freshness, newness, and vastness.
  • Facilitating the “Open Up”: Using the breath allows the body to mold and open up gently. This is far more effective for long-term health than pushing the body to risky physical limits, which causes wear and tear.
  • Unlocking Silence and Light: Conscious breath work acts as a basic practice that can quickly lead a practitioner to recognise internal silence and light within the body substance




Developing the inner sight to see the pure substance is an active process referred to as the art of inner navigation. Unlike the normal eye, which sees only the surface physical form, inner sight allows a practitioner to perceive the subtle physical domain—an invisible realm that possesses the exact properties of the physical body but remains free from entanglements.

To develop this sight and discover the pure substance, we suggest the following steps:

 

  1. Tracking the Substance and “Dropping In”

The primary method involves shifting awareness from thoughts to the mass, weight, and density of the body. Instead of remaining passive, you must “keep your tracking on the substance” and continuously “drop in” deeper beneath the body’s surface experiences.

  • Slipping into Matter: By repeatedly dropping in, you eventually “slip into the matter itself” or the substance itself.
  • Bypassing Entanglements: You must learn to navigate past the “entangled portion” of the body—the areas where aches, pains, memories, or thoughts are triggered—to reach the pure substance beneath.

 

  1. Using Silence and Colour as Entry Points

Developing inner sight often begins by identifying subtle qualities already present in the body:

  • Locating Silent Zones: Look for areas in the body where you already feel silence, quietness, or peace.
  • Focusing on Subtle Colours: Use your inner awareness to find areas where you see subtle colours like blue or white.
  • Deepening the Gaze: Once a silent or coloured zone is found, take your awareness even deeper into the substance of that specific part, aspiring to glimpse the pure subtle substance.

 

  1. Active Navigation and Body Guidance

Inner sight is not developed through passive observation but through “minor navigations,” attitudes, and postures.

  • Asking the Body: You can literally ask your own body to show you how to navigate these inner movements so you can move towards something deeper.
  • Micro-movements: The process involves tiny “micro-movements” within the body’s consciousness, such as taking awareness into the “nook and corner” of tiny cells.

 

  1. Recognising the Qualities of the Pure Substance

As inner sight develops, the pure substance manifests through specific visual and vibrational cues:

  • Self-Luminous Light: You will eventually see actual subtle light that is “lit on its own”.
  • Specific Colours: The pure substance often appears in shades of white, cream, or gold.
  • Super-fast Vibrations: Near the pure substance, you may sense “super fast vibrations” or a peace that feels as concrete as a dense substance.




Masters support cellular transformation by performing their own spiritual work (sadhana) within the subtle physical domain, which acts as a bridge between the divine and the physical body. This ongoing work makes the process of transformation significantly easier for others to access.

 

The role of masters in this process is defined by the following key aspects:

  1. Continuing Sadhana in the Subtle Physical

Cellular transformation is becoming easier “not because of our work,” but because masters are continuing their sadhana in the subtle physical world. The subtle physical is an invisible domain that possesses the same properties as the physical body but is composed of “pure substance”—matter that is free from karma and entanglements.

 

  1. Establishing the “Cell-to-Cell” Circuit

Through their work in this domain, masters facilitate a “cell-to-cell communication” at the substance level. This allows for a direct transfer of light, silence, and joy from the subtle physical into the physical cells of the body.

  • Historical Examples: Masters such as Sri Aurobindo, the Mother, and Ramalingar (Vallalar) worked to the point where this internal light became physically visible within their bodies.
  • The Power of Repetition: We highlight that even highly advanced masters like The Mother practiced continuous, 24/7 repetition of mantras within the cells (e.g., “Unto You, O Lord”) to establish these new circuits of consciousness.

 

  1. Providing a Template for Inner Navigation

Masters serve as guides for the “art of inner navigation,” showing practitioners how to move beneath surface physical experiences to find the pure substance. By following their example of offering rather than suffering, individuals can turn their body’s natural “sponging” habit toward higher consciousness.

 

  1. Creating an Accessible Domain

Because masters have already purified and “lit” portions of the subtle physical, modern practitioners often find that they can experience light and silence within their bodies much faster than in previous eras. We suggest that for some, this connection is now almost “a given” because the master’s work has already prepared the subtle environment.

 

In summary, masters act as the primary architects of this transformation by anchoring divine qualities in the subtle physical domain, thereby creating a pathway for the physical body to sponge and eventually manifest that same divine light




The body receiving actual light is not an abstraction but an experience as concrete as touching a physical object. Specific signs that this process is occurring include:

  • Subtle Inner Light: One of the primary indicators is the discovery of actual, subtle light inside the body substance. This light is described as being “lit on its own” and may manifest as specific subtle colours, most notably white, cream, or gold.
  • Dense Silence and Peace: The presence of light is frequently accompanied by a profound silence. This peace is not merely a lack of noise but feels like a “dense substance” forming within the body.
  • Vibrational Changes: Near the “pure substance” of the body, a practitioner may experience “super fast vibrations”, which is a very high state of discovery.
  • Increased Joy: There is a noticeable increase in qualitative aspects such as joy as the body begins to sponge higher consciousness.
  • Physical Clarity and Vitality: When the body starts receiving this light, it can cause a complete shift in other parts of being; for example, the mind may work more clearly. In advanced historical cases, such as with certain masters, the light even became physically visible.
  • Cellular Receptivity: You may feel the light through a “cell-to-cell transfer”, where the qualities of the subtle physical domain (light, silence, and joy) move into the physical cells. 

This often happens when the body’s natural “sponging” habit is consciously turned away from limitations and toward higher consciousness.

These signs are discovered by moving awareness deep into the body’s mass and density, bypassing surface sensations to touch the inner matter or “pure substance”

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