What is expansion and how I expand?

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[Music] [Music] namaste today i would like to sit with you and contemplate on the theme of expansion i have noticed after classes that when i ask how you feeling and you all go oh expanded and all the note a motion of the energy going outwardly or you feel contracted and then you go oh is the energy going inwardly but i want to clarify that the true expansion is not the feeling or the experience of the energy moving in certain direction and for that let me remind you that the one or the source is beyond any experience is a formless is beyond qualities beyond the gunas beyond the sadva the tamas and the rajas it is beyond the mind it is beyond the intellect it is beyond the memory it's undefined if you're trying to put in words it's undefined that makes it unspokable you cannot speak about it and if you do then you're not getting it you are not you're not in it it also have the quality of limitlessness limitlessness it is also playful so expansion is that entering into one of those qualities and is without any effort and without any experience so when you're feeling your mind less agitated less chatting less reactive to exterior things you are expanding when you feel that a certain care for the form but at the same time no identification with the form with the body you are expanding and actually the body is one of the primer or the more the best route to take when it comes to expansion because it's the more tangible for you it's the more tangible for the mind otherwise we can talk about the ego the personality and all the different points of view that yes it complements your wholeness but you are it's less tangible for you so the true expansion is when you lift and enter into the zone of the qualities of the one formlessness playfulness blissfulness all that nobody can take it for from you and is irrelevant from any circumstances outside you can be agitated if you are going into an aeroplane at this time but inside it remain that formlessness that quietness when you are primarily grounding yourself establishing yourself and that them is very magnetic they must slow you down all your qualities slow down all your interest is slow down all your attachments vanish and that's true expansion so we need to be not to look for the external expansion which is more the point of view of capitalism right is to have more to to know more to expand physically financially in relationship etc but when we talk spiritually is a completely different meaning so yes in one level you already expand and when you aura expand you feel happy you feel like you are living in a bigger house and that is a glimpse of you being small and being contained in a larger body an infinite limitless body so when you are in meditation and you feel that sense of expansiveness don't hold on to don't search and your next sitting for it because this is just a glimpse a transition the true expansion comes to you with no even with no awareness it just comes effortlessly and when it comes in that way it permanently established in the qualities of the one and permanently you feel the desire to share or to embody more deeply that expansion so it's empty and it's full is formless but it's in all forms and then the comprehension of paradox is just a peace of mind it's not it's a deep understanding it doesn't take away from you that sense of eternal expansion reflect on that and as a homework in your meditation spot when you have that sense of expansion and consciously choose not to search for it not to identify with that experience which it can be very blissful very gratifying take notes i'll see you in the next class namaste [Music] you