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March 2002, Issue 7

Updated: Sep 11, 2025

Editorial


The following is an excerpt from this issue:


Holding the cosmic mudra symbolizes all in one, all in one. Your hands lightly touch your own body so you have a sense of connectedness. The mudra just touches your body with the thumb-tips lightly touching. If you take care of this mudra everything becomes sharp and clear, especially after three or four days of retreat your body and mind somehow finds a unity, you don’t need to work at it – just do it. And in that time, if you make a finer effort to just this point of the tip then everything becomes sharp – your body and mind already comes to the point – very fine tuning becomes even more refined…(Continued on page 2.)


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