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As the mind of a Vipasyana meditator progressively becomes more sensitive to subtle perceptions, his capacity to grasp finer, subtler sensations goes on developing further. While thus continuing, a stage is reached, when he experiences his body not as a solid entity but as ever-changing 'clouds of swarming energetic particles as described by the scientists quoted above.*
The physical scientist comes to know about the continuous process of destruction and recreation of fifty million cells per second in his body with the help of technology in the laboratory; the same truth becomes known to an advanced practitioner of Vipasyana through his self-experience. Grossly speaking, he perceives his body only as a curl of smoke, hollow, unsubstantial and utterly unstable. How long then, can the sense of constant l'or sustained self-hood remain in willo-the-wisp body looking like ever-changing coils of smoke rising from an incense-burner ? Hence, sentimental detachment follows in the wake of such experience without conscious effort. His cravings ebb away and he manages to free himself from the clutches of lust, greed, likes and dislikes.
It is our universal experience that when we know that our concern with any object, individual or circumstance is transitory, there is no involvement or attachment. For example, during a long journey, who would bother about the faded paint or cracked plaster on the walls of a caravan-serai room that one occupies for few hours of a night halt? Mostly, we would not even notice it, and if by chance we happen to see it, we ignore it saying, 'we are not going to stay here for a life-time'. Only matters considered as of lasting significance by our mind,
Starting with mental concentration, how this process of Vipasyana takes one towards mental refinement and firsthand experience of reality/truth progressively can be better understood by perusal of author's book (Gujarati) "Muktipath Vipasyana'.
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