THE POWER OF SOUND

[Guest guest]

OM NAMAH SIVAYA

 

i know Amma recommends chanting The Divine Name and i received this

today and wanted to pass it along for anyOne interested. JAI AMMA!

 

THE POWER OF SOUND

 

The subtler the element, the more powerful it is. Water is more

powerful than earth because it is more subtle. Water removes earth

away. Fire is more powerful than water because it is subtler than

water. Fire dries up water. Air is more powerful than fire because

it is more subtle than fire. Air blows away fire. Akasa (ether) is

more powerful than air because it is more subtle than air. Air rests

in akasa. Akasa is the support for the air. Air is born of akasa,

fire is born of air, water is born of fire, earth is born of water.

During the cosmic dissolution the earth is reduced to or involved

into water, water into fire, fire into air, and air into akasa. 

 

The barrier that separates man from the supreme soul, is mind. The

five subtle elements, earth, water, fire, air, ether, which go to

constitute the body of the antahkarana (psyche), are the five

robbers who have plundered the jewel of atman. Akasa is the ring-

leader. If you control akasa if you subdue the ring-leader, the

other four elements or robbers will come under your control. If you

can controlthe five elements you can control the mind very easily.

The function of akasa is sound. Therefore kirtan helps the aspirant

to control the mind easily and thereby attain God-consciousness.  

 

Sound exists in four fundamental states: dense, audible sound -

sound at its maximum differentiation; inner, subtle, more ethereal

sound - inaudible to the human ear; a higher inner and more ethereal

state; the potential state of sound - undifferentiated, the primal

substratum of all sounds, the source of the universe.  

 

The mind is purified by constant kirtan (chanting). It is filled

with good and pure thoughts. Daily kirtan strengthens good samskaras

(habits). The mind of a man who trains himself in thinking good,

holy thoughts, develops a tendency to think good thoughts. His

character is moulded and transformed by continuous good thoughts.  

 

He who entertains thoughts of divinity becomes transformed actually

into divinity himself. His bhava (disposition) is purified and

divinised. The meditator and the meditated, the worshipper and the

worshipped, the thinker and the thought, become one and the same.

This is samadhi, This is the fruit of kirtan or upasan

(adoration).  

 

My dear friends, do sankirtan daily. Disseminate sankirtan bhakti

far and wide. Develop vishvaprem (cosmic love) through sankirtan.

Realise your sat-chit-ananda state!  -Swami Sivananda

 

JAI MA

[Guest guest]

Thank you for posting this about sound.  Just got home after a beautiful

night of kirtan in Manhattan, fundraising for Amma's NYC tour visit.

Arrived a bit late after meeting a friend for dinner, but luckily the music

went until midnight instead of 10 p.m.  It was really something noticing how

"high" the energy felt when everyone in the space was chanting.  Very

grateful for the experience.  Thanks musicians!  Thanks sevites!  Thanks

Dharma Yoga!  love, prashanti

[Guest guest]

It is said the the universe in quantum physics resonates in sound at

the finest level. At the finest level the world is sound...aum...and

that the Vedas are so powerful because the sounds of the Vedas were

created in consciousness and these sounds vibrate and raise our own

consciousness when recited aloud. Can you imagine what the

Vedic "seeers" must have been like? What a powerful place the earth

must have been 5,000 years ago. (or something like that)