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THE ONE
that cannot be
named
Prajapatir vai idam-agre asit
Tasya vak dvitiya asit
Vak Vai Paramam Brahma
In our own times from Sant Kabir and Guru Nanak down to Guru
Gobind Singh, and many others preached of Shabd (word).
Hazrat Inayat Khan, a modern Sufi mystic, tells us that this creation
is nothing but the “Music of God” for It is the outcome or
manifestation of His Power. He calls it Saute Sarmadi or the
intoxication vintage from the Garden of Allah (God).
From this energy field sub atomic particles jump in and out of
existence all the time. The material world does not seem to be as
solid as we thought it was. Empty space is not empty at all. The
vacuum is actually a plenum (completely filled). It contains an
abundant amount of energy, the zero point energy. There is a
cosmic dance of energy back and forth between the physical realm
and the zero point field, a constant creation and destruction of
matter from the void.
According to the relativistic quantum field theory, particle and field
are complementary manifestations of one and the same
thing. Reality is nothing but the transformation and organisation of
the field quanta. Particles are interactions between fields, and are
ephemeral manifestations. They only appear to be substantial as a
result of the dynamic, energetic interplay of the quantum fields. All
types of particle-pairs are constantly generated and absorbed by
the field. The “dance” of all possible particles, may be regarded as
the fundamental activity of Nature.
All Devas (Gods) have their adobe in me (Vak or Word), and I look
after each one of them. I am the efficient and the material cause of
the very creation and I am sustaining the same. I am Knowledge and
Enlightenment.
- Rig Veda (Vak Devi)
I (Vak or Word) am the Creator of all regions and the demons and I
am all-pervading like the Pranas or vital airs in all forms and bodies.
I occupy all space and girdle the Universe in the form of ether. In
fullness I exist here, there and everywhere, beyond the earth and
sky with hosts of solar systems; and by the power of my inherent
nature, they have assumed all forms and all colors.
- Atharva Veda (Vak Devi)
ISLAM & SUFISM
All space is filled with Saute Sarmad or the “Abstract Sound.” The
vibrations of this Sound are too fine to be either audible or visible
to the material ears or eyes, since it is even difficult for the eyes to
see the form and colour of the ethereal vibrations on the external
plane. It was the Saute Sarmad, the Sound of the abstract, which
Mohammed heard in the cave, Ghar-e-Hira, when he became lost in
his ideal. The Koran refers to this Sound in the words: “Be and all
become” (Kun-feu-kun). Moses heard this very sound on Mount
Sinai (Koh-i-Toor), when in communion with God. The same word
was audible to the Christ when absorbed in his Heavenly Father in
the wilderness. Shiva heard the same Anahad Naad during his
Samadhi in the Himalayas. The flute of Krishna is symbolic of the
same Sound allegorically explained. This Sound is the source of all
revelation to the Masters to whom It is revealed from within and it
is, therefore, that they know and teach the one and the same Truth.
- Hazrat Inayat Khan
Grow not skeptical, but attune thyself to the sound
Coming down from the Heavens,
Thy soul shall have revelations from afar.
What are these? The glimpses of the Unrevealed; were
I to speak of these sweet melodies,
Even the dead shall rise from their graves.
Rise above the horizon, O brave soul, and hear the
Melodious Song coming from the highest heaven.
- Maulana Jalaluddin Rumi
Name and the Named are but one,
Light of Name witnesseth His glory.
- Hazrat Moieen- ud- Din Chisti
First is the hum of the bees and the second is the sound of anklets,
The third is that of the conch and the fourth that of a gong
The fifth is a trumpet-blast and the sixth that of a flute,
The seventh is of a Bhir, the eight of a mardang (drum beat) and the
ninth of a Shahnai (Naferi).
And the tenth resemble the roar of a lion,
Such indeed is the Heavenly Orchestra, O Khusro.
In these ten melodies a Yogin gets absorbed,
The senses get stilled and so doth the mind, saith Khusro.
With the flourish of limitless Music within,
All the lusts of the flesh and the deadly sins fly off,
The master too has a wonderful world of his own,
Khusro is now fully engrossed within himself.
- Amir Khusro, a great scholar and mystic poet (discipline of Kh.
Nizam-ud-Din Chishti)
BUDDHISM
“A sound of Suchness clear and bright,
The boundless inner peace of light
Whose unremitting presence roars
Oceanic at its shores.”
- Ajahn Amaro
“O nobly-born, when thy body and mind were separating thou
must have experienced a glimpse of the Pure Truth, subtle,
sparkling, bright, dazzling, glorious, and radiantly awesome, in
appearance like a mirage moving across a landscape in springtime in
one continuous stream of vibrations. Be not daunted thereby, nor
terrified, nor awed. That is the radiance of thine own true nature.
Recognize it.
From the midst of that radiance, the natural sound of reality,
reverberating like a thousand thunders simultaneously sounding,
will come. That is the natural sound of thine own real self. Be not
daunted thereby, nor terrified, nor awed.”
“To listen wisely is to listen inside, not outside. You do not allow
your mind to chase after sounds. You reverse your hearing to listen
to your own true nature. Instead of listening to external sound, you
focus inwardly on your body and mind, you cease to seek outside
yourself, and you turn around the light of your attention so that it
will shine within yourself.”
- Ven. Master Hsuan Hua
OTHERS
The Tao that can be expressed is not the eternal Tao;
The name that can be name is not the unchanging Name.
- Lao Tzu
This Sound develops through ten different aspects because of Its
manifestation through the different tubes of the body (Nadis); it
sounds like thunder, the roaring of the sea, the jingling of bells,
running water, the buzzing of bees, the twittering of sparrows, the
Vina, the whistle, or the sound of Shankha (Conch) until it finally
becomes Hu the most sacred of all sounds. This Sound Hu is the
beginning and end of all sounds, be they from man, bird, beast, or
thing.
- The Mysticism of Sound
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The silence is so intense that you can hear your own blood roar in
your ears but louder than that by far is the mysterious roar which I
always identify with the roaring of the diamond of wisdom, the
mysterious roar of silence itself, which is a great Shhh reminding
you of something you’ve seemed to have forgotten in the stress of
your days since birth.
- ‘The Dharma Bums’ by Jack Kerouac
Nothing, nothing, nothing, nothing, nothing.
And even on the Mountain, nothing.
(Nada, nada, nada, nada, nada. Y en el Monte, nada.)
- The Ascent of Mount Carmel - The way of Pure Spirit.