Maharshi Aurbindo has stated that - the human intellect
has, no doubt, achieved a lot by deciphering, through scientific developments,
the secrets of Nature at certain cosmic as well as atomic and micro levels.
However, the greater part - that, dealing with the consciousness, still remains
to be seen. We shall focus here on some such aspects in the context of mantra
Sadhana.
Vani: Voice, including the speech of the thoughts and the
emotions - happens to be most significant among all the apparent or latent
potentials of consciousness bestowed upon the human beings. This divine bequest
has been at the root of making the communication and expansion of knowledge and
information possible in real terms. It would be frightening to imagine the
status of the human society without this wonderful gift of vani. Apart from its
obvious role at the social and educational levels the vani - being a tool for
manifestation of Sabda - also plays a crucial role in spiritual developments.
As mentioned earlier, the mantra Sadhana triggers an 'explosion' of the power
of Sabda via the medium of refined vani.
It is well known that we are able to pronounce uncountable
variety of phonemes and syllables with enormous flexibility of pitch and
amplitude because of the simultaneous movements and associative functioning of
the lips, teeth, throat and the vocal cord along with the tongue. If it were
only a single component, say the tongue along that produced 'voice' then the
human beings would have been able to utter only a limited number of phonemes
(sounds) like most animals and birds too. The simultaneous movement of several
interconnected components of the vocal system also creates vibrations in the
linkages of the latter with the nervous system and the brain and thus makes the
human voice so special. These vibrations (generated by the flow of our vani),
because of their connections with the brain, also induce micro subtler effects
on may many intra-body functions as well.
As mentioned earlier, the combination of specific syllables
and vowels in the mantras is so designed that the japa of a particular mantra
would have definite effects on some specific functional centers and domains of
the hidden source of live. the latter include - the sat cakras, the three
extrasensory 'knots' (granthis), the three nadis (the latent energy currents/
canals along the endocrine column), das pranas (ten streams of prana) 72000
nerves and muscles and the 54 upatyikas endowed in a living human body.
The dreaded dangers of noise pollution on the one hand and
the amazing applications of the ultra and infra sound on the other, illustrate
that - the syllables and words spoken or heard are much more than mere carriers
of information. That music is more powerful as a means for creativity,
sentimental thrust, medical therapy, improvement in agricultural production and
psychosomatic health than as a tool for entertainment - is also well recognized
by the world. Music has now become an important part of school education in the
high tech countries like Japan in order to help create the feelings of
compassion, cooperation and discipline among the children.
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