Wednesday, May 28, 2014

65. Acoustics and Mantra Vijnana


During the war times in the ancient era, the generals used to infer about the location of the enemy's army by keeping an ear on the earth's surface and thereby sensing the sound of its movements. this example indicates that although sound is supposed to be spreading  and being heard via the medium of air, its vibrations, if amplified, can also be perceived by the earth.
In the human body, the audible vibrations of sound, when make collision with the ear's diaphragm, they create specific impulse in the latter's connection with the brain and thus the corresponding sound is heard. Many animals and birds have latent communication-sensor in their signals from much longer distance than those falling in the audible range of the human ears. The 'prior sensing' or rainfall by the peacocks provokes them to dancing; spiders begin to unwind and recollect their meshes on the similar occasions……; cats take their kittens away from the building which is likely to fall in near future……
Human beings can receive and hear some of the non-audible sounds with the help of hi-tech devices. The early development of these types of sonic-sensors and related instruments included that of a device made up of two mica tubes filed with mercury. The base of this instrument used to be buried to sense the vibrations inside the earth in order to record the movements of the enemy's army during the Second World War. This device used to register the 'sound' of the army's movements much the same way as stethoscope records the sound of the heart-beats….. The next phase of such development included that of the devices for recording the electrical signals and vibrations up in the space and beneath water. The early versions of microphones and the hydrophones had also played important role in the Second World War, especially in defeating the German regime of Adolph Hitler.
Further advancement of the electro-acoustic devices (which work on the principle of propogating, amplifying and/ or recording the sonic waves via electrical or electronic signals) has made it possible for the modern scientists to record a large number of distant and subtle vibrations inside or upon the earth, beneath deep oceans or in the space above the earth's atmosphere. The ultimate stage of such advanced developments should help the scientists realize that - every element, the subtlest particle of every entity existing in this universe is created by the vibrations of Sabda. or, in other words, the whole universe and cosmos is a manifestation of the Sabda Brahm. The risis - the scientists of Nada Yoga had achieved this level of ultimate knowledge and therefore 'devised' the mantras and the methods (japa sadhanas) of their use in the physical (gross), psychological and spiritual development of men and women. What they had achieved in addition - by the dhyana yoga (meditating Sadhana) - was the expertise to link the subtlest power of light with that of the sound existing in the mantras.

Specific japa Sadhana of a specific mantra by a spiritually refined person is indeed a unique experiment in acoustics where the power of sound is utilized beyond the limits of material existence. When a harmonium or piano is played, pressing specific keys (that produce different accents or musical notes) repeatedly in an orderly manner generates specific musical tune…. Similarly, japa is a process in which specific components of the mouth, the vocal-cord and the connecting nerves produce desired sonic patterns that harmoniously vibrate the 'keys' of the extrasensory 'wires' (e.g. the ida, pingala Susumna nadis……), inside the body. The latter, being stimulated further by the subliminal energy and flow of the consciousness of the sadhaka, produce supernatural effects - via the associated currents of Sabda = specific to the type and purpose of the Sadhana.

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