Guruji, can you please talk a little more about the sound/alphabet meditation?

Q: Guruji, can you please talk a little more about the sound/alphabet meditation?

Guruji : That is one form of meditation that we do here, where you can’t go to Ka without Aa. So, you go to the very source where the sound arose, right? What happened at that time? Stillness! The mind became totally still at that moment. When we went go to the source from where thought comes, 25 minutes passes in no time. When you know all this, you can go deep inside. These things are not found in any books; it has to come from experience, which is very important. There is a beautiful ancient saying by a rishi (seer) about how sound is generated; atma budhya samethyukta. When the soul connects with the intellect, and conjoins with the mind, then heat or energy is produced in the body. This energy moves the air through the voice box, and slowly, sound gets generated. To understand how this mechanism works requires a lot of introspection, and stillness, to go to the source of the sound, to find out how it is generated. It is fascinating.

There was a yogi who lived to the age of 103 or 104, and passed away about seven or eight years ago. He was given the title of Nada Brahman, because he could make a sound from any part of his body. Even, I visited him once. He could make particular sounds from different parts of his body. He also went to USA, and the scientists were so amazed, they put electrodes and did a lot of experiments on him. He lived in Rishikesh, in the Himalayas, and practiced this for a very long time. He had a hefty, muscular body, and could make sounds like Ka, Cha, Pa from different parts of the body. It was interesting. He was a very nice gentleman, but I don’t think he taught this knowledge to anybody; it left with him. This world is full of wonders.

Knowledge is endless on this planet, especially mystic knowledge. In CERN, the European Organization for Nuclear Research in Geneva, the scientists tried to find the God particle. One of the senior scientists there said that he had been working on matter for the last 40 years, only to find that it doesn’t exist. He had been working on sub-atomic particles, neutrons, electrons, protons, etc., only to realize that they simply don’t exist! This is very akin to what the ancient philosophers used to say, i.e., all this is Nothing. Everything is Nothing and Nothing is Everything. All that you see as form is nothing, and what you see as nothing, is what is making everything. It is a beautiful thing when science and spirituality realize that they are not different. Those who think they are different, are fools; they are living a hundred years back, but in today’s age, they are the same thing.



Om Namah Shivay