SIVANANDA DAILY READING FOR 21 MAY

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SIVANANDA DAILY READING FOR 21 MAY

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 evolved 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 control

the 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 upasana (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!

 

OM

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