Talks... nada/sound WOW MILES

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Dear Miles:

As per usual you provide us with great definitive information by

knowing where to find in Ramana's works the appropriate quotes.

I believe that Ramana mentioned something about the sound in "Talks",

but I gave my book to a friend and cant access it. This does it all

though. Thanks again.

 

Love,

Alton

 

 

 

RamanaMaharshi, Miles Wright <ramana.bhakta@v...> wrote:

> 303. Mr. K. R. V. Iyer sought more light on nada (sound).

>

> Maharshi: He who meditates on it feels it. There are ten kinds of

nadas.

> After the final thundering nada the man gets laya. That is his

natural and

> eternal state. Nada, jyoti, or enquiry thus take one to the same

point. (The

> former are indirect and the last is direct).

>

> D: The mind becomes peaceful for a short while and again emerges

forth.

> What is to be done?

>

> Maharshi: The peace often gained must be remembered at other

times. That

> peace is your natural and permanent state. By continuous practice

it will

> become natural. That is called the 'current'. That is your true

nature.

>

> Nada, photisms, etc., imply the existence of triputi (the triads of

> cogniser, cognition and the cognised). The current resulting from

> investigation of the Self is suddha triputi or pure triad, -- that

is to

> say, undifferentiated triad.

>

> 148. ...Nada helps concentration. After it is felt the practice

should not

> be made an end in itself. Nada is not the objective; the subject

should

> firmly be held; otherwise a blank will result. Though the subject

is there

> even in the blank he would not be aware of the cessation of nada of

> different kinds. In order to be aware even in that blank one must

remember

> his own self. Nada upasana (meditation on sound) is good; it is

better if

> associated with investigation (vichara). In that case the nada is

made up of

> chinmaya and also tanmaya (of Knowledge and of Self). Nada helps

> concentration.

>

> (Ramana Maharshi)