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[Guest guest]

RE-print of a msg from old sadhna

club:<br>_____________________\

_____________________________<br><br>Universe A Tantrik View<br><br><br>In the

beginning was

the word, the word was god and the word was with god"

the word of the Bible is the Sabdabrahman of the

Hindu Tantra. Word, sound and Mantra are integral parts

of Indian cosmology, and cannnot be separated from

it. Taking cosmological principles out of the realm

of theory, japa or mantra repetition puts them to

work in a pragmatic way. It is the path from microcosm

to macrocosm; it is the vehicle that carries the

individual back to the source.<br><br> In the beginning,

shakti, the unmanifested cosmos, floats like an egg in

the silent, motionless void. A mass of latent,

undifferentiated energy, it contains the seed power of all the

universe. It rests in the void, alternately flowering as

the manifest, evolved cosmos and then withdrawing

itself in dissolution,(Pralaya). Throughout eternity,

like day and night, the universe alternately expands

into matter and recedes into primal

energy.<br><br>during the period of dissolution, shakti also known as

the Divine power or the Cosmic energy lies quiescent.

Jst as the tulip is latent within the bulb, so this

universe of names and forms, as we know it, lies enfolded

in shakti. Within its heart rests the three

qualities, Sattwa(purity), Rajas(activity)and

tamas(inertia), whose kaleidoscopic shifting permeates all

aspects of the universe.<br><br>Cosmic evolution proceeds

from the unconscious, unmoving, unknowable and

unmanifest to the conscious, moving knowable and manifest

microcosm.. On the other hand, human evolution is a return

journey from the gross physical plane of the microcosm

back to the absolute. In one case the force is

centrifugal, in the centripetal.<br><br>contd..

[Guest guest]

contd.from prev-posting:<br><br>In the tantrik

view, sound as a vibration of undifferentiated

intelligence is the catalyst that sets into motion the

unfolding of the manifest cosmos. A primal shudder disturbs

the slumbering equilibrium of shakti and arouses

rajas, the active principle, to carry out the creation

of the manifold universes. The causal vibration,

Sabdabrahman, is undifferentiated, soundless Sound. It is the

wavelength experience as God.<br><br>This Great Cosmic

Vibration splits Shakti into two fields of magnetic force,

and projects it as two aspect Nada and Bindu. As

centrifugal, positive male force, Bindu is the ground from

which Nada operates. As centripetal negative female

force, Nada unfolds the manifest universe. They are

regarded as Father and Mother aspects of the supreme

Power. The bifurcation of Shakti is a duality in unity,

not a separation. this duality of poles in the

substratum of manifested Shakti actually provides the

magnetic force holding together in a state of vibration of

molecules of the physical world.<br><br>Through the medium

of time-lapse photography, it is possible to watch a

rosebud explode into full flower. Like a rosebud, the

universe unfolds and expands. After the first

diferentiation containing the seed energies of the universe, the

vibrating mass of energy continues differentiating and

expanding as wavelengths. By the fifth diffenrentiation,

the energy is evolved on the gross plane, with the

creation of fifty articulate sounds of Varnas. Varnas

means color, and all sounds have corresponding color

vibrations in the invisible world.<br><br>From the

combinations and permutations of these root sounds, the

universe of forms is created. Sounds, as physical

vibrations, are able to produce predictable forms.

Combinations of sounds produce complicated shapes. Experiments

have demonstrated that notes, produced by certain

instruments can trace out a on a bed of sand deninite

geometrical figures. In order to produce a particular form, a

specific note at a particular pitch must be generated.

Repetition of the exact note and pitch creates a duplication

of the form.<br><br>Underlying all the forms of the

physical world are the oscillating wavelengths on the

fifty primeval sounds in varying combinations. Sounds

is thus potential form, and form is sound made

manifest. Because of oscillatory natue of matter and of

mind as perceiver, the world of manifest forms can

only be experienced in distortion as illusion or

Maya.<br><br>Fragmented and fractured, the fifty basic sounds themselves

have faded down the corridor of time, and lost to

human memory. the Sanskrit language, however, is

directly derived from them and of all languages it is the

closest approximation. Mantras are sound powers evolved

from the varnas and revealed in sanskrit syllables to

the ancient sages.<br><br><br>( collected from

speechs of swami Vishnudevananda)