Universe - A Tantrik view

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(contd from prev.post)<br><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>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)