Shabd/ Naad /Nam

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Sat Nam Everyone...

 

I have been working with the Shabd more consciously in the last year

for sure, but more so in the last month. (Shabd for anyone who

doesn't know this term, is the underlying sound current or primal

vibration)

 

Around this time last year, I recieved an insight that my chanting

was "unrefined"....I passed this info on to my teacher and he began

to work with us, in the refinement and tuning into the subtlety of

chanting....merging with the sound current.

 

And now we have begun a meditation class which is focused on the

Shabd and the Aquarian age....and I also had the pleasure of

attending a workshop, on toning this weekend....this combined with

my music lessons.... and I'm getting quite an education in the sound

current from ALL sides! ha ha!

 

At this workshop on harmonic toning, having the experience of taking

the word or meaning out of the sound you are making....for instance,

you may be just making a vowel sound....gave me the opportunity to

really witness the effects of different vibrations in the body and

space.

 

This experience along with the events of this last week, must have

really opened something up inside of me...because all of a sudden

I'm experiencing the naad in a meriad of ways.

 

A couple of months ago I asked my teacher, "Is it possible for us to

communicate using the shabd?" And he replied, "not really, because

it is the language of consciousness, it doesn't have a grammatical

form or structure to it". For instance the lyrical nature of the

Siri Guru Granth Sahib is written in the shabd,...as are the KY

mantra's, as they come from that source. But at the time I didn't

believe him...because there is something inside of me that

says "yes...you can communicate in the shabd"....

 

I think I've gained some clarity on this. Perhaps we can't have a

converstaion about cheese burgers, using the Shabd....but...I

believe the Shabd can be present, underlying the words one uses and

their state of consciousness when they speak or use those words.

 

For instance, I have begun to notice the shabd present in other

sounds (not only KY mantras), in outer sights and inner sights and

in experiences? What am I talking about? I'm not so sure myself yet!

 

It began with a hymn I was given to learn, by Mozart, it's written

in latin....and I was to learn it because I am studying harmonies

right now. What I noticed was when the melody line and harmony came

together with the right amount of awareness...the shabd was present

in that moment....I felt it in the expansion of the space and I

could hear the primal vibration that these two lines sung together

created.....the interesting part for me was, it is specific to this

piece of music...I haven't noticed it with the other harmonies I

have been practicing...and intuitively, I know it is related to the

intervals between the notes that he uses, that creates this effect.

The two lines represent the ida and pingala and when they are in

perfect harmony we experience the lighting of the central

channel...the trinity of forces, as my teacher calls it.

 

Again, yesterday I was doing a meditation....16 reps of wahe

guru/breath...and the phone rang, the answering machine picked it

up, it was my husband and he began to leave a message.....he wasn't

speaking "shabd" as I was at the time, but as his voice overlayed

the mantra I continued to chant....the mixture of those two sound

currents...culminated in a moment of light and bliss, for as long as

his message lasted? (Is this a reaction, because he is my lover?

and his voice sends me into a state of ecstasy?...it's

possible?...but I tend to think the message was more around

understanding the making of Divine melodies.... and what are the

ingredients that form this Divine experience.)

 

Well... I suppose I will just have to continue to "keep one eye

open" (yes...pun intended! Ha Ha ha! a little yogic humour!) and

keep noticing whatever there is to notice as this experience unfolds!

 

All Light,

Sat Sangeet

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All sounds have a naad, what the sound current of the words imply in

respect to consciousness, distinct from what the words mean in the

language you speak.