To GeorgeSon on Silence

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GeorgeSon wrote:

 

> Why are we silent when we get close to Amma? It appears that the

> reasons are many.

>

> One postulation might contend that being in the presence of a Mahatma

> raises ones consciousness up to its true dimension. Silence is God.

> We are That. The Higher State is natural because it is the Real.

> Noise is unreal? There I go again.

 

 

Dear GeorgeSon ~ perhaps one of the reasons we are silent around Amma is so

we can "hear." Noise may be unreal, but sound is not. I have read may accounts

of people who, when sitting with Amma at the edge of the ocean waters in

Kerala, hear a gentle "OM" emerging from the waters. I have also read recently,

though, I am sorry I don't remember where, that when doing the Ma Om

meditation, at some point, all disappears into a kind of Hum sound.

 

If we go beyond the phenomenal universe, perhaps there is no sound, but I

hope not. And of course, I realize the difference between sound and noise.

Mantras are sacred sounds. We sing bhajans to bring us closer to God/dess.

 

Here is a brief passage from "The Tantric Way," by Ajit Mookerjee and Madhu

Khanna:

 

"The Shri Yantra is a symbolic pattern of Shakti's own form...the form of

the universe, symbolizing the various Shakti's descent in manifestation...Like

creation itself, the Shri Yantra came into being through the force of

primordial desire. The impulse of desire, born of the inherent nature of

Prakriti,

creates a throb which vibrates as sound (nada). This manifestation is

represented by a point, or bindu. In the first state of manifestation, the

bindu is

called Para Bindu, which is the nucleus of the condensed energy, the seed of

the ultimate Sound, and the dynamic and static aspects of the two

(Shiva-Shakti) in one..."

 

Amma is both ultimate Silence and glorious Sound, in the humble opinion of

this devotee.

 

Pranams,

Linda

 

 

 

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it seems that it is in silence, that we can hear and be fully open...

 

nierika wrote:

GeorgeSon wrote:

 

> Why are we silent when we get close to Amma? It appears that the

> reasons are many.

>

> One postulation might contend that being in the presence of a Mahatma

> raises ones consciousness up to its true dimension. Silence is God.

> We are That. The Higher State is natural because it is the Real.

> Noise is unreal? There I go again.

 

 

Dear GeorgeSon ~ perhaps one of the reasons we are silent around Amma is so

we can "hear." Noise may be unreal, but sound is not. I have read may accounts

of people who, when sitting with Amma at the edge of the ocean waters in

Kerala, hear a gentle "OM" emerging from the waters. I have also read recently,

though, I am sorry I don't remember where, that when doing the Ma Om

meditation, at some point, all disappears into a kind of Hum sound.

 

If we go beyond the phenomenal universe, perhaps there is no sound, but I

hope not. And of course, I realize the difference between sound and noise.

Mantras are sacred sounds. We sing bhajans to bring us closer to God/dess.

 

Here is a brief passage from "The Tantric Way," by Ajit Mookerjee and Madhu

Khanna:

 

"The Shri Yantra is a symbolic pattern of Shakti's own form...the form of

the universe, symbolizing the various Shakti's descent in manifestation...Like

creation itself, the Shri Yantra came into being through the force of

primordial desire. The impulse of desire, born of the inherent nature of

Prakriti,

creates a throb which vibrates as sound (nada). This manifestation is

represented by a point, or bindu. In the first state of manifestation, the

bindu is

called Para Bindu, which is the nucleus of the condensed energy, the seed of

the ultimate Sound, and the dynamic and static aspects of the two

(Shiva-Shakti) in one..."

 

Amma is both ultimate Silence and glorious Sound, in the humble opinion of

this devotee.

 

Pranams,

Linda

 

 

 

 

 

 

Aum Amriteswarayai Namaha!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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