The Yoga of Sound -- Listening to the Music of the Universe

[Guest guest]

James Bean

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(This is a new series of posts based on an article I wrote on Sound in the

various world religions.)

 

 

The Yoga of Sound -- Listening to the Music of the Universe

 

By James Bean

 

PART ONE

 

Introduction

 

No doubt, many of you saw the movie Contact, based upon the book with that

same title authored by the late Dr. Carl Sagan. The story was about SETI --

the search of extraterrestrial intelligence. In this film, scientists

intercepted radio signal emanating from another part of the galaxy. These

broadcasts were being beamed directly at the earth by an alien civilization

trying to get our attention. After many years they finally succeeded.

Their message was eventually deciphered; it contained schematics for

constructing a transportation device which would allow humans to travel to

the distant world where the signals were coming from.

 

After viewing this philosophical film, I couldn't help comparing the

parallels between this SETI scenario and one of the world's oldest forms of

yoga-meditation: Shabda Yoga, the Yoga of the Sound Current. Shabda is an

ancient Sanskrit word for divine or cosmic sound, heavenly music. For

thousands of years, human beings around the world have been tuning into a

sound which comes from beyond the stars. For the practitioners of the Yoga

of Sound, this heavenly music is also a means of transportation. By

becoming one with the holy stream of sound, souls during their meditation

practice find themselves ascending in spirit toward the place where the

sound emanates. This sound connects all souls of the universe to the

timeless world of the Great Spirit.

 

PART ONE///

 

 

Parts Two Three, Four, etc. will be a study of the Path of Sound in the

various world religions including: Islam, the Australian Aborigines, Native

American, Buddhist, Gnostic, Christian, Jewish, Hindu, and Sikh traditions.

 

Stay Tuned,

 

James

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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