Wishing you all a Very Happy Diwali.
It is a big festival here as a Lakshmi Puja is also concurrently performed with marvelous arrays of bright lights with vibrant colours,brightening up one's abode with festive illumination with a prayer to usher into the family a new phase of happiness and wealth blessed by the traditional Goddess of Prosperity.
Though the concept of Sound is intrinsically linked with spiritualism and possesses an ontological significance in the metaphysics of Primal Creation,as elaborated by our ancient philosopher- sages in the country's earliest grand Texts of Wisdom - particularly the Rig-Veda,I do not think that our 'spirited worshipper brothers' possess any grand acoustic insight while celebrating the festive spirit with Utter Noise,through explosive concoctions which seem to come up every year with newer innovations of environmental noise pollution.Why a festival of Lights should have a parallel noisy soundtrack(and irritably so)is beyond my comprehension. It simply kills the spirit of joyous festivity.
Philosophical deliberations by meditative realisations in the Vedas imply that the Energy behind primal creation arose out of the vibrations of the thought-process of the Superconscious One.This mystic Sound of Silence emanating from the Supreme One is called the Anahata Naad(the Unheard Sound).It is said to form the basis of the astral plexuses(the Chakras)located in the flow of existential energy in our spine-the Sushumna. The Anahata Naad emanates from the Anahata Chakra,the cardiac plexus which is centre of the Vayu Tattva(The Wind Element).
The Primal Sound formed out of the surreal cosmic acoustics is the AUM.
The most sacred of the Vedic mantras or chants; is that of the Gayatri. It is the "mool"/root mantra of the Vedas and hence it is considered to be of pre-eminent importance. Its virtue is said to be great and its japa or repetition has been enjoined from a very early age.
Aum bhur bhuvah suvah (Muttering the sacred syllable "Aum" rise above the three regions (Physical, Astral and Causal).
Tat savitur varenyam ( And turn your atttention to the All-Absorbing Sun within).
Bhargo devasya dhimahi ( Accepting its influence let you be absorbed in the Sun ).
Dhiyo yo nah prachodayat ( And it shall in its own likeness make you All-Luminous! ).
The Gayatri Mantra (Gayatri comes from the root "sing") is considered among the most powerful of the yogic incantations. In the yogic tradition,Light equals Knowledge.This particular chant is about linking the "sun" with our thoughts and enlightening ourselves by means of higher knowledge.The object of veneration is not that which provides us with light in the outside world but it is a principle that transcends the three planes of existence, the physical, the astral and the causal, and is the source of inner illumination.
This principle is referred to as AUM.
Pronounced Aauuuummmmmm. ..... it consists of four basic components of human consciousness:
1. Aa = Awake State;
2. Uuuu = Dream State ;
3. Mmmmmm = Deep Sleep State ; and
4. ............ ......... ......... ....... (The Silence that follows Aum) = Total merger with pure silence, free of all mental oscillations, via union with the Absolute, which is the indescribable source and end of everything, the Supra Universal Consciousness. It is the Par Brahman or Beyond Universe, the All-transcending One, whose prime attribute is effulgence in manifestation, but which is even beyond the effulgence.( Hence the mantra in its original Rig Veda form has another line added to it, which is given out only to renunciates and chosen disciples according to The Great Spiritual Masters:Paro Raj-asal Savad Aum/He who transcends the effulgence is this Aum).
Prayer/meditation essentiates the presence of Silence and serendepidity.While worshipping ,some of us seem to be oblivious to this.
Let the Light of Knowledge pervade.
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