Yogashikha Upanishad (critical study)
by Sujatarani Giri | 2015 | 72,044 words
This page relates 鈥榗oncept of Anahata Sound鈥� of the English study on the Yogashikha Upanishad鈥攁 key text from the Krishna Yajurveda, focusing on the pinnacle of Yogic meditation. This essay presents Yoga as a crucial component of ancient Indian philosophy and spirituality and underscores its historical roots in Vedic literature鈥攑articularly the Upanishads and Vedant. The chapters of this study are devoted to the faculties of the mind and internal body mechanisms such as Chakras as well as the awakening of Kundalini.
Part 3.3 - The concept of 础苍腻丑补迟补 Sound
As in the macrocosm, so too, in the microcosm. All that is told of the universe and cosmic creation, can be applied into the individual.
Our physical and astral bodies, our indriyas and the mind, all should have the sound as their basis. As the penetrate deep into them they should only lead us to sound. As we analyse our individual existence, it should take as to sound before we reach transcendent self.
Idaikkattu chitar, a South Indian mystic, says in effect:
鈥淏efore the sound in you gets involved know the substratum of Omk膩r鈥�.
It clearly indicates that there exists a certain sound within us supporting all our activities and that when once that sound gets involved into its cause, our present earthly life comes to an end.
What can it be other than the sound that is the first manifestation of our self before it appears as the mind and the indriyas?
Normally, when we play our both ears and try to listen within us, we shall near this wonderful sound which goes by the name 补苍腻丑补迟补 sound.
础苍腻丑补迟补 literally means unbeaten, unstuck. 础苍腻丑补迟补 sound is so called because it is not the result of striking or beating certain things like the reasoning of a note on the violin or the 惫颈峁嚹�. It comes from the 补苍腻丑补迟补 cakra. Because the 补苍腻丑补迟补 sound comes from that cakra, the cakra is so named.
Sound, as it ought to, forms the basis in all the six cakras inside our body. In the lower three cakras, it is not heard clearly since they are controlled by the tattvas earth, fire and water respectively from 尘奴濒腻诲丑腻谤补.
痴腻测耻 tattva predominates the 补苍腻丑补迟补 cakra. So we are able to hear clearly and distinctly various sounds at the 补苍腻丑补迟补 cakra, the nature of the sound differing according to the disturbance caused by the motion of 痴腻测耻 tattva. At this cakra, we can hear both the sthula and 蝉耻办峁补 sounds and it depends upon the intensity of our concentration and the quietude in the tattva.