Sound
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1. Follow the Source of the Sound
Merge with the very source of everything
Total Duration: 20 minutes
Close your eyes. Just inhale and exhale as slowly as possible.
Step 1:
Duration: 5 minutes
Now start creating the sound, the vibration ‘oooommm’ intensely. Create intensely from your navel center like a vibration, but not loudly.
Step 2:
Duration: 5 minutes
Continue to create the sound but seek the source from where the vibrations are rising, from where the sound is coming. Go into the source.
Step 3:
Duration: 5 minutes
Now slowly reduce the sound. Don’t stop, just reduce the sound, but enter into the source from where the sound is coming.
Step 4:
Duration: 5 minutes
Don’t create any sound, but go to the source from where the sound was coming. Enter into that source of soundfulness. Just be with the memory of that soundfulness.
2. Omkaara
Enter into the thoughtless zone
Duration: 21 minutes
Close your eyes and just sit in a relaxed way.
Step 1:
Duration: 11 minutes
Concentrate on the navel center, manipuraka chakra (a vital energy center in the body, located on the navel area). Forget all other parts of the body; remember only the navel center.
Now from your navel, start creating the deep vibration of Omkaara - ‘Om’ sound. Just be centered on the sound, on the center of the sound.
Step 2:
Duration: 10 minutes
Stop. Just sit quietly for a few minutes with eyes closed. Try to listen to the sound without creating the sound.
Relax, open your eyes.
3. Anahata Dhvani
Feel the energy flowing in your body. Become completely energised.
Close your eyes. Close your ears completely with your thumbs so that you hear that uncreated sound inside you – called the anahata dhvani. Let your whole inner space be filled by the unheard sound. Once you feel your whole body is filled with that unheard sound, just contract your rectum and stop all the movements. Remain this for as long as you can.
When your body relaxes, take your hand away and relax completely for a few moments. But till your body relaxes itself, don't give up. Try your best to hold on.
If your body relaxes, take a few minutes break and start the process again by closing your eyes and ears, hearing the unstruck sound, contracting the rectum, and relaxing when appropriate.
Do not repeat this process more than five times. After every repetition, take at least a 30-second to 40-second break. Let your eyes be closed even at that time. Experience the energy flow happening throughout the body. Relax into it.
4. Center of the Sound Storm
Find the center of all sound - within you, and transcend all sound
Duration: 21 minutes
Sit down somewhere, anywhere. The noisier the place, the better! Look for a place with continuous sound. It could be a natural sound, like the gushing of a river or a waterfall or the crashing of the waves on a beach. Or it could be a railway station, or a marketplace.
Sit silently. Feel the sounds coming at you from every direction as sound waves. With sounds flowing at you from all directions, feel yourself to be at the center of this storm of sound.
Feel clearly, at the center, where you are, that there is no sound! If there was sound at the center, you would not be able to hear the sounds outside.
Inside you, there is a point where all sounds stop. It is from that point that every sound is being heard. Try to locate that center.
When you locate it, suddenly, your awareness will turn inward from the outer world of sound. You will be at the center where there is silence - the point where no sound can enter. That point is You.