Meditation by spiritual sound
By Vimal Sehgal
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All of us are aware of the importance of sound. We communicate with each other by sound and sound has various effects on us. Good musical sounds or sweet words please us and harsh words or jarring noises annoy us. The world of communication is built significantly on sound, and speech plays a significant role in our learning, interaction and working world.
Yet there is another aspect of sound that merits special mention namely spiritual sound. Material sounds describe, name or indicate an object or person but such sound is not the person or object itself. But the special significance of spiritual sound is that spiritual sound is the real substance itself. The reality is full of love and bliss. We can thus contact reality by meditation by spiritual sound and experience love and bliss. In this book the author describes the practice of meditation by spiritual sound that can help us attain peace, love and bliss.
Every one of us wants peace, love, happiness and pleasure. We want to live permanently without birth, disease, old age and death. And we want to live in bliss, ecstasy and love. Why is it so? Because actually we are spiritual persons. As spiritual persons it is our nature to live eternally and in bliss. We are seeking our normal natural healthy life of permanence and bliss. Presently we are covered by a material body due to our impure consciousness because of which we are subject to birth, disease, old age, death and misery. Our present conditional life is an abnormal diseased condition of life.
The aim of meditation is to purify our minds and consciousness and thus reinstate us in our normal natural healthy life of permanence and bliss. Meditation purifies our mind thus bringing us peace and happiness. As the mode of goodness increases in our mind our consciousness becomes clear. Meditation increases our memory, mental strength and stamina. Thus we become more efficient in our daily tasks as our mind is the chief agent with which we function. A healthy mind is also conducive to a healthy body.
Topics included are:
Introduction
Get started
The mind – theory
Meditation by spiritual sound
– practice of bhakti yoga
The liberation of Ajamil
– a tale from Purana
Vimal Sehgal
The author belongs to the Vaishnav Chaitanya Gaudiya spiritual tradition in India. Previously he worked as a systems analyst with Govt. of Canada after graduation in electrical engineering and computer sciences from IIT Delhi and University of Ottawa.
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Meditation by spiritual sound - Vimal Sehgal
Meditation
by spiritual sound
Vimal Sehgal
B.Tech. IIT Delhi
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Copyright 2010 Vimal Sehgal
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Contents
Preface
Introduction
Get started
The mind – theory
Meditation by spiritual sound – practice of bhakti yoga
The liberation of Ajamil – a tale from Purana
References
Shrimad Bhagvat Mahapuran ( Srimad Bhagvatam )
Bhagvad Gita
Sri Chaitanya Charitamrta
Preface
All of us are aware of the importance of sound. We communicate with each other by sound and sound has various effects on us. Good musical sounds or sweet words please us and harsh words or jarring noises annoy us. The world of communication is built significantly on sound, and speech plays a significant role in our learning, interaction and working world.
Yet there is another aspect of sound that merits special mention namely spiritual sound. Material sounds describe, name or indicate an object or person but such sound is not the person or object itself. But the special significance of spiritual sound is that spiritual sound is the real substance itself. The reality is full of love and bliss. We can thus contact reality by meditation by spiritual sound and experience love and bliss. In this book the author describes the practice of meditation by spiritual sound that can help us attain peace, love and bliss.
1. Introduction
Every one of us wants peace, love, happiness and pleasure. We want to live permanently without birth, disease, old age and death. And we want to live in bliss, ecstasy and love. Why is it so? Because actually we are spiritual persons. As spiritual persons it is our nature to live eternally and in bliss. We are seeking our normal natural healthy life of permanence and bliss. Presently we are covered by a material body due to our impure consciousness because of which we are subject to birth, disease, old age, death and misery. Our present conditional life is an abnormal diseased condition of life.
The aim of meditation is to purify our minds and consciousness and thus reinstate us in our normal natural healthy life of permanence and bliss. Meditation purifies our mind thus bringing us peace and happiness. As the mode of goodness increases in our mind our consciousness becomes clear. Meditation increases our memory, mental strength and stamina. Thus we become more efficient in our daily tasks as our mind is the chief agent with which we function. A healthy mind is also conducive to a healthy body.
The theory of meditation follows in the succeeding chapters but our aim is to start the practice of meditation. One may learn all about the nature and qualities of honey but the pleasure of honey is in tasting it. So it is with meditation. Unless we practice meditation its benefits will elude us. As we practice meditation daily we will experience peace and happiness. Hence we should adopt a genuine process of meditation which is authorized by the scriptures and practiced by genuine spiritual personalities. God has given us air, water and sunlight free for our bodily sustenance. And God has given us his holy name free for our spiritual sustenance.
All scriptures and saints attest the fact that the holy name of God is supreme. The simple process of chanting the holy name and hearing it is the best meditation. The important thing is to remember to keep our mind on hearing the sound of God’s name. The mind is fickle by nature. We have to practice chanting God’s holy names and to keep our mind on hearing the sound of the holy name. As we hear the holy name we are contacting God and we will experience peace and happiness because all peace, love, pleasure and ecstasy reside in God’s name. Our hearts will then be satiated and we will lose our thirst for meagre and flickering sensual pleasures once we contact the reservoir of all pleasure – God.
In the Bhagwad Gita, Arjun says to Krishna, O Krishna the mind is very fickle.
( "chanchalam hi manah