(Sadhguru): So once I went
those days,
today I just came back from Kailash,
from Kailash I went to Australia and back
so today when I travelled there’s a whole Jing-bang going with me,
okay
too much organization.
We got all kinds of boots,
we got clothes,
we got this thing and the gloves and the works and cars and the works.
You can't imagine,
too much organization.
At that time I just went by myself,
by local bus.
Generally I sat on top of the bus and went
because I didn’t want to miss the mountains.
And these are crazy buses.
They started four, four-thirty in the morning from Haridwar
and go straight to either Gourikund or to Badrinath –
they have to get there, so they don't stop anywhere.
These buses used to be called as Bhook Hartal buses,
that means hunger strike buses
because they won't stop anywhere for food.
The driver opens up his rolled up chapatti
and starts eating as he’s driving.
So you are sitting there wondering
where is the lunch,
no lunch.
So they are called Bhook Hartal.
So I went and sat on top of the bus
because I don’t want to miss even a bit of the mountain.
And electric wires will come.
He’ll just shout ‘bijlee’
which says ‘just lie down’ (Laughs)
and again get up.
So I went there without any kind of things.
That was not the first time I went.
I’ve been …I think about twenty-six years
I went continuously, every year.
And just my jeans and my T shirt
and I have my canvas jacket
which I used to ride in South India.
It's very good for the rain
but suddenly I realized when you go to the cold,
the damn canvas jacket gets colder than the atmosphere. (Laughs)
So I just went up
and I went to Kanthi Sarovar.
It was around three thirty in the afternoon;
I just sat there
and I didn’t know what hit me.
I just sat there with my eyes open.
It's an incredible glacier lake.
It's …as nature it's phenomenally beautiful.
My eyes are open
my mouth was shut
but I could hear my voice singing loudly around me,
very loudly like it's on a big microphone
and I’m just looking.
It's my voice clearly singing this chant.
For the first time I’m hearing it
but it's in my voice,
but my mouth is clearly shut.
So I sat there listening to this
and that’s what we chanted just now.
What it means is
sound,
nad means sound –
sound is not an appropriate translation but
in
in English language there is no appropriate word for nad.
Nad is more than sound.
Probably because there is no appropriate translations in English language
similar things have happened.
I think – are there any bible readers?
Anybody?
Nobody?
Oh.
I think the …I’ve not read
but I’ve only heard from people that
it seems the first part of the bible is about
‘first there was a word
and the word was with God
and the word is God’ something like this.
Iis that right?
Somebody knows?
Something like that.
See right now
whatever I am uttering right now
I am only making sounds
but you are interpreting these sounds as words, isn't it?
Yes
I am actually making only sound
suppose I spoke in a language that you do not understand
the word would be sound
and the sound would be word isn't it, in your experience
even now it is so but you think they are words
they are not words; they are just sounds
so
somewhere when it came to English language
sound would sound too abstract to somebody who made a word out of it.
What is a sound becomes a word in the human mind
but in existence the sound is just a sound, isn't it?
If there is nobody here in this hall
if I speak
it doesn't matter in which language I speak
as far as the walls are concerned it's just a sound.
Only if you come and sit here
you invent the words out of sound isn't it?
so nad goes beyond sound.
There is no appropriate word
but something more than sound because
Sound is not seen as a physical quantity
it is seen as the last bastion of physicality.
In yoga, we are looking at the sound
as the last state of the physicality
beyond that there is no physical
It means sound is everything and
sound is life
all the life forms are sound
sound means a vibration
today modern physics is proving
everything is just a revebration in the existence.
And what is karma and what is dharma means
what entangles you is karma
what liberates you is dharma
both are sound
what is bondage and what is liberation
that is also sound
what is referrred to as shiva and shakthi that is also sound
everything is sound
whatever you know as physical creation is a sound
because everything has a vibration.
Where there is a vibration there is a sound.
whether you can hear it or not is the only question
but there is a sound.
Wherever there is a vibration there is a sound.