This vibration free sound, Om
though we try to make
sound out of this symbol Om,
originally there is no sound to it.
See, our adi guru Shri Lalaji,
he was born in 1873
and he discovered something very unique.
He said, “Sound is everything.
Sound is life of life.
Sound is existence of existence
Without it there is no existence.
No Existence
And sound has its own spectrum
Certain sounds you can hear that I might miss
Cats can hear, we all can miss
Dogs can hear, none of us can make any sense out of it.
So, there is a whole huge spectrum of sound.
And when he is talking of sound
he is also talking of sound which is absolutely free from vibrations.
And this vibration free sound, Om,
though we try to make a sound out of this symbol Om
but originally there is no sound to it.
Oh really?
Yeah, there is absolute vacuum in it.
And we are supposed to feel the vacuum
When you recite Om
Om
that vacuum is the essence of Om
Ok.
When you try to feel what ends at the end of this sound,
you hook on to it
and let your consciousness flow with it.
That will take you to that original state where Om came from
My God, yes
So, it is that vibration free sound that we’re trying to promote
And that’s what happens during the Heartfulness meditation
where everyone experiences deeper states of samadhi
because it transports you to the original soundless state.
Ok.
Yeah…Om is still a sound
But we’re supposed to feel the soundlessness out of it
I always get excited when we can use music beyond entertainment.
You know, music is primarily they feel that it’s for entertainment
But I think you look at the bigger picture
Now, for example, in my online academy there is a joyful choir
Joyful choir is full of autistic children
Now, when they get affected by music and they start singing, they are happy,
I really feel that the purpose of music is achieved much more than just
entertaining people and listen to good songs and dancing and you know
this is, so… Music has got a greater purpose
that we can address together, Daaji
One of the techniques for stimulating the brain is music
We are using some subliminal notes embedded in a flute
Raga Bhairavi and our Shashank has prepared
He has prepared those tunes and we have embedded these certain subliminal notes
So, a child while sleeping, before going to sleep he is
asked to listen to that music and go to sleep
So, that does the job for 30 minutes or 40 minutes
And that somehow, in a very mysterious way
because we don’t know how it works.
But it increases the ability of a child to function
beyond the normal way.
Wow!
That is why they are able to perceive things with closed hands and with blindfolds and things like that
And also, it helps autistic children, since you mentioned autistic children
This listening to this music will help them
The listening to certain ragas while you are studying
Yeah
That will be also helpful
Like in a classroom, instead of having dead silence
and where teacher is imposing
if we can have a very subtle music running in the background with certain classical raga,
that should also improve this attention span and learning will also improve
You know we were doing a very simple thing
which we could not execute in many schools
Instead of the bell ringing in, you know bell rings after every period
you know, instead of the mindless bells ringing
we can just have music play.
You know, for example, aaj Gujarat se music baja
Kal Maharashtra se baja.Parson.. you know you have a
whole menu of musical bells that plays after every period
In a way that it becomes an education also
Kids start discussing “Arey this is African music that is playing.”
“See, today it is Arabic music that is playing.”
“Today, there is Indian classical that is playing”
That can also become a simple
way in which you are educating children with music
So, you can use music in schools in so many forms.
I will implement, I think, your idea of this regional music
What you have said is something very powerful
You know people who live near the temples,
Bell bajta rehta hai
Ghant bolte hain na ghant
mandir ka ghant lagta hai
But they are not prayerful
They think that it’s a noise
And they curse themselves for having bought a house near the temple
Haan Hamesha awaaj karta rehta hai
So, even though this sound is there they are not
able to take the benefit of it
It becomes counterproductive for them
Most adults, they are so busy with their attention on gadgets
on outside useless things,thinking of so and so hating so and so
But when we bring in this training from early childhood I think we will be able to create
a different mindset
Yeah
No, it’s amazing and also so much stress happening around no, Daaji
Everybody is stressed out.
Somehow through music, this stress can be alleviated.
Definitely, it’s guaranteed
It will go away