The Aim of All Spiritual Practice is to Hear This Sound

The Aim of All Spiritual Practice is to Hear (T)his Sound

“According to the Hatha Yoga Pradipika, the Supreme yogic state is achieved when the nadam or cosmic sound can be heard.The aim of all Hatha Yoga practices is to hear this sound.” – jivamuktiyoga.com

yesterday, at a beautiful Kirtan in Clearwater, Florida! Thank you, Deval of God!  Your devotion is inspiring! 

“Whether one is a Hindu or a Muslim or a Christian, how you live your life is proof that you are or are not fully His. We cannot condemn or judge or pass words that will hurt people. We don’t know in what way God is appearing to that soul and what God is drawing that soul to: therefore, who are we to condemn anybody?” -Mother Theresa

While at a kirtan yesterday, hearing the beautiful, constant vibrating, the resonance of the kirtals (small hand cymbals– listen for the highest pitch of them in this video), I could sense how similar it was to the Sound I hear and often share about on GoOD Mornings with CurlyNikki. I’ve heard It since I was a kid but it gets louder when I’m consistently practicing, and sometimes, at ‘peak’ moments, only the Sound is. Shiva sitting atop Mount Kalish, Moses on Mount Sinai, Jesus transfigured on top of Mount Tabor, you… sitting in that room, reading these words.

listen with you right ear* Joel Goldsmith taught me that! 

That’s the summit.

There’s only Summit.

Look around.

Listen to some Kirtan today and let the sound guide you to The Sound. Listen, and then stop the track and listen to the Silence. See if you can hear a similar resonance, a similar clinging (that doesn’t start or stop), a similar twinkling, exuberance in your Silence. It’s like the Silence sings. Baba Sitaramdas Omkarnath said the result of continuous Naam (taking the Name(s) of God) is that the Mother awakens and begins to sing to/in you. You hear Her and then you feel Him. And Her, Him, and you are recognized as One.

“The sound current is considered by many to be the most potent force available to human beings.”  – Eric Gustafson, The Ringing Sound

I love you,

nik

Episodes about the Sound in Spiritual Practice 

Interview with Charlamagne Tha God 

God doesn’t go away when we are not praying

Listen With Your Eyes

A note from my journal -7/5/24

If you pray the full Rosary everyday, the Presence of God won’t be forgotten. The Sound will be full.  Hear the Sound to feel/fill the Sound.

^^I listen to Silence, until I can feel the Peace. And that happens in a split second.

More Quotes About the Sound As a Powerful Spiritual Practice

“The Inner Sound Principle is All-Conscious and too subtle for the ears, the tongue and the pen. It is an Unwritten Law and an Unspoken Language. It is self-existing, self-sustaining and self-supporting and yet is the very life of all that exists both in the animate and inanimate crea-tion. But It can be realized in the deepest depths of the soul, for the two are of the same essence, the soul being but a drop of the Ocean of All-Consciousness. In the Sikh scriptures, It is also called “Sacha Shabd” or the True Word:
With the True Word, one knows the Truth, With the True Sound, one sings the glory of the
Lord.” – Guru Nanak

“One of the proofs that our Simran is being done correctly is that, in any kind of difficulty, we first remember Simran.” – Baba Ram Singh