Blend of Naad Brahma

Meditationtime Forum Post

Date:  Posted 3 years before May 21, 2016

MiBeloved 3 years ago

Naad meditation is really handy for acquiring a foothold in transcendence. The reason for this is that long hours of meditation, in fact any meditation which is over say about 20 minutes can become very monotonous. There is much dishonesty going in meditation, where teachers who are making a living teaching yoga, feigning happiness and bliss and describe meditation in lofty terms in order to captivate followers and keep the income coming in.

The fact is that meditation is a drab in many sittings. Someone may meditate for months and nothing happens. One reads these books about meditation by these great gurus and then one gets this idea that meditation is the ultimate happiness but when one practices one becomes disappointed and worries as to whether something is wrong or if one has the proper method.

One reason for this is massive ignorance, even in India the place where meditation originated. Most of the original explanations about meditation and descriptions about what happened in the meditation of ancient yogis, is in Sanskrit literature. Most Indians know Hindi and do not know Sanskrit which even though is similar to Hindi is very different in many ways.

There was a time in India where ordinary people could not even read or see a book which was in Sanskrit. This was due to a prohibition about hearing a sacred language and not being in the brahmin caste. There is so much ignorance about the experiences of yogis even in India that you will hear some Indians talk about there not being any descriptions of personal yoga meditation experience in the literatures. But if you were to read the Puranas such a statement would immediately be thrown in the trash can.

Basically there are two attainments for which human beings did yoga austerities. These were conquest and transit to higher dimensions. Usually the criminal elements known in the Puranas as asuras, used yoga austerities for conquest. Their transcendental experiences in meditation are described throughout the Puranas.

The good people wanted transit to other dimensions to be with divine people, deities. Many of their experiences are described in detail in the Puranas and in the Mahabharata and the Ramayana of Valmiki.

The yoga austerities were all done alone by individuals. Where there were groups of the ascetics like for instance in the Ramayana around the Pampa forest, still the individuals in the groups did their lone austerities and attained perfection by their individual efforts usually under the supervision of super-yoga-gurus.

In these descriptions there is hardly any description about bliss in meditation. It is the modern yogis who came from India and who for one reason or the other, felt they had to advertise that, who brought that into the picture as the prominent feature of meditation.

Was that because Westerners are mostly pleasure seekers?

Who knows?

The truth is that if you are really serious about meditation, then you will spend many sessions in just plain nothingness with no special sensation and with hardly any bliss. If you are addicted to happiness of mind and usually feel depressed if that is not there, if there is only sober consciousness without any special happiness sensation, then it is doubtful if you will ever reach a real advanced level of meditation.

To help with this, one may meditate on naad sound which is a sound which is usually a high pitched frequency which is heard in the head. At first this sound may also be monotonous, drab and boring but if one persists in listening to it then the reverberation of it will become more and more interesting as the practice accumulates.

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Kirpal Singh guruji was the one among the gurus who came to the West from India in the 1960s-1970s who stressed naad sound. He was a Sikh by religion but he did not ask anyone to join his religion. He simply instructed listening to naad sound which he terms as the sound current.

So far after years of seeking it out and also initially after tolerating its drabness, I was able to shift to a higher level of naad sound which is fulfilling and which brings what is called shanti in Sanskrit, which means an enriching feeling through the psyche.

In his instructions to Uddhava Krishna spoke twice about naad and recommended it even though in the Bhagavad Gita there is no mention of it except where Krishna speaks of Om reverberation.

In the Uddhava Gita, Krishna even spoke of mixing naad sound with the naad sound which comes up through the sushumna. I experienced this in mediation a few times but recently I experienced that mix afresh but not with a blend of musical notes as Krishna described but as one high pitched frequency in the right back part of the head, meeting with a blank vibrational sound frequency which came up through sushumna nadi central spinal column, and only after doing about 45 minutes of intense bhastrika rapid breathing in various postures.

Here is what Krishna said to Uddhava:

हृद्य् अविच्छिनम् ओकार

घण्टा-नाद बिसोर्ण-वत् ।

प्राणेनोदीर्य तत्राथ

पुनः सवेशयेत् स्वरम् ॥९.३४॥

hṛdy avicchinam oṁkāraṁ

ghaṇṭā-nādaṁ bisorṇa-vat

prāṇenodīrya tatrātha

punaḥ saṁveśayet svaram (9.34)

hṛdy = hṛdi — in the heart chakra; avicchinnam — continuous without breakage; oṁkāram — Om sound; ghaṇtā — bell; nādam — sound; bisorṇa-vat = bisa – fibre + ūrna – lotus + vat — like; prāṇenodīrya = prāṇena — by the vitalizing energy + udīrya — raising; tatrātha = tatra — there + atha — thus; punaḥ — again; saṁveśayet — one should blend with; svaram — of musical notes, tones.

Translation

In the heart chakra, the Om sound which is like the continuous peal of a bell, resonates continually, like a fibre in a lotus stalk. Raising it by using the vitalizing energy, one should blend that sound with the musical tones. (9.34)

एवं प्रणव-संयुक्तं

प्राणम् एव समभ्यसेत् ।

दश-कृत्वस् त्रि-षवणं

मासाद् अर्वाग् जितानिलः ॥९.३५॥

evaṁ praṇava-saṁyuktaṁ

prāṇam eva samabhyaset

daśa-kṛtvas tri-ṣavaṇaṁ

māsād arvāg jitānilaḥ (9.35)

evam — thus; praṇava — Om inner sound; saṁyuktam — premixed; prānam — vitalizing energy; eva — indeed; samabhyaset — should direct; daśa – ten; kṛtvas = kṛtvaḥ — procedures; tri-ṣavaṇam — three times; māsād = māsāt — month; arvāg = arvāk — after; jitānilaḥ = jita — conquer + anilah — the life air.

Translation

Thus, one should carefully direct the pre-mixed Oṁ sound and the vitalizing energy, ten times, thrice per day. (9.35)

पिण्डे वाय्व्-अग्नि-सशुद्धे

हृत्-पद्म-स्था परा मम ।

अण्वीं जीव-कलां ध्यायेन्

नादान्ते सिद्ध-भाविताम् ॥२२.२३॥

piṇḍe vāyv-agni-saṁśuddhe

hṛt-padma-sthāṁ parāṁ mama

aṇvīṁ jīva-kalāṁ dhyāyen

nādānte siddha-bhāvitām (22.23)