Hearing Internal Sounds

There are internal sounds which are heard during meditation, but which may be heard otherwise. Someone may hear the heart beat for instance. Someone may hear the movement of food through the digestive track.

Even though some internal sounds are pronounced, still a person may not hear them or he/she may hear them only when the body is injured. There is constant sound in the outer and inner ear. Still, most persons do not hear that. If one presses a finger to the outer ear canal, one will hear sounds, but as soon as the fingers are released, those vibrations will no longer be heard.

Listening to internal sounds which aid in the quest for samadhi absorption of higher energies and persons, is a special technique. It is easy for some persons but it may be rarely experienced or not experienced for others.

It is the same situation with inner lights, which are seen either behind closed eyelids or with eyelids open. Inner lights can be seen if the fingers are pressed on the eye. Some lights may be seen even when the fingers are not pressed. They are seen during meditation when the person closes the eyelids and looks about in the mind.

Inner lights and sounds aid meditation. The focusing power of the self may stabilize on an inner sound or inner light, causing attention stabilization, where the mind ceases to drift, and where the yogi can wait in the mind, for a portal to a higher dimensions.

A person whose mind is externally focused for the most part, may rarely experience inner lights or sounds. This person can train the mind to listen for internal sounds. That however, requires patience. A mind which is attached to external noise and/or music, may not hear inner sounds nor see inner sights. Hence that person’s mind will be hasty to end meditations in which there is no perception. This causes discouragement when trying to meditate. It is because the mind which is hungry for some type of sense object is deprived of external objects, and then finds that it cannot experience any internal occasion.

A student should however continue to meditate, while listening inside the head for inner sound. He should also be confident that in time, he will have inner perception of sounds and sights which are of higher frequencies and which satisfy the need for perception.

For inner sounds, which are called naad resonance, the yogi should sit to meditate and press the index finger to close the outer air canal. That is the finger which is nearest the thumb. As soon as the canal is pressed, the eyelids should be closed. Then the student should listen attentive at the place where the fingers press the canal. A rumbling sound will be heard. There is no question about the existence of this rumbling sound.

After a time, with eyes closed and hearing that rumbling sound, the yogi should remove the index finger. When that finger is released, there will be a plumpt like sound. Again, press the index finger and again release it. At every release there will be that definite plumpt sound. Repeatedly press and release the index finger and hear that plumpt sound. That is a definite sound. It is not imagination. It actually happens. It is a physical sound. It does not rely on imagination.

Apart from the plumpt sound, there may be other sounds, so that when the fingers are pressed to close the canal, one hears a hum on one side or on both sides. One such sound is a ruu sound, so that when one presses the finger, one hears the ruu sound but as soon as one releases the index finger, one hears the plumpt sound. The yogi should with the canal pressed in, listen for sounds. There will be more than one sound, but the mind may want to think that these sounds are part of a general sounding instance.

One should listen carefully to hear a high frequency sound. If one hears that or hears more than one of that, one should note it and instructed the mind to track it. After having confidence that the mind mapped that sound, one should release the index finger. When it is released, one should keep listening for the high frequency sound.

If one hears it, after releasing the fingers, then one should listen to it and keep listening to it. If one loses track of it, one should press the index fingers again, identity it while the ear canal is pressed, then release the fingers and listed to hear it. One should do this repeatedly until the mind can easily identity that sound. That is the naad sound. It should be used for meditation absorption where the mind is trained to internalize.