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Soundless State, a state of Absolute Unity).
There the soul
becomes one with the Divine.
Gosvami Tulsidas describes this state as follows:
Just as the flowing water of a river enters the ocean and becomes one with it, in the same way the individual soul merges with the Divine and becomes one with it. This is the end of the cycle of death and birth.
The sacred texts of the Indian traditions refer to the eternal sound by various names, including, Anahat nad, Adi Shabad, Adi Nad (sound of the beginning), RamNam (pervasive sound), Sat Nam (true name), Pranwadhvani (primal sound), Omkar (sound before the beginning), and Udgitha.
Other world traditions have names for this eternal sound as well. The ancient Greeks referred to this eternal sound as the logos. The Stoics spoke of logos as the Universal Reason, through which all things came be. It is also the principle governing and permeating the world. The Greek term logos was also used by Philo of Alexandria, a first century philosopher of Judaism, who understood it to mean the mind of God revealed as creation. Early Christians used the term logos to speak about Jesus. They identified him as the incarnation of the Logos (the Word of God).
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