Yoga Of Inner Light And Sound

Author(s): Achyutanand Swami, Praveshkumar Singh
Publisher: Santmat Sangh Samiti Chandrapur

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"One who does not consciously strive to keep his ten organs under check His efforts at meditation would go waste, and he won't be able to see God. If one strives to rein in his mind... His efforts would meet with success and he would be able to annihilate the cycle of transmigration."
This makes it amply evident that without undertaking the means of dama' and 'shama' one cannot attain to God.
Any word has a natural characteristic or propensity to attract or draw its perceiver towards its source or origin. That word which has emanated from the Supreme Lord, therefore, possesses the property of leading its perceiver to the God. It is also imbued with the qualities of its source and, therefore, endows its perceiver as well with the same. Therefore, shabda sādhanā or nādānusandhāna or the Yoga of Sound has been regarded as the most essential and the loftiest meditation in Santmat. The great Santmat Guru Maharshi Mehi Paramhans Ji Maharaj has written in Part IV, The Philosophy of Liberation, of his book “Satsang Yoga":
"That school of spirituality which makes no mention of the complete method of Nādānusandhāna or Surat Shabda Yoga Yoga of Inner Sound) does not deserve to be treated as 'Santmat!"
The Upanishad reckons 'bindu' (the Absolute Radiant Point visualized within) and 'nāda' as the superior-most marks or symbols of God and has portrayed the human body as the home to Lord Vishnu & Lordess Lakshmi as well as to Lord Shiva and Lordess Parvati:
"Bindu and nāda are great signs and residence of Shiva & Shakti (Parvati).
The body is the Temple of Shiva (& Shakti); herein everyone can attain liberation.
Bindu and nāda are great signs and residence of Vishnu and Laksmi.
The body has been said to be the Temple of Vishnu (& Laksmi); herein everybody can attain liberation."
The very sound that sprang forth from the Supreme Lord has been called as the True Name or Word (ādi nāma, sfota, pranava, Om, sattanāma etc.). By meditating on this Sound even the dirtiest mind gets purified and all the bondages of attachment & delusion get snapped leading its practiser to absolute peace:
"The Primordial Sound is the magical touchstone to the dirty iron that is, the mind. As soon as the mind is touched by this Sound it gets transformed into Gold, and is freed of all the bondages & delusions.'
- Sant Kabir Sahab
In another place, Kabir Sahab says that he who grasps this Primeval Word is rid of all doubts or apprehensions,
"He who has perceived that Word has no doubts left in his mind, and the Supreme Master becomes his eternal Companion."