The Music of the Spheres is Nada Yoga is Surat Shabd Yoga

Pythagoras Rafael

कस्मिन्नु भगवो विज्ञाते सर्वमिदं विज्ञातं भवतीति ॥ ३ ॥

Sir, what is that through which, if it is known, everything else becomes known?

— Mundaka Upanishad, 1.1.3, Translated by Max Muller[15]

Photo: Candles floating on the bend of the Danube river at Domos, north of Budapest -denoting the end of Summer. 

About the Author

The author went to music school at the University of Cincinnati. At the same time he took up the study of yoga with the Urdu Poet, Sant Darshan Singh Ji Maharaj in 1976. He has also published a collection of his poetry called Smiling Whiteness. The author lived most of his life in the New York City area. The author is also a pianist.

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After reading The Celestial Music by L. Gurney Parrott, an introduction to Kirpal Singh, the author as a student of music theory, investigated the Renaissance concept of The Music of the Spheres. In one paragraph of Timaeus, Plato introduced an idea that launched a thousand books. The author seeks to prove from eastern sources that The Music of the Spheres is the same Nad to the Hindus, and the Amrit Bani and Naam of the Sikhs. This book is a reproduction of the author's 1979 Senior Thesis in Music Theory.

About the Author

Leonard Gurney Parrott was born in London in 1901. After studying with a Christian Mystic Englishwoman, he extended his search to India. In 1966 he came into contact with the Great Master, Sant Kirpal Singh Ji. He movingly describes this meeting in this book.

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The Third Edition is published on the 50th Anniversary of the author meeting Sant Kirpal Singh Ji Maharaj. The author wrote "It would be a joy to me, if another edition of the work could materialize.. the need is so great! The author looks at Sant Mat or the Path of the Masters - Surat Shabd Yoga from a Christian prospective including many bible quotes. The book is too important to go out of print!

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Hatha Yoga Pratakapita:

The cultivation of nada—taught by Gorakshanatha, suitable even for the ignorant who are incapable of knowing Reality—is now treated.

One and one-quarter crores of methods of laya told by Shiva still flourish. We think only one, concentration on nada, is the most important of the layas.

The yogi, staying in Muktasana and holding the Shambhavimudra, should listen single-mindedly to the sound within the right ear.

Close the holes of the ears, both eyes, the nose, and the mouth. A clear, clean sound is heard in the pure Sushumna channel.

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Then there is a pounding kettledrum sound in the extreme void²¹ indicative of the highest bliss from splitting the knot of Vishnu.

In the third stage, the sound of a drum in space is discerned. Then the breath enters the great void,²² the repository of all powers.

After the bliss of the mind is transcended, the bliss of the natural state appears. The yogi will be free of defects, misery, old age, disease, hunger, and sleep.

In nishpatti, the breath goes to the seat of Shiva after splitting the knot of Rudra. There is a flute sound and a vibrating vina sound.

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Laya born of nada quickly produces experience.

Unequaled, unutterable bliss grows in the hearts of good yogis experiencing samadhi by concentrating on nada. Only a great guru knows it.

The sage should fix his mind on that sound, which he hears after closing his ears with his hands, until he attains the steady state.

Practicing this sound masks exterior sounds. The yogi will be happy after eliminating all distractions for a fortnight.

Various loud sounds are heard in the first stage of practice. Subtler and subtler ones are heard as the practice grows.

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These are the various sounds heard in the middle of the body. In the beginning: ocean, cloud, kettledrum, and jharjhara drum. In the middle: drum and conch, bell and drum. In the end: tinkling bell, flute, vina, and a bee.

Concentrate only on the subtler than subtle sound, even when loud sounds like a cloud, a kettledrum, and so on are heard.

Don’t move the unsteady mind elsewhere, even though it’s playing on a subtle thing after leaving a gross one, or on a gross thing after leaving a subtle one.

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The mind steadies immediately in whatever sound it adheres to first, then dissolves together with the sound.

As a bee drinking honey ignores the fra-grance, so the mind dissolved in nada surely doesn’t desire objects.

This sharp stick of nada can control the mind roaming in the garden of objects like a noble elephant in rut.

The mind—bound by the chain of nada, its unsteadiness gone—becomes completely still, like a bird whose wings are clipped.

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One who desires the kingdom of Yoga should abandon all mental activity and, with an attentive mind, concentrate on nada alone.

Nada is like a net that catches the deer of the mind. It’s also like a hunter who kills the deer of the mind.

Concentration on nada corrals the horse of the yogi’s mind. Therefore the yogi should attend to it every day.

The mercury of the mind is bound by mixing it with the sulfur of nada. Unsteadiness gone, it moves in the sky called Brahman.

Upon hearing nada, the snake of the mind quickly forgets everything, becomes

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absorbed, and doesn’t slither anywhere.

Fire burning in wood ceases with the wood. The mind turned towards nada dissolves with the nada.

Even hitting the deer of the mind is easy if it’s motionless, riveted by the sound of a bell, etc., and one is skilled in the aiming of arrows.²³

The knowable exists inside the audible rever-beration of the sound not struck. The mind unites with the knowable and dissolves there. It is the highest seat of Vishnu.

The idea of space exists as long as there is

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sound. The soundless is said to be the highest Brahman and the highest Atman.

Whatever is heard in the form of nada is definitely shakti. The formless, who is the end of the elements, is indeed the highest Lord.

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