When Creation happened, there was silence. Thereafter, sound got manifested, and from that sound, emerged all things physical. The sound was "AUM", also called the Brahmnaad. Recently, researchers at Sheffield University, UK, recorded the sound emitted by the Sun, and it was found to be the same as the brahmnaad described by Vedic seers.
Every sound is energy unleashed and it contains the power to alter creation around you, including your own body. There are certain sounds that you can hear and certain others that are outside your audible range. Among the sounds that you can hear, some please you and some leave you disturbed. Nonetheless, all these sounds have a specific effect on your being; some of these effects you can perceive immediately, while others become evident later, depending upon the frequency of sound and
the frequency at which you exist.
Similarly, the same sound can generate different effects on different people, again depending upon their individual frequencies. This explains why the same beats of the drum may be music to the ear of a teenager and a source of disturbance to one who has crossed 40 (not in years but in maturity). It is simply a difference of frequencies at which the two individuals exist.
Yoga emphasises upon the sound of silence. It is the most powerful sound, for it is from silence that sound emerged and gave birth to creation. Yoga is not about twisting your body into knots, breathing rapidly or howling in front of a man with a white beard. Yoga is garnering the strength of silence within you, to go back to the source from where it all began. And all it requires is to sit still and observe silence…a very difficult thing to do.
So why do it? When you maintain silence, you are able to still one of the five senses that are responsible for the constant outflow of prana from your body. Yogis in the Himalayas observe maun vrat, or speech fast for long periods to conserve the same prana within, which is what gives them youth and vigour even in their last days.
What is it that makes the Himalayan yogis want to stay in silence for such long periods? It is the sound of silence. The sound of silence is in fact the most pleasing sound. However, the kind of sound one likes depends on the frequency of the person and so, not everybody enjoys the sound of silence. In fact, it is discomforting for 99 per cent of the population.
By our very nature, we are social beings. We like to talk to people and have people to talk to us; the mere thought of being alone disturbs us, makes us nervous. To appreciate the sound of silence, one has to still the ear and that will only happen when you do not want to be here anymore. You might think you have reached places or are deep into the subject of yoga, you might be making frequent trips to the silent mountains, but if you still want to come back to this noise after that, it simply means you
have reached nowhere. You still haven’t managed to still the ear, because when that happens, silence is soothing.
When one manages to still the ear, certain other sounds are heard by it which are sounds from another dimension. The yogasutras very clearly describe these sounds. The first is the sound of cricket, which is heard at the basic stage of yoga. Slowly, as one enters the second stage, this sound gets changed to that of flowing water, which then metamorphoses into the jingle of bells. And all these sounds are actually heard, it is not in the mind. Many practitioners of Sanatan Kriya have reported hearing these sounds in deep states of dhyana, without any suggestion from outside.
In the final stages of yoga, the jingle transforms into a humming sound or the brahmnaad — the sound that holds the power to manifest anything in the physical — the reason why people approach the Himalayanyogis who do not even have the resources to clothe or feed themselves with their arms stretched out. And finally, there is silence…the ultimate force from where it all emerged.
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