The connection with the vibration
Motion equal vibration,
vibration equal sound. I read this statement into a physics
book. If in our universe, therefore, everything moves, so
everything vibrates. And if everything vibrates, the universe
has got his sound that is the sum of the heavenly bodies sound.
So, physics agrees with philosophical religious interpretations
which establish sound as primary principle. Think of induism and
Om sound or of our religious culture’s “At the beginning was the
Word” .
The most reliable indian philosophical movements establish that
man (microcosm) is made of the same substance of God
(macrocosm), as a result, we can study human components and
reactions to understand the universal ones.
If someone undergoes an electroencephalogram, we can see the
following reactions: with cerebtal activity that is the reveal
of vibrations, in short, the instrument needle changes into
visible graphic signs. In this article, we want to examine an
aspect of this phenomenon. If we put a subject in ideal
conditions of cerebral activity’s reduction, on an empty
stomach, in a silent and colourless room, if he closes his eyes,
and then we put an apple in front of him and we exhort him to
open his eyes, we observe that, as soon as the subject sees the
apple and starts a primordial cerebral activity, that is his
first desire to eat it, the needle moves. I want to prove that
the desire of eating the apple that precedes the action itself
is already a vibrational reality. The indian culture states that
the desire of giving birth to the manifestation by the
transcendental is already an absolutely concrete activity, a
primary vibration expressed by the trascendental itself, as the
desire into the mind of the man who sees the apple. This
vibration is the Om. The Om precedes the manifestation’s
expression. It is like to say that this vibration is betweenthe
idea and his materialization or his put into practice.
This is why yoga lessons start singing the Om. To make pupils
able to suggest to themselves that they are at least between the
material and the trascendental, between the touchable
manifestation and God and to start examinating phenomenon from
that point of view. Yoga, in fact, aims at the trascendental
experience and with the Om is like if we decide to find our
rightful place on a space platform between man and God, between
the spiritual and the physical. From this platform we can hazard
the supposition of a journey towards the superhuman experience.
Now, let’s see other Om’s aspects. It represents the total of
all sounds that are in the manifestation. The Sanskrit language
thought to gather together in 50 sounds the universal
vibrations’ typology, giving birth to the same number of graphic
signs that correspond to the alphabet’s letters. Three of these
letters, that later will become two, and we’ll see how,
practically include all of them.
These sounds correspond to the letters A U M. From a practical
point of view the letter A, when is pronounced, and you try to
do it, has a physical placing that is low in the throat, the
letter U is in the middle of the palate and the letter M on the
lips. All other sounds are placed in the oral cavity in these
three positions, that include all of them, assuming his right
value of universal synthesis.
Here is what Om represents: the universal synthesis of the
divine physical vibration expressed.
The starting poin is always the awareness of the manifold, then
comes the identification of expressions that can be gather
together, in the attempt, simplifying, to get the experience of
the One. Also in this case, the infinite variety of sounds in
the Universe is organized into 50 letters-sounds, to then
identify three of them that represent all of them, and, at last,
to find that the A and the U, if pronounced together, can easily
be contracted in the O sound. So the sacred syllable Om, that
expresses the universal vibration, principle of manifestation,
takes on a definite shape.
For the same presupposition a basic Om would result from the sum
of all sounds that particles, active inside us, emit. A kind of
personal sound for each being or living object, its
caracteristic, its tendency and vibrational sensibility. We
reasonably think that this sound can be modified. Here we find
mantra science, that aims to graft changing processes, new
determining charactreistics.
The word Mantra, litterally means instrument for the mind, and
it is something that can induce a different vibrational nature.
As we said at the beginning, mind emits different kinds of
vibration. It certainly happened to you to enter in some places
where the presence of the people’s low quality thoughts made
yourselves to feel ill at ease. The kind of vibration that a
killer’s mind emits is very different from the kind of a mother
to her baby. You can notice it also in practice: the mother’s
voice has shrill, high and acute tones, certainly of a higher
nature. Of a different quality are cerebral waves, in fact, that
she emits.
From this starting presupposition, mantra establishes that we
can practice, voluntarily, different kinds of cerebral waves,
and, through the obsessive repetition, we can even modify the
natural ones. The aim is to induce the better ones, so that the
mind will get the habit to have thoughts of the same nature.
This is what mantra proposes, in some case, it has the claim to
bring the mind to vibrate in unison with God.
By Amadio Bianchi