Namaste Folks,Coincidence or what? I just received a package today, from one of my dearest friends. A beautiful soul, indeed! Inside was Swami Nityananda's book on Kriya Yoga, some lovely inscence and an inscence burner, which is a small statue of HoTai (the Chinese Laughing Buddha). Ho Tai is seated blissfully, big belly extended and cupping his hand to his right ear. Listening enrapturingly to the Celestial Note, the Sacred Sound Current.
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Yes, the inner journey can be fraught with many, many confusing experiences. But there is a world of difference between tinnitus and Nada (Shabd/the Sound Current). Primarily, tinnitus is a PHYSICAL occurrence in the material ears, plural. I had water on the ear when I was 10 years old and had tinnitus symptoms, for a few weeks afterwards, following the infection. The two are NOT the same. It's cause, tinnitus, is of physical origin and is an affliction to some extent, most certainly.
The high-pitched ringing heard from within, however, is audible predominantly but not necessarily, from the right side of the head/brain hemisphere. But the inner sound originates from the Ajna or
The Third Ear. It is directly resultant from honed concentration, as we engage in deepest meditation.
This is a signpost of sorts, indicating one is attuned to higher and subtler levels of conscious-awareness which transcend the material realm. It is the AUM vibration in the highest tonal frequency and its revered as Sacred by countless seekers (both Sufis and Yogis), world-over, as the Sacred HU. Of course, it's enigmatic tone alludes human wording. It is truly a great blessing!
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In my own small experience, following this scintillating ringing tone to it's source, leads to the deepest quietude imaginable. That wondrous stillness, within the roaring silence. Like all spiritual phenomena, such miracles guide one's fixed attention towards that resplendent state, that ecstatic-blissfulness which is our truest being and our eventual awakening; our eternal destination to where we have always been residing (serenely, indivisibly, wholly enraptured in the formlessness of Brahman).
Just sayin'... God bless you all, my dear spiritual friends.
Om Namo Bhagavate Vasudevaya