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Sound

 

 

 

When the attention is turned inward a soft sound is heard. At first it might be the quiet chirping of crickets in the night or the flowing of gentle stream. It is heard as a random, soothing "white noise" that seems to emanate from the base of the skull.

When focused upon with deep attention, this sound resolves into a clearer pitch that can resemble the ringing of a bell that is heard and, finally, felt throughout the body.

This sound is Krishna's flute calling his devotees to him. It is the ringing of the bells of paradise.

This sound signals the beginning of deep meditation. The more we open to the sound, the more the attention is drawn heavenward while the divine flow pours through us.

See also

Silence
Silence
Silence
Silence
Silence

Poems with the theme of Sound

  al-Alawi, Ahmad Layla
  Ammons, A. R. Rogue Elephant
  Andal The lotus is greeting the rising sun and the lily has closed its petals; (from Tiruppavai)
  Ashford, Eric The Journey
  Ashford, Eric Your Green and Living Art
  Attar, Farid ud-Din The angels have bowed down to you and drowned
  Aurobindo, Sri Reminiscence
  Aurobindo, Sri The Word of The Silence
  Basava Make of my body the beam of a lute
  Basho, Matsuo A banana plant in the autumn gale -
  ben Kallir, Eleazar Epithalamium
  Berry, Wendell The Peace of Wild Things
  Berry, Wendell The Silence
  Blake, William Hear the voice of the Bard! (from Songs of Experience)
  Brabazon, Francis Our drop souls are of the ocean of Truth
  Brabazon, Francis The Dawn-Song Of His Mouth (from Stay With God)
  Brabazon, Francis We have waited all night for you, and now the dawn is come.
  Bulleh Shah I have been pierced by the arrow of love, what shall I do ?
  Bulleh Shah The soil is in ferment, O friend
  Chinmoy, Sri At Last I Shall Listen
  Coleridge, Samuel Taylor Reflections on Having Left a Place of Retirement
  Coleridge, Samuel Taylor Kubla Khan
  cummings, e. e. i thank You God for most this amazing
  Dadu Dayal So priceless is the birth, O brother,
  Dariya Without love there can be no devotion and wisdom. (from Love Chapter)
  Dickinson, Emily [322] There came a Day at Summerıs full,
  Dickinson, Emily [774] It is a lonesome Glee --
  Dickinson, Emily [777] The Loneliness One dare not sound --
  Dickinson, Emily [1504] Of whom so dear
  Dogen Ching-ch'ing's raindrop sound
  Dogen One of fifteen verses on Dogen's mountain retreat:
  Dogen One of six verses on snow:
  Dogen Treading along in this dreamlike, illusory realm,
  Dogen One of six verses composed in An'yoin Temple in Fukakusa, 1230:
  Galib, Seyh Were I your treasure, you would squander me,
  Ghalib, Mirza These divine verses,
  Gibran, Kahlil Prayer (from The Prophet)
  Gibran, Kahlil Self-Knowledge (from The Prophet)
  Giraut de Bornelh Reis glorios / Glorious king
  Gorakhnath Gorakh Bani
  Granger, Ivan M. Bent
  Granger, Ivan M. Drink Up!
  Granger, Ivan M. Medusa
  Granger, Ivan M. Adi Atman 3: 2 AM
  Guilhem IX of Poitou Joyous in love, I make my aim
  Hafiz It Is Time to Wake Up!
  Hafiz (Ladinsky, Daniel) A Crystal Rim
  Hafiz (Ladinsky, Daniel) Geronimo
  Hafiz (Ladinsky, Daniel) How Could a Lover Fall?
  Hafiz (Ladinsky, Daniel) That Lamp That Needs No Oil
  Hafiz (Ladinsky, Daniel) The Source
  Hakuin Hakuin's Song of Zazen
  Han-Ch'ing, Kuan Idle Wandering
  Han-shan (Cold Mountain) [48] Beneath high cliffs I live alone
  Hanh, Thich Nhat Contemplation
  Hanh, Thich Nhat Looking for Each Other
  Hanh, Thich Nhat Please Call Me by My True Names
  Herbert, George Prayer (I)
  Hildegard of Bingen O ignee Spiritus / Hymn to the Holy Spirit
  Hirshfield, Jane A Hand
  Hirshfield, Jane Metempsychosis
  Holderlin, Friedrich Remembrance
  Holmes, Dick Words Call to You
  Holmes, Dick You Have Me
  Ibn al-Farid, Umar I sought her from myself, (from The Poem of the Sufi Way)
  Ibn al-Farid, Umar No one speaks (from The Poem of the Sufi Way)
  Ibn al-Farid, Umar Resist the calls of wrangling talk, (from The Poem of the Sufi Way)
  Ibn al-Farid, Umar Whispering, then listening close (from The Poem of the Sufi Way)
  Iqbal, Allama Muhammad The secret divine my ecstasy has taught (from Baal-i-Jibreel)
  Iraqi, Fakhruddin In the street of wineshops, when
  Iraqi, Fakhruddin It speaks to me in the silence of this one
  Iraqi, Fakhruddin Love plays its lute behind the screen --
  Iraqi, Fakhruddin These perfumes:
  Islam, Nazrul Song of Dawn
  Issa, Kobayashi mountain temple--
  Jacobsen, Rolf The Silence Afterwards
  Jacopone da Todi (Benedetti, Jacopone) How the Soul Through the Senses Finds God in All Creatures
  Jacopone da Todi (Benedetti, Jacopone) Love beyond all telling, (from Self-Annihilation and Charity Lead the Soul...)
  Jami, Ahmad Even from earthly love thy face avert not,
  Janabai You must accept those who surrender to you
  Jayadeva [3] When spring came, tender-limbed Radha wandered (from The Gitagovinda)
  Jayadeva [6] My heart values his vulgar ways, (from The Gitagovinda)
  Jimenez, Juan Ramon Full Consciousness
  Jnanadev The Union of Shiva and Shakti (from Amritanubhav)
  John of the Cross I Live Yet Do Not Live in Me
  Kabir Hey brother, why do you want me to talk?
  Kabir The Lord is in Me
  Kabir [XVII] The light of the sun, the moon, and the stars shines bright:
  Kabir (6) The moon shines in my body
  Kalidas (Edwards, Lawrence) Take Refuge in Silence
  Kalidas (Edwards, Lawrence) The Way To Peace
  Kalidasa Waking
  Kerouac, Jack Bowery Blues
  Kerouac, Jack The Scripture of the Golden Eternity
  Khayyam, Omar [2] Dreaming when Dawn's Left Hand was in the Sky
  Khayyam, Omar [27] Myself when young did eagerly frequent
  Khayyam, Omar [59] Listen again. One Evening at the Close
  Lawrence, D. H. And Oh--That The Man I Am Might Cease To Be--
  Lee, Li-Young Nativity
  Lee, Li-Young Out of Hiding
  Lee, Li-Young Praise Them
  Leon, Luis de Ode to Francisco Salinas
  Leon, Luis de The Life Removed
  Levertov, Denise Illustrious Ancestors
  Machado, Antonio I dreamt you took me
  Machado, Antonio Lord, You Tore from Me
  Machado, Antonio Proverbs and Songs
  Maghsoud, Moulana Shah Turn the darkness of heart by the elixir of the people of the secret,
  Maharshi, Ramana The Marital Garland of Letters
  Manikkavacakar While unperishing love melted my bones,
  Marpa (Lotsawa, Marpa) Realisation of Dreams and Mind
  Mathias, Michael (6) Ramana Seeks out the Mountain of Arunachala (from The Cosmic Soul and the World Tree)
  Mathias, Michael (9) My Blind Musicians (from Tagore: Gallery of Sketches)
  Mathias, Michael (10) The Tree of Kabbalah - The Kiss (from The Cosmic Soul and the World Tree)
  McCombs, Chris Passion for the Sacred
  McCombs, Chris Pavanas
  McCombs, Chris Swan Born
  McCombs, Chris Your Pilot
  Mechthild of Magdeburg Of the voices of the Godhead
  Mechthild of Magdeburg The devil also offers his spirit
  Merton, Thomas A Practical Program for Monks
  Merton, Thomas A Psalm
  Merton, Thomas Aubade -- The City
  Merton, Thomas In Silence
  Merton, Thomas Night-Flowering Cactus
  Merton, Thomas Stranger
  Milarepa The Song of Food and Dwelling
  Milarepa Upon this earth, the land of the Victorious Ones,
  Milarepa The Song of Perfect Assurance (to the Demons)
  Milosz, Czeslaw Forget
  Milosz, Czeslaw On Angels
  Mirabai Dark Friend, what can I say?
  Nanak, Guru [Japji 8] From listening,
  Neruda, Pablo The Poet's Obligation
  Nevins, Shawn Listen for the sound of no wind.
  Nevins, Shawn Words are cold this morning.
  Novalis Uplifted is the stone --
  O'Donohue, John A Blessing for Equilibrium
  O'Donohue, John On the death of the Beloved
  O'Donohue, John The Inner History of a Day
  Oliver, Colin Evening
  Oliver, Mary Can You Imagine?
  Oliver, Mary Have You Ever Tried to Enter the Long Black Branches?
  Oliver, Mary Mindful
  Oliver, Mary The Lark
  Oliver, Mary This World
  Osborne, Arthur Death
  Pattinattar I left the world.
  Po, Li The Cold Clear Spring at Nanyang
  Po, Li To Tu Fu from Shantang
  Po, Li Visiting a Taoist on Taitien Mountain
  Pope, Alexander Solitude: An Ode
  Porete, Marguerite Beguines say I err...
  Qushayri The Watchers
  Ramprasad (Sen, Ramprasad) Kulakundalini, Goddess Full of Brahman, Tara --
  Ramprasad (Sen, Ramprasad) So I say: Mind, don't you sleep
  Rasakhan Effortless Worship
  Rasakhan Enchanted
  Reninger, Elizabeth Deluge
  Reninger, Elizabeth Vision
  Reninger, Elizabeth Wood Pile
  Rilke, Rainer Maria Gong
  Rilke, Rainer Maria I am, O Anxious One. Don't you hear my voice
  Rilke, Rainer Maria Silent friend of many distances, feel
  Rilke, Rainer Maria The Man Watching
  Rosenstock, Gabriel Baghdad
  Rosenstock, Gabriel (15) Miracle (from Year of the Goddess)
  Rosenstock, Gabriel (33) I create silences (from Uttering Her Name)
  Rosenstock, Gabriel (89) on first hearing its name (from Uttering Her Name)
  Rosenstock, Gabriel (93) not the slaked thirst of Bayazid (from Uttering Her Name)
  Rumi, Jelaluddin Ah, what was there in that light-giving candle that it set fire to the heart, and snatched the heart away?
  Rumi, Jelaluddin By the God who was in pre-eternity living and moving and omnipotent, everlasting.
  Rumi, Jelaluddin No One Here but Him
  Rumi, Jelaluddin On Love
  Rumi, Jelaluddin Seizing my life in your hands, you thrashed me clean
  Rumi, Jelaluddin A World with No Boundaries (Ghazal 363)
  Rumi, Jelaluddin [1246] The minute I heard my first love story
  Sanai, Hakim The Good Darkness
  Sanai, Hakim The Way of the Holy Ones
  Sanai, Hakim The Wild Rose of Praise
  Schuon, Frithjof Space
  Shabistari, Mahmud Sun-Reflections (from The Secret Rose Garden)
  silent lotus Feel the Peace
  silent lotus There Dwells an Innocence
  Singh, Darshan How did I ever think silence the language of love?
  Singh, Darshan Wonder of wonders!
  Snyder, Gary Regarding Wave
  Solovyov, Vladimir Sophia in Egypt (from Three Meetings)
  Solovyov, Vladimir Three Meetings
  Solovyov, Vladimir Near, far off, not here, not there,
  Stevens, Wallace Not Ideas About the Thing but the Thing Itself
  Surdas Krishna Awakes
  T'ao Ch'ien Unsettled, a bird lost from the flock --
  Tagore, Rabindranath Accept me, my lord, accept me for this while.
  Tagore, Rabindranath He's there among the scented trees, (from The Lover of God)
  Tagore, Rabindranath Listen, can you hear it? (from The Lover of God)
  Takahashi, Shinkichi A Wood in Sound
  Therese of Lisieux My Song for Today
  Thompson, Francis The Hound of Heaven
  Trinley, Karma A Song on the View of Voidness
  Tulsidas Sound Celestial
  Tulsidas The Rainy Season
  Vidyapati My friend, I cannot answer when you ask me to explain
  Walters, Dorothy The Abundance of Brightness
  Whitman, Walt O Captain! my Captain!
  Whitman, Walt [2] Houses and rooms are full of perfumes, the shelves are crowded with perfumes, (from Song of Myself)
  Whitman, Walt [3] I have heard what the talkers were talking, the talk of the beginning and the end, (from Song of Myself)
  Whitman, Walt [5] I believe in you my soul, the other I am must not abase itself to you, (from Song of Myself)
  Whitman, Walt [10] Alone far in the wilds and mountains I hunt, (from Song of Myself)
  Whitman, Walt [18] With music strong I come, with my cornets and my drums, (from Song of Myself)
  Whitman, Walt [20] Who goes there? hankering, gross, mystical, nude; (from Song of Myself)
  Whyte, David All the True Vows
  Whyte, David It is Not Enough
  Wordsworth, William For I have learned (from Tintern Abbey)
  Wordsworth, William Such was the Boy--but for the growing Youth (from The Excursion, Book 1)
  Wordsworth, William [9] O joy! that in our embers (from Ode. Intimations of Immortality)
  Yeats, William Butler The Everlasting Voices
  Yeats, William Butler The Lake Isle of Innisfree
  Yogananda, Paramahansa O Spirit, reveal Thyself as Thou art
  Yogananda, Paramahansa OM
  Yogananda, Paramahansa Prayer for peace
  Yogananda, Paramahansa Samadhi
  Yoka Genkaku (Xuanjue, Yongjia) [15] Some may slander, some may abuse; (from The Shodoka)
  Yoka Genkaku (Xuanjue, Yongjia) [17] The incomparable lion-roar of doctrine (from The Shodoka)
  Yoka Genkaku (Xuanjue, Yongjia) [40] It speaks in silence, (from The Shodoka)
  Yoka Genkaku (Xuanjue, Yongjia) [46] People hear the Buddha's doctrine of immediacy, (from The Shodoka)
  Yun, Hsu Mirror Pond on Mount Taibo in Shanxi
  Yung Chia (Chueh, Hsuan) Let others slander me; (from The Song of Enlightenment)
  Yung Chia (Chueh, Hsuan) Let others slander me; (from The Song of Enlightenment)
  Zohar (de Leon, Moses) The Gates (from Openings)


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