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Resonance of the Atma

An evening discourse on the universal sound, or Nada, and the spiritual journey.

"That resonance is Brahman. Sound resonates throughout the entire universe."

"We can experience all of this only if we practice meditation and self-enquiry. It is not the work of one day, one month, ten years, or twenty years. It is years and years of work."

Guru Syed speaks after a sitar performance, describing the primordial sound (Oṁ) that permeates the cosmos, as reported by yogis and scientists. He explains that experiencing this reality through astral travel in meditation requires lifetimes of purification and good karma. The talk warns of challenges in the astral realms but assures that divine resonance and light protect the virtuous, ultimately leading to oneness with Brahman.

Filming location: London, UK

Good evening to everyone listening. The sitar was played by one of our dear friends living near the ashram. What is your complete name? My name is Guru Syed. As we have said, that resonance is Brahman. Sound resonates throughout the entire universe. As far as you go into space, you will hear beautiful sounds. The sound here on our earth, the different kinds of sounds, are now becoming more and more noisy due to sound pollution. It is also there in aeroplanes, very high in the sky, up to about 10 to 13 kilometers. But beyond that, when we go further, there is no aeroplane sound, no noise of people. At that time, there is the sound of space, and that sound is so harmonious, so pleasant to our ears; it fills the whole body with energy. But who can go so far? Who has the means to speak of it? We can only experience that kind of resonance through meditation, if we can go with the astral body. Nowadays, when scientists go far, far away with rockets, they come back and tell us stories of how the sound is there. The whole universe is expanding and contracting, and there is a sound. Now, NASA scientists have recorded the sound from the Sun, and it is available on YouTube. Exactly, the sound from the Sun is Oṁ. When we are all singing Oṁ together, that is the sound coming from the Sun. And if one goes further, beyond the Sun, we believe there are many different suns. Only the great yogīs can say they can come so far—2,100 different suns—after which they will not come back; they will not go so far. But that sound is Ātmā, the sound becoming more and more pure existence, which will never disappear. This will always exist. It has no form. You can't touch it, you can't smell it, and you can't see it. But it is. It is there. And so is the Ātmā. Ātmā soi paramātmā. And so it becomes that it is paramātmā. And that paramātmā is Parameśvara. We can experience all of this only if we practice meditation and self-enquiry. It is not the work of one day, one month, ten years, or twenty years. It is years and years of work. It is different for everyone, and it needs purification. The kind of energy you have stored in your body will not let you go further. Theoretically, you may speak of something, but it needs purity. So, physical purity—our food, all kinds of nourishment that we are taking—and also our subtle body. There is one, when you go far from the physical level, it has, for certain millions of kilometers distance, the subtle body goes out of the body. It goes very fast. It goes very quickly. Also, you can say, like a rocket. You can imagine it's like a lamp, a flame, going towards the light, towards the sun. And it has a sound. But after, when the influence of this, our earth and humans and other living beings diminishes, then you meet too many ātmās, jīvas, not pleasant ones. It can be unpleasant or very pleasant, very divine, and there is no one who can protect you. There is nowhere you can run away. Yes, it's like you are in this room, your door is locked, and inside, a few tigers are sitting. So you have nowhere to run. So this is a limited space here, but there is endless space. You don't know where up and down, left and right, east and west, north and south is. It is not existing there. There are many, many of those astral beings, the souls, different. How much cruelty was there. How many other jīvas will attack you? So what we call the ghost, the spirit, black magics, white magics, Gurudev's light, dharma, adharma, etc. With a feeling like you are your body, someone puts fuel on your body and puts the fire on it. So you are like burning in this space. There is nowhere to take the fire away, somehow, or take a blanket. There is nothing. This is what we call some kind of hell or some kind of different thing. The universe is beautiful, but there is a waiting, and these karmas—what, who, what have we done? This is very important to get blessings. And so, this nāda, the sound, guides us, and we have our peace, our good deeds, and that will lead us through the light and comfort. No one dares to come close to you. No negative one can appear in front of you. You have light. You have the protection of that energy, that resonance, that light and pleasantness because you people, humans, have done good things. So get a liberation to come far. It's not so easy that you feed a few birds some days and then you die, and you think, "Oh, this person was very nice and was feeding the birds and these animals," and you've got liberation now. That is too little. Many, many lives you have to feed the birds. That is a play in the entire space. So it doesn't matter which God you believe in, which religion you believe in, or which positive path you believe in. Hold on, and keep on going on that path. Do not judge someone, and who are you to judge? How do you know how a person is, good or not, or that a spiritual master is, what kind of energy one has. Do not judge through the body, but it is beyond the body. So in this space, wonderful, wonderful, wonderful lightning, wonderful beauty, visions. You don't feel cold and hot and hungry because you are an energy body, only an energy body. So those who have good karma, good sādhanā, good meditation, mantras, prayers, it is beautiful. There is another one which is dark, and you don't know from which side what comes. It is like that. So that's why God gave this soul a choice or a chance to become a human, so that you will earn good karma to proceed through the universe to Brahman. And there, water, you will dissolve. Like there is one flower, a beautiful flower, which has a very good smell, but this flower's smell dissolves in the space. You can't catch where it is, you can't see it, you can only smell it. Like this, you multiply, and you become one with the whole universe. Then it means you are immortal. You are existing all the time. But not like this, not these indriyas, not these desires, not this ego, jealousy, hate—all is not there. Pure and pure and... Pure, one without second, that is a oneness, that ātmā. So it's not that you tell that, "I get liberation." It means uniting. But even if we cannot unite now with the people and with the animals, how are we going to unite in different ways? So sound, sound is something great, and the universe is endless, and we become one day endless, everlasting, unborn, that's it. So it was nice, a few days with you here in London and Edinburgh and different places. I wish you all the best, good health, and practice. Practice your meditation, come to the satsaṅg, do your sādhanās, and I wish you all the best. The best here is that you have a good job, that you can practice more sādhanā and come to the satsaṅg. Thank you, organizers, everybody, and I pray to Mahāprabhujī for your good health, happiness, and spiritual development. Hari Oṁ. Nipuṇān Bhagavān Kī Jaya! Devī Svarmānadeva Kī Jaya! Madhava Kṛṣṇa Bhagavān Kī Jai! Sanātana Dharma Kī Jai! Viśvakarmāṇam Nīleśvara Śivam Viśvanātham Nikuru Deva Kī Jaya!

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The text contains hyperlinks in bold to three authoritative books on yoga, written by humans, to clarify the context of the lecture:

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