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Dhyanabindu, whose capital starts with meditation concentration on the mystic syllable
OM, he mentions various sounds extrafios; "The nothing is focused on the vinadanda
(spine), the sound environment resembles that of sea shells, etc. . Upon reaching the
cavity (corresponding to the item) akasa, resembles the cry of a peacock (102). See also
the Hathayogapradipika. IV, 79 and Gheranda Samhita, V. 78.
Currently in India there is a religious sect, that of Radhaswami, practicing meditation
directed toward "mystical sound, which they call meditation shabd-yoga," yoga of sound.
" The focus of this Radhaswami in Beas, near Kapurthala, where the sect has a very nice
temple. During my visit to Beas in November 1930, my information I described this
meditation ers explained that they must begin with a concentration "between the eyes"
when you hear the ringing of bells, is the first serial of the meditation of shabd is valid.
One of the stages of meditation is the sensation of ascent. Discourses on Bhada-Swami-
Faith (Discourses made by Babugi Sahib and compiled by Mr, Myron II. Phelps of New
York, undated, probably dating from 1914, no further interest because it contains almost
no accurate data on the technique).
Clearly, the mystical auditions were open to different valuations. Fo-Tu-Teng, Koutche
Buddhist monk, who had visited Kashmir and other parts of India, reaching China in the
year 310 and boasts numer-ous feats rhasncas: according to prophecy, especially the
ringing of bells; A . F. Wright, Fo-t'u-teng, A Biography (Harvard Journal of Asiatic
Studies, XI. 1948, p. 321-370), p. 337, 346, 362.
The author had also Dabistan of meditation on the "absolute sound" (Arabic sartt muttk,
Anahid in Hindi), commonly meditation 11a-mada azad awa or "free speech" (The
Dabistan or School of Manners, vol. I, p. 81: the Dabistan, voluminous treatise on Indian
religions, was compiled by Mobed Shah in the seventeenth century). According to this,
the meditation on the mystical sounds was also known by Muhammad (revelation of the
"Tafi bell" and Hafiz muttuck sant remembers the quatrain:
Nobody knows where my beloved dwells;
All we know is that the sound of the bell is approaching.
The hearing Dabistan describes meditation as follows: "The faithful turn their ear and
understanding to the brain while in the night, en) at home or in the desert, hear this voice,
which he regards as his dhikr. .. "
According to some authors Arab mysticism, dhikr updated sounds or voices that are
heard "on the circumference of the head" noise "of the trumpet and cymbals", "rumors of
water, wind, voices of burning fire, the mills, horse-steps, the whisper of the leaves on the
trees when the wind blows on them ... " (Ibn 'Ata' Allah, quoted by L. Gardet. La mention
du nom divin in mystique musulmane, Revue thomiste, 1952, p. 641-679, p. 667).
Hearings on similar mystical, W. Y. Evans-Wentz, MUarepa (Oxford, 1928), p. 37, etc..
Discussion at Rosel, Die Grundlagen psychologischen,
p. 67-68.
Note III. 7: Lists of ascetics.
Here is a list cited by Varaha Mihira, whose commentator, Utpala, says it was composed
by maestro Kalakacarya Jain (See extracts Utpala in Indian Antiquary, 1912, p. 287):
Sakya (the one with red dress); ajivika; bhiksu (or Sannyasi; oka car carrier of the skull);
nirgrantha (the naked ascetic, Jaina) vanyasana (hermit). There are two other lists
(Biihler, Nagarjuni hillcave Barabar and inscriptions of Asoka and Dasaratha, Journ.
Bombay Asiatic Soc, vol. XX, p. 362; Jouma. Roy. Asiatic Soc, 1911, p. 960). The first