Soul Searching

The Soundtrack gracing me since Years…🙏

https://youtu.be/Y-ACu6pw0zM?si=VS4BYfIYFCo8YC1s

☝️GLENN FREY -Soul Searching ( 1988 official video on YouTube)

This is the soundtrack traversing and holding up my deepest notions about conscious soul searching and the ultimate liberation which comes with it. It’s a sort of consanguineous bigotry , more or less an offering to that illusive spirit. That ☝️ song has been holding quite joys of home in my heart and continually shaping all my family affairs🤩

Listen 👂 to it if you reckon to see me —more than ever determined 😊

When ride goes and momentarily stations itself in a “bye-place,” called adventure, endeavoring (involuntarily, )to find itself alive.

Throughput this is the crux of journey of my life !

A soulful sojourn…

It’s very gratifying to call this home. A place which furnishes pureness of air, for I have imagined its freshness long ago. Without curtains nor with any other screens in between , these laments, much in favor of being deeply seeded —spread across the essence of my soul. Earlier, I had obligingly sworn that I would never come back to “alone,” but it came back to me , stringing along “solitude,”with it —as if coming out (breath by breadth) in a voiced-voyage (vocal) bearing to see —“me as me,” again and again.

It’s like placing the “ self-in -all-contrived realities ,” to watch it make its own fancied flight. A sort of a derivative—drawn out of mind’s observatory by holding spyglass over it. It’s a “void”concurring to gather and settle in momentary!

In laments I concur,

Of which that gathers and finally settles….

An utterance beyond which “nothingness,” exists …

With notions unraveled in :

I did, he did, you did and they did …, nearly bound —as a whole, with it ..

Those assertions delivered with a terrific force binding “you and me,” tangled in it ..

And herein, I feel obliged to write about “every-which-way,” my mind treads —so that you may not wonder 💭 where am I placed—beyond Ken, for you to decipher and for me to flow with it.

To that point—I would say —here’s a place where void merges with nothingness—-certainly to proscribe “ever after 😃 ,” through and through in it. No fear zone 😊

There’s great joy in all this —with grace bidden to —until next —stringing all goodbyes , as all arrivals must ride to a day —yet, of course, after treading all those silent nights.

O! Look across— I know not—when will be an end to this journey —crossing the river as soon as the wind and tide serve to help me improvise.

Herein, I take a nearer view of that “time,” not waiting but standing still on the other side. Yes, I am alluring you to that after life, daring to make it or rather sound it like a true “Mantra.”

Yes, Mantra ( a Sanskrit word for gospels strung over rosaries 📿)

Mantra Chants: Overt & Covert Aspects of my soul.

Mantras are the most chanted prayers in India. Mantras can have a profound effect on the body, mind , soul and spirit of the one who recites it. Mantra chanting is a deliberate and studious endeavor to engross the thoughts into a platonically sedate state. All things considered, Mantra recitation can lead one into a self counseled reverie ; so deep with its' musings of intents, contemplated upon or used as a soul's sojourn into the transcendental( relating to spiritual or non physical) realm of being. In essence and in all its bearings , Mantras , with their verbal subtleties and nuances of melodic expressions can be very enriching.

Mantra as Subject of Material for Communication: Most Mantras and Vedic prayers are stringed to an ancient Indian ethnic theme and context(with their attached notions of rituals,) and consequently, they emerge as the most reliable form of communication than even regular language. Mantra, in that sense, have a language of their own. It is believed that the Lord Almighty (supreme being) created the world by chanting the mantras "Aum" and " atha." Hence ,the resonating sounds of "Aum" chants are used to mark the beginning of any task and/or auspicious occasion.

"AUM," is the simplest Mantra that is worshipped ,meditated upon, and used as an auspicious symbol. The three letters A,U,M have a pragmatic and as well as a meta-pragmatic significance attached to it. The pragmatic meaning of each letter in the word " AUM" has a dimension of its own. It's revealed in the way each letter represents an entity, attribute ,object or a phenomena. Thus, the letters in the word "AUM" could symbolize the three deities ( Brahma, Vishnu, and Shiva), the three Vedas (Rig, Yajur and Sama), the three states of being ( waking , dreaming and deep sleep),the three worlds( Bhuh, Bhuvah, Suvah)etc. Furthermore, it's meaning could also be, meta-pragmatically, linked to a culturally constituted meaning and its' related intents of speech.

For example- The word AUM when combined with other words " pranava," and "namaha " generates the verse-" Aum pranavaya namaha," which means praising the lord/ almighty. Similarly, the meta- pragmatic function of the words and verses in a Mantra can further get expanded into elaborate codes of conduct, procedural actions and complete surrender to the absolute.

One such example is this-

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यय॥

ॐ॥

Aum Puurnnam-Adah Puurnnam-Idam Puurnnaat-Purnnam-Udacyate Puurnnashya Puurnnam-Aadaaya Puurnnam-Eva-Avashissyate || Aum Shaantih Shaantih Shaantih ||

As written in -Isa Upanishad, 1st millennium BCE, key scripture of the Vedanta sub-schools of thought.

Meaning: That (pure consciousness) is complete (perfect) in its entirety; this (the manifest universe of matter; which includes all forms and illusions- "maya,") is also complete, in its entirety. This fullness that is projected as the wholesome goodness of life is the true joy that one ultimately seeks. When everything merges into this wholesome goodness, all that remains is bliss.

In that sense, the strength of learning's from the Mantraa is gauged by the greatness of actions that roll out of it.

In here, you may find the correlates to the phenomena of apprehension as researched by Prof . G.F Stout which states [ref 1]-"it is possible to distinguish and identify a whole without apprehending any of its constituent details."

On the other hand , if the attention focuses itself for a time on the apprehended object, there is a possibility that such details will ,as it is, emerge into consciousness." This same analogy when applied to meditative rumination of Mantras leads us into their "implicit field of view."

Field of View of the Mantra: In deducing the logics behind the Mantra rendition one is initially led into applying a mode of consciousness ,in which, nothing is denied or affirmed of the object in question, but the mind is merely cognizant of it. However, it is not unusual for the mind to judge its' perception and/ or conception

as real or unreal. This differentiation provides for a repertoire of mental activities in which we simply "take in," a familiar object / phenomena without the faculty of judgment operative in it. Particularly intriguing is when a new feature of the object or phenomena draws our attention. There too, we have the alternative option -" to judge or not to judge", the merits of it. This mental state is comparable to the sensory and cognitive processes involved in the mere appreciation of musical aesthetics without the faculty of judgment unfurling in it. An appropriate example of this process is the usage of formulae in calculations; ordinarily the formula is used without question; if attention is fixed upon it, the steps by which it is universally applicable emerge and the " schema" is complete in detail.[ref 1]

Thus, Mantra chanting incessantly transmits the divine splendors through them to our mind, conveying the deep sense and sensibilities of the spiritual sounds. Yes, certainly, these Mantras were inscribed for the intended purpose to seek perpetual pleasure.

The chief purpose of chanting is in the catechism that is deeply ingrained in the following Mantra [ref 2] -

Nāda Brahma Vishwa-swaroopa

Nāda Hi Sakala Jeevaroopa

Nāda Hi karma Nāda Hi Dharma

Nāda Hi Bandhana Nāda Hi Mukti Nāda Hi Shankara Nāda Hi Shakti Nādaham Nādaham Sarvam Nādaham Nādaham Nādaham Nādaham Nādaham

Meaning: The entire universe is manifested in the sound energy and in this context ,sound vibrations have a potential to deeply unify outer and inner realms of a being while seeking Nirvana's peace. All one needs to do is to attune “oneself,”to that divinity.

P.S: To that ☝️ I must confess that this is a place which has persuaded me to bring in a small baggage …minimalist approach

REFERENCES

Ref 1. http://www.theodora.com/encyclopedia/a2/apprehension.html

Ref 2. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/N%C4%81da_yoga

Madhu Goteti