According to the Wisdom of the Mystics, the Anhata Naad precedes Creation. At the cusp of Time and Timelessness, when the distinction between the Sat (Being) and the Asat (Non-Being) was blurred, were born Space and Time, with a Spandan (Vibration), that was reflective of the Will of the Transcendental Supra-Consciousness (Shiva) to create a motley reflection of His Immutable Self through His Chaitanya Shakti (the Supraconscious Energy), referred to as The Divine Mother.
The phenomenon finds an echo in John 1:1, The Bible (King James Version), when it says, "In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God", notwithstanding the interpretation given to it. Nearer home, the Venerable Guru of Gurus, Guru Nanak Dev Ji, begins the Japji Sahib with the ever-resonating Words, "Ek Aumkar Sat Naam...", declaring to the wide world the One Word, "Aumkar" that holds sovereign sway over all phenomenal things and their labels.
The Vedic Seers called it "Aum" and attributed to it the soveregn status of the Primordial Sound, the Anhata Naad, by invoking it in the beginning of all their incantatory verses and chants. Interestingly enough, "Aum" has its variants in "Amen" and "Ameen", drawing attention to the universality of spiritual grammar across religious boundaries.
Kashmir Shaivism presents a complete theory of the birth of this world, based on its theory of speech. The theory finds its best expression in the revelatory lectures of the great philosopher Saint, Swami Lakshmanjoo, recorded, edited and published by John Hughes in the book Kashmir Shaivism: The Secret Supreme.
Picking up the thread of discourse from the Wisdom of the Mystics, this blog purports to critique literary works from the perspective of the role of literature in leading (wo)man from sensory perception of reality, bound by knowledge, to the immanent heights of Truth-Consciousness. It was not for nothing that the Mystics the world over were at once Seers and Poets, institutionalized in India in the tradition of the Seer-Poet.
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