Nãm:
The Sound Within the Divine Word
The Sound Current of God
Nãm-the
Holy Name
is Shabda (the Word sound). Before creation, Shabda
was hidden. It was Nameless. Before the Shabda, there was
neither sun nor moon, nor akasha, nor fire. It was formless.
"In the beginning there was the Word, the Word was with
God, the Word was God." In it a desire arose and then currents
issued forth on after the other, and by their interplay
creation began.
The
sound-current is the most stupendous and vital fact in all
the realms of nature, and to emphasize its utter importance
for salvation of the soul Saviours have come to our Humanity
and laid strongest stress on this Great Truth. Every force
moving from a static to a dynamic expression must vibrate
from the potential to the actual, and vibration is the sound
of the current running between, to, and from the universal
to the individual.
The
great Power of Shabda-sound current-is that like a magnet
it pulls the soul upward, and without the soul's being lifted
up by its saving grace, salvation is not possible. Shabda
is the spirit-sound-current, it is substance-quality-vibration,
it is life-current which has originally emanated from the
Supreme Being and is the only means of taking and raising
the Spirit to the Source from which it emanated. Shabda
is the bridge that carries the devotee across the chasm
of birth and death to the bosom of the Eternal. It is like
a ship carrying souls across the oceans of birth and death
to the Port of Paradise in the land of Immortality.
Now listen to Dr. Thind
explain to his disciples that
"The Radiant Road to Reality" is through Nãm,
the Sound Current.
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