XIX

Hearing of the Sound Current

As regards hearing of the Sound Current within:

You should sit for this practice in the posture already known to you with your physical eyes shut and your outer ears closed. In this practice you are not to do the repetition of the five Names. You should simply listen to the Sound Current coming from the right. You are not to direct your attention to where the Sound appears to be coming from but you are to remain at the seat of your soul behind the two eyes and listen to the Sound Current.

You should put in at least half an hour for hearing the Sound Current and increasing this time to one hour in due course. This practice should be done just after your sitting for Simran – repetition of the five Names. You will succeed in hearing the Sound Current with the Grace of the Master.

Various kinds of Sounds are heard inside, out of which the Sounds of the Big Bells and Conch, Thunder and Drum beat are higher Sounds. When these higher Sounds are heard, they may be followed.

The crawling-like sensation felt on the spine needs not be paid any heed. You must be careful to let the breathing go on quite unconsciously. In this way this crawling sensation will go off. Such sensations are felt in practising Laya Yoga, which concerns the awakening of the Kundalini – Serpent Power – through direction of the prana current to lower ganglia – chakras – in the body. This is the way of yogis and not the Way of the Saints.

We are not to follow the Sound coming from the left side.

You may please keep a regular diary, recording all the failures in your ethical life and the hours put into your Spiritual Practices for withdrawal and hearing the Sound Current as that will improve matters.

You will please adopt the posture best suited to you in which you can sit for a longer time and put in equal time to both the practices. If you sit for the practices regularly and accurately, you are sure to have your Inner Vision opened and the Sound Current becoming audible.