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Sabda is sound, which is more ancient than gods and men, precedes creation, and is eternal, indivisible, creative, and imperceptible in its subtle form. Sound is not just what you hear with your ear. Wherever there is motion and vibration of any kind that is sound, according to Tantra as said by Woodroffe. Movement causes sound; we do not have instruments to pick up the sound of the movement of subatomic particles.
Sound is classified as follows:
Sphota, Nada, Anahata, and Ahata.
Vak (Vaak) means word, sound or sabda; the Latin Vox comes from Sanskrit Vaak.
Sphota (स्फोट) literally means bursting and is eternal, indivisible, creative, and imperceptible.
Tantra literature goes further in elaborating Sphota.
Sphota is derived from the world Sphut (स्फुट्) meaning to burst or to open like a bud. The implication is (as the bud opens) as the word is sounded or articulated, the meaning of the word is revealed. The letter or letters by themselves carry no meaning until we connect them with an object or idea. When that object or idea is cognized, Sphota takes place. Sphota, before it opens, is in an undifferentiated partless state. It resides in Sabda Brahman, the Brahman of Sounds. When it differentiates, it falls into two parts: Sabda and Artha, Sound and Meaning. Sound exists as Nada (नाद) in Sabda Brahman and the force that makes it blossom is Bindu (बिन्दु), which is also resident in Sabda Brahman. Unmanifested Sound = Avyakta Sabda; Manifested Sound = Vyakta Sabda. Bindu is enzymatic and has the same function as the Maya of Brahman of Upanishads. Brahman transforms into Isvara with Maya as an instrument or enzyme that makes the world visible to the senses. Maya of Suddha Saivism does not have the same meaning found in Upanishads. In the former, it means the building blocks of the universe--Tattvas or Saktis. But Maya (illusion) of Isvara, the clinical Brahman of both Siva and Vishnu, have the same functionality.
Nada नाद This sound is perceptible only to a Rishi. Nad is flow; Nada is sound.
Anahata अनाहत means unbeaten, unstruck, unwound, intact; new and unbleached; a sound that is produced by means other than by beating or of two objects striking each other. It generally means ‘OM.’ In this context it means that the sound is potentially existent, as in thought, preverbal in its evolution and expression. It is latent sound, ready to unwind from the mind and find expression. Analogy used to hear the unstruck sound is to occlude or cover both your ears with the cupped palms and hear the buzz. Here it is not really an unstruck sound, because the blood flow in the capillaries and other blood vessels striking the vessel walls create that sound which is perceived by the auditory apparatus and interpreted as buzz by the hearing area of the brain. Anyhow that conveys the idea what an unstruck sound is.
Ahata means struck, or beaten as a drum. It is a struck sound; it has a known origin. It encompasses all sounds heard and unheard by humans within the decibel and frequency range of animals and humans.
It is unlike Nāda which is heard only by Rishis or Seers.
Sound is of divine origin. In combination with
Bindu (Light, Point), Nāda/Nada is the incorporeal cause of (this material world, including) personal god Siva (as Consciousness) and Sakti (as energy/quality-manifestations of Consciousness), from whom all
tattvas and universe originated.
http://www.bhagavadgitausa.com/SOUND.htm
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