Passage 6

In English

The has been establishing that all living beings have their origin in God. The have taught us the same thing by saying that is the source of every being. By taking these examples from the , tells us that should be regarded as the symbol of creation and should be regarded as Divinity, or the , and the marriage between and is the confluence between Divinity on one hand and the essence of human beings on the other. also showed us that sorrows and pleasures are simply the results of union or the breaking up of such unions. The has also taught us that the spirit of is contained in understanding truly the result of coming together or being separated. Here when was taking and for the purpose of killing , halfway in their journey they heard a big noise. and asked how, in a forest, where there were not many people, such a big noise had come. told them that amongst the Himalayas there is a particular mountain called the and on that mountain of there is a lake by name . The river flows out of the lake . An ancient king who belonged to the Dynasty of was responsible for bringing this river down to the plains, and his name was . stated that brought down the river Ganges as well and the was joining the river Ganges, and therefore, the noise was so loud. had implied a good spiritual inner meaning for his statement. He regarded the word ‘’ as symbolic of a pure mind. Our mind has been compared to the lake . The outflow of several ideas from the pure and clean mind had been compared with the outflow of the river from lake . He imagined that these ideas are springing as if they had pure white foam in them. When these sacred ideas are emanating from in the form of river and when they are touched by the rays of sun, they produce a sound, the primordial sound, . This sacred sound , or the , is emanating from the heart of every individual. explained that this is the origin of the noise. You can hear this sound of only in a place which is pure. For this reason, the of those days used to leave the cities and towns and go to the forest which was pure and silent, for the sake of hearing this primordial sound of . Truly, the sound that is contained in silence is to be identified with God.