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Do you mind if I ask how old are you? 

There was an amrit vela 40 day chaleya organised by Bhai Gurpreet Singh. Each day there was at least 30mins worth of simran at the start. See their YouTube channel
AmritVela Chaliya (13thOct to 25th Nov,2015):
 
 

Taking in consideration the anonymity of this forum , I think its beneficial for me to hear these real-life accounts from fellow Sikhs , however small might they be.
Its just like how someone was sharing their experience about going on a vegetarian diet. 
Treat the experience as a neutral theme, do not apply spirituality or higher status to it.  And I think we will all be fine. I encourage everyone to share their stuff.
I personally share my dreams, my failures, my bad feelings & negativity. Its unfortunate I havent had a blissful experience yet, but if Maharaj does kirpa I will share that too.

Recently something new has been happening. I've been seeing a light type radiance around people. It has been strongest during/after simran in sangat and is usually very noticeable around the person doing katha/leading simran. My question is whether this has to do with spirituality. Is this mentioned in bani? What does it mean and why do people have it?

Cultivating Concentration (to Support Meditation)
If you think that the goal of meditation is to make the mind blank, you have created an insurmountable obstacle to developing a rich, nourishing meditation practice. As Swami Prabhavananda and Christopher Isherwood observe in How to Know God, if making the mind blank were desirable, this condition could be “easily achieved by asking a friend to hit you over the head with a hammer.” It is not the mind’s nature to be blank, and trying to force it into that state is both futile and harmful. A meditative mind is a concentrated mind—a mind that is not blank; it is one which has become stilled by holding an unbroken, one-pointed focus on a single object for an extended period of time. In short, meditation is sustained concentration. (i.e. concentration on WaheGuru Gurmantar)
Concentration (dharana), meditation (dhyana), and spiritual absorption (samadhi) are interwoven. At the beginning of the third chapter, the Yoga Sutra explains how one state merges into the next: “Concentration is focusing attention on one object and holding it there. When awareness flows evenly toward the object of concentration, that is meditation. When in meditation the true nature of the object of concentration shines forth, undistorted by the mind of the perceiver, that is samadhi.”
Multiplying Concentration
Experienced practitioners tell us that concentration is 12 seconds of unbroken attention on one thought wave. Sustain this for 144 seconds (12 x 12) and you have reached a state of meditation. If the mind can maintain that state for another multiple of 12 (12 x 144 seconds, or 28 minutes, 48 seconds), it will have entered the first stage of samadhi.
Trying to meditate without training the mind to concentrate is like trying to write a novel before learning to read—it can’t be done. Until the mind is trained to concentrate, it will never flow into a meditative state. Yet we may avoid training the mind to be one-pointed because we’re accustomed to thinking of concentration as a mental effort, like the effort required to analyze a calculus problem. Concentration seems tension-inducing somehow, and not particularly “spiritual.” But the sustained inward focus that is a prelude to meditation is neither stressful nor unpleasant—it is relaxed, focused awareness, a state of mind that is soothing and calming, once you get the knack of it.
Making a Start
If you doubt this, try the simple breathing practice that follows. It fosters relaxed concentration and is a good way to introduce the mind to the pleasures of one-pointed attention.
Sit comfortably, with the head, neck, and trunk aligned and the body relaxed. Close your eyes and focus on the flow of the breath as it passes through the nostrils. Feel the warm touch of the exhalation and the cool touch of the inhalation. Breathe smoothly and evenly. Pay particular attention to the transition between the exhalation and the inhalation because it is here that the mind has the greatest tendency to wander off.
When your attention has come to rest on the breath, begin to count your inhalations and exhalations from 1 to 5 and 5 back to 1 again in the following pattern: Exhale 1, Inhale 2, Exhale 3, Inhale 4, Exhale 5, Inhale 1, Exhale 2, Inhale 3, Exhale 4, Inhale 5.
Work with this practice over a period of days or weeks—as long as it takes—until you can attend to it for five minutes without getting lost or confused. Notice how relaxed and refreshed you feel. This is the beginning of the one-pointed focus that, with time and practice, merges into meditation.
 

We especially used the word family grandson. He was another sibling or cousins grandson and according to the family tree Sant Baba Nand Singh was like his grandfather. 

Well that's the most important thing. This is more important than "external material for kids" or parcharaks. You are the father! You need to be the role model, do the bhagti yourself and spend time with them, and project your spiritual energy and awareness out and into them.
I'll give two examples, one of my dad and one of myself.
1. My dad did a lot of bhagti and he taught it to me. He would sit down and teach me how to meditate, how to read a gutka, how to do pooja, how to visit the gurudwara, and so on. And he did it himself all the time. Having that kind of presence had a huge effect on me, and it is the most important for a child. Its set the base for even when the child goes off-track, like I did.
The father teaches the child how to be virtuous.
 
2. Now for the second example. While I was staying in India with my sister, I was meditating as much as possible. One day I was playing with my 2yr old nephew and we went to the gurudwara right after. So he wants to sit with mamaji, I began quietly meditating with him sitting in my lap the whole time. Some time passed after we returned, and he started playing. In his playing, he began to say the mantra that I was meditating on, all to my surprise. This mantra was known only to me, no one else.
What you do now will energetically effect your children later.

I was trying to find out the Spiritual material (with photos, cartoons etc) in order to teach my growing kids some basic things: Love, Sharing etc...... but was unsatisfied in regards to the unavailability of this kind of material in Sikhism. Our parcharaks are doing nothing in this regard. We ourselves are also hopeless, we waste so much time in arguring about what we think is right interpretation of a religious concept. I feel that we're The assholes, good for nothing......anyways, but I was happy to find that there are lot of educational material in Buddhism (created by educated and level minded people). So, just want to share if anyone is interested:
http://www.buddhanet.net/ebooks_childrens.htm
We should also create some material NOT to show how we survived in history and sacrifices....but also the concepts of a beautiful Sikhism. Sometimes, I feel that I'm in the wrong place where everyone is after the money race (be it because of family or for oneself), but then realize that I'm also part of this world and if I want to come out, then do the hard work and the Grace will follow. But you know sala maan kurta ha!

Supreme God lodged in  bodies, minds, intellects, is  a  flame  without smoke,  resplendence alone,  devoid  of  shadow.”  People who have  beheld this  Light,  have  given  testimony  in  various ways.  Some  say it  is  like  a flash  of  lightening  blinding one’s eyes.  Some describe it as  a  steady  golden  light like  that of the rising  sun.  Some say  it is  cool  like that of  the moon. Some say  it is  like a  star  twinkling  in  the space  of  one’s heart.  Some say  it is  a  flame without smoke.  Not only  the visions,  but also  the sounds  we hear  as  we approach  the Atman, are  described in  different  scriptures. “This  marvel  is the Master  of  past,  present  and  future.  He is  always  the same,  today  and  tomorrow.”  A  grand  immediacy  of Presence and  Wealth  which  can  be described only  as Omnipresence.
Some  mystics  say that  when  He  enters  this  body, it is  like an  elephant  entering  a  thatched  rut,  breaking  it into  pieces. The  body  cannot  bear  it. It  is  said that Ramakrishna Paramhamsa suffered  from his  final  illness  on account of  repeated  God-experience.  Everything in  regard to  God  is  a  marvel:  How to  meditate  on  Him,  how He comes, how  He  is,  how  we  behold  Him.   

Ang 948 Guru Amar Das Ji:

How can this mind be conquered? How can it be killed?
ki-o kar ih man maaree-ai ki-o kar mirtak ho-ay.

If one does not accept the Word of the Shabad, egotism does not depart.
kahi-aa sabad na maan-ee ha-umai chhadai na ko-ay.

By Guru`s Grace, egotism is eradicated, and then, one is Jivan Mukta - liberated while yet alive.
gur parsaadee ha-umai chhutai jeevan mukat so ho-ay.

O Nanak, one whom the Lord forgives is united with Him, and then no obstacles block his way.
naanak jis no bakhsay tis milai tis bighan na laagai ko-ay.

Everyone can say that they are dead while yet alive; how can they be liberated while yet alive?
jeevat marnaa sabh ko kahai jeevan mukat ki-o ho-ay.

If someone restrains himself through the Fear of God, and takes the medicine of the Love of God,
bhai kaa sanjam jay karay daaroo bhaa-o laa-ay-ay.

night and day, he sings the Glorious Praises of the Lord. In celestial peace and poise, he crosses over the poisonous, terrifying world-ocean, through the Naam, the Name of the Lord.
an-din gun gaavai sukh sehjay bikh bhavjal naam taray-ay.

O Nanak, the Gurmukh finds the Lord; he is blessed with His Glance of Grace.
naanak gurmukh paa-ee-ai jaa ka-o nadar karay-i.

Ang 953 Guru Nanak Dev Ji :

He alone is an Udasi, a shaven-headed renunciate, who embraces renunciation.
so udaasee je paalay udaas.

He sees the Immaculate Lord dwelling in both the upper and lower regions.
araDh uraDh karay niranjan vaas.

He balances the sun and the moon energies.
chand sooraj kee paa-ay gandh.

In the Tenth Gate, the sky of the mind, he erects his pillar.
gagan mandal meh ropai thamm.

Night and day, he remains in deep inner meditation.
ahinis antar rahai Dhi-aan.

Throughout existence and non-existence, there is only the Name of the One Lord.
aasat naasat ayko naa-o.

What is that Word, which holds the heart in its place?
ka-un so akhar jit rahai hi-aa-o.

When you look alike (balance) upon sunshine and shade,
Dhoop chhaav jay sam kar sahai.

says Nanak, then the Guru will speak to you.
taa naanak aakhai gur ko kahai.

That alone is said to be the Lord`s temple, where the Lord is known.
har mandar so-ee aakhee-ai jithahu har jaataa.

In the human body, the Guru`s Word is found, when one understands that the Lord, the Supreme Soul, is in all.
maanas dayh gur bachnee paa-i-aa sabh aatam raam pachhaataa.

Don`t look for Him outside your self. The Creator, the Architect of Destiny, is within the home of your own heart.
baahar mool na khojee-ai ghar maahi biDhaataa.

The self-willed manmukh does not appreciate the value of the Lord`s temple; they waste away and lose their lives.
manmukh har mandar kee saar na jaannee tinee janam gavaataa.

The One Lord is pervading in all; through the Word of the Guru`s Shabad, He can be found.
sabh meh ik varatdaa gur sabdee paa-i-aa jaa-ee.

Ang 954 Sri Guru Nanak Dev Ji

He alone is victorious, who believes in the Lord`s Name.
mannay naa-o so-ee jin jaa-ay.

No other action is of any account.
a-uree karam na laykhai laa-ay.


WaheGuru WaheGuru WaheGuru WaheGuru WaheGuru

Although the Atman dwells in the heart of every living being, yet IT is not perceived by ordinary mortals because of ITs subtlety. It cannot be perceived by the senses; a finer spiritual sight is required. The heart must be pure and freed from every unworthy selfish desire; the thought must be indrawn from all external objects; mind and body must be under control; when the whole being becomes calm and serene, the it is possible to perceive that effulgent Atman. IT is subtler than the subtle, because IT is the invisible essence of every thing; and IT is greater than the great because IT is boundless, sustaining power of the whole universe; that upon which all existence rests.
When the five organs of perception become still, together with the mind, and the intellect ceases to be active; that is called the highest state. The out-going senses - seeing, hearing, smelling, touching and tasting; the restless mind and intellect; all must be indrawn and quieted. The state of equilibrium thus attained is called the highest state, because all the forces of ones being become united and focused; and this leads to supersensuous vision.
Yoga literally means to join or to unite the lower self with the Higher Self, the object with the subject, the worshipper with God. In order to gain this union, however, one must first disunite oneself from all that scatters the physical, mental, and intellectual forces; so the outgoing perceptions must be detached from the external world and indrawn. When this is accomplished through constant practice of concentration and meditation, the union take place of its own accord. But it may be lost again, unless one is watchful.
This supersensuos vision cannot be gained through man's ordinary faculties. By mind, eye, or speech the manifested attributes of the Divine can be apprehended; but only one who has acquired the supersensuous sight can directly perceive God's existence and declare definitely that "He is," that. He alone exists in both the visible and invisible world.
When all desires dwelling in the heart cease, then the mortal becomes immortal and attains Brahman here.
The nervous system of the body provides the channels through which the mind travels; the direction in which it moves is determined by it's desires and tendencies. When the mind becomes pure and desire-less , it takes the upward course and at the time of departing passes out through the imperceptible opening of the crown of the head; but as long as it remains full of desires, its course is downward towards the realms where those desires can be satisfied.
 

Waheguru ji ka khalsa waheguru ji ki fateh

ay naytarahu mayriho har tum meh jot Dharee har bin avar na daykhhu ko-ee.

O my eyes, the Lord has infused His Light into you; do not look upon any other than the Lord.
(In everything you should see God).

har bin avar na daykhhu ko-ee nadree har nihaali-aa.
Do not look upon any other than the Lord; the Lord alone is worthy of beholding.

ayhu vis sansaar tum daykh-day ayhu har kaa roop hai har roop nadree aa-i-aa.
This whole world which you see is the image of the Lord; only the image of the Lord is seen.
 

gur parsaadee bujhi-aa jaa vaykhaa har ik hai har bin avar na ko-ee.
By Guru's Grace, I understand, and I see only the One Lord; there is no one except the Lord.

kahai naanak ayhi naytar anDh say satgur mili-ai dib darisat ho-ee. ||36||
Says Nanak, these eyes were blind; but meeting the True Guru, they became all-seeing. ||36||

Speaking of death just read the following which I found quite enlightening.
Transending death means realising the difference between body and soul and identifying oneself with the soul. When we actually behold the undecaying Soul within us and realise our true nature , we no longer identify ourself with the body which dies and we do not die with the body.  
 
Sheds a bit of light on the pangti.
Bramhgiani Nahe Marda
 
There is one part of us that must die; there is another part which never dies. When a man can identify himself with the undying nature, which is one with God , then he overcomes death. 
Aatma Paramatma Eko Jaan

Speaking of death just read the following which I found quite enlightening.
Transending death means realising the difference between body and soul and identifying oneself with the soul. When we actually behold the undecaying Soul within us and realise our true nature , we no longer identify ourself with the body which dies and we do not die with the body.  
 
Sheds a bit of light on the pangti.
Bramhgiani Nahe Marda
 
There is one part of us that must die; there is another part which never dies. When a man can identify himself with the undying nature, which is one with God , then he overcomes death. 
Aatma Paramatma Eko Jaan

Personally I haven't but it won't surprise me if when all 5 or more anhad Sounds are heard, they sound like a shaan or tune. Whether they sound exactly like that or this is sant ji's expression of what he hears, God knows. I am also lead to understand that when all anhad sounds are heard they do get faster and faster the more you listen till eventually only 1 sound is heard, just like his shaan starts off slow but gets faster later to eventually lead to the single sound known as Ek Shabad, Shej Dhun, Naad, Toor. 
The One Word of the Shabad abides within my mind; I shall not come to be born again.
ayk sabad mayrai paraan basat hai baahurh janam na aavaa.
He cuts off the three branches of the three qualities, and embraces love for the One Word of the Shabad.
saakhaa teen nivaaree-aa ayk sabad liv laa-ay.
 
I think there is a underlying reason behind why sant ji played a shaan and it is not just some musical composition he put together. 
1 of the anhad sounds is chumta, shanay, ghungroo like sound. Not heard any of the others yet with any intensity to be distinguishably recognisable.
 

Fear is totally a natural response to something you have never experienced before. Keep up the simran and you will be really lucky if they come back again. 

According to Gurbani, hearing bells is a part of the meditative practice progressing from one spiritual state to another
Page 237, Line 4
ਸਹਜੇ ਰੁਣ ਝੁਣਕਾਰੁ ਸੁਹਾਇਆ ॥
सहजे रुण झुणकारु सुहाइआ ॥
Sėhje ruṇ jẖuṇkār suhā▫i▫ā.
In peace and poise, the celestial bells resound.
Guru Arjan Dev
 
 
Page 356, Line 15
ਘੁੰਘਰੂ ਵਾਜੈ ਜੇ ਮਨੁ ਲਾਗੈ ॥
घुंघरू वाजै जे मनु लागै ॥
Gẖungẖrū vājai je man lāgai.
You shall hear the vibrations of the tinkling bells, when your mind is held steady.
 
 

Personally I haven't but it won't surprise me if when all 5 or more anhad Sounds are heard, they sound like a shaan or tune. Whether they sound exactly like that or this is sant ji's expression of what he hears, God knows. I am also lead to understand that when all anhad sounds are heard they do get faster and faster the more you listen till eventually only 1 sound is heard, just like his shaan starts off slow but gets faster later to eventually lead to the single sound known as Ek Shabad, Shej Dhun, Naad, Toor. 
The One Word of the Shabad abides within my mind; I shall not come to be born again.
ayk sabad mayrai paraan basat hai baahurh janam na aavaa.
He cuts off the three branches of the three qualities, and embraces love for the One Word of the Shabad.
saakhaa teen nivaaree-aa ayk sabad liv laa-ay.
 
I think there is a underlying reason behind why sant ji played a shaan and it is not just some musical composition he put together. 
1 of the anhad sounds is chumta, shanay, ghungroo like sound. Not heard any of the others yet with any intensity to be distinguishably recognisable.
 

That tune is known as the shaan, but no, I haven't heard that. I've heard different kirtans and praises, but there is no vaja....String instruments usually maintain the core of the raags.
You are not the first person that I've come across to hear straight full blown tunes during the day but I'm certain that they are signals from the devi/devtes,..sants..heavenly angels... celestial singers..or whatever you want to call them..  These are all Akaal Purakhs servants that you encounter all the way to the door.  I know that at times of uncertainty or some personal dilemnas,,  ....these angelic beings DO and wil give you subtle signals in day to day life but only you can work out what they are telling you. 
Yes the sounds change and get more prominent but there does come a stage where the abyasee focuses on naad and then joins in to do the sift salah with the sant mandli. Now, this is my personal feeling only, between me and gurbani. I feel that more washing occurs and more of our sins get forgiven as a more heightened experiences of naam amrit follow..
The below shabad is just one of many that I'm referring to and in the video below, Bhai Gurpreet ji, beautifully explains and sings this shabad and references this avastha at the beginning....This is more or less what I believe and understand.
 
SANT MANDLI
ਜਬ ਭਗਤਿ ਕਰਹਿ ਸੰਤ ਮੰਡਲੀ ਤਿਨ੍ਹ੍ਹ ਮਿਲਿ ਹਰਿ ਗਾਵਉ ॥
Jab bẖagaṯ karahi sanṯ mandlī ṯinĥ mil har gāva▫o.
When the galaxy of Saints worship the Lord in devotion, I join them, singing the Glorious Praises of the Lord.
 
ਕਰਉ ਨਮਸਕਾਰ ਭਗਤ ਜਨ ਧੂਰਿ ਮੁਖਿ ਲਾਵਉ ॥੩॥
Kara▫o namaskār bẖagaṯ jan ḏẖūr mukẖ lāva▫o. ||3||
I bow in reverence to the humble devotees, and apply the dust of their feet to my face. ||3|| 
Later on in the video, reference is also made to the washing ..
ਜਨਮ ਜਨਮ ਕੇ ਕਿਲਵਿਖ ਕਾਟੈ ਮਜਨੁ ਹਰਿ ਜਨ ਧੂਰਿ ॥
Janam janam ke kilvikẖ kātai majan har jan ḏẖūr.
The sins of countless incarnations are washed away, by bathing in the dust of the Lord's humble servants.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5c27zHemqmE
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I don't know what a shainey is... but yes like bells thousands all being rung at once and continuously... Only other thing I can compare it to is maybe a bunch of wine glasses with people running their fingers around them all at the same time. You know that high pitched resonance that happens when someone runs a wet finger around a crystal wine glass? Like that but many at once. Or bells.... its like the resonance of the bells more than the striking sound. Sound of a tibetan singing bowl is close too... (actually I have one of those here).  So it's like pure resonance I am hearing and not something being struck or shaken....if that makes sense. 

Like lots of bells/tambourine/shainey sounds....occurring at quite a fair and constant frequency?
I now realise that these different sounds occur as your prana channels start opening up and you chakras start gathering and directing the energies. These sounds are sometimes referred to as pavan shabads.
Best method is to just hear them, acknowledge them,..but not to focus or get lost in them. Keep dhyian and one-pointed concentration on the jap. I remember that I avoided myself getting too lost or distracted by listening out for what came next. 
Basically, you do jap.... .some pavan sound comes along,...... you acknowledge ...and confirm to yourself that ascension is occurring....., tell yourself  to not get wrapped up in it...., continue jap whilst they are in background and... wait for the next lot.   (I'm not going to say what may come next or how long it may be, because that pre-conditioned attitude may affect your progress)..   
Good- luck ...happy japing!

I have heard "sounds" during meditation / simran before... and I say sounds but I know they were not physical. But those were more like static, electricity like, and stopped as soon as I lost concentration on it. 
I was doing about 1 hr simran/meditation this evening, completely alone... and something happened that actually scared me.  I heard sounds, but it was different this time.  It started as like faint bells, I actually thought something was off in the distance outside or something.  But it got louder. And it was high pitched and sounded like thousands of bells being rung at the same time over and over. Like brass bells like the ones used for christmas carols (for those in the west you know those big hand held bells in different notes and tones) well it was like those but thousands all at once. I stopped repeating "waheguru" physically because the sounds got to be too much and I continued in my mind, but the bells did not go away. I even got up and walked around and stopped simran, but I could still hear it!!!  It lasted another few minutes and went away after I turned the TV on to have some other sounds.  I can't hear it anymore now (about 15 mins later). But it scared me.  I thought I was experiencing tinnitus or something that something is wrong with my ears maybe. 
There was no sound in the room or nearby it was completely quiet. I had the lights off. I didn't hear the sound until about 45 mins into quiet simran alone. At that point I had relaxed enough to really not even feel my physical body and since it was dark I was kind of giving myself sensory deprivation a bit.  The sound was no joke - like thousands of bells all at once. When it got louder it even kind of 'hurt' my ears (even though I know the sound was not even physically there). And it did not stop when I turned the light on and got up and even walked around for a few mins!  So this is freaking me out a little bit.
Has anyone else experienced this during Simran?? 

I also heard that at the time of death, Naam is heard by all. But most beings whom have never experienced or heard naam don't recognise it and are even frightened by it therefore miss the opportunity to merge back with Waheguru.

Anyone seen this movie?
Have a read, Hollywood made a film about anhad sounds. 
http://dreamsawakemovie.com/inner_sound/
 
Several thematic elements are presented within the plot structure of “Dreams Awake.” One is the concept of the inner sound, which has its basis in the creation myths, spiritual constructs and religious texts of many ancient cultures. The main character, Hope, is continually bothered by an inner ringing noise she attributes to a medical condition. But as they increase beyond her control, we learn there is much more to it than a traditional explanation.
Inner Sound – The Sound of Silence
“The sound is the source of all manifestation … The knower of the mystery of sound knows the mystery of the whole universe.”
“In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.”
 “For in the beginning of the times so did we all share in the Holy Stream of Sound that gave birth to all creation.”
“In the beginning was OM.”
Virtually every civilization in the world has had some type of creation myth that involved sound, usually sound that was equated with consciousness and that this celestial sound was the first creation, so that everything else created came from such ‘otherworldly’ sound in the ether.  A number of spiritual, mystical and religious texts have spoken of this metaphysical equation of sound as an element of their most honored traditions.
Plato wrote that the cosmos was constructed according to musical intervals and proportions.  Pythagoras called it ‘Music of the Spheres’ and believed that it fills our inner ears and we are constantly in contact with it from the moment of our birth.  Another Greek philosopher, Heraclitus, called it ‘Logos’ (divine word or sound).  Some Native American traditions call it ‘Song of the Creator,’ while the Bible calls it ‘The Word’ and ‘Voice of Many Waters’.  Hindus refer to it as ‘Anahad Shabd’ (unlimited tone or unstruck melody) and ‘Akash Bani’ (voice from the heavens), while the Sufis say it is ‘Saute Surmad’ (tone that fills the cosmos).  Lao Tzu described the Tao as ‘unimpeded harmony’ and referred to the ‘Great Tone’ as the source of all things.  Guru Nanak built Sikhism on the foundations of this ‘cosmic tone’.  Some believe the knowledge of this ‘mystery tone’ goes back even farther, beyond the origins of Hinduism, and to the ancient Egyptians of several thousand B.C.  Others believe that Jesus taught it to his inner circle, his disciples, and also that Mohammed was aware of it when he was enlightened in the cave at Gare-Hira.  Several spiritual Masters teach that this sound of God is in everyone and that we explore this inner space through meditation.  A number of ancient Gnostics mystical texts refer to hearing the sound of God while in deep meditation states. Today, these traditions are a part of the Radhasoami movement, as well as several others around the world.  In addition, a number of other cultures, such as the Aborigines, Aztecs, Eskimos, Malayans and Persians all believed that the universe originated in sound.
The details of these esoteric theories are as follows.  This one sound is divided into unlimited frequencies or tones that generate a geometric wave pattern containing the information of its order and structure in nature.  Sound is in this way a storage and transfer system for information or the intelligence of the universe bio-system.  Much of our life is spent under the influence of disorganized, chaotic, frantic sound.  However, the more time one spends within the influence of highly organized and repeating fractal tone patterns, the more solution orientated is the information attracted and maintained in one’s energy field.  This can help allow stress to be replaced with ease by relaxation, which is why the sacred geometry of sound is a foundation for sound healing.  In addition, symbols are the language of the unconscious and higher conscious mental bodies, and they provide the keys to one’s journey into the sensations of tone.  The physical body, the subtle bodies and their points of confluence, vibrate at different frequencies.  These are modified or literally attuned by the resonation of the inner sound current, sacred algorithms or mantras, which can then harmonize and realign the dense and subtle components of the energetic body.
It has also been said that the vibrations of this sound are too fine to be audible, making it difficult to be aware of these very fine, ethereal vibrations.  However, as this sound is supposedly always resounding in the soul and when one attains a certain level of stillness and concentration, the sound can become audible.  It is supposedly the ringing tone one can hear when all other sounds are silent.  Depending upon the person, a variety of sounds may be heard, similar to the following physical representations; rushing waters, thunder, ringing bells, conch sounds, gong echoes, steam engine, crickets chirping, bees or hummingbirds flying, or even instruments like harps, horns, flutes or lutes being played.  Ascetics blow a horn, a shell or a flute to awaken this inner tone in them.  The bells and gongs in churches and temples are meant to suggest this same inner sound and thus lead one to take up the clarion call towards the inner life.
In the even deeper esoteric world of mystics, there is a spiritual practice (meditation) called Surat Shabd(a) Yoga, (yoga of the celestial sound current), which is followed by a number of ancient spiritual traditions.  Surat means “soul,” shabd means “word” and yoga means “union.”  Word means the “Sound Current,” the “Audible Life Stream” or the “Essence of the Absolute Supreme Being.”  That is, the dynamic force of creative energy that was sent out, as sound vibration, from the Supreme Being/Force into the abyss of space at the dawn of the universe’s manifestation, and that is being sent forth, through the ages, framing all things that constitute and inhabit the universe.  It is also implied that through this practice of meditation, one can learn to access the workings of this inner sound and actually travel spiritually into other levels or dimensions within the inner cosmos.  If one follows the theory on down to biological human beings, it says this inner sound is the spiritual energy that actually drives your consciousness and provides the energy to hold your genetic structure in balance.  And that this energy is supplied through an umbilical cord arrangement, and this ringing or buzzing sound we all can actually hear is the current flow in that power line.  And thus, that one’s hair swirl is physical evidence of its path, as it enters at that point in a vortex pattern.
Today there is a popular, still developing theory among physicists called String Theory, which attempts to provide a complete, unified and consistent description of the fundamental structure of our universe.  Very basically, it explains the smallest possible component of reality as a vibrating string, or a bundle of them intertwined, and that how matter is created depends on the way these strings vibrate.  And of course when something vibrates, it creates a tone or harmonic of tones.  String theory tries to bridge and tie together the theories of relativity and quantum mechanics into the currently accepted “Big Bang” theory of the universe’s creation.  In fact, the very word Universe means ‘one song’, uni meaning one and verse meaning song.  Is creation merely a song being sung or played?  A cosmic symphony of sorts?  And each of us exists as a unique harmonic signature within that symphony?