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Naada Yoga for Total Liberation: An Introduction

Prasant Radhakrishnan · 8:43

In this practice

Key teachings

  • Rediscovering one's real nature through sound
  • Dissolving the mind and its suffering through Naada Yoga
  • Combining sound meditation with Self-inquiry (Atma-vichara)
  • Abiding in the effortless purity of Beingness (the Heart)

Ideal for

  • Music practitioners and musicians
  • Anyone who enjoys music or sound
  • Individuals seeking spiritual awakening and inner peace
  • All individuals, regardless of prior yoga experience

Lesson

Instructions

This is the shortlink to the blog post at Prasant's website:

I’m glad to share something new for you today. Naada Yoga for Total Liberation is a fresh approach to spiritual freedom, peace and happiness through music. This is especially suitable for those who are music practitioners, or anyone who simply enjoys music or sound. As I have emphasized in the various videos I have posted in the last several months, it is possible to rediscover and realize your real nature through the ever subtle medium of sound and music.

Many people are aware that Om, the primordial sound, arises from the Self. All sounds are of the nature of Om. Seeing this, it makes perfect sense that if you trace the experience of any sound back to its source and abide there, the Self is revealed. I feel it helps that music usually has deep enjoyment as part of its nature. This approach fully embraces the effortless purity of Being here and now, the Heart. The emphasis is on discovery and abidance in Beingness as there nothing to strive for that is away from your Being.

In future videos, I will go into more detail regarding the various steps in this approach. If you have seen my previous blog posts and videos, I have already given the steps. They are incredibly simple. So, I will give more context and details on this. I feel strongly that this approach is available to all.

Enjoy…

Steps

  • Mindful listening to sound or music
  • Conscious playing of a musical instrument
  • Dissolving one's awareness into the sound
  • Tracing the sound back to its source of pure silence and Being
  • Abiding in pure Being beyond sound and silence

Benefits

  • Attaining spiritual freedom, peace, and happiness
  • Realizing and rediscovering one's true nature
  • Dissolution of mental suffering and restrictive thoughts
  • Experiencing freedom from the concepts of time and space
  • Accessing joyful, peaceful, and blissful states of being

Transcript

whoo Oh Oh mmm you I'd like to share with you today a simple approach for musicians and people who love to practice music or listen to music to realize your real nature and we discover it as well as dissolve I mind and the suffering of the mind and this is done through the pure sound which is often referred to as nada yoga and I feel that by combining this meditation and merging with sound that happens automatically as soon as you hear or play a note combining that with the essence of self-inquiry or Optima bokaro which by the WOD random are she spoke about and taught it becomes much easier to become aware of your real nature again and so I'm really happy to share this simple approach that I'm sharing its it for now we're calling nada yoga for total liberation and I friendly feel that this exploration is available to all and definitely will be especially easy for people who have an affinity for sound and for the beauty of sound so that's a little short intro about it if you've seen some of my other videos I've done before which is essentially a meditation on sound and music in which there are positives and silences along with the sound then I'm playing through this saxophone so basically the process is to if you're playing the instrument or you're listening is to actually hear the sound or rising and enjoy it first and once you're enjoying that and you're feeling that sound then you begin to just dissolve into that sound very natural things it's not difficult at all just dissolve in des Conde and you'll notice that there are less thoughts you may have less thoughts during this time and as you dissolve in the sound you will completely let go of any restrictions that your feelings and sensations that you have in the body you just notice them and dissolve into the sound and once you're comfortable there you take the next step which is going beyond even where the sound Rises so they simply feel where the sound is arising from and when you do this actually even than the previous step merging with the sound you're completely free of time at that time there's no longer any time there's likely no under new space you might notice that and as you go deeper it will be just the sound and finally you'll feel the pure silence and the pure being that's underneath that's the source of that sound and you'll know it because it's yourself it's very self and it'll feel very familiar very natural and you just stay there and you'll notice that actually if you're playing an instrument music will continue to rise by itself you won't even be controlling it so it happens by itself it's a very joyful peaceful even blissful experience is very simple and again like I said available to all people and like I mentioned even if you're not a musician but you're someone who likes me that who listens to music a lot I feel that you are also automatically and not that yogi now the way I'm talking about it is a little different if you think of yoga usually involves austerities but what I'm talking about today really the heart or pure being so you're not striving for anything but you're discovering what's available to you right here right now without any effort any kind so the effort is only something you feel when the mind is active or when the mind is it risen so once you actually dissolve into that sound which is arising from your own being and you dissolve deeper and deeper into that pure being then you'll see that freedom and pure being in peace is already here right now and so then the practice really is to continuously return to your home in that pure being and that's really all there is to do so i'll be talking more about this in the future in future videos and I'm truly happy to share this with you and I hope it helps feel free to share this or like it or if you have any questions and contact me through my website look forward to talking to you again more about this now they have got four total liberation thank you it's been my privilege you

Practice summary

Level
all levels
Duration
8 minutes
Equipment
None
Target areas
MindConsciousnessHeart (spiritual center)Subtle body
Energy
calming

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