Spundana - the cosmic vibration.

About 300 years ago, lived a great music composer named Saint Tyagaraja in a small temple town of south India called Tanjore (More precisely Thiruvayyaaru). He was considered one of the "Trinity" of Indian Vaaggeyakaaras (Musical Composers) of that era. The other two were Mutthuswami Deekshithar and Shyama Sastry. All of them are legends and are the pillars of the entire Carnatic style of Indian music system. ˛ˇWhy am I talking about music composers, when I am about to elaborate on the word Spundana or the First vibration? Well, the first vibration in the cosmos was called Spunda or Spundana (Other spelling would be Spandana--but considering how Westerns pronounce Dance, I decided to put a "U" instead of an 'A:" so that they could say It like "Bunker" Or Bus") Although there are several treatises on eastern philosophies such as "Sangeeta Ratnakara", Bharatha Muni's "Natya Shastra", Bhagawad Geeta, Ashtavakra Geeta, Ramayana, Srimad Bhagawatham to name a few, not many speak of these other treatises such as Soundarya Lahari, Lalitha Sahasranama and many other such great works as well.

Among the great works that describe the Zodiacal aspects of eastern scholarly works, Phaladeepika, Brihad-Aranyaaraka, Brihad-Jaataka Samhita and Navagraha Kosha are very powerful books and are rare to find these days to read them. Among all these treatises only a few really elaborate on the word "Spunda" or Spundana--meaning "The First Vibration or oscillation" in the Time-Space continuum. Legends tell us that this first vibration travels from the center of the cosmos to each and every "Sentient being" regardless of where they are located. This particular frequency or a WAVE came to be known as Spunda and then later it became "Naada" which was inclusive of "Fire" (Anala) and "Energy" (Praana).

Thus the combination came to be known as Naada (Primordial Sound). Since such a profound sound couldn't be contained inside the "Unmanifested/ Undifferentiated beingness" --there was an immediate need or requirement for an unlimited space-time to be released outside of itself as an "Empirical evidence" outside of itself. When this release happened, it was as mammoth as an equivalent to 1000,000,000 of "Big Bangs" that scientists could ever fathom or observe through their limited "Observatories" This first vibration needed a carrier to all beings and that carrier came to be known as " Sushumna Naadi" inside the Spinal column or the energy channel which is the central canal of the flow of energy through the nervous systems of each sentient being. This vibration pierces through each human existence (If I may restrict it to that for now) and passes through the womb of each mother precisely somewhere around the time, when the baby kicks up inside for the first time.

Till this moment, the baby is surviving on the Pranic system of the mother. When this vibration passes through its cerebral center known as Crown, the beam goes directly to where it hangs as a "Thin Membrane" in the central canal known as Sushumna Naadi. The beauty of this vibration is such that, very soon as the baby starts to gain its own "Individual consciousness" separated from its mother, the "Emptiness" around this membrane is very quickly filled with a Semi-viscous substance called "CSF" (Cerebro Spinal Fluid) which drips downward from the Cerebral area into the tapering canal, which ends at the coccyx. The CSF ends at around 2/3rds of the entire length of the canal.

When the baby is just born, there is hardly any CSF discernible around that thin membrane or the "Vehicle for Spundana" Hence, many thought that it was actually missing or completely hollow inside the central channel. Whenever the baby grows up and is brought to a new awareness of a new reality outside its mother's womb, this CSF starts to accumulate around its Thin Membrane, due to the various emotional triggers that occur in the baby's consciousness. When a grown up adult tries to indulge in any form of meditative practices, the gap from the Coccyx to the tapered tip of this thin membrane actually starts to expand and thus the CSF around it starts to make a backward journey into the cerebrum region.

Each step that is taken by the "Practitioner" brings about a new manifested spot on this membrane. Hence their consciousness also evolves. When finally a "Saintly person or a completely realized/ enlightened soul" observes this from that state of  Being-ness -- "The central canal appears to be devoid of the CSF and can clearly observe the Thin Membrane or Spundana. It is very subtle and hardly discernible by any external gadgets. Potentially, there is NO sentient being that doesn't carry this in its Spinal Column. Hence all sentient beings are "Potentially Enlightened" or have the potential to reach Enlightenment if they aren't already born Enlightened.

On the other hand, the LIVING thing in each cell is a different kind of the same energy known as "Eternal Breath" or "Ham-Saha" -- this was metaphorically compared to The Great Swan by many mystics. Saint Tyagaraja, who composed thousands of songs in Carnatic classical style of a (Raga based) musical system, composed one special song to explain about the "First Vibration" He called this scale "Chintamani" which starts its journey from a "Minor seventh note on the lower octave to the minor seventh of the middle octave"--which was from "Mandra sthaayi Kaishiki Nishada or Ni, to the middle octave Kaishiki Ni --Madhyama Sthaayi Kaishiki Ni" I would emphasize here that Saint Tyagaraja had perhaps reached a stage in his life where from he could hear "Vibrations that were very far from human capacity to even discern"

The song he composed in this describes through the Sanskritized words "Naada Tanum Anisam"- about this first vibration and how the "Seven Notes were formed" etc. Not very long ago, scientific community was shocked to find out in Sept 2003, that our planet was actually emanating a "Low frequency Note" which was equivalent to a bB Or the Minor seventh for the universal pitch of  C . The scientists also found another "Black Hole" (Which now they say is actually Green and not Black in Color) was also emanating a similar note and it also matched the note bB. So, this is what is called Spundana or the first vibration in the Space-Time continuum.

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