Is the Anahata Sound same as Brahman? | Swami Sarvapriyananda

Swami Sarvapriyanandadiscusses the nature of the Anahata (un-struck) sound.
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[@Mercurygamer72]

A day without swami sarvapriyananda is like a year without rain..

[@corynapier3653]

Before he came, the 21st century was like the Atacama Desert. He pointed out the well to the reservoir beneath us...or....everywhere within us..🤔😏🤓😌👍

[@harshverma3281]

A day without him. Is like vrindawan without Shri Krishna

[@poojakashyap6608]

Absolutely.

[@Fokrey1955]

Absolutely true.

[@ramabangalore]

Very true Nikesh.

[@TR_kannel.]

Only Sandeep maheshwari talks about sound of silence and no one else because of him we are getting to know what reality is and who we are ☺️❤️

[@valakuldeep6519]

Nobody in the entire history has made spirituality as easy as SM..direct taste of the ultimate !🙏

[@gradegrow333]

True

[@jamal16493]

Exactly...

[@ab2001k]

@@arjunchakrabarti297 make some money!

[@jidrit999]

what the hell ur saying ...anahat sound is mentioned in vedanata and by guru gorakhnath and by shiva..

[@dwaipayanroy1642]

I hear this all the time. It's very common with Kriya Yogis...Divine sound, divine light and divine vibrations

[@sji3187]

What is Kriya Yiga

[@thotpad]

Same.

[@Nshree]

I just can't have enough of your talks Swamiji my janma is fulfilled😇😇🙏🙏

[@CHAMOMILE.BLOOMS_]

Always love to hear his stories and experiences...the gospels of knowledge 🙏

[@gumansingh3840]

According to Sandeep Maheswari sound of silence is Brahman

[@RV.ranvijay]

No...acoording to sandeep sir sound of silence is one of the experience of brhaman

[@truePac47]

@@RV.ranvijay no brahman is the reality research it I have research it I think swami didn't know about anahad naad

[@prakharprabhat585]

Sound of Aum is Silence

[@prakharprabhat585]

Some say it sounds like the waves of an ocean

[@theperfectcelibate8669]

@@truePac47 pagal hai kya

[@Lizuthman]

Swami I hope you get to read this message. I am very grateful to have found you on you tube. You talks have answered many of my questions which I have been searching here and there. So many doubts have been cleared just by watching your videos. Thank you swami ji. 🙏

[@anubhavspeaks8788]

He is talking about Sandeep Maheshwari 😀😀

[@ankitanand143]

Please delete the name

[@kavitamishra5651]

Yes he is talking about sandeep

[@saurabhtiwari5829]

Why ?

[@malatihagde6794]

No..he is talking about Bill Gate

[@digambararsul437]

@@malatihagde6794 😂

[@anuprashpradhaan]

Listening you gives me peace of mind 💗💗💗❤️❤️❤️

[@janukisarcar5430]

Jai guru swamiji🙏 you are absolutely right whatever you have said. Even I know a person who hears this sound, and who has experienced spiritual experiences, who is exactly child like character. No doubt about those people who are happy by themselves, doesn't need any friend and by seeing them feel like they have found something eternal. And in my opinion they are the satisfied souls. Om shanti 🙏

[@dustinishimwe903]

Of all the videos of Swami I have watched, this has been the most fun to watch for whatever reason lol

[@tashilhamu4510]

I always hear the anahata sound. It gets louder in silence

[@anubhavspeaks8788]

Me too 😀

[@harshverma3281]

I hear it only in silence.....I think I'm born in this golden era that I got to listen Sandeep sir and Swamiji

[@saral2329]

What does it sound like?

[@tashilhamu4510]

Sara L white noise sometimes whooshing is also there. Some say kundalini some say tinnitus. But i dont think its auditory problem as i started hearing this upon awakening and i dont have hearing problem

[@kanishkgupta5057]

Is your concentration improved please tell

[@dineshbobade4515]

I have this experience. The endless sound which is audible by yourself. It is audible whether you are working or doing rest or doing meditation. If you gave attention then other sound of surrounding became lower and lower. I have other experiences also.

[@vishuddheya4085]

It is always the same everywhere everytime... When i am silent in my thoughts and action .. Even simply sitting..

[@keepsmiling7642]

Apke chrno mein koti pranaam Gurudev!

[@HemPat56]

Swamiji love to hear you talk :-)

[@anagha.aniruddha16]

Pranam Swamiji 🙏🏻

[@mindfulkayaker7737]

I have been hearing this inner sound since I met Paramahansa Hariharananda a Kriya Yoga máster about 20 years ago I talked about that to my doctor and he said that I had Tinnitus and even ordered me manny medical tests that did not reported any thing Always when I hear swami sarvapriyananda this sound becomes louder and clearer !

[@summerbreeze5115]

Thats the problem with religion

[@jidrit999]

@@summerbreeze5115 ssshh

[@summerbreeze5115]

@@jidrit999 what?

[@thotpad]

@@summerbreeze5115 this has nothing to do with religion. Hinduism is science in its purest form. I hear it too and can zone in and out of listening to it at will. Tinnitus is a completely different phenomena where listening whatever sound it is not our choice.

[@summerbreeze5115]

@@thotpad dont teach me....i know the physiology of hearing. Everyone at some degree do hear this noise.... its our brain processes. Nothing Mystical & Metaphysical. If you really want to understand spirituality in-depth...watch some videos of Acharya Prashant on YT....he correlates spirituality with modern Science. "Sound of the universe" sure!! :/ Superstition becomes very deadly when mixed with core spirituality.

[@atrayeeroy4501]

Lovely.......Pronam Maharaj.🙏

[@annebutters]

I hear the unstruck. It opens the gates for helping others heal.

[@vandnakapoor5065]

I had aham brahmasmi and all. but this sound came on its own after listening to swamiji repeatedly 🙏

[@aswinpadhy1083]

Can you please help me by elaborately saying your experience 🙏🏻🙏🏻 thank you

[@GRay-fp2kb]

Namaskar. Maharaj. A discourse on the mechanism of anahata sound Spandakarika, will be deeply appreciated

[@debjanilahiri7100]

Pronam swamiji 🙏🏻🙏🏻

[@user-vu5rc9no3r]

Nice swami ji

[@harshverma3281]

He is talking about sound of silence that Sandeep maheshwari talks about

[@ankitanand143]

Remove his name please

[@harshverma3281]

@@ankitanand143 why brother everyone knows it's Sandeep sir only... Bhai Sandeep sir don't use exact terminology of Advaita Vedanta like Swamiji..becoz some Muslim and other religions may get hurt...becoz in Islam it's worst sin to commit is shirk....read islam Sandeep sir want to change everyone life so he use new terms like sound of silence n all...but all is pointing to the same brahaman

[@prashantthakuri6074]

Yes!

[@yashpratap5048]

Swamijii is talking about Sandeep sirr❤😍❤.The most important question that was in my head nd it's been always troubling me...but for the first time it got answered nd also swamijii has mentioned sandeep sirr at the same time in the same video❤🙏🤗

[@ankitanand143]

Remove his name please

[@RV.ranvijay]

@@ankitanand143 y brother ...what happened

[@summerbreeze5115]

Wow Yash you're enlightened Using earbuds

[@-._._._.-]

I can hear all the time 🙏 but it become strong during the meditation

[@thotpad]

Same.

[@radhamohan5131]

I used to hear this..true pls dont judge without knowing this properly..i pray to the divinity in you❤❤

[@rajendrasharma8052]

I am listening anahat sound for 3 years

[@bhanupratap8272]

I can hear. I m not jocking. Really I can listen.

[@sujatabanerjee7049]

Yog upanisads clearly mention 10types of Naad. Yog Sadhaks hear them during different stages of kundalini awakening. In the 4th chakra(Anahata),it starts.Then as the sadhak evolves, the nature of Naad also evolves. Finally in Agna chakra,Shabd Brahm Atikraman hota(Gita) with the pranab(OM) naad. Which happens to yogis only . Thats why MASarada said- After Anahat(OM)Naad,kundalini is awakened fully🙏

[@theperfectcelibate8669]

Is pranab naad different from anahata?

[@munmunbanerjee7414]

Pronam Maharaj

[@saurabhtiwari5829]

This team up is better than avengers

[@digambararsul437]

Sandip maheswari 😍

[@achieverperson7112]

Yes. sound of your soul. You are that.

[@shivamumbai1]

🙏🌹Jai Shri Ramakrishna🌹🙏Flower's flavour gives the idea of the flower. Anahat naad works the same, gives the idea of supreme bhraman.

[@rajarshidas7866]

Maharaj take care....

[@chitranjankumarkushwaha4259]

Sandeep Maheshwari sprituality channel he discussed about sound of silence n detail. Swami sarvrpriananda is telling about our hero Sandeep Maheshwari ji

[@HemPat56]

Swamiji, Have been aware of the Anahata Sound for over a year. Will the Anahata Sound ever stop? Thank you. 🙏

[@yuewenb]

Wonderful 4 year old talk! I am hesitant to respond as I only occasionally have access to a Swami or such. I also hear Anahata or the unstruck background noise most, but not all the time. If I am understanding correctly, it is the OM or AUM. I was told to try to listen to where that sound comes from. I was told that Brahmans 1st part of creation was space which created an expanding AUM vibration, but more complicated than that. I have not found the source yet, but have realized that I am not this temporary physical body, nor a thought (when the thought stops, my AWARENESS does not stop), nor am I the chatty egoic mind or memory. I am the AWARENESS of all of those. I am existence, awareness and bliss. But again, I am not in that state all of the time. Have you ever observed something for the 1st time? So nothing to judge it by or compare it with. Just pure observation and wonder. One is picking up a lot of information. The 2nd time one see's it, the memory pop's up generally and says I recognize that, and since the memory is of the past reacting to the now, and can project into the future. One is observing much less so seeing directly much less because attention is going into the memory and lower mind. Memory and lower mind has it's needed purposes and uses, but for many it runs the show most of the time. Until one's unconscious becomes conscious, it will be directing your life and karma. Do you know why many who meditate observe their breathing or thoughts? One's breathing is in the now and energizes OBSERVATION rather than thought and memory. It also tends to slow one's breathing down as does slow deep breathing which has the effect of slowing and calming the mind and thoughts. One's breathing also connects our true eternal self to this temporary physical body. If I am using wrong verbiage or incorrect, I am not from Swamiji's lineage nor advanced, but recognize his wisdom and insight. His insight is like a clear pond which is calm, peaceful and can see from top to bottom beyond duality, and see's where the wave starts and their effects. My Spiritual teacher said to me - "To realize who you truly are is the exact reverse process of creation."

[@Krishnakantdahiya]

If you learn more about this topic you visit Sandeep maheswari sound of silence. He openly talk about this

[@vishuddheya4085]

I do hear it swami... But i am a knaive to spritual life

[@creativegurutva8272]

In Tinnitus the sounds are different & different types as examples are buzzing, hissing, roaring etc. But Anahata sound is always same not similar in all age groups ,in male and females,in all state of body &mind.

[@ParvinderSingh-qh3yr]

Tinnutus sounds are disturbing and seems like not persistent forever, but this Anhad Naad sound is not painful.

[@sudippaul8715]

Many people heres this... Even I.

[@JyoSco007]

Very cute 😁👍🙏😊

[@VittoShulman]

That sound is a type of Nimitta which appears when one reaches a certain level of concentration. Most pundits know about light nimittas which many Buddhist practice. But nimittas can be at any sence doors. Many people experience body-sensation nimittas but don't know about it. There are people who have taste and smell nimittas. And yes - there is a sound nimitta.

[@sravanipvn]

Only VIHE is the place where I can get knowledge

[@vivekdixit8336]

I too hear this sound but I am not sure how it is helping me in my meditation journey. Can anyone help me?

[@mkh2799]

🙏

[@rinkuk4834]

Nada bindu Upnishads points out towards this sound of silence also sant kabir, guru nanak , sant ravidas also pointed out towards this sound of silence

[@canaancrowell2166]

Goodmorning my friends... I’m come here because I find myself rather conflicted... I practice Vedanta and I meditate upon Brahman and divine mother but only a few times a week, the days I do I feel auspicious throughout my day and in full awareness of the conscious mind and body, I know that Brahman alone is real and all else is illusory but yet, some days I feel as if I don’t want to meditate but want to still feel that awareness. If I don’t dive into the ocean of Bhakti completely will I still be in contact with that awareness, how do I live a worldly life and still practice the divine practices for contact with Brahman or divine mother...

[@jacobfraser1238]

Read about and glorify Krishna on a daily basis ✌️

[@rathodnarendra5255]

Anahat sound which is by itself no one's producing it and it is an experience in consciousness because you're conscious of it.

[@user-hy8om1yz3x]

PRANAM SWAMIJI...🙏🙏🙏 APNI VHALO ACHEN TO? SABDHANE THAKBEN CORONA JATE NA HOI...

[@bhaskarjyaachatterjee]

Who says Hi to a Swami?

[@QueeenSativa]

The light hiss? One day I stabbed my finger on a thorn, maybe it touched a nerve, it was just like that but 20x louder, I figure this is the plant’s talk too. First noticed it I thought it was the sun changing houses in the day, woke me from sleep.

[@pachitopacho158]

Please explain it further.... Please

[@dharmachakra369]

I once heard the sound when i am just thinking about only god and taking only rice with water and a bit salt and lemon. For 1week. I heard that"Aaaaaaaaaaaaaa" with a vibrating voice where body got continues vibration along with that sound. It doesnt stopped..... And at that particular time I diverted my eyes between the eyebrows and i saw a ring of fire gradually disappeared. I didnt find explanation for this experience yet. Any enlightened persons may help me for this. 🙏

[@ravenravella1000]

Is that what tinnitus is, or are that and anahata different. I know that something rises up dynamically, in silence if i focus on it.

[@truePac47]

Anahat naad is different see Sandeep maheshwari vides on questions related to sound of silence you'll get it that tinnitus is different and anahad is different

[@keshavarora6814]

In tinnitus the sound that comes will be just annoying ...but sound of silence is different ...it will have a cleansing and blissful effect on the mind and will just absorb the mind easily ( by absorbing I mean that you will be easily be able to sit for many minutes listening it even if you have no experience in sitting for long time )

[@amitdahal1698]

🎶 ☝️ 🤚🏽 👏 🙏🏽 💗

[@YubrajChaudhary-cu3tj]

Swami g talk about Sandeep maheswari young motivational speaker

[@biswanathchakraborty877]

Is nirbikalpa samadhi essessential for brahmajnan?

[@pritambrahmachary5860]

I think swamiji is talking about Sandeep Maheshwari..

[@RV.ranvijay]

Yes he is 😉

[@kd51297]

Those who experience the sound of silence are real because that is not a particular experience, just like those who taste the water know that is water anything else is just only word

[@didarsingh6262]

To hear the Enhad Sound there is no need to have ears. You can hear the Sound after closing your earsI I do so.

[@jasmeetsingh3156]

Watch gurmat meditation channel on you tube

[@satyajitkanjilal3674]

The Anahata Naad is OM emanating from the solar plexus! It dissolves in the Sahasrara ! Then one experiences Samadhi! This is just a process! It happens only with Sri Ramakrishna’s approval! Then the breath also stills and then one experiences the Madhya dasa! Without this the mind will never stills! One by one according to karma the Unfoldment is given to the discipline! 🙏

[@bhavnaarora3169]

Right Me too experience this Childish character Madhya dasa Anahad naad Stillness in breathing while focusing Karma unfolding experience But i know this is a part of process I m Brahaman I don't have a desire to live on experiences

[@rognex]

Why does the body vibrates at high frequency when someone focuses on this anhata naad?

[@truePac47]

Swamiji as per my experience Anahad naad is Timeless changeless non dual and their can't be two non dual things, it's only one. So as per the experience if anahad naad, that is the only thing which is non dual. And the witness which many people keep on saying, that it is brahman how can it be brahmam because the witness is done by Brain's Alertness/Dhyan.

[@gauravjadhav9692]

आरे येतो संदीप महेश्वरी बारे में बात हो रही है!..😂😂😘😘

[@radhe5609]

Swami gi We need all lecture in bangla . আমার প্রনাম নেবেন । এই জগৎ সংসারের জন্য আমার নিজের জন্য এবং বাঙালির আবেগকে মাথায় রেখে অনুগ্রহ করে যদি সম্ভব হয় আপনার যত ইংরেজি ভাষায় ভিডিও সেগুলোকে বাংলায় অনুবাদ করলে উপকৃত হব।

[@ankitanand143]

Nice

[@user-er4ou8zs3e]

In samadhi it's more clear

[@bijoyendughatak]

The same person and apnar techings gulo eki jaigai pouche dai ultimately kintu jene o jana jachche nah..amr focus needs more focus..

[@abhijeetmorey1925]

Ek onkar satnam...anahat is the ultimate truth, without anahat nad spiritual practice is waste of time

[@bhaveshsuthar9623]

chancheep maheshwari bhai sab

[@varun8762]

Everyone can hear this sound This is you

[@Krishnakantdahiya]

Yes. How lucky we are bro I can't imagine. Yes only proof braman exist. 😊😊

[@Krishnakantdahiya]

Sound of silence

[@ankitSharma-uo6zf]

Swamiji is talking about sandeep maheshwari

[@rognex]

2:31 if it's a very advanced spiritual experience how is a kid able to listen to this without doing any prior meditation practices?

[@sarveshdhasal2936]

No, it's not. infact this sound is the REAL you, ..once you become still ..u here it.. without any filters.. and guess what. ,children are the most Innocent and pure ones. Even I've heard it in few 1-2 hours..and now I hear it always

[@gurivireddigarisivareddy1376]

In medical terminology , it is called tinnitus. Doctors attribute certain reason . I feel that the sound has some resemblance to old tube light. So I think that the sound may be due to malfunctioning of electronic circuit in the brain. As Swamiji said that it may not be proof of Advaita Awreness.

[@michaelgusovsky]

do not confuse these 2 things, they are completely different. tinnitus is a medical condition, related to ear damage or hearing loss. anahata nada is attunement to universal consciousness, it is a great blessing - it is not an indication of enlightenment, but it is a signpost along the way.

[@arjunchakrabarti297]

That man is Sandeep Maheswari

[@Bijay406]

He is Sandeep Maheshwari 100%

[@VivekVerma-zh2wk]

Bro, have u even heard that sound that ur commenting it?

[@vanamatrika..]

Swami santananda knew, worldly men never earn enough to fulfil his needs... Till get spiritual realisation... Whether he is a pheasant or a king.. Doesn't matter... 😁😁😁

[@mitrachandrika]

Everybody is saying it must be Sandeep Maheshwari. I, however, feel it is Dr. Deepak Chopra.

[@Krishnakantdahiya]

Only Sandeep maheswari

[@manroopsingh]

You can’t hear it with ears

[@vivx-p2n]

Unmanifested is Nirgun...manifested is sargun.. So where brahman, vishnu and siva fits in here???

[@rohitbarman7642]

No Aacharya is harmed😂

[@freddystaelens]

Spiritual tinnitus.

[@VitaminM1]

I hope they are not taking about tinnitus

[@kd51297]

Saint kabir _Sunta nhi dhun ki khabr anhad ka Baja bajta you have Reading from the scriptures and holy books you constantly counsel others ; but if you have not searched for the mansion of Trikuti within of what use is exhausting yourself with idle chatter ? The qazi reads books and advises others , but if he knows not the secret of the divine state of what use is his being hailed a qazi ?

[@Krishnakantdahiya]

Sound of silence Sufism me bhi h . Rumi only talk about sound of silence

[@yuganshmehta83]

Yes i have heard anahat naad in my friend while he was asleep... It was saying Allah🌠

[@Legend_444-k5q]

Low IQ chuslim 🤣🤣🤣

[@Krishnakantdahiya]

Sufism me sound of silence ka mention h you should read rumi

[@Krishnakantdahiya]

Rumi only and only talk about sound of silence

[@rognex]

But Sandeep maheswari says anhata naad (sound of silence) is Atman/ Brahman, & it is the ultimate reality). Why is there so much confusion in the world? 😢

[@harshverma3281]

I only hear this anahat sound mainly in silence or by using ear plugs..it is always there but it is difficult for me to hear it without external world silence.....I think this sound points to brahamn /God /Krishna Whatever u name that 😉😉😉

[@mitrachandrika]

I wish Maharaj had answered the question instead of digressing to the stories of another monk.

[@NileshPatel-ci6gd]

he is talking about Sandeep Maheshwari

[@ayondholey884]

Oh I know u r talking about Sandeep Maheshwari

[@RomanThapa]

Sandeep maheshwari

[@vishuddheya4085]

Sandeep Maheshwari

[@anchalbansal7486]

sandeep maheshwari said that who doesn't know anahata naad doesn't know brahman. But swi is saying that one may know brahman without anahata naada.🤔🤔🥴🥴

[@himanshubanait9166]

Both of them are right. Because there are two things, Adhyatmik Bodh and Adhyatmik Gyan. One may have Bodh (i.e. experience) but have no knowledge about it and vice-versa. This is what swamiji is trying to say here. 🙂

[@santosh1021]

@@himanshubanait9166 i was going to give the exact same reply ☺️

[@himanshubanait9166]

@@santosh1021 ✌🏻

[@golubvolodemerovich7512]

"Shongshar chole jay toh?" to the chief justice with security guards and whatnot! 🤣🤣

[@sudippaul8715]

But swami ji... HE says that Anahata Sound is same as Brahman.

[@harshverma3281]

He may not be right everytime.....he even say to do bhakti of anahat sound...he may do it nothing is wrong in that also...but it don't see appealing to me

[@RV.ranvijay]

Bro... sond of scilence is one of the experience which we get on the path of meditation ...and may be that sond experience is most similar to brhaman experience ( God realisation).....that's y sandeep sir may have said that

[@pritisharma3314]

Look what Swami ji said " it's pointing towards the Brahman " Samudra ki lehron ki dhwani ka peechha karte karte ek din jab samudra ke darshan hote hain tab samajh aa jata hai ..........theek waise hi meditate on it one day we can reach from where it originates .

[@truePac47]

No he is right anahad naad is the brahman you should research I have researched and experienced it is brahman their are ten types of anahad bnaad Sandeep is talking about the ultimate naad that is brahman and swamiji is talking about the remaining so Sandeep is right

[@2minutesbook998]

Sandeep meheshwari 😁

[@athulcmnglm2902]

Schizophrenia.... is also like that know..?

[@harshverma3281]

It is disturbing sound....anahat dhwani or sound of silence is very peaceful

[@subarna89]

Sound hallucinations is very common ! My granny had ! Doc gave meds and she was cured