How to hear Anhad, the soundless sound? || Acharya Prashant, on Nitnem Sahib (2019)

Acharya Prashant

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00:00Acharya ji pranam. Pranam. And the excerpt is from Anand sahib, from the Nithyanand sahib.

00:17Binvant Nanak gur charan lage, vajay anhad tu raye. Says Guru Nanak. By taking the shelter

00:34of the Guru, surrendering to him and reciting his name, and him here refers to the God absolute,

00:45by taking shelter of the Guru, surrendering to him and reciting his name, godly celestial music,

00:56anhad is being referred to, a sound without cause is heard. Acharya ji please tell me what is the

01:06meaning of this anhad celestial sound? How can we hear it? With gratitude and for your guidance.

01:13Anuradha, when you will be able to touch nothing, then you will be able to hear the anhad as well.

01:23When you will be able to think nothing, then you will hear anhad as well. When you will,

01:35be able to see the shapeless one, then you will hear anhad as well. When you will be able to be

01:47nothing, then you will hear anhad as well. Hearing the anhad is exactly the same as touching nothing,

02:00seeing a shapeless formless one, thinking nothing and being nothing. The sense of hearing has been

02:23used to exemplify a far bigger principle. Anhad therefore has nothing to do with sound. I repeat,

02:39anhad is the same as watching a formless object. Someone says I heard the anhad and someone says

02:57I watched the non-existent one. They both are saying the same thing. Therefore, it is not

03:04about eyes or ears. It is about something else. Hearing the anhad and watching the shapeless one

03:16are both the same as touching nothing or touching the one who does not exist. If you can touch

03:29nothing, then you can also hear anhad. You want me to say more? The day you will be able to be

03:41nowhere will be the day you will hear anhad as well. Hearing the anhad is exactly the same as

03:48being nowhere. We are always somewhere. Just as we always see something, similarly we are always

04:01somewhere. So, the day you will be able to be nowhere will be the day you will hear anhad as

04:09well. They both are same, exactly the same. Being nowhere and hearing the anhad. Similarly, when you

04:16will be able to not know anything will be the day when you will hear the anhad. Similarly, the day

04:35when you will be a nobody will be the day when the anhad would be loudly in your being. But you are

04:44nobody. In whose being is the anhad beating? Who knows? Anhad has been very erroneously interpreted

05:09by many. The saints, the gurus have so delightfully, so fondly talked of anhad. But unfortunately the

05:24ignorant ones keep talking of anhad as something related to some peculiar sound, as something that

05:32has a connection with the ears. Anhad is one's purest state of being. It has nothing to do with

05:42any oral sensations. Anhad is the formless form. Anhad is a soundless sound. Anhad is the touchless

05:54touch. Anhad is the thoughtless thought. Anhad is the personless person. Anhad is the name of the

06:14Indian teacher who taught koans to the Japanese. Anhad is the great-grandfather of all koans.

06:25The koans go only so much ahead. They say you should be able to hear the sound of one hand

06:55clapping. The saints were much more prolific. They said anhad and then they went to the other

07:18extreme as well. They said why must you have one hand clapping? You must also be able to hear the

07:26sound of no hand clapping. Why be so profligate as to expend even one hand? It is a wastage. Not

07:43even one hand is needed. Sound without hands. Anhad. In Japan they require at least one hand.

07:54Here absolutely nothing. Shunne shikhar pe anhad baje. Or as it is said one hand is beating up

08:09the anhad dhol. No. Shunne shikhar. Nothing at all and yet there is anhad. The koans have something

08:19still to learn. Wasting one hand unnecessarily. And you know what? If you are still tied to one

08:31hand the other one can't be far behind. Basic law of duality. You cannot have one side of the coin

08:38and get rid of the other one. You have to get rid of both. So anhad means no hand. And then

08:48there are those in bhakti. They say how about a million hands? That too is fine. Either it should

08:55be no hands or it should be a million hands. A celestial choir. A total chorus. All the hands of

09:18existence are coming together to produce a giant clap. How about that? That too is anhad.

09:24Anhad is a very sacred word. It has been consecrated by the touch of the gurus,

09:53the saints. Let's please not abuse this word. We have people today, so-called teachers,

09:59who record the sounds of insects. Crickets in particular. Jhingur, you know. And then

10:15gullible audiences are made to hear those sounds and they say this is anhad. Or some vibrations

10:27that border on the ultrasonic range. That too has been tried. If they are on the border of

10:37the ultrasonic range then you will only half hear them. You would feel as if there is something but

10:45you would not be able to properly hear. And then the grand guru walks in and says this is anhad.

10:52But the thing is that the doggy hears everything. His capacity to hear the entire spectrum of oral

11:14frequencies is much larger. What kind of anhad is this? That is anhad only for someone who is

11:24a little impaired in the oral sense. I repeat therefore, Anradha, anhad has nothing to do

11:40with any sound or ears. It is the purest state of your being, free of concepts, attachments,

11:51identities. And there is a great delight in that state. That delight is denoted by the musicality

12:07associated with anhad. So you sometimes say anhad baja, sometimes you say anhad rag,

12:17sometimes you even say the anhad dhol. Because it is delightful, it is musical. Musical to whom?

12:30To nobody. So forget about sights and sounds. Focus on life. See how life is vexed with

12:55attachments, identities, all kinds of nonsense. When that nonsense is cleared away from life,

13:07then whatever you hear is heard against the backdrop of anhad. Clean up. That's what anhad is.

13:37And no, anhad is not some cosmic vibration coming from some star 74 light years away.

13:50That too has been reported in spiritual circles. Please refrain. There are people who have

14:04conjectured that all the time everything in the universe is vibrating. So the entire

14:13brahmand is sending these vibrations towards the one holy planet called earth. And because

14:23the liberated ones are just like Brahm, so they can hear everything in brahmand. So they are able

14:32to catch all these cosmic rays and they hear everything that is happening in all the galaxies

14:40and everywhere, even within the black holes. And they say that is anhad. But Guruji, how do you

14:56know that those sounds exist? Because I hear them. Guruji, why don't we hear those sounds?

15:05Because beta, only I hear them. I am the guru. I am the only proof of whatever I say. So do not

15:16demand a proof. Just believe in what I say. Guruji, who told all this to you? Some flying

15:27snakes came to me and whispered in my ears. Guruji, how do we know? Because I am saying that.

15:37I am the guru. Guruji, how will we know all those things? Surrender. Guruji, what does that mean?

15:54Sir, andar. All else is alright. Sir is not alright. Spirituality, Anuradha, is not foolishness.

16:10Please. Spirituality is beyond the intellect. Spirituality is not science, the intellect. In

16:23fact, you require a deep and sharp intellect to be spiritual in the first place. Only after you

16:29have utilized what intellect could give you, do you transcend the intellect. Even to transcend

16:39the intellect, first of all, you have to utilize the intellect. So do not fall to ideas, beliefs

16:50or propaganda that makes no sense. That is andar. Anar means let the two not hurt each other. Let

17:15the two not hit each other. But as long as there are two, they would hurt and hit each other. Anhad

17:22is to reside in Advait. Anhad is to be cautious of the traps of duality. Yes.

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