Unstruck

The most beautiful name is not a name 'of,' but an unstruck sound in the bell of the heart. Resonating in eternal silence, this nameless vibration births the universe. Each particle of your body is one of its frequencies. 'Adau bhagavan shabdha rasahih,' says a Vedic verse: 'In the beginning, God manifested as sound.'

Because we are born from this beginningless Word, we can hear it in the intimacy of our center, when the mind stops chattering and the heart listens.

Holy names and mantras have one purpose: to lead our awareness inward, from the mind to the heart, so that we may bathe in this infinitely subtle, original sound-current and be re-created.

Let words of prayer dissolve into the song of silence. May the New Year bring you closer to the music of God.