Ancient scriptures were meant to be HEARD as healing sound, NOT INTERPRETED as meaning.
Energizing the nervous system as pure vibration, the sound of Vedic
Sanskrit, Biblical Hebrew, and Qu'ranic Arabic is an objective power.
But the "meaning" of the words is subjective, always reflecting the
relative conditions and karmas of individual minds. You and I can hear
exactly the same word, yet give it two completely different
interpretations.
However, if we simply listen to
the vibration of the word in its ancient language, our bodies are
healed, our intellects stunned into silent beauty. This is the power of
the mantras, the sound impulses of ancient scripture.
When we lose that original language, and our fickle intellect
translates or interprets the sounds into mental images,
doctrines, beliefs, they can be very dangerous. The so-called laws
and commandments derived from scripture are really superimposed by the
interpreter's mind, and may be used to justify all manner of oppression,
prejudice, and violence.
The sound of the scripture comes
from the text, but the interpretation comes from the reader. The
reader's mind is changeable. But the original text is the subtle,
unwritten, eternal structure of creation in boundless space (akasha).
The scriptures were not composed, but heard in deep meditation by the
ancient seers. Their verses and mantras are the fluctuations of silence
in the quantum vacuum at the source of creation.
If, instead
of arguing about the meaning of scripture, we spent half an hour every
morning and evening simply listening to the sound, bathing in the music
of the un-translatable un-interpretable Veda, Torah, and Qu'ran, wars
would cease, and humanity would blossom.
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