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with the physical ears. When you focus your gaze within ajna chakra and the consciousness in inverted inward your physical ears automatically will close and the inner ears will open. By that power with inner ears you can hear the celestial sounds. The original sound of the creation comes from the abode of God and it will take you to God.
The Nadabindu Upanishad sings the praise of Sound yoga and offers this image:
When a mad (in rut) elephant goes to a banana orchard and destroys and eats the orchard, and the elephant keeper comes and pierces the elephant with a prong, the elephant is brought under control. In the same manner, our mind is like the mad elephant that is wandering in the garden of sense objects and is disciplined by the practice of sound yoga.
This teaches us that when the mind withdraws from the sense objects and goes towards a state that is beyond worldly desires, the mind automatically turns toward God.
Sant Maharishi Mehi says:
Ascending from one sound center to another sound center we reach the OM sound (original sound of the universe). Through this practice we go beyond the cycle of death and birth. When one practices listening to the original sound (OM) then the soul and God become one and unity is established.
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