Kundalini Yoga Technology

A Quantum Technology of Sound: How It Works

The sound patterns of the Shabd Guru are based on the science of sound. It is quantum because it manipulates the smallest particles of sound and energy into effective combinations and patterns.1

Each primal sound is a unit that is pronounced by a particular part of the mouth. When we form a word to speak it, the tongue moves and touches the palate, the top of the mouth, and the teeth in a well-defined area. The sound of the word directs the pressure of the air and vibrates the vocal chords and specific areas in the skull. The primal sounds use these areas of reflex, attached to meridians, to direct brain patterns.1

The shabd guru symphony*

One way of understanding the role and effects of the Shabd Guru is to imagine your body as a symphony putting on a performance. The rhythm and sound, the musical score, is the Shabd Guru. You are the composer. And each of your body systems works as an instrument, commanded by the Shabd Guru into an amazing harmony of energy, excellence, and healing.

The credits in the program for your body’s production of the Shabd Guru Symphony would look this:

Shabd Guru: Musical Score
You: the Composer
- Create chords of happiness or sadness.
- Build a rising crescendo or lull with gentle melodies.
- Create feelings of joy, enthusiasm, or calmness.
Hypothalamus Gland: the Conductor
- Coordinates all the radically different functions of the body.
- Receives information from both “directions” in the brain.
  - From the “higher” cortex of the brain: ideas and associations.
  - From the body: genes, cells, muscles, and movements.
- Sends information via neurotransmitters, a chemical messenger.
- Information flows in pulses, in multiple directions.
- Regulates communication between the mind and body.
The Breath: the Conductor’s baton
- Drives the rhythm.
- Regulates nervous and glandular system via the biorhythms of the breath.
- Sets the mood of the music.
- Makes the whole flow of the “orchestra” act together.
- Releases waves of neurotransmitters with each beat
Endocrine System: instruments for energy and moods
- Pituitary Gland: the Master gland.
  - Is instructed by signals directly from the hypothalamus.
- Releases hormones into the blood.
  - Modulates moods.
  - Governs metabolism.
Autonomic Nervous System: instruments for action and relaxation
- Most actions, except the breath, are involuntary, operating below the conscious level.
- Sympathetic Nervous System.
  - The gas pedal of our body. Wake up and go!
  - Sends the heart racing, speeds the breath, and raises blood pressure.
- Parasympathetic Nervous System.
  - The brake pedal. Relax, take it easy.
  - Slows the breath and relaxes the digestion, nerves, and circulation.
Immune System: instruments for defense
- Adjusts immune system cells (like killer cells).
- Helps the removal of toxins.
- Fights against viruses.

The Shabd Guru, the vibration of the Infinite cosmos, is music for both the energetic and physical systems of the human body.

energetic vibrations

To use the musical analogy in a new way, the energetic system of the human body can be understood as a wondrous musical instrument. It is constructed with 72 strings. Each string, or sur, acts like a meridian; it is a flow of prana, the energy of life. The inflow of cosmic energy cascades through the crown of the head and collects in seven pools called chakras. The 72 strings are controlled by three central strings or channels: the ida and pingala, the left and right sides, and the sushmuna, the central channel up the middle of the spine.1

The upper chakras vibrate with the release of each independent thought, which occurs at a rate as high as one thousand thoughts in the blink of an eye. These vibrations or patterns of thought “pluck” the strings. Then, the strings vibrate into the 72,000 channels, which creates the shape and function of the physical body, the emotional body, and the mental bodies, just as you stroke a string on an instrument and the vibrating string forms a shape in the air.1

To vibrate perfectly requires a combination of Shakti and Bhakti. Shakti is the power of precision and discipline in the repetition. It is the pure energy that infuses all implementation without human tiredness. Bhakti is the experience of surrender and devotion; it is the devoted dedication to complete everything. Shakti and Bhakti are the form and flow, sun and moon, rhythm and tone in perfect blend.1

A more detailed explanation of the quantum technology of sound is available in the Examples of the Shabd Guru section.

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* Summarized from Yogi Bhajan, Ph.D. The Aquarian Teacher: KRI International Kundalini Yoga Teacher Training Textbook Level One Instructor. Third Edition. Kundalini Research Institute, 2005.