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VOICE FIGURES
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From the Book: MUSIC AS YOGA By Swami Sivananda
The first manifestation of God is Ether or Sound. Sound is the Guna or Quality of Ether. Sounds are vibrations. They give rise to definite forms. Each sound produces a form in the invisible world and combinations of sound create complicated shapes.
The textbooks of science describe certain experiments which show that notes produced by certain instruments trace out on a bed of sand definite geometrical figures. It is thus demonstrated that rhythmical vibrations give rise to regular geometrical figures.
The Hindu books on music tell us that various musical tunes Ragas and Raginis have each particular shape which the books graphically describe. For instance the Megha Ragha is said to be a majestic figure seated on an elephant. The Basanta Raga is described as a beautiful youth decked with flowers. All this means that the particular Raga or Ragini, when accurately sung, produces aerial etheric vibrations which create certain characteristic shapes.
This view has recently received corroborations from the experiments carried on by Mrs. Watts Hughes, the gifted author of "Voice Figures". She recently delivered an illustrated lecture before a select audience in Lord Leighton's studio to demonstrate the beautiful scientific discoveries on which she has alighted as the result of many years of patient labour.
Mrs. Hughes sings into a simple instrument called an "Eidophone" which consists of a tube, a receiver and a flexible membrane, and she finds that each note assumes definite and constant shape, as revealed through a sensitive and mobile medium. At the outset of her lecture, she placed tiny seeds upon the flexible membrane and the air vibrations set up by the notes, she sounded, danced them into definite geometric patterns. Afterwards she used dusts of various kinds, lycopodium dust being found particularly suitable. A reporter describing the shapes of the notes, speaks of them as remarkable revelations of geometry, perspective and shading. "Stars, spirals, snakes, wonders in wheels and imagination rioting in a wealth of captivating methodical designs" such were what were shown first.
Once when Mrs. Hughes was singing a note, a daisy appeared and disappeared, and "I tried" she said, "to sing it back for weeks before, at last I succeeded." Now she knows the precise inflections of the particular note, that is a daisy, and it is made constant and definite by a strange method of coaxing and alteration of crescendo and diminuendo. After the audience had gazed enrapped, a series of daisies, some with succeeding rows of petals and some with petals delicately viewed, they were shown other notes, and these were pandies of great beauty. "How wonderful, how lovely" were the audible exclamations, that arose in the late Lord Leighton's studio, and exquisite form succeeded exquisite forms on the screen. The flowers were followed by sea- monsters, serpentine form of swelling rotundity, full of light and shade and detail, feeding in miles of perspective. After these notes came others and there were trees, trees with fruits falling, trees with a foreground of rocks, trees with sea behind, "Why" exclaimed people in the audience, they are just like Japanese landscapes.
Thus the repeated singing of the Name of the Lord gradually builds up the forms of the Devatas or the special manifestations of the deity, whom you seek to worship and this serves as a focus to concentrate the benign influence of the Being, which radiating from the centre, penetrates the worshipper of the singer or Sangeeta-Premi.
When one enters the state of meditation, the inner Vritti-flow is greatly intensified. The deeper one goes into meditation the more marked is effect. The concentration of the mind upwards sends a rush of this force through the top of the head and the response comes in a fine rain of soft magnetism. This feeling arising from the downward power sends a wonderful glow through the body, and one feels as though bathed in a soft kind of electricity.
The above experiments demonstrate the following facts:
1. Sounds produce shape.
2. Particular notes give rise to particular forms.
3. If you want to reproduce a particular form, you must recite a particular note in a particular pitch.
4. That, for that purpose no other note and no other pitch, chanting even the identical note will avail.
MUSIC AS YOGA
By Swami Sivananda
Published by: The Divine Life Society
P. O. Shivanandanagar,Uttaranchal, Himalayas.
The first manifestation of God is Ether or Sound. Sound is the Guna or Quality of Ether. Sounds are vibrations. They give rise to definite forms. Each sound produces a form in the invisible world and combinations of sound create complicated shapes.
The textbooks of science describe certain experiments which show that notes produced by certain instruments trace out on a bed of sand definite geometrical figures. It is thus demonstrated that rhythmical vibrations give rise to regular geometrical figures.
The Hindu books on music tell us that various musical tunes Ragas and Raginis have each particular shape which the books graphically describe. For instance the Megha Ragha is said to be a majestic figure seated on an elephant. The Basanta Raga is described as a beautiful youth decked with flowers. All this means that the particular Raga or Ragini, when accurately sung, produces aerial etheric vibrations which create certain characteristic shapes.
This view has recently received corroborations from the experiments carried on by Mrs. Watts Hughes, the gifted author of "Voice Figures". She recently delivered an illustrated lecture before a select audience in Lord Leighton's studio to demonstrate the beautiful scientific discoveries on which she has alighted as the result of many years of patient labour.
Mrs. Hughes sings into a simple instrument called an "Eidophone" which consists of a tube, a receiver and a flexible membrane, and she finds that each note assumes definite and constant shape, as revealed through a sensitive and mobile medium. At the outset of her lecture, she placed tiny seeds upon the flexible membrane and the air vibrations set up by the notes, she sounded, danced them into definite geometric patterns. Afterwards she used dusts of various kinds, lycopodium dust being found particularly suitable. A reporter describing the shapes of the notes, speaks of them as remarkable revelations of geometry, perspective and shading. "Stars, spirals, snakes, wonders in wheels and imagination rioting in a wealth of captivating methodical designs" such were what were shown first.
Once when Mrs. Hughes was singing a note, a daisy appeared and disappeared, and "I tried" she said, "to sing it back for weeks before, at last I succeeded." Now she knows the precise inflections of the particular note, that is a daisy, and it is made constant and definite by a strange method of coaxing and alteration of crescendo and diminuendo. After the audience had gazed enrapped, a series of daisies, some with succeeding rows of petals and some with petals delicately viewed, they were shown other notes, and these were pandies of great beauty. "How wonderful, how lovely" were the audible exclamations, that arose in the late Lord Leighton's studio, and exquisite form succeeded exquisite forms on the screen. The flowers were followed by sea- monsters, serpentine form of swelling rotundity, full of light and shade and detail, feeding in miles of perspective. After these notes came others and there were trees, trees with fruits falling, trees with a foreground of rocks, trees with sea behind, "Why" exclaimed people in the audience, they are just like Japanese landscapes.
Thus the repeated singing of the Name of the Lord gradually builds up the forms of the Devatas or the special manifestations of the deity, whom you seek to worship and this serves as a focus to concentrate the benign influence of the Being, which radiating from the centre, penetrates the worshipper of the singer or Sangeeta-Premi.
When one enters the state of meditation, the inner Vritti-flow is greatly intensified. The deeper one goes into meditation the more marked is effect. The concentration of the mind upwards sends a rush of this force through the top of the head and the response comes in a fine rain of soft magnetism. This feeling arising from the downward power sends a wonderful glow through the body, and one feels as though bathed in a soft kind of electricity.
The above experiments demonstrate the following facts:
1. Sounds produce shape.
2. Particular notes give rise to particular forms.
3. If you want to reproduce a particular form, you must recite a particular note in a particular pitch.
4. That, for that purpose no other note and no other pitch, chanting even the identical note will avail.
MUSIC AS YOGA
By Swami Sivananda
Published by: The Divine Life Society
P. O. Shivanandanagar,Uttaranchal, Himalayas.
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Music Colors and Scents
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From the book: 'Music as yoga' by Swami Sivananda.
The life-force comes down to us through the ether in forms of vibrations. We speak of the great octave of cosmic vibrations,because the entire vibrations are in correspondence or sympathy like the tunes of the octave in music. If for instance, the low 'SI' or 'DO' is struck the higher 'SI' or 'DO's will vibrate or sound simultaneously in sympathy. On the lower end of the octave vibration stand sounds which are the lowest of them. The human ear can perceive from 16 to roughly 30,000 vibrations per second. Some animals like dogs can hear even higher tunes. Much higher in the scale of vibrations stand colours. Each of the seven colours corresponds to one of the seven tunes. Still higher in the scale of vibrations stand perfumes or scents, the other forms of vibrations being electricity, heat, X-rays, ultraviolet rays, cosmic rays.
All these vibrations penetrate our ustral body and work on it creating either harmonious or disturbing feelings. Everybody knows that certain surroundings and certain tunes produce harmony and joy in us whilst others irritate and depress.
The old Egyptians kew the art of constituting harmony in s diseased person in leading him in a stretcher into a temple where a clairvoyant priestess simply could see the astral body and the health aura of the patient and submitted him to creating colours and tunes whichwere beneficial for breaking down the wrong vibrations whichwere the source of the disease.
It is now a days a common experience that in certain moods we are drawn to a certain music which gives us peace, also that we like to wear certain clothes or furnish our rooms or paint our walls with certain colours which have a beneficial influence on the happiness and health of the person. Whereas the reasons and rules of these influences are mostly unknown to the average man, the occult can know the influences of these different vibrations. They therefore can advise which of these manifestations of vibrations should be applied or used in each case.
Colour healing is used already in many cases, even in hospital, and treatment by music has given good reasults in some lunatic asylums. In New York, in one of the busiest streets an experiment was made in a hall of which the walls were painted with nerve soothing colours and that the by-passers could sit in that hall for a certain time in silence and feel the calming influence of that surrounding in their nervous system.
Experiments in America mainly have shown that there exist correspondences between tunes,colours and perfumes, so that the vibration of one tune would set into vibration a colour and a perfume in the higher scale of vibrations.
Hereafter I am giving the table of correspondences as established by Roland Hunt in his research in America.
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COLOUR - NERVOUS REACTION - MUSICAL NOTE - PERFUME
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Red - Stimulates, but quickly fatgues. - C - Camphor,Geranium,Sandalwood.
Orange - Stimulaes with tonic effect, - D - Vanilla, Clematis,Heliotrope,Almond.
cheerful and forceful.
Yellow - Mental activity and clear thinking - E - Jasmine,Cassia,Citron,Iris.
Green - Balance,relaxation & harmony - F - Musk,Benzoin,Narcissus.
Blue - Healing and soothing - G - Syringa,Lilac.Frangipani,Sweet Pea
Indigo - Inspiration & self control. A - New Mown Hay,Lavender,Balsam.
Violet - Peace & calm,Higher plane - B - Carnation,Menthol,Peppermint,
healing Cinnamon.
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From this we can see what great possibilities are open in future by using all the three constituents, notes, colours and perfumes for producing a deep effect in a case of disease.
It is to be hoped that when more study has been given to the subject, there may be established colour centres in every large town and doctors will rely mainly on colour, sound and perfume therapy instead of drugs for treatment of disease, and, what is far more important, for the maintanance of health. When we remember that disease is really a vibratory disorder, surely we are justified in thinking that medicine will develop along these lines or as Marconi remarked, "We are entering what may be called the field of vibrations, a field in which we may find more wonders than mind can conceive".
MUSIC AS YOGA - Swami Sivananda.
published by: The Divine life society
P.O. Shivanananagar,Himalayas, India.
The life-force comes down to us through the ether in forms of vibrations. We speak of the great octave of cosmic vibrations,because the entire vibrations are in correspondence or sympathy like the tunes of the octave in music. If for instance, the low 'SI' or 'DO' is struck the higher 'SI' or 'DO's will vibrate or sound simultaneously in sympathy. On the lower end of the octave vibration stand sounds which are the lowest of them. The human ear can perceive from 16 to roughly 30,000 vibrations per second. Some animals like dogs can hear even higher tunes. Much higher in the scale of vibrations stand colours. Each of the seven colours corresponds to one of the seven tunes. Still higher in the scale of vibrations stand perfumes or scents, the other forms of vibrations being electricity, heat, X-rays, ultraviolet rays, cosmic rays.
All these vibrations penetrate our ustral body and work on it creating either harmonious or disturbing feelings. Everybody knows that certain surroundings and certain tunes produce harmony and joy in us whilst others irritate and depress.
The old Egyptians kew the art of constituting harmony in s diseased person in leading him in a stretcher into a temple where a clairvoyant priestess simply could see the astral body and the health aura of the patient and submitted him to creating colours and tunes whichwere beneficial for breaking down the wrong vibrations whichwere the source of the disease.
It is now a days a common experience that in certain moods we are drawn to a certain music which gives us peace, also that we like to wear certain clothes or furnish our rooms or paint our walls with certain colours which have a beneficial influence on the happiness and health of the person. Whereas the reasons and rules of these influences are mostly unknown to the average man, the occult can know the influences of these different vibrations. They therefore can advise which of these manifestations of vibrations should be applied or used in each case.
Colour healing is used already in many cases, even in hospital, and treatment by music has given good reasults in some lunatic asylums. In New York, in one of the busiest streets an experiment was made in a hall of which the walls were painted with nerve soothing colours and that the by-passers could sit in that hall for a certain time in silence and feel the calming influence of that surrounding in their nervous system.
Experiments in America mainly have shown that there exist correspondences between tunes,colours and perfumes, so that the vibration of one tune would set into vibration a colour and a perfume in the higher scale of vibrations.
Hereafter I am giving the table of correspondences as established by Roland Hunt in his research in America.
________________________________________________________________________________________________________
COLOUR - NERVOUS REACTION - MUSICAL NOTE - PERFUME
________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Red - Stimulates, but quickly fatgues. - C - Camphor,Geranium,Sandalwood.
Orange - Stimulaes with tonic effect, - D - Vanilla, Clematis,Heliotrope,Almond.
cheerful and forceful.
Yellow - Mental activity and clear thinking - E - Jasmine,Cassia,Citron,Iris.
Green - Balance,relaxation & harmony - F - Musk,Benzoin,Narcissus.
Blue - Healing and soothing - G - Syringa,Lilac.Frangipani,Sweet Pea
Indigo - Inspiration & self control. A - New Mown Hay,Lavender,Balsam.
Violet - Peace & calm,Higher plane - B - Carnation,Menthol,Peppermint,
healing Cinnamon.
_______________________________________________________________________________________________________
From this we can see what great possibilities are open in future by using all the three constituents, notes, colours and perfumes for producing a deep effect in a case of disease.
It is to be hoped that when more study has been given to the subject, there may be established colour centres in every large town and doctors will rely mainly on colour, sound and perfume therapy instead of drugs for treatment of disease, and, what is far more important, for the maintanance of health. When we remember that disease is really a vibratory disorder, surely we are justified in thinking that medicine will develop along these lines or as Marconi remarked, "We are entering what may be called the field of vibrations, a field in which we may find more wonders than mind can conceive".
MUSIC AS YOGA - Swami Sivananda.
published by: The Divine life society
P.O. Shivanananagar,Himalayas, India.
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oh ! I miss you !!
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Unfortunately... accidently..
i've lost contact with you!
for a long while, realy
away from the love and care of you!
inside the shell of my solitude...
but in the pain of seperation!
thinking of whatever you doing..
long to see your new creations..
to hear your inspiring words....
and now...
feel of back in home, but
not sure how long...
and i can see how much care you given
to my gallery...in my absence..
almost 2,500 messages !! waiting me..
but i'm not sure of replying all
and let me express my love and thanks
to each one of you here...
DA is really a mystic world of Art and sharing
love you dear friends
i've lost contact with you!
for a long while, realy
away from the love and care of you!
inside the shell of my solitude...
but in the pain of seperation!
thinking of whatever you doing..
long to see your new creations..
to hear your inspiring words....
and now...
feel of back in home, but
not sure how long...
and i can see how much care you given
to my gallery...in my absence..
almost 2,500 messages !! waiting me..
but i'm not sure of replying all
and let me express my love and thanks
to each one of you here...
DA is really a mystic world of Art and sharing
love you dear friends
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DD
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thoughts on *lien art
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Hey...I would Love to share some crazy thoughts on 
Art...
The light bluish gray plane with a soft touch of lilac and green -the element of the Painting- Symbolizes the Infinite state of mind, the Bliss.. Liquidized formof Emotions,Thoughts,Feelings....Colors....Sounds....Movements....
Being rich in itself probably no desire to share the experience...
Occasionally there ocures some preasure and the fluid push out a window and the colors flows to make the composition so that the spectator could taste the BLISS, which is hidden behind the Grayish Plane !!
try it!
vlien.deviantart.com/gallery
Art... The light bluish gray plane with a soft touch of lilac and green -the element of the Painting- Symbolizes the Infinite state of mind, the Bliss.. Liquidized formof Emotions,Thoughts,Feelings....Colors....Sounds....Movements....
Being rich in itself probably no desire to share the experience...
Occasionally there ocures some preasure and the fluid push out a window and the colors flows to make the composition so that the spectator could taste the BLISS, which is hidden behind the Grayish Plane !!
try it!
vlien.deviantart.com/gallery
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