Modern experiments are now validating the ability of sound to manifest, shape and alter material objects.
The Vedic Tradition
The Vedic civilization of what is now the sub-continent of Bharat responds to all these requirements. Its origins defy identification, since available historical tools such as carbon-dating do not extend further back than 30,000 years. Beyond the limits of these methods, evidence shows that a great civilization throve around the Saraswati River, near the border of present-day Bharat and China. "Downloaded" information places its peak at some 90,000 years ago.
Vedic civilization was based on the complete understanding of energy, its production and uses, and on the holographic nature of the cosmos.
Vedic civilization was based on the complete understanding of energy, its production and uses, and on the holographic nature of the cosmos. Its traditions were oral, but were also recorded in a series of texts called the Vedas, from the word meaning "knowledge" or "knowing". The written version stands untarnished today and is still studied and practiced by millions of people under the umbrella of "Hinduism." Because of
its experiential nature, founded on the exploration of one's personal spirituality, Hinduism is receptive, embracing all mystical phenomena as valid.
Despite written accessibility, much Vedic instruction is still given orally because of the importance of imprinting the sounds physically into students. Sound formulas, called mantras, sutras and slokas, are transmitted from master to apprentice in an intensely committed training. This initiation of power permanently raises the vibrational level of the student. The goal of such apprenticeship is not only mastery of the chants and texts, but enlightenment: the capacity to consistently download spontaneous information, to alter and regulate the flow of energy in all objects and living beings, and the ability to transmit that energy to others for the benefit of humanity.
The Vedic civilization gave the world Vedic mathematics ( a calculation system not based on linear solutions but on holistic comprehension), medicine, astronomy, engineering, navigation and flight powered by sound, technique which the world has temporarily lost. It also developed a unique science of well-being that simultaneously nourished the body, mind and inner meditative zone. This science was called yoga, which means to unite, linking together all our dimensions to maximize our potential at every level. Through physical postures, regulated breathing and intentional contemplation, the full flowering of human possibility is called into bloom.
Yoga survives today in multiple forms, as the descendants of Vedic culture have added their insights and offshoots. It is the connecting thread between all sects of Hinduism, diverse as they have become. Such is the power of this ancient science that it is taught and practiced all over the world by people otherwise unconnected with Bharat.
The Vedic lifestyle proposed that each individual live to the pinnacle of his potential. Education and choice of vocation were guided by the community guru, who had mastery of Vedic wisdom and was able to perceive the flow of energy in all things and direct its movement. Combining this perception with the discriminating use of sound formulas, the guru restored health in the sick, corrected emotional imbalances, mediated disagreements, and above all, maximized the energy pathways within each person, removing blocks that interfered with blissful living.