Ground note

In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God,
and the Word was God. John 1:1

All that exists, big and small, visible and invisible, vibrates with certain frequency. According to many accounts of creation the whole creation originates from sound. This principle corresponds to the astrological principle of the radix (root) horoscope in which place and time of someone’s birth determines ones path of life. Someone who digs into his horoscope can unlock his true potential, thus fulfilling his destiny. Fortunately there are more roads leading to Rome and the same goal can be reached by mantras. The ground note in chanting mantras is on a par with the radix in astrology. Whoever manages to strike this tone or sound of the soul, has gained mastership and lets the same sound be heard in heaven as it is on earth.

This tone or vibration is initiated at birth and actually determines ones life’s course. This idea can also be found in the well known Dutch proverb: ‘For the concert of life no one gets a program’. The big problem, however, is that many people (literally) fall out of tune, thus losing their program or path. For these lost and wondering souls reciting mantras is a fascinating method to restore contact with their source, become who they are, remain faithful to themselves and no longer fall out of tune.

In order to reach that, one ought to develop a huge sensitivity. As a source for inspiration one can take the emperor penguin in mind that with its remarkable sense of hearing is capable of tracing back its young with its own unique sound amidst a colony of thousands of chirping chicks.

Just like all other arts, the art of mantra chanting lies in refinement. By chanting and meanwhile listening to the sound that you produce, the duality of language, the division between yourself and the world subsides. By using the mantras as tuning forks it is possible to embark on a journey to our own specific sound or ground note. And this is the most powerful mantra you can imagine for root sounds are universal sounds which constitute the vibrations of particular processes. These sounds were discovered long way ago by practitioners at the highest level of awareness. There are root sounds for attracting, repelling, removing obstacles, healing illness, generating compassion energy and so on. The list is as vast as the creation because every living being and every energy process is a particular set of vibrations unique to that process. Vibration is also a connecting link between dimensions. All energy is vibration.

By reciting your own unique ground note over and over again, you gradually tune all layers of consciousness to one another and you can aim the sound from deep down the belly upwards so that eventually you can hear, or rather experience, the (re)connection to your soul. Once you are in full resonance with your soul, you have reached mastership and are able to create and heal. By means of the voice you can sing your way to heaven to unite with your soul, after which you can reverberate a new ‘heavenly’ sound that not only transforms yourself, but also your environment and very subtly nothing less than the world.