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Introduction

Everything in your world is vibrating. The moment you feel an emotion, a vibration flows. The moment you think, a new vibration starts. The moment you move, a whole series of vibrations are set into motion.

Sounds create an endless array of forms, shapes and structures flowing through our bodies and the world. The world is sound and you are made of sounds resonating in a vibrational universe full of sounds. There are trillions upon trillions of these vibratory patterns in the universe, and many cultures understand that these vibrations create the matrix of our universe.

In India and Tibet the 42 seed sounds of Sanskrit created this matrix in sequences of sound known as mantra, and in Sumeria these mantras were known as me, from which we derive the word “memes”. In Egypt, the Great Pyramid was constructed as a vibratory chamber to harness sound. In Europe, great cathedrals and stone circles were constructed to amplify sound vibrations to attune congregations into this primordial vibratory matrix.

In the Dogon and Igbo communities of Africa, certain words were seen to be God itself and were guarded from the public, as in Israel where the secret 215 letter Name of YHWH uttered in the Temple of Solomon was said to summon forth the Creator himself.

In the creation stories of Adam and Thoth in the West and Brahma in the East, both creators named, and therefore formed, all the objects of the universe by saying their names. Through this power of “the Word”, the Creator formed each object through sound.

Sound pulses move faster than the speed of light, as a team of scientists demonstrated in 2007. Sound can create light through sonoluminescence, where bursts of light from bubbles arise after being excited by sound, creating enormous amounts of energy. This same team also demonstrated that the velocity of sound waves could become infinite. This is revolutionary information: that sound can move faster than light and can become infinite.

The Hologram

Shiksha or the science of sound explains how vibratory processes create our holographic universe, and this is experienced and made known to us through nada yoga, the yoga of sound. The holographic universe is interpreted by us through the interface of our brain-heart connection, which acts as a holographic biocomputer.

One defining question of conventional science is that if the brain produces consciousness, there is nothing after we die. If the brain dies, we die. However, if the heart and brain is an intermediary like the way a TV set is an intermediary that turns radio waves into sound and images understandable to us, then we can understand that the heart-brain connection is a translator for different wavelengths of vibration, each wavelength producing different perceptions, images, experiences and states of consciousness.

As Karl Pribram, the famed Stanford neurophysiologist shares, “When we look at something, we project a virtual image of that object out into space and in the same place as the actual object, so that the object and our perception of the object coincides. We transform the timeless, space-less world of interference patterns into the concrete world of space and time.”

The brain functions as a lens and translating device, a discriminating frequency analyser converting the many frequencies it receives into a coherent image, mathematically constructing its reality. We find this in all our bodily systems. Our visual systems are sensitive to sound frequencies, our sense of smell depends on osmic frequencies, our skin is wired for vibration through our dermatomes, and our DNA is constantly receiving and transmitting frequencies all the time. Only in the holographic domain can such frequencies be sorted into usable perceptions.

Decoding the Hologram

In the yoga of sound there are four modes of vibration that compose the hologram of creation, and which we can use to decode the hologram. In these four modes, we access the frequencies that provide the major shifts in our lives.

Many of the greatest discoveries in science have been made at these moments when one’s state of vibration suddenly shifts. From Poincaré’s inspired problem solving in mathematics, to the discovery of the benzoic molecule by Kekulé, who fell asleep in front of his fireplace and saw its ring structure, to the principle of gravity being discovered by Newton when an apple suddenly hit his head, to Archimedes’ cry of Eureka upon discovering the principle of buoyancy whilst relaxing in a bathtub.

Breakthroughs in our understanding happen when the rational mind found in the first mode of vibration slows down and switches off, allowing other modes of vibration and perceptions to become known. We become able to understand and experience in ways we had not been able to before.

The brain is constantly receiving different wavebands of frequency and translating them into ways for us to use and work with. However, most of us focus on the sensory world only, found in the first mode of vibration, and have forgotten how to tune into the other three modes of vibration.

We use less than 10% of our DNA and brain. Less than 10% of the mass of the universe is knowable to our senses. The other 90% or “dark matter” of our universe resides in dimensions that scientists have no idea how to quantify and explore. 90% of ourselves is unknown, and this mysterious 90% can be experienced when we access all four modes of vibration.

To explore this untapped potential, we have to understand that we are holograms. One way to understand this is through laser beams, which occur in a variety of colours. Different colours hold different forms of information and images. So, you see a red image when you shine a red laser through it, a yellow image with a yellow beam, and so on.

If you do not shine the right colour, you will not see the image and its information. It will remain hidden until the right colour frequency is shone upon it. One frequency can reveal information on your feelings; another frequency can reveal subconscious memories; in another frequency lies our intuitions; in another frequency you access scientific data. There is no limit to the number of frequencies we can access in the hologram if we open ourselves to all four modes of vibration.

In each colour, another facet or layer of information is “seen” and decoded within the hologram. Our brain and nervous system is a hard drive that uses these different colours or modes of vibration to “read” different forms of information.

Today, science has discovered that this is how our DNA superimposes different instruction sequences on top of one another. Each sequence has a different meaning, and activates depending on where you start reading the letters from, and what mode of vibration you use to decode the information.

The information is always there: we have just not been able to access it as we have not been using the right mode of vibration to “read” it correctly. Knowing about, and experientially accessing the correct mode of vibration is the key, and the science of this lies in the four modes of vibration.

Chapter 1: The Four Modes of Sound

For thousands of years the study of sound and the ever-moving processes of vibration that create, sustain and unfold the universe in all its aspects and expressions has been a major part of all Vedic schools of learning. In Vedic India, sound, language and how to use movement and vibration to achieve certain goals was a true cross-disciplinary affair, with each school of learning recognising the importance of sound vibration and incorporating their understanding of it into their own philosophies and experiential practices.

From yoga to grammar, from philosophy to sound yoga, from health and healing to meditation and Self Realization, each school of learning had its own understanding of the four modes of sound, leading to a rich and varied tapestry of wisdom about how sound and vibration work across the entire gamut of human experience.

In the Rk Veda Hymn of Creation, the foundation of Vedic creation wisdom, it is said: “Speech is measured out in four worlds. Three hidden in the deepest cavern cause no motion. Mankind gives utterance to the fourth.”

We use the fourth mode through our speech and all audible sounds we make and hear, including words and writing. This is what we normally think of as sound, but in reality is just one of the four modes of sound vibration.

The other three modes of sound are “hidden” from our everyday mindset and waking state of consciousness, beyond audible sound and words. These three modes of sound are found in Nada Yoga and shiksha (the science of sound), where sound is understood to be both the source of matter, and the key to become free from it.

As the Bhagavad Gita says: “One who thoroughly understands the four modes of sound can utilize this science to become free from the bondage of matter.”

This becoming “free from the bondage of matter” means we are not limited to the body and the laws of our space-time universe, including the speed of light. When we experience how matter is made of vibrations, and the four different modes of vibration that underpin this, we have the ability to change the vibratory rate of any object, including ourselves.

As the Bhagavad Gita continues, “Sound conveys the idea of an object, indicates the presence of a speaker, and constitutes the subtle form of space.” Quantum physics now confirms that it is from vibrating waves that all objects appear; waves vibrate objects into existence. Objects are actually waves, and it is not matter vibrating but the wave itself that is vibrating.

We can understand this through the four modes of sound. Without sound vibration, there are no objects. Sound vibration gives rise to the form of every object. Every sound has a form and every form has a sound. As the Vedic texts tell us, “when one is mentally clear and in a state of silence, and then looks at any form, the sound vibration of that form will become clear to you. This is called ritambhara prajna, which means you perceive forms as sounds.”

The Four Modes in the Vedic Tradition

The four modes of vibration all arise from Para, the Supreme or “the beyond”. This first soundless, silent Being gives rise to and generates all other vibrational states, sounds, qualities and movements of creation. It is the Source of Creation.

This is known as the “Word”, as called by St John in the Bible, or Para-vak: the Voice Beyond or Supreme Voice. This first “Word” or First Sound of the Creator is from where all forms, sounds and functions unfold as Para Vak – the Supreme Speech and ultimate creative power. Para Vak is a telepathic transmission from the Voice of the Creator, an imprint of Supreme Consciousness, a beginning-less and endless state of being that is the basis of creation.

Para births the three other modes of vibration through Para-spanda (the supreme pulse wave), the constant humming vibration within all life, a vibratory wave flowing through everything in creation, including our bodies and minds, as the Word born from Silence.

As Para expresses into manifestation, Pasyanti, literally meaning “Seeing”, “Pure Perceiving” or “Visual Sound”, is birthed. Pasyanti is the First Perception or Seeing of creation, where you can perceive anything and everything in creation instantly for what it is, what it could be in time, as well as its true form, its true sound vibration and its true function. When you Know this about any form or object in creation, you have the ability to change it, and bend it to your will.

Pasyanti also occurs when you instantly Know something that transforms you, that changes your perceptions, beliefs and life, in a Lightning Flash of Insight and revelation. Pasyanti is where the Vedas, Kabbalah, and many Buddhist sutras were transcribed from Para in a holographic revelation. In Greece Pasyanti was known as hesychia, where messages from the gods were revealed to humans known as heroes. In esoteric Christianity and Jungian psychology, this seeing is known as Gnosis.

Pasyanti is visual sound, beyond what the eyes and senses can perceive. It is an instantaneous holographic communication where whole volumes of wisdom are downloaded into a person in a few seconds. Thus, the hymns and mantras of the Vedas were “seen” by the Rishis, and placed into collections of mandalas that are the visual sounds of the Vedas.

Pasyanti is the mode of vibration where word and object are identical, and where any apparent division between subject and object does not exist. Pasyanti is a blissfully ecstatic consciousness in its peak state. When it flows through us, it can produce sounds that come out of Para. When this happens, it transforms ourselves and the people around us.

As Pasyanti steps down its vibration, madhyama, the bridge, interface or translator, is birthed. Madhyama translates vibrational waves into forms accessible and usable to us. It is the bridge between the 95% of reality beyond the senses and the 5% of reality we see, hear, touch, taste and smell.

It is a bridge between the waking state of consciousness we normally operate on, and the 90% we use in altered states of consciousness. It is a bridge between the 5% of DNA we normally operate with, and the 95% that lies buried in the twisted loops of our “junk” DNA.

Madhyama is a “mediator” that converts vibrations into objects in time and space through the image-making power of the mind. The objective time/space world, the dreamy subjective world of dreams, hallucinations and visions… are examples of the ability of the mind to convert vibrations into wriggles into patterns we call images.

In madhyama, we communicate through the image-making power of pictures, shapes, symbols, geometry, optical illusions, Reiki chi symbols, vivid poetry and metaphors, all of which (again) convert vibrations into wriggles into patterns we call images. One picture is worth a thousand words, or as Aristotle shares, “the soul thinks in pictures.”

The capacity to do this bridges different levels of consciousness. Madhyama is where the true medicine of sound healing lies, as do many other modalities of vibrational medicine and energy healing.

The fourth mode of Vaikhari is the final expression of Para that is now moving through our speech and words. Our speech is designed to act as a conduit for the “Word” of Para, to be an echo of the Word in human form of Source expressing itself.

Speech and words are our most widely used mode of communication through audible sounds and written words, relying on the senses for their communication, and are our most powerful tool to create with, our very first instrument of expression and the origin of all music.

Vaikhari completes the universal hologram by bringing the soundless sound of Para into manifestation through us. We are the end result of the universal creative process, and we are designed to express this totally.

The Four Modes in the Maheshwara Sutra

The four modes of sound are expressed in the Maheshwara Sutra, the foundational text of Sanskrit and the most comprehensive explanation of how the world and human being are created through sound in the Vedic canon, as:

Sarvaṁ parātmakaṁ pūrvaṁ jṅaptimātramidaṁ jagat jṅaptērbabhūva paśyantī madhyamā vāk tataḥ smṛtā

“In the beginning the universe was Parā, without beginning or end. Whole and intact in everything everywhere, the Supreme from eternal time measures out the processes of the ever moving vibrating universe from Para, Seeing and Perceiving creation in Pasyanti, which unfolds through the middle state of sound Madhyama into Vak, speech that can express the Supreme. This is the lore of the lineage.”

Everything in creation is whole, and is a musical measure of the formless Para, which expresses into all forms and manifestation through the four modes of sound. The transformation of the first, unmanifest Para into the last mode of vibration vaikhari depicts the evolution of the Universe from the unmanifest quantum world into our material world.

The “Word”, so called by St John in the Bible, is the undifferentiated soundless Para, from which comes Para-vak: the voice beyond or Supreme Voice. This “Word” unfolds itself to form the invisible infrastructures of creation through the quantum field in Pasyanti, becoming “visual sounds”, or geometric patterns of sound and light in the quantum field, perceived by those who have developed a quality of inner silence and the witness consciousness.

The next unfolding happens through madhyama, which transforms Pasyanti into shape and mould making processes that create pictures, geometries and fluid forms. Eventually, this “picture-feeling” takes a form within self, and one grasps and understands it. This is madhyama vak, a pre-vocal picture-thought you have whilst in the dream state of consciousness.

AI Summary

The Science of Sound presents nada yoga (the yoga of sound) as a comprehensive system for understanding how vibration creates and sustains reality. Drawing from Vedic tradition, Kabbalah, and modern quantum physics, Padma Aon Prakasha explains the four modes of sound vibration: Para (the Supreme, soundless source), Pasyanti (visual sound, pure perceiving), Madhyama (the bridge/interface), and Vaikhari (audible speech and words).

The text frames the universe as a hologram decoded through different frequencies of vibration, with the brain-heart connection acting as a “holographic biocomputer” that translates wavelengths into perception. The four modes correspond to accessing different “90%” of reality normally hidden from ordinary consciousness.

Key teachings include: the Bhagavad Gita’s assertion that understanding the four modes of sound leads to freedom from matter; the Rk Veda’s statement that “speech is measured out in four worlds, three hidden”; and the Maheshwara Sutra’s cosmological explanation of how creation unfolds from Para through the other modes into manifestation.

The work positions sound as both the source of matter and the key to transcendence, connecting ancient Sanskrit science with contemporary findings on sonoluminescence and the infinite potential velocity of sound waves.