Saut-e Sarmad
Abstract sound is called Saut-e Sarmad by the Sufis; all space
is filled with it. The vibrations of this sound are too fine to
be either audible or visible to the material ears or eyes, since
it is even difficult for the eyes to see the form and colour of
the ethereal vibrations on the external plane. It was the Saut-e
Sarmad, the sound of the abstract plane, which Mohammad heard in
the cave of Ghar-e Hira when he became lost in his divine ideal.
The Qua’an refers to this sound in the words, ‘Be ! and
all became.’ Moses heard this very sound on Mount Sinai, when
in communion with God; and the same word was audible to Christ when
absorbed in his Heavenly Father in the wilderness. Shiva heard the
same Anahad Nada during his Samadhi in the cave of the Himalayas.
The flute of Krishna is symbolic of the same sound. This sound is
the source of all revelation to the Masters, to whom it is revealed
from within; it is because of this that they know and teach one
and the same truth.
The Sufi knows of the past, present and future, and about all things
in life, by being able to know the direction of sound. Every aspect
of one’s being in which sound manifests has a peculiar effect
upon life, for the activity of vibrations has a special effect in
every direction. The knower of the mystery of sound knows the mystery
of the whole universe. Whoever has followed the strains of this
sound has forgotten all earthly distinctions and differences, and
has reached that goal of truth in which all the Blessed Ones of
God unite. Space is within the body as well as around it; in other
words the body is in the space and the space is in the body.
This being the case, the sound of the abstract is always going on
within, around and about man. Man does not hear it as a rule, because
his consciousness is entirely centred in his material existence.
Man becomes so absorbed in his experiences in the external world
through the medium of the physical body that space, with all its
wonders of light and sound, appears to him blank.
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