The Harmonist
Or
Sree Sajjanatoshani (No. 5 Vol.XXIX)
Edited by – Sri Srimad Bhakti Siddhanta Saraswati Goswami Maharaj
We must distinguish between Transcendental words and mundane words. Whenever mundane words enter the ear four other senses inspect them to see whether they agree with previous experience. When the Transcendental sound comes it carries all necessary implements and things that sweep away wrong ideas as well as supply accommodation for the vacuum caused by dismantlement of older constructions by the Transcendental sound. It clears up all previous deposits of knowledge.
The Transcendental Sound should not be confronted with ordinary sound. It offers no scope for any invasion of the challenger. It does not allow any opposing sound to disturb its progress. When it comes ordinary sounds give way to make progress towards it. The Transcendental Sound is called Harikatha ( discourse about the Grodhead ). Mundane sounds give facility to our enjoyments. We display two different sorts of feelings towards them. We either welcome or don’t give invitation. We don’t welcome pain. The Transcendental Sound does not give pain in any way. The Transcendental Sound is furnished with all sorts of good wishes that we require. We should study it in this life. This is initiation (diksha), consisting of the utterance of some mantras that dispel all sorts of wrong impressions and we are placed in a plane where no opposition is met. That sound is needed by everybody. Though some people who cherish materialistic ideas do not care to give their full attention not feeling that there is any such necessity. But we require that persons holding the materialistic view should be given to understand that we are in urgent need of studying the Transcendental sound. It is efficacious in our present stage also.
People nowadays freely indulge all sorts of materialistic views. They do not entertain the idea that everyone is vitally interested for studying the Transcendental sound which they neglect by accepting the materialistic views. All of us seek help and strive to utilize every thing for ephemeral purposes. The receiver as well as grantor of such help are both of them liable to be transformed. So the empiric knowledge is inadequate to cope with the Transcendental sound. But Transcendental sound furnished all sorts of help necessary for its proper acceptance.
We cannot help ourselves at the time of birth, in infancy. As a matter of fact we are always in need of constant help. This is our life-long experience. With growing experience we scrutinize about gradation of the help received. We become aware that a Grammar school imparts less knowledge than higher academies which furnish more information.
We are always seeking greater education. The rationalistic propagatory agencies force us to look for sources of help. We find that Infinity can meet our demand. That Infinity should be Ever Existent, All-knowledge All-Blissful. We should not neglect the study of these things. We poor people must get help from others. All help is to be received from the Fountain-Head. He can do no wrong to us. We need not associate any wrong idea in the Fountain-Head. But our poor achievements trouble us with the idea that we can easily dispense with such help from the Fountain-Head.
The primary thing is that we require help. A knower requires that knowledge should intervene to cement him with the source of knowledge. The conception of theists should not, therefore, be dismissed. We are allowed to stay in the mortal coil for some time. But i am to leave off my mortal frame and should not be satisfied with my present predicament. We should never be satisfied with mundane aspirations only. This life is short in comparison with the eternal life. We should pay more attention to preparation for that life. We may attend to some of our primary necessaries of this life and need not be deprived. But this need not lead us to forget that this is not the summum bonum and to consider that we should have purely mundane interest and should have no interest in the eternal Transcendental.
We can have access to distant objects through the medium of sound only. Ocular activity cannot help us to be in contact with things lying behind the screen. Sound enables us to have an idea of things located out of sight at a long distance, beyond human scope, beyond our intellectual horizon. We show natural eagerness to go further than the human scope. That can be by the Transcendental Sound carried by a messenger who cannot give any time to these mundane examinations. This is only three dimensions,”:—line, surface and cube. This space permits us to have no idea of fourth and higher dimensions and divisible parts. Our senses cannot go beyond three dimensions.
We are always looking out for having our knowledge extended. That can be by the Transcendental Sound which possesses this particular potency. The great peculiarity of that Sound consists in this that it is identical with colour, figure, attributions, qualities, activities, and need not be challenged and testified by the four other senses, or arguments. We should allot a portion of time to the study of this subject. We should always be impressing on our friends, who have got an atheistical tendency for preferring material advancement, that the soul has got a sacred duty of getting rid of the restricted duties and that therefore, we should give a lending ear to the Transcendental Sound whenever such an opportunity presents itself.