Relationship between sound and electricity
It should be remembered that sound is a subtle form of electricity. Now even science agrees with this. In fact, everything is a form of electricity. But the Indian sages go one step further and say that electricity is a form of sound, that sound is the base, not electricity. That is why they call the Supreme Being shabda-brahma –”sound is the ultimate reality”. There is now a great similarity of approach between Eastern thinkers and modern scientists, the only difference being over which of the two is primary. The scientist says that electricity is primary, whereas the sage says that density of sound produces electricity. This means that in the near future science will have to research the absolute aspect of sound.
The sage’s understanding stems from the experience of the sounds produced under the dome of a temple. When the intense sound of ”Aum” is created in a temple by a devotee, within a few minutes he feels that neither he nor the temple is there, but only electricity remains. This conclusion is not reached in any laboratory – those who made such declarations had no laboratories, their temple served as their only laboratory. There they experienced that although they started with sound, what remained in the end was electricity. To experience this transformation of sound, dome-shaped temples were made.
The sage’s understanding stems from the experience of the sounds produced under the dome of a temple. When the intense sound of ”Aum” is created in a temple by a devotee, within a few minutes he feels that neither he nor the temple is there, but only electricity remains. This conclusion is not reached in any laboratory – those who made such declarations had no laboratories, their temple served as their only laboratory. There they experienced that although they started with sound, what remained in the end was electricity. To experience this transformation of sound, dome-shaped temples were made.