Nada-Brahman
नादब्रह्म nāda-brahmanSound as the Absolute: the doctrine, carried above all by the medieval musicologists, that ultimate reality is at root sonic, so that music and sacred sound are a form of worship and a path to the divine. The musical face of Shabda-Brahman, the Word as the Absolute.
Where this term appears
- Nada, Bindu, and Om Treatise
…d under this aspect, as the ground that is of the nature of sound, is nada-brahman , a term the tradition uses for the divine as the source of all vibration, and which the theorists of Indian music would later …
- The Divine as Music Treatise
…ngs which has unfolded itself as the world," Sharngadeva wrote, "that Nada-Brahman, blissful and non-dual, do we worship." A few verses later he is precise about what he means.