nada
नाद nādaSound or vibration understood as a cosmic principle, the subtle resonance from which audible sound and, in the tradition's reading, the world unfold; the ground of shabda and of the mantra.
Where this term appears
- The 28 Śaiva Āgamas Lineages
… dualism by pushing the five highest reality-levels, the tattvas from Nāda down to Śuddhavidyā, into the category of pāśa , of bond, a move earlier teachers had not made.
- Who was Abhinavagupta? Lineages
With the nail of one hand he is playing a vina , drawing out nada , sacred sound.
- What is a Mantra? Worship
That is the seed of an idea the later tradition grows into a whole theology of sound. Sound as nada , vibration as a cosmic principle.
- Who is Shiva? Deities
The trident is read as the three strands of nature or the three functions, and the drum as the first sound, the nāda , from which creation issues.
- Why is Om chanted at the start and end of prayers and yoga? Journal
The Upanishad calls it the essence of the Sama, the seed the whole melody grows out of, the nada and bindu from which sound itself unfolds.
- Ajna: The Command Treatise
…itself: the syllable, then a crescent, then a point, the bindu , then nada , subtle sound, the stages by which the audible dissolves into the inaudible.
- Anahata: The Unstruck Sound Treatise
… heard a different sound, one that no collision produced: the anahata-nada , the unstruck sound, the continuous subtle resonance of the absolute itself, shabda-brahman , the word that is the ground of being.
- Nada, Bindu, and Om Treatise
The tradition answers with two words that recur through every later volume of this treatise: nada and bindu .