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nadopasana

नादोपासना nādopāsanā

The 'worship of sound': the contemplative practice of attending to nada, the inner resonance, until it is heard as the ground of shabda and of the mantra.

Where this term appears

  • The Divine as Music Treatise

    In the South Indian devotional world this became nadopasana , the worship of the divine through musical sound, in which to sing or to play is to perform puja and the note itself is treated as a form of the deit…

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