Nada Yoga
Hindus have one and the same word: sura, a name for both sound and breath. It is the breath of an subject that may be called sound and its the audibility of the breath that may be called voice.
Yogis regulated the rhythm of the circulation, of the heart, and of every action of the breath by the help of the vibration of music, of both tone and rhythm. This brought them from the audible vibration to the inward vibrations.
The medical science recognises that the whole mechanism of life stops, when the breath is departed. It is also recognises that the breathing patterns regulate our all well-being - sympathetic and parasympathetic balance and thus mood and homeostasis, heart rhythms and at the end our longevity. But what the medical science is still discovering and approaching, that notion of all mystical traditions, that prana, chi or ki - is that life-force animating everything, and that there is no place where she could not reach. Even linguistically in many languages the word "breath" is connected to the word spirit.
The word spirit itself comes from the Latin spiritus - "breath". In Greek, it is pneuma ("breath" or "spirit"), in Hebrew ruach (“breath,” “wind,” or “spirit”), likewise slavic words for breath and spirit also come from the same linguistical root.
The Hawaiian greeting Aloha carries a similar sacred meaning:
alo - presence, front, face or sharing space
ha - breath, life-breath, vital essence
So Aloha can be understood as the recognition or greeting of the life-force within another.
Sanskrit word ātman means "breath," "self," or "essence."
When by voice, by word, by breath certain parts of human body are brought into action - the intuitive faculties are awakened and a person begins to experience a fuller life. If a person an artist, musician, a writer, scientist - whatever he is, by cultivating his natural faculties and tapping into his intuition he begins to experience his art or science more fully.
With this secret in mind, the ancient people developed the science of yoga. By repetition of certain bija-mantras and by particular way of breathing (pranayama) they touched within themselves this centers which are connected with intuitive faculties.
It was the word which was at the beginning of the creation, and it is the word which opens mystery of the creation. The different centers of intuition, of inspiration, of evolution, are touched by the sacred word.
We ordinarily think of breath as the small stream of air moving in and out through our nostrils. But we rarely perceive it as the vast current flowing through all existence - a living movement that emerges from Consciousness itself and extends into the outer world.
In the Bible, it is written that in the beginning was the word, and through the word all things came into manifestation, but word is also the sound, which makes it audible. Before the word, there was the breath, which made the word.
