Pasyanti (Hinduism)

This awareness of sound as seen to fill the whole universe arises during the third level of [nada yoga]

, when [Brahman]

is known as sound. In common with the first chapter of Genesis and of St John's Gospel in the Bible, Hinduism teaches that the universe came into existence through the word. Just as the universe arose through the [nada]

sound and manifest as the sacred word [Om]

, speech in the human body is said to exist at several levels before being manifest at the physical level, as it develops from pure consciousness - [cit]

- which can be thought of as situated at the navel, and works up through the body before being fully manifest at the tongue. [Pasyanti]

is at the level of the heart.