OM REVISITED

A new and important page was written when the Nobel Prizes Penzia and Wilson accidentally discovered a steady cosmic microwave background radiation (MBR), they reasoned that the Big Bang must have scattered a tremendous blast of radiation too, an echo of that blast was still in existence and they had detected it as a low steady noise which persisted in their receiver. A sound which actually permeated the whole cosmos.

The ancient rishi said that the sound OM permeates and sustains the universe, a sound of divine origin which belief we found at the root of other religions as the Christian with its AMEN. 

The first time I heard a low persistent  sound much like a continuous vibration it seamed coming from nowhere and being everywhere.
 I actually thought I heard some high voltage wires somewhere, but I soon realized there where no such things around, and anyway if that, why I hadn´t ear it before.
 I had been more than one year in that place without earing that sound before, at that time I lived in an ancient water mill which still had water though not in use anymore. It was rather a spartan existence, no electric light and had to lit a fire if wanted to eat.

I accidentally had a little book where the Master...explained some slokas about the sound Om, but his explication seamed to me inconclusive in which I didn´t ear the sound Om, so long I was concerned I had to accept it as a theory but not as a fact. 
It was at that time I first started to ear the sound, which has never ceased since.
Weeks later I realized it did not depend on the place itself, I could still ear it while away on the hills around there. 

It did not present itself under the familiar apotheosis of the literature of my younger years (Hesse etc.) but rather as a discrete continuous sound of unknown origin. After exhausting the possibility of a sudden physical anomaly or an environmental precedence, I had to accept a sound was objectively there where before there wasn´t any and could not avoid earing it. 
 Objectively there, much as air and breeze a sound too, a discrete vibration like a prolonged oooooooo...(the "m" must be there to stop the sequence).
 Of course it had, it has a certain fashion this immutable never ending sound, it makes you think of very dilated epochs, instinctively associated with some energetic process.

It did not present itself as a revelation or any kind of divine intervention, simply it was not there and a moment later made its discrete presence,  I wasn´t remotely thinking about the sound Om, did not meditate but shared the tendency of making daily life an extended meditation, and that was my attitude though occasionally unsuccessful.

When I concentrated on it appeared as produced by some kind of electronic device which would sporadically alter the basic note.
 I could ear it stereo but when concentrating on it seamed right on the top of my head, but suddenly I would realize was not truly there but permeated everything around me and even within. I was not even sure I heard it only with my ears, sometimes it seems I ear it within, other without.
In time, I noticed that alcohol interfere till it´s in the blood stream, temporarily blocking the possibility of earing the vibration. 
  
I should say I do not often attach religious feelings to some experience, I rather observe them as an analyst in a laboratory and certainly would not built a religion about the sound Om.

 When I definitively left the water mill I discovered I could still ear the vibration, and I do ear it now while I write about it. I can easily ear it when it´s night time because of the silence, during the noisy hours  of day-light I can´t ear it, or only if in some quieter place or in nature. Once started it has not ceased anymore, and seemingly I have to accept to live with it the rest of my life.

This sound has not made me any better, I mean, nothing has really depended on its apparition, I sometimes use to silently listen to it, it has become somehow familiar, I don´t have to do any effort to ear it, it simply appears when there is enough silence.

  I don´t see it as a mystic thing, nor I have for it any special veneration, it is simply there, a low constant vibration which in itself is neutral. 
It do not bear any sign of divine origin, and I´m convinced that an ancient religious mind with its extended background of earlier superstitions would have attached to it some religious feeling, but to myself with rather a modern and scientific attitude, it is a never ending vibration which would strangely fit into Penzia´s and Wilson discovery and the rishi´s personal experience. 

I´m overly convinced that the MBR is the very vibration spoken of by the rishi, and we are simply assisting to an ancient teaching now irrefutably demonstrated by modern science.
Modern man has not made yet a relation between both, I wonder now if the day and night of Brhama and other calculations are related with observable reality and congruent with a cyclic theory of the universe. 

The religious mind and devotional attitude about the sound Om is even today rather a faith and a practice than a real experience. People resort to special yoga practices in order to ear it, and they nurture about it a devotion which comes from a tradition, if they would ear it factually, always there, immutable all the time, they would see there is not any need of a special worship, or to take it as a special manifestation of the divinity, because indeed there is nothing divine in it -objectively-, it is a result, a reaction.
 I often thought it must have been there before I could ear it, and possibly even before I was born, probably since the universe was born, my opinion  supports the theory that  this vibration is but the remnant of that primeval blast which some people can ear and some instrument now detect.
 To venerate a blast and its remnant is so useless to me as venerating the oxygen, they are mere consequences of the process of creation of the universe.
Religion should be able to adapt to modern times eliminating all the elements of speculation and superstition, modern physics is helping get free of them, notwithstanding it do not really eliminates a divine incidence in the creation but clarifying how it really happened.
Science is not related with the -purpose- of creation, unable to trespass with its instruments the frontier separating matter from the dominion of the divine ideas, it can only be possible through an  inner discovery.