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Nāda

Sound: in yoga and tantra, the inner sound heard in meditation and the vibration from which creation unfolds.

Yoga, Sāṃkhya, Tantra and devotion

Nāda is sound as a spiritual principle. Nāda yoga attends to the subtle inner sounds that arise in meditation, following them inward to silence. Tantric cosmology describes creation as the unfolding of the supreme sound, and the Sants spoke of the unstruck sound heard within.