Power of Sound—The Solfeggio Frequencies

“Concerning matter, we have been all wrong. What we have called matter is energy, whose vibration has been so lowered as to be perceptible to the senses. There is no matter.”

[Albert Einstein]

Solfeggio Frequencies are a collection of musical sounds that originated from the historical Gregorian Monks who chanted different frequency tones during religious practices.

The chanting is named after St. Gregory the Great, who was Pope from 590—604 A.D. The melodic sounds of the Gregorian era are unique with no patterns of rhyme or instrumentals. The tones range high and low and there is often no structure to how they are performed by choirs.

In 1974 Dr. Joseph Puleo studied the Solfeggio Frequencies and said the music penetrates the conscious and subconscious mind. He used a numerological technique to decipher repeating codes that were present throughout the music. The Solfeggio Frequencies are used in the present day in many forms of healing practices across the world. Each frequency tone is said to raise vibration.

The different Solfeggio Frequencies are:-
174 Hz: For the relief of Pain and Stress
285 Hz: Heals Tissues and Organs
UT 396 Hz: Eliminates Fear
RE 417 Hz: Wipes out Negativity
MI 528 Hz: Repairs DNA and Brings Positive Transformation
FA 639 Hz: Brings Love and Compassion
SOL 741 Hz: Repairs Cells and Organs
852 Hz: Awakens Intuition and Raises Energy at Cellular Level
963 Hz: Connects to Higher Self


All Solfeggio Frequencies are said to have a positive outcome by eliminating negativity and promoting higher connections to the Self.


Below is a video of all 9 Solfeggio Frequencies that promote emotional and physical healing. Wishing all the Blessings of Arunachala Grace and Light.

Moola Mantra

The Moola Mantra is believed to give peace and joy. It has the power to transport one’s mind to a state of love and joy. It is regarded as a great devotional act and of great benefit to the seeker of truth and enlightenment. 

The Moola Mantra is a prayer that worships the great Creator and Liberator. It is a mantra of great spiritual power. It evokes the living God and asks protection and freedom from all sorrow and suffering. 

Even without chanting this mantra, just listening to it is believed to give peace. 

Om 

Sat Chit Ananda Parabrahma 

Purushothama Paramatma 

Sri Bhagavathi Sametha 

Sri Bhagavathe Namaha 

Moola Mantra repeated on loop

Meaning of Moola Mantra 

Om—The primordial sound by which the whole Universe vibrates. This Divine sound has the power to create, sustain, and destroy; giving life and movement to all that exists. 

Sat—The all-penetrating Existence that is formless, shapeless, and omnipresent; it is the unmanifest experienced as the emptiness of the Universe. 

Chit—The infinite Pure Consciousness of the Universe 

Ananda—Bliss, love, and the true nature of the Universe 

Parabrahma—The Supreme Being in its Absolute aspect; the One who is beyond space and time. 

Purushothama—Purusha means Soul, and Uthama means the Supreme Spirit. It is the supreme energy force guiding us from the highest world. 

Paramatma—The indweller, the Antaryamin, who resides formlessly and is immanent in every creature and in all beings. 

Sri Bhagavathi—Female aspect of the Divine, which is characterised as the Supreme Intelligence in action, the Shakti Power. 

Same tha—Together within Sametha—“together" or "in communion with" 

Namaha—Salutation or prostration to the Universe 

The Power of Sound

“Sound and intelligence are synonyms. The sound frequencies or mantras have no beginning or end. They are as old as space and the Universe. Many ancient cultures discovered that the mind is made up of subtle energies, in the form of sound frequencies. Ninety percent of our mind is occupied by language-based activity. The mind has a sound pattern; the unconscious has a sound pattern. 

These sound frequencies, also known as mantras, are a part of the space energy (the others being earth, water, fire and air). When yogis talk about sounds, it is not the spoken sound they are referring to. Spoken sounds are the gross form of sounds that emerge from the unmanifest levels. The evolution of speech is as follows: first, there is a thought sound (thought also has a sound) called nada and paranada and the thought sound become speech sound.” 

Power of Sound

I found the below narrative on Stonehenge quite fascinating in that it postulates that the ancient monolith was based on a magical auditory illusion. The power of sound is very well understood in Hinduism in that Pranava (Aum) is the primal sound that existed before the creation and the sound that stays after the pralaya (dissolution of the Universe) -- the natharupa - the Form of sound, of the Supreme Luminance. The Om mantra is venerated as Brahman in the form of word (akshara) and sound (sabda). 

What of the nature of sound at Arunachala? This is a subject I hope to explore in more depth later on this blog Arunachala Mystic. 

For the time being, I reproduce below the above cited Stonehenge article. 

Stonehenge Based on Auditory Illusion 

Stonehenge was built in several stages, with the lintelled stone circle constructed around 2,500 BC. The site was originally a burial ground, but may also have been a place for healing. 

In 2009 a music expert at Huddersfield University, used a full-scale replica of Stonehenge and computer analyses to show that repetitive drum beats and chanting would have resonated loudly between the standing stones. 

Two flutes playing the same continuous note sets up a pattern of interference that apparently echoes the layout of Stonehenge. The Neolithic builders of Stonehenge were inspired by "auditory illusions" when they drew up blueprints for the ancient monument, a researcher claims. The radical proposal follows a series of experiments by a US scientist who claims the positions of the standing stones match patterns in sound waves created by a pair of musical instruments. 

The researcher further hypothesised that the layout of the stones corresponded to the regular spacing of loud and quiet sounds created by acoustic interference when two instruments played the same note continuously. 

In Neolithic times, the nature of sound waves – and their ability to reinforce and cancel each other out – would have been mysterious enough to verge on the magical. Quiet patches created by acoustic interference could have led to the "auditory illusion" that invisible objects stood between a listener and the instruments being played, he added. 

To investigate whether instruments could create such auditory illusions, researchers rigged two flutes to an air pump so they played the same note continuously. Walking around them in a circle, the volume rose, fell and rose again as the sound waves interfered with each other. The researcher commented, "What I found unexpected was how I experienced those regions of quiet. It felt like I was being sheltered from the sound. As if something was protecting me. It gave me a feeling of peace and quiet." 

To follow up, volunteers were recruited and blindfolded and led in a circle around the instruments. Each participant was asked to sketch out the shape of any obstruction they thought lay between them and the flutes. Some drew circles of pillars, and one volunteer added lintels, a striking feature of the Stonehenge monument. 

"If these people in the past were dancing in a circle around two pipers and were experiencing the loud and soft and loud and soft regions that happen when an interference pattern is set up, they would have felt there were these massive objects arranged in a ring. It would have been a completely baffling experience, and anything that was mysterious in the past was considered to be magic and supernatural. 

I think that was what motivated them to build the actual structure that matched this virtual impression. It was like a vision that they received from the other world. The design of Stonehenge matches this interference pattern auditory illusion." 

It's not a complete structure now but there is a portion of the ring that still has the big megaliths arranged in the circle. If you have a sound source in the middle of Stonehenge, and you walk around the outside of the big stones, what you experience is alternating loud and soft, loud and soft, loud and soft as you alternately pass by the gaps and the stone, the gaps and the stone. So the stones of Stonehenge cast acoustic shadows that mimic an interference pattern." 

Researchers postulate that their findings are not mere coincidence and say local legend offers some support for this thesis. Some megaliths are known as pipers' stones, while stories tell of walls of air forming an invisible tower, and two magical pipers that enticed maidens to dance in a circle before they turned to stone.