The 112 Methods

Stopping ears by pressing and the rectum by contracting, enter the sound.

• The two exits of inner sound are the ears and the rectum. Seal both simultaneously — fingers press the ears, rectum is pulled up and contracted — and the subtle inner sound can no longer escape the body downward or outward; it fills the interior.
• Immediate test: the moment both are sealed, thoughts stop and the world feels non-moving — as if even time has stopped. That cessation of the constant thought-stream signals the technique is working.
• Inside the sealed body a ‘pillar of sound’ is felt — the sound of silence. It is not a pleasant sound coming from outside; it is felt as fullness, a deep well-being.
• Practice 5–6 times a day; within 3–4 months the inner sound becomes perpetually audible — even in marketplace noise. Once heard continuously, nothing external disturbs you. The world’s noise can no longer reach the still, small voice.
• What this inner sound actually is (Q&A, Question 3): Anahat nada — ‘uncreated sound’ — is not an ordinary created sound. It is soundlessness perceived as sound, because we know only the language of sounds. Analogy: someone who lives by a railway station, when the trains stop on a strike day, hears the absence — hears what no one else can hear. We have always lived surrounded by sounds; when all sounds cease, their absence is ‘heard.’
• Why ‘uncreated’: every ordinary sound is created and then dies (a clap exists, then is gone); anahat nada is always there, never created. So what you listen for is not a transient sound but an ever-present absence.
• How total soundlessness equals total soundfulness: both are complete states. A half-filled jar is ambiguously half-empty/half-full; but a completely empty jar and a completely full jar are each absolutely complete — you can add or subtract nothing. Total silence and total sound both point to the same wholeness, the same perfection.