Varan Atmak Bani

 

Varan Atmak Bani can be classified into four subdivisions:  Baikhri, Madhma, pashyanti and Pra.

Baikhri: These are labial sounds or sounds which are uttered with the aid of tongue and lips.

Madhma: These are guttural sounds which are produced in the throat or at the back or root of the tongue and palate.

Pashyanti: These are sounds which arise through vibrations from the navel center.

There for typesof sounds or words are related in one or another from with the six physical ganglionic centers, and have nothing to do with Naam or the Word or Logos, which is contacted above the six ganglions, is capable of granting salvation, and is teachnically called Dhun Atmak Bani or the Eternal Sound Current, the source of God's Light and Life Principles.  It is, in fact, the Eternal and Unchangeable Voice of God.

The Water of Life is given by the Saiguru,

It is made manifest at the tenth door,

There the Dhun Bani reverberates without and end,

And leads one to the state of Sehai.  *1

                                                                                 GURU RAM DAS

The five strains commingling forth produce sweet Harmony.

The Bani flows in unending streams all the time.  *2

                                                                                 GURU ARJAN

There are four different forms of Thy creation and four various modes of speech;

But apart from Naam, one wanders without a lead.

                                                                       GURU AMAR DAS

The entire creation expression itself in one or another kind of Varan Atmak sound and not in the Dhun Atmak and as such wanders about restlessly in the giant wheel of life.

The Varan Atmak language is also known as the language of the Pranas or the vital airs for it depends on different types of vibrations in the air; but as said above, it leads to a wilderness with no way out.

We speak and hear the airy language,

And the mind gets entangled in oblivion.  *3

                                                                                 GURU NANAK