Suppose I see a small white truck driving past outside playing a characteristic jingle. I shout, " Ice cream!" You didn't see the ice cream truck , but when you hear me, you instantly know what I mean. Okay, now you understand the first level of sound, vaikari.
You think to yourself, " Linda Johnson eats too much ice cream. She really ought to lose some weight". You hear the words distinctly in your mind. Great-now you understand the second level, madhyama.
You don't hear words in your head, but at the back of your mind you feel a craving, a sense that you'd like to have some, let's say, ice cream. You're not sounding words in your mind-" I scream for ice cream! " But the concept of ice cream is present in your awareness. Perfect- that's the third level of sound, Pashyanti.
You're dead asleep. You're not speaking of ice cream, thinking of ice cream, or even dreaming of ice cream. Ye if I poke you awake and ask you if you'd like some ice cream, you would understand perfectly well I mean. Because while you were asleep your memory tapes weren't erased. Even though you weren't thinking about it, the concept of ice cream still existed somewhere within you. That's para vak, the fourth level of sound.
God is para vak. Why? Because even when the universe doesn't exist, when it's hidden in the unfathomable darkness of God's slumber in the Milky Ocean,all of material existence is still inherent in Him. When he "reawakens" and begins to create, he has only to "speak" the word and the dimensions of reality hidden in the profound depths of His silence start to manifest. His meaning, His "thoughts", become our physical reality.
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