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KAUAI, HAWAII, October 8, 2003: Swami Amarananda of the Centre Vedantique in Geneva (amarananda@bluewin.ch), Switzerland, writes, “In reference to the query in regard of the discovery (of a low sound emanating out in a galaxy) by Chandra Observatory. Swami Vivekananda used to say, on the basis of his experience, that one coming to the normal state of consciousness from a deep samadhi listens to the sound of AUM. I have seen in the sixties of the last century a great yogi (a disciple of the Holy Mother Sarada Devi) who had almost a constant experience since 1911 of hearing an AUM sound rising from the navel upwards. Sri Sarada Devi said that the said Aum sound is the Anahata one.”
Swami adds that in Aachen, under the auspices of the community of Sant Egidio based in Rome, an inter-religious meeting was held from September 7-9. Much of the deliberations were held in the spacious Eurogress of Aachen. More than 300 people from different religions and traditions gathered together. Hinduism was represented by the sociologist Mr. R. Srivastava from India and Swami Amarananda.