Chapter 16Subtle Sights, Sounds, Smells and Tastes · Sights and Sounds of Other Planes

The sounds of bells and the seeing of lights and colours are signs of the opening of the inner consciousness which brings with it an opening also to sights and sounds of other planes than the physical. Some of these things, like the sound of bells, crickets etc., seem even to help the opening. The Upanishad speaks of them as brahmavyaktikar¯an.i yoge. The lights represent forces — or sometimes a formed light like that you saw may be the

* When the inner senses open, or any of them, one sees or hears things belonging to the other planes automatically. What one sees or hears depends on the development of the inner sense. It depends on what you hear whether these are the symbol sounds only which have a connection with the sadhana or simply other-plane sounds of an ordinary character.

* It depends on the nature of the sounds. Some have a connection [with sadhana], others are merely sounds of the other planes.