Layers of Beauty and Sweetness

Srila Sridhar Maharaja speaks on entering the divine domain via the medium of spiritual sound.

Through the medium of sound we can go to the truth. Sound is the medium utilized every where for every case, so why shouldn't sound be the medium for the spiritual? Through the medium of sound, my mind wants to reach the place of origin of the sound vibration.

The one who must reach the origin is more subtle than sound. Sound in the ordinary sense is a very gross thing compared to the atma, the soul. But this sound is Vaikuntha-sabda [spiritual sound], which is far more subtle than ordinary sound. It possesses more efficacy, and my sound is a gross thing in comparison to it. When it touches my ear, I can find that it is very subtle, and I am gross, considering myself a bundle of material things around the spiritual existence.

When this body will no longer exist, that sound will continue. It is undying. Its origin is Goloka, Vrindavan, the finest plane ever known to the world. The finest of the finest planes ever known. We know of an electrical plane, an ethereal plane, but there is finer and finer. So the finest element ever known to the world is the layer of beauty and sweetness and love. That is the most original conception of existence ever known to any consciousness. That is universal.