Vak Shuddhi - Effect of Sound & Speech On Human | Sadhguru HD

Sadhguru looks at the influence of sound on the human system, and speaks on how we can maintain Vak Shuddhi, the utterance of the right sounds, within ourselves . **************************************** Transcript: http://isha.sadhguru.org/blog/video/vak-shuddhi-effect-of-sound-speech-on-human-system/ Questioner: (Speaks in Tamil – not transcribed – question on Vaak Shuddi) Sadhguru: See, speech is a special gift to a human being. In terms of the complexity of what a human being can utter, no other creature can do this. Well, an elephant can trumpet louder than us; it can have you paralyzed. If it comes and trumpets anywhere near you, it’ll have you paralyzed just with shear sound. A lion can roar. Birds can do so many things, but no creature is capable of coming out with the complexity with which we can utter. If we… The languages were consciously created so that simple utterance of the language will purify the system. Sanskrit language was created like this. Only here our children are fortunate enough to be speaking in Sanskrit language. All of us are duds, who did not pick it up. So most of us probably are speaking in English language most of the time. Of all the… not necessarily of all the languages – compared to the Indian languages, the vernacular languages or compared to Spanish or Latin or even Chinese or whatever, English language has the minimum range of sounds… very minimum. This is why right from your birth if you’re speaking only English language you find it so difficult to utter some other mantra or some other language, because you’re using a very minimum range of expression. So the more minimalistic the range of sounds that you utter happens, the less Vak Shuddhi you have. So now you have to fix it by a certain active awareness and volition. One is the sound. Another is the intention of the sound. You can say ‘aye’ out of great love or you can say ‘aye’ out of something else – now, both of them will not produce the same impact on the system because the volition of the action is the important or… The major part of the karmic process is in the volition, not in the action. Similarly, major part of the karma is in the volition, not in the sound. But if the sounds were scientifically structured, as in the mantras and in Sanskrit language, then even without much… much awareness if you utter, still you would benefit simply because of the nature of the arrangement of sounds. But now we are speaking languages which are no more made like that, so it is best to handle it with intention. I think many times I’ve told you about this, about this lady who came out of a concentration camp during the World War II and she took a vow… you know? You know this? This incident we’ve been talking about this in the programs. Are you aware or no? Yes. So just took a vow, “If I speak to somebody now, if this happens to be my last…” – it could be – “If this happens to be my last words to this person, how I would utter this, like that I will utter to whoe