Illustrating the
Systematic of Sama'a
based on the book
“Sama'a,
Light of the Light of the Light”
Sama'a is a word that means
"hearing" and its adverbial phrase is the "Dance of
Sama'a". That is the movements that appears from the hearer of the sound of
pleasant and rejoicing melodies.
Movement is the origin of all
completions and perfections, the sign of intention and the will towards
existence, the repulsion of perverseness and deterioration. It is the kindly
endeavor and effort that the rejoiced hearer shows so that to be set free from
the heaviness of bodyly habituals, pounding the feet to the ground in order to
put aside whatever is other than truth, scattering the hands as a sign of the
mirth, cheerfulness and joy of the union being obtained and whirl till the
heart is committed to the incomparable absolute One, and as being in harmony
with existence, ascend to the origin.
In the event that the cheerful
sound is heard with utmost rites, humility and presence of the heart, an enter
from the sublime world descends to the heart of the hearer. And as it gets empowered, draws the hearer to
an involuntary movement, dancing and whirling, in such a manner that the states
be in possession of the entered sublime and the motive of the hearer is the
enthusiasm of confronting the truth and hearing the celestial secrets. When the
movements of the hearer will be the impression of an inward connection to the
world above and the intoxication of encountering the absolute beauty and
discovery of secrets, that scattering and pounding the feet to the ground is
interpreted as the "true Sama'a".
Sama'a is an inward blessing and
spiritual sanctification, the exalted calling to the heart for affection and
knowledge, the nutrition of the soul, the food for life, a remedy for curing,
so that the body is free from the illness of daily life. It is the celestial
enter arriving to the hearer, the light of grace descending to the heart in
order to light up the inner, concealed darkness and make the heart divine.
When the heart of the hearer of
the joyful sound goes towards worldly and carnal desires, the peace of mind,
being the first condition necessarily for the mind to transcend, may never be
achieved. Because when the heart is full of worldly desires, whatever result as
movements and dance will be contaminated with affectation, artificiality and
hypocrisy. Such movements and dance will not be considered as a Sama'a.
However, the one who hears the rhythmic, proportional and joyful melody with
intuition will certainly be moved by the power of rejoice, that is the result
of perceiving with well-proportioned nature and correct apprehension and that
may be considered as "rejoiced Sama'a".
A true Sama'a may take
place when the intellectual perception faculty perceives an original true sound
that has wholesomeness with that faculty and the power of rejoice and mirth
rule over to produce movements and dance. In the event that this movement,
dancing, scattering hands and pounding the feet to the ground appears
voluntary, optional and paying attention to the conditions and states and
followed with art it is called “artistic Sama'a”. And when the movement,
dancing, scattering hands and pounding the feet to the ground produced by the
power of rejoice are involuntary, without paying attention, not having self
control, not knowing what is going on with, and the stimulant of this movements
are the light that is caused by an oracular enter the rejoice heart, it is
considered "enrapture Sama'a". And when the motive of the rejoiced is
rapture and moved by the power of the divine and witnessing the contemplative
state, the visibilities and clearness of perfection, it is called Dynamic
Contemplation, the true Sama'a or "the dance of men of God”.
Sama'a is in fact as
much right and true as the heard sound is similar, near or is the original. As
true as the sound of the words Moses heard directly from God and the joyful
voice of David, as the sound of nature, the sound of spring of water, the sound
of the singing birds, the sound of human singing, the sound of the melody of
the instruments that mankind makes and are used for the ceremony of the Sama'a
today.
In the beginning the
most joyful sound, the nourishing voice of the Creator saying "exist"
and all things, at the time of existing as the hearing perception starts
functioning, hear and come to exist. From the ray of this enlivened voice
comprehension began to be accomplished, hearing and speech start to work. From
thence, anytime the beings hear that preexisting voice or a melody similar or
near to that original sound, they become rejoiced and comply with Sama'a. And
the heart of the hearer becomes rejoiced according to the relation of
similarity to the real sound and the
power of that rejoiced helps the hearer to move, to pound the feet to the
ground, to scatter the hands to the sky, to whirl and go in harmony with
existence towards the origin.
The existence is rhythmic,
circular and based on movements and whirling. According to the order of
creation, the value of intellect, the dignity and the level of existence beings
are inclined to move in harmony with existence, whirl for the continuation of
life. There is not a particle of the particles
of the existence that is not whirling, dancing or doing the Sama'a towards
completion. Therefore Sama'a has a preexisting antecedents and from distant
time on, different tribes have been doing in proportion to their belief,
nature, state of being, time and place in a way Sama'a. As individual or group,
circular and geometric dances, with special ceremonies, comply contemplative
movements and sacred dances in the manner of signal communication,
demonstration, praising, worshiping and adoration in the nature. There are special places of worship, pagoda,
monastery and temple. Among all the most original of them are the
contemplative, rhythmical, symmetric, asymmetric, divided attention movements,
athletic, tensional and soft corporal work that appeared in the Arian nation
and arrived to Persia and was named "Yega" (derivative of
"Yeganehgi" that means in unity; body, mind and spirit). Later on in
the new Persia it was called "Kiyana" and parts of those movements
went to India and were called "Yoga", and in this manner upon the
appearance of unitarian religions was adapted as Sama'a.
The ceremony of Sama'a that is
presented apply in two parts. The first part is the performance of Kiyana
movements, the daily exercises that are useful for keeping the body in
well-being, good shape and its relation with the mind. Those are necessarily
exercises for preparedness, fitness, unity and the connection of body, mind and
spirit. And with the rhythm they involve causes human reach to a spiritual
accuracy and unite one with a power beyond of what one may be. The geometrical
figures such as point, line, triangle, square, pentagon, polygon and circle
that are presented during the first part are an aspect of moving without
interruption from unity to multitude (from point to circle) and moving from
multitude to unity (from circle to point) and each of these has mysteries and
relations with numerical science and sacred geometry.
The second part of the ceremony
that is being presented is an aspect of a true Sama'a, in order to give the
participants a description and an idea of what a real Sama'a may be like. In
this manner according to the level of the state and the condition the present
participations have arrive at, an aid from above may manifest and the
imaginative faculty, get empowered from celestial world; the veil of separation
get removed and a sight of the world of imagination may be manifest and the
inner faculties may conceive the world of angles.
In the way of teaching
this work, the book “Sama'a, Light of the Light of the Light” by Javad
Tehranian has been published in four languages, English, Farsi, French and
German, and distributed. According to the invitation of holistic, spiritual,
cultural and art centers around the world, conferences, presentations and
workshops will be given so that it gives a taste of the nectar of rejoice to
those with interest.
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