Vibration

Vibration (Skt. नाद, Naad, Oscillation, Vibration) is the smallest possible change.

Vibration is the most fundamental change.

Vibration is the simplest pattern.

Vibration is the simplest process.

Vibrations form complex patterns and if they stabilise, we get memory. Patterns of vibrations in the memory are perceived as objects, sensations, emotions, thoughts, desires etc. That is, all experience reduces to vibrations.

Establishing Vibration

It can be established by the adopted means of knowledge, which are - the direct experience and logic.

All that can be experienced is changing. Nothing is static. Some changes are slow, some are fast, some are simple, some are complex, but all changes are made up of smaller changes. Any experience can be subdivided into a series of smaller changes, and when we can no longer divide it further, the change that remains is the smallest change. This smallest change is named as a Vibration.

The experiences do not dissolve into nothing, they reduce to the smallest change. It is logically impossible to produce a change out of no-change. If there is a change, it must originate from change, not from no-change. Also, no-change is no experience, in other words, no-change cannot be established as it will be never seen.

The smallest possible change is necessarily a two state change or binary change. There is no possibility of a one state change, as it would not be a change. We need at least one state changing to another and back to get a change, one state "changing" to itself is not a change.

So, vibrations are binary state changes.

Examples of binary change:

A ↔ B, UP ↔ DOWN, 0 ↔ 1, YES ↔ NO, etc.

Here various names or symbols are representing a state and the double arrows represent state transition.

Since all experience is reduced to vibrations and vibrations are binary, all experience can be considered as a binary computation in the virtual memory. In this way our experience comes very close to a simulation, but is not a simulation, it is an illusion.

Cyclic Change

Vibrations are necessarily cyclic. Two state change means that there is no third state to go to (fundamentally), and the state returns to the first state. So the simplest change is cyclic in nature.

If it goes to a third state, it is no longer the simplest change and can be broken down into two binary changes. For example:

A→B→C = A→B + B→C

Here A, B, C are states, and → sign is a state transition.

Now we can try to find cyclicity in our everyday experience, and that is all we find. Experiences repeat. There are cycles everywhere, atomic cycles, planetary cycles, seasons, day and night, death and birth, pain and pleasure, sleeping and waking, happiness and suffering etc.

As time is derived out of change, and change is fundamentally cyclic, time is also cyclic. Everything happens in cycles, we say roughly. Events repeat in circles. What goes up comes down and so on.

The cycles we experience are a fractal outcome of the cyclicity of the vibrations. This is not really surprising, but eye opening.

Duality

All experiences are dual in nature, which means, there are ups and downs, there are opposites of everything. Dark and light, high and low, peace and war, construction and destruction, rise and fall, health and sickness, joy and misery, youth and old age etc. etc. Our experience is of duality.

A metaphorical way of seeing it is - experience is like a pencil sketch on a white paper, we need the dark marks on the white paper for there to be any picture. In the same way, our experiences are what they are because there is duality, else there would be a non-experience of nothing.

The duality is a direct fractal consequence of the vibrations being dual. The state changes to opposite binary poles. As we have seen, there is no other possibility.

The duality is also known as Polarity.

So our experiences are not only cyclic, they are polar or dual also. And it is not surprising that when we look closely, we see that experiences tend to find a balance, and when they do, there is least change. Nature is trying to find this equilibrium.

Frequency

As can be easily established from observations and logic, change can be faster or slower. Which means the vibrations can be faster or slower.

Frequency is the rate of change of a binary vibration. It is a count of times a binary change happens when compared to a standard change. The standard can be arbitrary. So, the frequency is relative.

When the rate of binary change is fast we call it higher frequency vibration, and vice versa.

Logically, there is no limit to the rate of change, so there are infinite frequencies. The lower limit is zero, which never happens, as it would mean no-change, and the higher limit is infinity, which is only a concept, the frequencies continue to rise infinitely and the continuously fall infinitely.

As there is no constraint whatsoever, and as all patterns are formed out of vibrations, there is no constraint on the number of patterns or types of patterns. We can say that there are infinite possibilities. In common language we say that the creation is infinite.

Combinations of vibrations of various frequencies form patterns of vibrations. They form all our experience. See the main article on pattern and memory for more information.

Stratum

What are these vibrations of?

The answer is very simple - nothing. Vibrations are theoretical. It is just a name. We gave this name to the smallest possible change. There is no vibration, as an entity in itself. So there is no question of its origin, it is an assumption. A convenient tool, or hypothesis to study our experience.

As we have seen, the change is an illusion, there is no real change. And since vibration is a change, it is also not real. Vibrations are illusory too.

Experiences are not derived out of vibrations, vibrations are assumed out of experiences. We should not forget this, and we should not put the cart before the horse.

There is no stratum of vibrations. They appear. That's all.

Existence and Vibration

One can say that it is the Existence itself that is vibrating and is producing all experiences within itself. But this is not so accurate. It is more accurate to say that the Existence is nondual and experiences are the illusory face of it, and the experiences can be assumed to be made up of vibrations.

There is no vibration is Existence, and there is vibration in Existence, there is absence of vibration in Existence and there is no absence of vibration there. Such sentences describe the relation between Existence and vibration. They are designed to stop the logical thoughts, as Existence is something which cannot be known by thinking about it, it is unknowable, or beyond intellect.

Location and Time

Vibrations are nonlocal and nontemporal.

Locations and temporality are derived out of processes in the memory.

Nature of Vibration

Vibrations are nonphysical and nonmental in nature. We can call them NPNM vibration in short. This is because the illusion of a physical or mental object is produced out of processes in the memory, which is nothing but stable vibrations, the vibrations must have a nature that is beyond physical or mental kinds of experiences.

We can call them Metaphysical Vibrations. But they are Metamental also. There is no essential difference between the so called physical and mental experiences, all these kinds of experiences are just different kinds of vibrations, different combinations of higher or lower frequencies of vibration.

We can also say that the nature of vibrations is emptiness. Since nothing is vibrating, there is no substance or strata that are vibrating, it is essentially empty.

Hence all experiences, which are nothing but vibrations, are also empty. We experience nothing but emptiness.

Since emptiness can appear in infinite illusory names and forms, we can say that the emptiness has infinite possibilities.

We can say that there is nothing in the Existence except just infinite possibilities, unmanifested but infinite potentiality is this Existence.

Existence is the Experiencer that is Experiencing itself as a series of limited experiences, that seems to be happening in time, and seem to change, and seem to be made up of vibrations, but nothing is actually happening, nothing is there to happen.

Vibrations in Modern Science

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