​Is meditation on sound preferable to silent meditation?

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to silent meditation? Both meditations are potent. Both meditations can help us to raise our consciousness. The difference is in terms of accessibility and efficacy.
Accessibility means how easily we can connect with it and efficacy means how fast is the effect. Our consciousness is usually channeled outwards. See, I told that the mind is like the door from which the consciousness goes out.
Now, this door leads to further five windows. The five windows are the five senses, the eyes, ears, nose, skin, tongue. So, through all these, our consciousness is routed outwards.
And one way to become spiritual is to just withdraw the consciousness inwards, to make the senses inactive. So, silent meditation focuses on this method, to just avoid the outward movement of consciousness. And speech, often we just chit-chat, we gossip, we talk so many things which just agitate our mind, we distract ourselves by so much talk.
Just become silent and that is helpful. So, this withdrawing of consciousness inwards is helpful when our consciousness is going here and there. At the same time, we are by nature not inactive.
We may be inactive for some time, but our nature is to be active. So, inactive or silent meditation, it actually cannot be sustained for very long very easily because it is not according to our nature. By nature itself we are active.
So, when we do mantra meditation, we are channeling our tendency to be active. Same consciousness which is going outwards, we give it a channel to go outwards spiritually. Throughout the sound, through the vocal cords, through the sound.
So, when we chant the mantra, at that time, that mantra itself is spiritual. The sound which we are uttering through our tongue, but that sound is like, you know, in Scrabble, there will be all kinds of letters A, B, C, D, E, F, G put over there. Now, those letters, they are random.
But if those letters are brought together in a sentence, there can be a timeless proverb over there. There is so much wisdom within it. So, there is a random combination of letters and there is a meaningful combination of letters, which is so much more potent.
So, like that, there can be many sounds which we can utter, but the mantra contains sound that are arranged in a specific pattern. In a specific pattern, sounds which are arranged in a specific pattern, and this sound actually correlates with the highest reality. So, the mantra Hare Krishna, Hare Krishna when we chant, this sound vibration, it correlates with the source of all reality.
And that’s why that connectedness with the whole is much faster. So, it’s like first I withdraw my consciousness, and then I find where to focus my consciousness, then I focus my consciousness there. So, it’s a gradual process.
It’s not so easy to withdraw, but because by nature we are active. So, if we channel our consciousness through sound, then we are engaging in activity. So, there is, even we have musical meditation, where we have kirtans, and we sing mantras.
So, there, not only the speech is there, but the tendency of music is also there. And it all gets channeled, and that way it is more accessible, because our nature is to be active. And further, because that particular sound is connected with the source intrinsically.
So, that’s why chanting any sound will not have the same effect as chanting the sound of mantras, particular mantras, because, yeah, that correlates with higher reality. Just like any letter, if I put, that doesn’t have any meaning. But if there is a letter which is arranged in a sentence, that has meaning.
Any piece of paper doesn’t have meaning. But if it’s currency note, any piece of paper may not have value. Currency note has so much value.
So, like that, the sound which is, the sound vibration which comprise the mantras, they correlate with the higher reality. And that’s why the efficacy is much more. So, any form of, for those who are not meditating at all, any form of meditation is good.
But for those who have limited time and those who would like to get the maximum benefit, then the mantra meditation is most accessible and it is the most efficacious. Yeah, some other question? Yeah. So, where is memory stored? Is it stored in the