- Ordinarily, we are aware of only one level of speech. We are awareonly of the speech of our inert physical tongue, just as we are aware only of our physical body and senses.
- Yet the physical body is only the body of the waking state. Within the Physical body is the subtle body into which we enter when we dream.
- Beyond that is the causal body, in which we experience deep sleep.
- beyond the causal body is the supracausal body, the body of pure light, in which we experience the state of true meditation, the transcendental state called turiya.
Just as we have these four bodies, one within the other, we also have four levels of speech, which are linked with the four bodies.
- The name of the *gross level of speech*, the speech of the physical tongue, is *vaikari.*
- The second level of speech is called *madhyama;* it corresponds to the *subtle body* and is located in the throat region.
- The third level of speech, called *pashyanti,* corresponds to the *causal body* and is located in the region of the heart.
- The fourth and highest level of speech is located in the navel region. That is *Paravani.* Paravani is the level of sound as pure, unmanifest Consciousness, the level of the Self. It pervades everything
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