Phoneme and Mental and Supramental Vibrations

Abstract

Word is a form of sound. Sri Aurobindo reveals human speech to be ‘a particular application of the principle of sound, a vibration made by pressure of the breath in its passage through the throat and mouth’. Mind is responsible for such a phenomenon, he says. In his yogic consciousness, he further reveals a plane of existence beyond the plane of Mind, the ‘Supramental’ he calls it. It gives birth to the existence of the plane of Mind. It is, therefore, ultimately responsible for the creation of word, or to say, linguistic sign. The present paper aims to reveal that the sound on the material plane, of which phoneme is a unit, is pregnant with the supramental consciousness and force. In this view, the world of linguistics has to transcend the plane of physicality in the being of man to have a true picture of the creation of sound, of which word is a form as stated earlier.