Return to the Root Part 1: Mathematics and Mantra
Return to the Root: Mathematics & the Mantra Part 1 Why Mathematics, Music, Art & Dance Were Never Separate There was a time when knowledge was not divided into subjects. No one asked whether a child was good at mathematics or music, logic or art. Learning was seen as a single flowing experience , much like life itself. Only later did we cut this flow into compartments. Yet, deep inside, many of us still feel something strange and beautiful - a pull towards music, rhythm, art, movement, or patterns - without knowing why. This is not confusion. This is memory . Everything Begins with Vibration Before numbers were written, before formulas were memorised, before alphabets were formed — there was sound . Ancient Indian thinkers observed a simple truth: Whatever exists, vibrates. Sound vibrates Light vibrates Thoughts vibrate Even silence has vibration Mathematics was born as the study of order within vibration . Music became measured sound . Dance became geometry in motion . Art be...