Rehnadee Shum is the dialect of the Shum Language that Shum Sanctuary uses.

Rehnadee Shum–A Dialect of Shum

Rehnadee Shum is the dialect of Shum that Shum Sanctuary uses. I created Rehnadee Shum with the spiritual guidance of Guru Omkar. To differentiate Rehnadee Shum from the Shum my guru taught me I have coined the name Mamadee Shum to refer to my guru's Shum for this article. Mamadee is a Shum nickname for my guru. The direction to create Rehnadee Shum came to me clairaudiently from Guru Omkar, one of my divine guides. In this article I will elucidate the differences and similarities that is in Rehnadee Shum and Mamadee Shum.

The Shum Portraits, their meanings, meditation techniques and other associated articles and content in Shum Sanctuary are of Rehnadee Shum.  Before I proceed further with this article I would like to note that this is an academic article. It is not required for you to know this information to use the Rehnadee Shum for your meditations. If you are curious about the evolution from Mamadee Shum to Rehnadee Shum then read on. 

 

Rehnadee Shum Origin

If you read the Webmaster's Intro, you will know that I was drawn to my guru–or Gurudeva–to learn about my religion, Hinduism. I had an innate interest in meditation, but in my early years of study and association with my guru and his monastic clergy who travelled to Malaysia, the study was all about Hindu philosophy. Occasionally in some of the public events that Gurudeva presided over, in the introduction before he gave his discourse it was mentioned that he was the creator of the Shum language–A Language of Meditation. Beyond that introduction Shum I didn't learn any Shum either from Gurdeva's discourses nor did his travelling clergy teach it at the time. I learned my first Shum words and a Shum meditation on my first visit to Gurudeva's monastery in the Garden Island of Kauai, Hawaii, in 1991. All the residents of the monastery would gather in the morning with Gurudeva for a Shum group meditation. During that visit I found out that Gurudeva first conceived of the Shum Language in 1969 and developed it through much of the 70's. However in the 80's Gurudeva devoted his efforts into modernising presentations of Hindu philosophy and culture among his lay disciples to the exclusion of Shum except for monks of the monastery. 
If I had been a disciple of Gurudeva in the 1970's I would have been inundated with the study and practice of Shum. Starting out as Gurudeva's disciple in the 80's and early 90's, it was all about Hindu philosophy and religious practices. Then in 1995, by which time I joined the ranks of the monastics Gurudeva burst back into developing and teaching Shum to us. I enjoyed most these years of my monastic life when we were learning Shum directly from Gurudeva. 1995 to 2001 was a distinct period of renaissance for Shum proceeding the 70's as Gurudeva created more Shum images and Shum words. He also set out on a monumental task of compiling the Shum Lexicon where all the Shum words that were created in the 70's and 90's were organised in a digital database.  
I was drawn to the Shum language from the very beginning and I would spend hours at a time, usually into the late hours of the night exploring the world of Shum. I had absorbed a lot of words from the Lexicon and they are now an integral part of my life even years after leaving the monastery. When it came to writing content for Shum Sanctuary it would have been just as easy for me to churn out what I had learned from Gurudeva and present it but my spiritual guide Guru Omkar insisted I create Rehnadee Shum. The development of Rehnadee Shum started in 2020 with the development of its rules for the Structure and Syntax or Rehnadee Shum. These rules came to me by way of meditation within the 9th Dimension where Guru Omkar would give me thought evolutes that were eventually deciphered into the rules, structure and syntax of Rehnadee Shum. 

 

Differences between Rehnadee Shum and Mamadee Shum

During the two periods when Gurudeva brought down Shum he had created different set of rules for the language each time. The most substantial rule added to the Shum language in the 90's that wasn't there in the 70's is what I call the Shum Compendium. In the 70's a Shum word was one word with one meaning. Then in the 90's the Shum Compendium Rule created a structure that allowed for words within a word, ( You can learn more about Shum Compendiums from Shum Structure and Syntax), so a mystical experience, its associated meditation technique and the philosophy behind the experience resides in a word, whereas without the rule as it was in the 70's a word would have to be created for each aspect of a mystical experience. Gurudeva in his Shum-Tyeif Lexicon did bridge most of the words from the 70's to the 90's rules but not all. This left some Shum words that cannot contain Compendiums with legacy issues. For instance the names of the Dimensions which cannot carry Compendiums were left as is. Standardising the Compendium Rule with the legacy words was in some cases impossible, such as with conjugate words such as with Emkaeef;. Rehnadee Shum adresses these issues and standardised all its words into two different categories of words; Compendiums that carried words within a word and Image-Portraits which are stand-alone conjugate words. I also got instructions form Guru Omkar to create the Dimension Count Rules which represents a major development in Rehnadee Shum from a more rudimentary system of counting the dimensions in Mamadee Shum. The differences and similarities between Mamadee Shum and Rehnadee Shum are listed below.

 

1. Coined Lables Unique to Rehnadee Shum

To organise Rehnadee Shum I've coined the phrases as follows:

Rehnadee Shum Images List: Rehnadee Shum's alphabet list has all the Images (Rehnadee Shum alphabets) that can be used to create Shum Portraits (Rehnadee Shum words). There are 108 Rehnadee Shum Images in this list which are largely the same as the Images in Mamadee Shum save a few changes  listed in the 4th item of this article.
This link takes you to the Rehnadee Shum Images List. 

Shum Compendium: The compilation of related words within a word. A Shum Portrait that is more than two images long will contain more than one word. By dropping the left-most image one by one a new word is created from the first and longest word. These words are related by association of evolution of meaning or containing instructions for a method related to the meaning of the first word. Both Rehnadee Shum and Mamadee Shum uses Shum Compendiums but the rules that govern them have difference. The differences are explained in the 2nd item.

Shum Image-Portraits: Image-Portraits are stand alone single Images that are Portraits, that is each of these is a word. These single Portraits are not part of the Shum Images List and cannot be connected to other Shum Images to create a different word. Rehnadee Shum Image-Portraits are reserved for words that name mystical experiences, names and philosophy that have no constituent parts that can be used to make a Compendium. 

Sound Shape: Part of a Shum image that makes it distinct from other images and carries its sound.

Connection Stem: Part of a Shum image that helps to connect it with other images to form Shum Portraits. The connection stem can be omitted or transformed according to the rules in Shum Calligraphy.

Dimension Count: The dimension value (from 1 to 14) that a Shum Image, Portrait or Image-Portrait carries. The Dimension Count Rules are unique to Rehnadee Shum and is the most significant difference between Rehnadee Shum and Mamadee Shum.

Detail explanation of how all these rules are used in Rehnadee Shum can be found in the following link: Rehnadee Shum–Structure and Syntax 

 

2. Shum Compendium Rules
Gurudeva created the Compendium Rules (though he didn't call them that) in the second phase of development of the Shum language in the mid 90's. The word within words ability to encapsulate a mystical experience with its corresponding meditation technique and philosophy was revolutionary. Rehnadee Shum also uses the Compendium Rule with some modifications. A rule that follows Mamadee Shum's Compendium Rule that Rehnadee Shum does not follow is the Shum words nickname. Here is an example:
KaMaKaDeeEeSawReh is the Seventh Chakra in Mamadee Shum. Using the Compendium Rule means that–MaKaDeeEeSawReh, KaDeeEeSawReh, DeeEeSawReh, EeSawReh and SawReh–are 5 more words of this Compendium. The Shum word nickname locks-in this combination of Shum Images to its immediate partners. It is such that if I say KaMa, it can only mean KaMaKaDeeEeSawReh. It follows that, MaKa is MaKaDeeEeSawReh; KaDee is KaDeeEeSawReh; DeeEe is DeeEeSawReh; EeSaw is EeSawReh; and SawReh. Gurudeva created this rule for the benefit of the person leading a guided meditation. The leader of a guided meditation must speak the Shum Portrait as a command for his group to follow. However if the Shum word is long, like a 10th dimensional word it would interrupt the leader's own meditation to speak out the entire word. To circumvent this Gurudeva created the two-images nickname for a word. 
The draw back of this rule is that the Shum image partners are locked to each other and cannot be used to form other words. A clear way to understand this effect is if we imagined applying this rule to English. English has only 26 alphabets and lets say APPLE was a Shum word. Following the nickname rule this means if I were to write AP, it has to be proceeded by PLE, also PP would be tied to LE, PL means PLE and L will be inextricably tied to E. This will severly limit the vocabulary in English to only the possible combinations tied to the last two letters of a word.
This is true for Mamadee Shum. When a Shum Portrait is formed its Shum Images combinations are locked to their immediate partners and cannot be used in other Portraits. This rule reduces the flexibility of the language in vocabulary growth and it also complicates word creation as you would have to check with other words meticulously to not repeat Image combinations. To compensate for this limitation Gurudeva added 36 more Images in '95s to the original 72 Images he created in the '70s. Thus the 108 Shum Images. 
Rehnadee Shum does not use the nickname rule of the Shum Compendiums leaving the language more flexible for the creation of Portraits. To address the need for shorter large Dimension Count Portraits, Rehnadee Shum's more effective Dimension Count rules compensate. For instance a 10th dimensional Shum Portrait in Mamadee Shum needs a minimum four Shum images, in Rehnadee Shum a minimum of two Images can carry 10 dimensions or more. 

 

3. The Dimension Count
Every Shum Portrait is connected to one of the 14 Dimensions. This dimension information is necessary for the meditation on a Portrait as it directs the focus of concentration to the area of the body where the experience resides or can be stimulated (this is related to the position of the chakras in the body). Rehnadee Shum has the Dimension Count Rules that have evolved from more rudimentary ones found in Mamadee Shum. In Rehnadee Shum each Shum Image has its own Dimension Count. The value of this count is determined by the Inherent Count of an image plus the values provided by conjunctions and diacritical marks. Details of the Dimension Count rules of Rehnadee Shum can be found in Rehnadee Shum Structure and Syntax. The Shum Images List which lists the Inherent Dimension Count of each image can be viewed from this link.
In comparison Dimension Count in Mamadee Shum is for more simple where all Shum Images in a Portrait basically carry the value of one dimension except for Images that have the diacritical mark 'Ff'. This comma like mark carries the dimension value of three and when added to and Image the combination is 4 dimension counts. In Mamadee Shum all other conjunct and diacritical marks (apart from the Ff comma) carry no dimension count value in a Shum Portrait except when they are used to form Image-Portraits where all the conjunct marks have a dimension count value. In Rehnadee Shum I have standardised the Dimension Count so all the conjuct and diacritical marks carry dimension count values whether they appear in Portraits or Image-Portraits. Rehnadee Shum also has more varieties of diacritical marks than in Mamadee Shum.

 

4. Rehnadee Shum Images List–Similarities and Differences
The Shum Images List of Rehnadee Shum and the Shum-Tyeif Alphabets of Mamadee Shum is mostly the same. There are just a few differences as is shown below. Apart from these changes in shape and sound the ordering of the Images in the lists are different. In Mamadee Shum the order of the Images follows a chant that helps with memorising the Image list. In Rehnadee Shum I've used a logic that groups a base image with its conjuncts and diacritical derivatives. The order of the base image follows the Primary 18 Shum Images. 

 

5. Shum or Shum-Tyeif?
In Shum Sanctuary, Shum or Shum language is occasionally used to refer to Rehnadee Shum to make a sentence flow better. In Mamadee Shum, Shum-Tyeif also referres to the Shum language. Tyeif (Tyaeef in Rehnadee Shum) is a different language that Gurudeva had conceived. Gurudeva explained to me that Tyaeef is a language that is used beyond the 10th dimension and it deals with extra-terrestrial spiritual experiences. It has to do with mystical travels to planets beyond Earth and how one can learn to be sensitive to the gravity of other planets of our solar system and the constellation of stars around us "to slingshot to those planets." Unfortunately Gurudeva never got to develop this language as his health began to deteriorate in 2001 and later that year he passed on. Shum Sanctuary is only dedicated to the Shum language. The Tyaeef language is beyond the scope of Shum Sanctuary and I have been told by Guru Omkar the Tyaeef language is only functional when the soul body is fully developed and the mystic is not bound to a physical body anymore. 

 

Conclusion
This is an academic article and if you are among of the people who had studied Shum with Gurudeva in the 1970's you may appreicate the differences between Rehnadee Shum and Mamadee Shum. At that time you would have probably called Gurudeva Mamadee. If this is your first exposure to the Shum language, here in Shum Sanctuary, then article is an 'FYI'. Either way Shum, both Rehnadee and Mamadee, can enhance your meditations by opening you to a wondorous world that each and everyone of us carries around inside of us. Happy exploring.