In Hinduism a disciple is called a chelah or, as it exists in ancient Hebrew, selah.  It is recognized that s and ch are interchangeable according to the principles of alliteration. So the word after, and within, many of the psalms, Selah, is not really a musical signature denoting suspension.  It is a notation signifying that either that the music was composed by a disciple or supplicant of Deity, or that it was time for the selah, or disciple, to sing or chant.  One person intones a chant and others repeat it, or one person intones a chant and others add to it.  It is a practice that exists universally in the cultures of the world.

   We must recognize that David, who scrupulously shared the booty of his conquests with his fellow warriors, is shown to be egalitarian in the sharing of property.  As in times of conquest, so too in times of celebration, when David and his followers relaxed and sang songs, it was not only the songs of the leader that were honored, but also the songs of other members of the tribe, each of whom were known, as Hindus were known individually, as a selah, or, in Sanskrit, chelah.   Another word for chela, selah, disciple or supplicant, that is, one who petitions, is devotee.
 

1. It signified the anonymous authorship of the song.
2. It marked a time when the disciple or selah was to chant or sing.

  So the word in the middle of and after many of the psalms, Selah, is not an instrumental musical signature denoting suspension, but a notice for the selah or disciple to respond to, or recite, a passage of the psalm.  As such the selah might simply repeat what was already sung or chanted, as is done among many groups, including Hindu and Buddhist groups, or the selah might sing or chant a recognized response.

    In the tribe of David any disciple or selah could write and compose a song about or to Deity.  To a Deity who cares infinitely all sincerity is welcome. So the selahs, the disciples of Deity, made up their songs.  One of the things that is accomplished by understanding the meaning of Selah or Chelah, is that the appearance of the term Selah occurs 71 times, and each time it appears it shows that the disciple's songs were equally regarded, much as is done in Rainbow gatherings, anarchistic groups, and, of course, in gatherings of Hindus and Buddhists in which songs composed by the devotee are welcome.

  And the signature selah at the end of a psalm was simply a humble and nameless admission that the words of the psalm were composed by the chelah or selah, whose humility made him or her nameless.  In short, the selah or chela in 71 of the psalms is a statement that the song or the psalm is from a devotee of Deity. It is a humble admission of one's devotion to the original deities of the Jews who were also the deities of the Hindus.

    We shall see below that the various attributes of a Selah or Chelah are defined in ancient Hebrew.  The Selah is a supplicant, one who petitions Deity and his spiritual teacher for more knowledge, wisdom and piety, one who prays, consults.  The word appropriately also means a rock or stronghold of the faith. All of these appropriately fit in with the notion of the Chelah in Hinduism.

   Jesus referred to the term rock or Petros when addressing Peter as the foundation of his church in a manner that was consistent with the meaning of the city Selah as named and renamed by the Nabateans and the Greeks.

  And Muhammad used the term in Arabic, Salat, to denote prayer.

   Strong's Hebrew Dictionary in his Concordance to the Old and New Testament makes the connection between a supplicant, one praying to Deity.

2470 chalah, pray, make prayer, to make suit, to make a supplication.

The above Hebrew word chalah is of course virtually identical to the Sanskrit chelah, as is the word celah immediately following, which in ancient Hebrew is identical to Selah.  The following definitions contains the typical misconception
of the meaning of Selah.

5542: celah, from 5541, suspension (of music), to pause. Selah.

5537 cala, to suspend in a balance.

7596 Shelah a petition, loan, request.

7596: from 7592, a question (at law), a petition; , a loan, a petition, a request.

 7592 shaal, or shael, to inquire, to consult, to desire, pray, salute.

7593 sheel ask, demand, require.
 

The word and name was pervasive in the earliest days of Judaism.

4527 Sala, of Hebrew origin, i.e. Shelach, a patriarch:--Sala

   In the entree above, Sala, we see the patriarch was named as a disciple of God, of Shiva or Vishnu. And below, in the name Shelah, we have a demonstration that the postdiluvian patriarch was a devotee or supplicant of the Hindu deities that orthodox Judaism has suppressed. A supplicant or Chelah is one who requests a closer union with Deity.

7956 Shelah, shay-law, the same as

7596, request; Shelah, the name of a postdiluvian patriarch and of an Israelite.
 

  Selah is from a similar root of the following words indicating exaltation, which a true disciple sometimes feels when relating to  divinity, and the term suspension may also be seen as relevant, but not as a suspension in the musical time, but as the state of a disciple before being fully initiated.  The following definitions all relate to this central concept.

5553 cela, an unused root meaning to be lofty, a stronghold.

The cela is a lofty stronghold of his faith or religion.

5559 celiq, a primitive root meaning to ascend, come up.

The selah through his faith ascends closer to divinity.

5539 calad, to leap with joy

5540 Celed, from 5539, exultation, Seled, an Israelite

7596: from 7592, a question (at law), a petition; , a loan, a petition, a request.

 7592 shaal, or shael, to inquire, to consult, to desire, pray, salute.

7593 sheel ask, demand, require.

5542: celah, from 5541, suspension (of music), to pause. Selah.

2470 chalah, pray, make prayer, to make suit, to make a supplication.

 Moreover, the psalms are obviously prayers in the form of psalms, and many of them are indeed petitions to God

   Even The KJV Old Testament Hebrew Lexicon admits that the orthodox definition of Selah as a musical suspension is uncertain.  In so doing however it presents Selah as Celah, bringing it even closer to the Hindu Chelah. Moreover, Selah is accepted as meaning Rock.
 

   A historical irony occurred when the city of Selah was occupied by the Nabatu or Nabateans, who were known for not excavating the earth. When the Nabateans occupied Selah they called it rock or rekem. The Greeks later called the city Petra meaning Rock, as it was known in the time of Jesus. The fact that a place named Selah, disciple, was renamed Rock by the pure Nabateans, and that it was renamed Petra, meaning Rock, by the Greeks, was not lost on Jesus.  The Nabateans who named Selah Rock were like the renunciate Jains and Brahmins of India and the Jewish Rechabites, none of which groups believed in excavating the earth and disturbing the animal populations there. The Nabateans thus represented a basic purity that existed in the earliest days of Judaism when the morality of the Book of Enoch and the vegetarian covenant of Genesis 1: 29 still dominated.  Jesus said he came to reinstate the true original laws of Judaism. Thus, when Jesus said to Peter, "Thou art Cephas, or Rock, and upon this Rock I build my church," he did so in the historical context of these facts, Jesus' mind combining the different aspects of purity that were evoked by Selah. So Jesus was saying in his statement to Peter that the true disciple or Selah (Chelah) is in fact a stronghold, a rock, a fortress of the faith.

  The character of Peter should not be seen as accurately portrayed in the New Testament in which "Acts," the epistles attributed to him and Paul's discussion of Peter's actions paint him as a backslider who supposedly had a vision portraying all foods as clean, who regarded animals as creatures of instinct meant to be killed and eaten, and who ate the food of the Gentiles.  In fact, more reliable information about Peter is seen in the Clementine literature, in which Peter is staunchly vegetarian.
 

   A person who was unquestionably a Rock or Fortress of the faith was Enoch, who was so pure that he did not die and he walked with God.  Do we know the morality of Enoch?  No thanks to the Jewish orthodoxy who relegated the Ethiopic Book of Enoch to the realm of Apocrypha, and thus to the realm of that which is unexamined and unstudied by the orthodoxy, we nonetheless are able to see the utter simplicity and purity of the morality of Enoch, who was chosen by Deity to write the book.  The Book of Enoch absolutely condemns all bloodshed, whether of other animals or humans, seeing all bloodshed as demonic in origin, as did the original Quran, and condemns all actions which alter creation as it is, such as mining and cosmetics.  Enoch was certainly a Chelah or Selah of the pure Hindu renunciate religion, and he in fact names his son Methuselah, Methu-Selah.
 

    Son of Enoch and the father of Lamech, the father of Noah, Methuselah is the grandfather of Noah, and he has come to represents an epitome of longevity. What the orthodox don't say, however, is that Methuselah was a vegetarian.    For there is utterly no reason to doubt that Enoch, Methuselah, Lamech, and Noah represent the pure vegetarian lineage of original Judaism.  One of the definitions of Methuselah's name is that he was a man of the dart, or, let us say, one whose dart hits the target, that is, a man of truth.  Another definition of his name, which is perfectly fitting, is that Methuselah means the man of Selah, which was certainly true since Methuselah was the son of Enoch, and the Book of Enoch is unarguably one of the most pure books of Scripture in the world, for it justifies no type of oppression whatsoever, no sacrifice of  other animals nor of humans, and no disturbance of creation as it is.  And in the process of naming his son Methu-selah, Enoch himself confirms that he is of the Hindu tradition of Chelahs, or Selahs.