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The Meaning of Om
Before the beginning, the Brahman (absolute reality) was one and non-dual. It thought, "I am only one -- may I become many." This caused a vibration which eventually became sound, and this sound was Om. Creation itself was set in motion by the vibration of Om. The closest approach to Brahman is that first sound, Om. Thus, this sacred symbol has become emblematic of Brahman just as images are emblematic of material objects. The vibration produced by chanting Om in the physical universe corresponds to the original vibration that first arose at the time of creation. The sound of Om is also called Pranava, meaning that it sustains life and runs through Prana or breath. Om also represents the four states of the Supreme Being. The three sounds in Om (AUM) represent the waking, dream and deep sleep states and the silence which surrounds Om represents the "Turiya" state. Because the first of the three states of consciousness is the waking state, it is represented by the sound "A" pronounced like "A" in accounting. Because the dream state of consciousness lies between the waking and the deep sleep states, it is represented by the letter "U" which lies between the "A" and "M". This "U" is pronounced like the "U" in would. The last state of consciousness is the deep sleep state and is represented by "M" pronounced as in "sum." This closes the pronunciation of Om just as deep sleep is the final stage of the mind at rest. Whenever Om is recited in succession there is an inevitable period of silence between two successive Oms. This silence represents the "fourth state" known as "Turiya" which is the state of perfect bliss when the individual self recognizes his identity with the supreme.

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Just as the sound of Om represents the four states of Brahman, the symbol Om written in Sanskrit also represents everything. The material world of the waking state is symbolized by the large lower curve. The deep sleep state is represented by the upper left curve. The dream state, lying between the waking state below and the deep sleep state above, emanates from the confluence of the two. The point and semicircle are separate from the rest and rule the whole. The point represents the turiya state of absolute consciousness. The open semicircle is symbolic of the infinite and the fact that the meaning of the point can not be grasped if one limits oneself to finite thinking.

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The Power of Chanting Om


1. The chanting of Om drives away all worldly thoughts and removes distraction and infuses new vigour in the body. 2. When you feel depressed, chant Om fifty times and you will be filled with new vigour and strength. The chanting of Om is a powerful tonic. When you chant Om, you feel you are the pure, all pervading light and consciousness. 3. Those who chant Om will have a powerful, sweet voice. Whenever you take a stroll, you can chant Om. You can also sing Om in a beautiful way. The rythmic pronunciation of Om makes the mind serene and pointed, and infuses the spiritual qualifications which ensure self-realization. 4. Those who do meditation of Om daily will get tremendous power. They will have lustre in their eyes and faces.

Meditation on Om
Retire to a quite place, sit down, close your eyes and completely relax your muscles and nerves. Concentrate on the space between your eyebrows and quieten and silence the conscious mind. Begin to repeat "Om" mentally while associating the ideas of infinity, eternity, immortality, etc. You must repeat Om with the feeling that you are the infinite and all-pervading. Mere repetition of Om will not bring the desired result. Keep the meaning of Om always at heart. Feal Om. Feel that you are the pure, perfect, all-knowing, eternal, free, Brahman. Feel that you are absolute consciousness and the infinite, unchanging existance. Every part of your body should powerfully vibrate with these ideas. This feeling should be kept up all day long. Practice regularly and steadily with sincerity, faith, perseverance and enthusiasm in the morning, midday and evening.

Mantras
There are many mantras used in worship. The first is always the Moola Manthirum. This mantra forms the foundation which supports all the others. It was not written by a person but was given to us directly from Amma Herself in Her oracle. This mantra has enormous power. Some of the benefits conferred by reciting the Moola Mantra are: 1. The Divine energy freely flows from the feet of Amma to the different systems of the body. The holy vibrations penetrate all the cells and revitalize the entire system. 2. Eradication of one's Karma. 3. Gives you what you rightfully deserve. 4. Helps solve ailments and genuine problems. 5. Confers blessings leading to prosperity and a happy life. 6. Helps one to reach the highest spiritual pedestal (Mukti). 7. Prevents fatal accidents.

Each type of pooja or velvi has specific mantras which are recited at a certain time during the ritual. The long mantras have either 108 or 1008 lines and are concluded with a short mantra of three lines and three om's. The mantras recited during mandram pooja in America are shown below. Amma has given us permission to omit the 1008 line mantra which is normally recited because She says we are so busy and have little time. All mandrams in India, however, recite the 1008 as is normally required. The number 108 has been considered sacred for thousands of years in India. The origin of this number probably lies in astronomy. The average distance from the sun and moon to the earth is 108 times each of
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their respective diameters. This is true to an accuracy of 0.5% for the Sun and 2% for the Moon. The thought that this was known so long ago is amazing. Like all tantric mantras each line is preceded by om and concluded with om. These characteristics give the mantras great potency.

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Moola Mantra Bangaaru Adigalei Saranam Bangaaru Adigalaar 108 108 Theeruvadi Pohtri Malarkhal 108 Pohtri Thiruvuru Waahlttu!

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Includes the mantras in the order they are to be recited for poojas in the United States. This differs from the mantras used for pooja elsewhere because Amma said that poojas in the US should not take too long.

With the exception of the Moola Mantra, the task of writing all the mantras was given to specific people by Amma and they wrote them under Adhiparasakthi's divine guidance. Two of the 1008 mantras were written by two individuals who were once staunch atheists before they met Amma. The mantras written by people were given their power when they were presented to Amma after completion and She imbued them with power. For velvis and yagnas there are many more mantras which must be recited and no exceptions are given in these requirements. Specific mantras are required at various steps during the preparation and conduction of the ceremony to ensure that everything is done correctly. Back | Next

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The Meaning of Om

The Meaning of Om
Before the beginning, the Brahman (absolute reality) was one and nondual. It thought, "I am only one -- may I become many." This caused a vibration which eventually became sound, and this sound was Om. Creation itself was set in motion by the vibration of Om. The closest approach to Brahman is that first sound, Om. Thus, this sacred symbol has become emblematic of Brahman just as images are emblematic of material objects. The vibration produced by chanting Om in the physical universe corresponds to the original vibration that first arose at the time of creation. The sound of Om is also called Pranava, meaning that it sustains life and runs through Prana or breath. Om also represents the four states of the Supreme Being. The three sounds in Om (AUM) represent the waking, dream and deep sleep states and the silence which surrounds Om represents the "Turiya" state. Because the first of the three states of consciousness is the waking state, it is represented by the sound "A" pronounced like "A" in accounting. Because the dream state of consciousness lies between the waking and the deep sleep states, it is represented by the letter "U" which lies between the "A" and "M". This "U" is pronounced like the "U" in would. The last state of consciousness is the deep sleep state and is represented by "M" pronounced as in "sum." This closes the pronunciation of Om just as deep sleep is the final stage of the mind at rest. Whenever Om is recited in succession there is an inevitable period of silence between two successive Oms. This silence represents the "fourth state" known as "Turiya" which is the state of perfect bliss when the individual self recognizes his identity with the supreme.

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The Meaning of the Om Symbol


Swami Dayananda Saraswati1 Om is a very beautiful, single syllable word. In Kaopaniad (1-2-15) it is said that: sarve ved yatpadammananti tapsi sarvi ca yadvadanti yadicchanto brahmacarya caranti tatte pada sagrahea bravmyomityetat All the Vedas talk about that goal, to know which, people take to a life of study and discipline, that I will tell you briefly. That is Om. So, this is something desiring which, people take to studious, contemplative and disciplined life sacrificing a lot. And what is that? Om. You cannot be any briefer. Linguistic meaning In Sanskrit, the meaning of Om is avati, or rakati. Rakati means One who protects, sustains. So that which sustains everything is Om. And that which sustains everything is what we have to see as the order. We can go one step further. That order, which is the reality of everything. The order itself is a reality. And so, that which is the essence of the order itself, is Om. That means Om is the name of the Lord, who pervades your being, who pervades everything in the world in the form of niyati, the form of the order that sustains. Lets see how. When we say order is behind everything, it is not behind anything that is here. It is the very thing as such. This is a cup. What makes it a cup? What is the material of the cup? Why does it appear in this particular form?
Transcribed by Amisha Upadhyaya. Edited by Vikas Tipnis and Sharad Pimplaskar. Published in the 10th Anniversary Souvenir of Arsha Vidya Gurukulam, 1996.
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Why it doesnt have another form? Why its material, stainless steel, is not subject to rusting? Why other steel is subject to rusting one which is pigiron? It is all order. And, this form is retained by the order. It is order that makes a thing as it is. That a chair is a chair, is because of the order. Anything that is here is pervaded by this order. This order is vara. What you see is the object and that you can see is the order. In the object itself there is order. Therefore, you are not getting behind the object to find the order. Today it is steel cup. Tomorrow you can call it a steel cup. Therefore, it is in order. If tomorrow it is not a steel cup, then also it is in order. We see that also. Today we see the form of a flower. Tomorrow we find the flower is gone and there is a fruit. Therefore, that is also order. Order means how things are as they are. Everything there is, is maintained by the order, called niyati. meaning of Om. bhta bhavad-bhaviyad-iti sarvam Omkra eva What had happened before, what is now and what will be later everything is just Om. (Mukyopaniad, 1) And the teaching here is to connect that meaning to this word. If the meaning is in my head, and when I bring that vision to you, then there is the whole transaction or, communication. That is teaching. A word or an object, abhidhnam, and its meaning, abhidheyam, are one and the same. When I ask you to bring a pot, you dont write pot P O T and bring it to me. The name and the object which is meant by the name are identical in the sense you cannot think of the word without thinking of the meaning. If you dont know the meaning, then it is not a word it only becomes a group of sounds. Once you know that for this That niyati is vara, the Lord, and is the

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group of sounds this is the meaning, then without thinking of the meaning, you can not think of the word. Thus, Om is a name of the Lord and what He means, the truth of the Lord. Om is not, as they say, the primordial sound. This is all silly. Om is the name for the Lord who is everything. When I say the word Om, you see the meaning. Vedic meaning of Om Om is also used as a symbol, what we call a pratka, for everything this entire universe because Om sustains everything. The entire universe means not only the physical universe, but also the experience there of. Thats the meaning Vedas load in this symbol. Being an oral tradition, Vedas explain Om as made up of three parts. These are phonetic parts of that Om sound and each of those parts are loaded with certain meaning. That is called superimposition, adhysa. You superimpose a meaning upon those sounds. In Om, there is a there is u, and there is m. A is a vowel, u is a vowel and m is the consonant. Thus, this a plus u plus m together becomes Om. A plus u becomes o, a diphthong. If you see how the a and u is pronounced, as a combination at the sthna, the place where the sound comes from, then you will see that a plus u can not be but o. And with m ending, it becomes Om. The letter a stands for the entire physical world of your experience. The experiencer, the experience and the experienced, all three of them are covered by the sound a. When you are awake, you are aware of your physical body and this physical world known and unknown. You are also

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aware of the experience of the physical world. At the same time, you are also aware of the experiencer that is you. All these three you are aware of, are a. The letter u is the thought world, which is distinctly experienced as other than the physical world. A thought world which is distinctly experienced, as your dream, as your imagination and as abstract or subtle, Skma or subtle is represented by u. The thought world, the object of the thought world and its experience are the meaning of the sound u. Then there is m. It stands for the experience you have in deep sleep, the unmanifest condition. What was there before and after the creation is the meaning of the sound m. Thus, the sleeper and the sleep experience, the dreamer and the dream experience and the waker and the waking experience all these three constitute what we call everything that is here. All these three together represent Om. Om is complete. We saw what existed before, what exists now and what will exist later is all Om. Even all known and unknown that is experienced, the experience and the experiencer, is also Om, vidim aviditam sarvam Omkra. That is the Lord, Bhagavn or vara. Non-linguistic meaning of Om The whole jagat, the manifest world, is seen as one; but severally, we can say it has many forms. Each of these you can look as one thing and if you look at it severally, you find it is a combination of a lot of other things. Each one has a form and for which we give a name. Even this physical body is one, but severally, it has various forms. We have two hands, two legs and

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so on. Then, in each part, there are so many cells. The cells are different also. If we take cells, there are many types; liver-cells, brain-cells etc. Then, there are further components of the cell, DNA, etc. Thus, you find that you go on getting new words because there are different forms within each form. All names and forms are not separate from the Lord. Now, I want to give a name to the Lord; so I can relate to him or, to see the meaning and even to communicate with him. So, what name should I give a name that includes all forms? When I say pot, it is not chair, it is not table, nor tree, nor carpet; pot is only pot. Now the Lord is the one who is pot, chair, table, tree, carpeteverything. So, what should we do? We have to recite the whole dictionary! But, it is not enough. You have to do it for every language! Each language, each dialect has its own names and forms. And there are a lot of objects in the world which are not yet known and we keep on inventing new facts for which we discover new names. When you go to Sanskrit language, there is another problem. Dictionary is an apology for the Sanskrit language. Dictionary in Sanskrit language is not a dictionary at all, because Sanskrit language is full of compounds and, you can make compounds all the time and when you make a compound it is a word that is valid but not in the dictionary. So in Sanskrit, there can not be a complete, comprehensive dictionary. Word possibilities are infinite. Linguistically, giving a name to the Lord who is all names and forms is an impossible task. Therefore, we give up language. Thus, we have another explanation of Om, which is not linguistic. Dont look at it as a word. Look at it as something which is purely phonetic.
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All names are nothing but words. All words are nothing but letters, and all letters are nothing but sounds. Letters and alphabets also differ. In English, you have A to Z. In Latin, it starts with Alpha and ends with Omega. In Sanskrit, it goes from a to h. We find that letters are unique to each language. So we go beyond letters. All the individualities of languages are crossed. Beyond letters, a name becomes a group of sounds. The French, the Arab, the African tribesman, a Sanskrit scholar or a Boston Brahmin; all make some sounds. Especially when I dont know a language, I hear only sounds. In every language, certain sounds repeat themselves which is the unique characteristic of that language. Now, if a Frenchman or an Indian or anybody else opens his mouth to make a sound, what will it be? When you open your mouth and make a sound, the sound that is produced is a. If you close your mouth and make a sound, then the sound is m. You dont produce any other sound afterwards. And all the other sounds are in-between a and m sounds, whether they are consonants or vowels. Therefore, one sound that can represent all the other sound, in a sense round-off all the sounds, you round your lips and make a sound. It will be o. Now I can combine these three sounds which represent all the sounds; a plus o plus m and make a one word, will become Om, the name of the Lord. Once you said Om, you have said everything. Once you know the meaning, Om becomes the name of the Lord for you. Now you can call him, invoke him, pray to him. This is why many of the prayers, chants or mantras begin with Om.

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Om or Aum: Hindu Symbol of the Absolute

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"The goal which all the Vedas declare, which all austerities aim at, and which men desire when they lead the life of continence is Om. This syllable Om is indeed Brahman. Whosoever knows this syllable obtains all that he desires. This is the best support; this is the highest support. Whosoever knows this support is adored in the world of Brahma." ~ Katha Upanishad I Om or Aum is of paramount importance in Hinduism. This symbol (as seen in the image on the right) is a sacred syllable representing Brahman, the impersonal Absolute of Hinduism omnipotent, omnipresent, and the source of all manifest existence. Brahman, in itself, is incomprehensible; so a symbol becomes mandatory to help us realize the Unknowable. Om, therefore, represents both the unmanifest (nirguna) and manifest (saguna) aspects of God. That is why it is called pranava, to mean that it pervades life and runs through our prana or breath.

Om in Daily Life
Although Om symbolizes the most profound concepts of Hindu belief, it is in use daily. The Hindus begin their day or any work or a journey by uttering Om. The sacred symbol is often found at the head of letters, at the beginning of examination papers and so on. Many Hindus, as an expression of spiritual
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perfection, wear the sign of Om as a pendant. This symbol is enshrined in every Hindu temple premise or in some form or another on family shrines. It is interesting to note that a newly born child is ushered into the world with this holy sign. After birth, the child is ritually cleansed and the sacred syllable Om is written on its tongue with honey. Thus right at the time of birth the syllable Om is initiated into the life of a Hindu and ever remains with him as the symbol of piety. Om is also a popular symbol used in contemporary body art and tattoos.

The Eternal Syllable


According to the Mandukya Upanishad, "Om is the one eternal syllable of which all that exists is but the development. The past, the present, and the future are all included in this one sound, and all that exists beyond the three forms of time is also implied in it".

The Music of Om
Om is not a word but rather an intonation, which, like music, transcends the barriers of age, race, culture and even species. It is made up of three Sanskrit letters, aa, au and ma which, when combined together, make the sound Aum or Om. It is believed to be the basic sound of the world and to contain all other sounds. It is a mantra or prayer in itself. If repeated with the correct intonation, it can resonate throughout the body so that the sound penetrates to the centre of one's being, the atman or soul. There is harmony, peace and bliss in this simple but deeply philosophical sound. By vibrating the sacred syllable Om, the supreme combination of letters, if one thinks of the Ultimate Personality of Godhead and quits his body, he will certainly reach the highest state of "stateless" eternity, states the Bhagavad Gita.

The Vision of Om
Om provides a dualistic viewpoint. On one hand, it projects the mind beyond the immediate to what is abstract and inexpressible. On the other hand, it makes the absolute more tangible and comprehensive. It encompasses all potentialities and possibilities; it is everything that was, is, or can yet be. It is omnipotent and likewise remains undefined.

The Power of Om
During meditation, when we chant Om, we create within ourselves a vibration that attunes sympathy with the cosmic vibration and we start thinking universally. The momentary silence between each chant becomes palpable.

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Mind moves between the opposites of sound and silence until, at last, it ceases the sound. In the silence, the single thoughtOmis quenched; there is no thought. This is the state of trance, where the mind and the intellect are transcended as the individual self merges with the Infinite Self in the pious moment of realization. It is a moment when the petty worldly affairs are lost in the desire for the universal. Such is the immeasurable power of Om.

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Try this! To get the Om symbol on your computer screen, open MS Word and key in backslash ( \ ) in Wingdings font. You will type in Om!

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Definition of Om

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Definition: Om is a very simple chant with a complex meaning. Often


chanted three times at the start and finish of a yoga session, om is the whole universe coalesed into a single sound and represents the union of mind, body, and spirit that is at the heart of yoga. When chanted, the sound of om is actually three syllables - a, u, and m.

Pronunciation: aaaaauuuuummmmm Examples: To close this class, please join me in chanting om three
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