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BHAKTI-YOGA. ible sphota (mitz) or manifester, as Logos or Word. This eternal sphota, the essential eternal material of all ideas or names, is the power through which the Lord creates the universe-nay, the Lord first becomes conditioned as the sphota, and then evolves himself out as the yet more concrete sensible universe. This sphota has one word as its only possible symbol, and this is the Om (MISH). And as by no possible means of analysis we can separate a sound-symbol from the idea, connoted by it, this Om and the eternal sphota are inseparable. And therefore it is out of this holiest of all holy words, the mother of all names and forms, the eternal Om, that the whole universe may be supposed to have been created. But it may be said that, although ideas and soundsymbols are inseparable, yet as there may be various sound-symbols for the same idea, it is not necessary that this particular word Om should be the sound-representative of
