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BHAKTI-YOGA.
least differentiated of all sounds, therefore Krishna says in the Gita“I am A among the letters.” * Again, all articulate sounds are produced in the space within the mouth beginning with the root of the tongue and ending in the lips. The throat-sound is A, and M is the last lip-sound and the effort made to produce the sound U exactly represents the rolling forward of the impulse which begins at the root of the tongue till it ends in the lips. Thus properly pronounced, this Om will represent the whole phenomenon of sound-production, and no other word can do this. This, therefore, is the fittest symbol to represent the sphota, and the idea connoted by the word sphota is the real meaning of the word Om. And as the symbol can never be separated from the thing signified, the Om and the sphota are one.
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( Gita, Ch. X-33 )
