Mystic Syllable Om

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YATEENDRASURI SMARAK GRANTH - The regular full treatment of this sacred sylla- . The method of reaching the Brahma through ble is found in the earlier Upanisads. The seed meditation is discribed in the Mundakopanised :sown in the Gopatha brahmana is seen sprouting
"3. Taking as a bow the great weapon of the here. Thus the Chandogyopanisad which identified udgitha with Om says :
Upanishad, one should put upon it an arrow sharp
ened by meditation. Stretching it with a thought di"1. Om one should reverence the Udgitha (Loud rected to the essence of That, Penetrate That
Chant) as this syllable, for one sings the loud Impenrishable as the mark, my friend. chant (ud + gi) beginning) with Om'..
4. The mystic syllable Om (pranava) is the The further explanation thereof (is as follows): bow. the arrow is the soul (atman). 2. The essence of things here is the earth.
Brahma is said to be the mark (laksya). The essence of the earth is water.
By the undistracted man is it to be penetrated. The essence of water is plants
One should come to be in It, as the arrow (in The essence of plants is a person (purusa) the mark) The essence of a person is speech.
The Mandukyopanisad (9-12) gives further The essence of speech is the Rig (hymn')
detailed description of the four matras of Om : The essence of the Rig is the Saman ( charnt") The essence of the Saman is the Udgitha It identifies the four matras of Om as follows: (loud singing')
Pada Matra State Designation of Self In other place it gives the gradual origin of
First Om and identifies it with everything.
Waking. Vaisvanara Second 3
dream Taijasa "2 (3). Prajapati brooded upon the worlds. From them, when they had been brooded upon,
Third
deep Prajna - issued forth the threefold knowledge. He brooded
sleep upon this. From it, when it had been brooded upon, Fourth matraless Fourth Advaita issued forth these syllables : bhur, bhuvah, svar.
In the Tantrasastra he fourth matra is called 3(4) He brooded upon them. From them, ardhamatra and is identified with the female godhead. when they had been brooded upon, issued forth It is described as one which cannot be recited of the syllable Om. As all leaves are held together by
अर्धमात्रा स्थिता नित्या, याऽनुच्चार्या विशेषतः । a spike, so all speech is held togethe by Om. Verily, Om is the world-all. Verily, Om is this world-all."
त्वमेव सा त्वं, सावित्री त्वं देवी जननी पराय।। - दुर्गासप्तशती The Prasnopanisad (V. 2) identifies Om with Puspadanta in his Sivamahimnah Stotra the higher and the lower brahma -
elaborates this idea clearly and succinctly :: "To him then he said : "Verily, O Satyakama,
"The triad (of Vedas), the three vrttis (states that which is the syllable Om is both the higher and of waking, sleeping, deep sleep), the three worlds the lower Brahma.
and also the three gods (Brahma, Visnu, Rudra),
naming these with the three letters a etc. (a, u, m) Therefore with this support, in truth, a knower
and also that which is beyond differentiation, the reaches one or the other." (II.2.4)
fourth state, your domain, enclosed by subtle
sounds (all this constituting), You, O refuge-giver, inirinimiinirinin incontri indiriminin 32 svimentinin inciminimin insanin iris
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