Wave of Bliss

Author(s): N P Jain
Publisher: Jain Meditation International Centre

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CHAPTER II
SO HUM
Jain teaching focusses attention on the core issue 'Who am I? (Ko Ahum?). The answer is So Ahum 'I am That That I am'. One who constantly struggles for a place under the sun and faces crisis in life in the process of seeking contentment, happiness and a sense of achievement must look unto oneself to grasp the depth of the concept of So Ahum.*
Abhai Banow has brought this out in a highly inspiring and rhythmic poem:
Song of So Hum
So means life, Ahum means I
Realized by this inner eye
Which opens with light, as the heart does with love
Which joins my below to my All above
So means That, Ahum means I
This here my ground, That there my sky.
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So-hum that can set me free
Sings of that higher life in me
So-hum, Sanskrit of old, telling a tale that must be retold
* This Mantra 'So Ahum' is in Sanskrit but when we meditate it becomes compound and united word that is So Hum.