The Ancient Science Of AUM Mantra

[Music] all right jobs were scarce during the worldwide depression in the 1930s in a small Midwest town in the United States the telegraph office announced they'd be hiring a new Telegraph operator on the day of the interview 60 hopeful men packed the waiting room to relieve their tension most of the job applicants joked and chatted loudly with one another one man however sat quietly alone near the office door suddenly The Quiet Man stood up and walked into the office a few minutes later the office manager came to the door and announced thank you all for coming today we have hired someone for the job why was The Quiet Man hired while the other men were talking the office manager had Tapped Out in Morse code if you hear this message come in and accept the job only one man was calm enough to hear the message just as a quiet man was the only one to hear the telegraph message the devotee who deeply listens is the one who hears Cosmic om foreign Bible The Gospel According to Saint John begins this way in the beginning was the word and the Word was with God and the Word was God the opening Mantra of the mandukiya upanishad is this om the word is everything all that is past present and future is om and that which is beyond time is also um Naya Swami jyotish the spiritual director of Ananda Sangha worldwide one of the foremost spiritual communities in the world says that the sacred sound of om is a vibratory essence of creation known to all religions and called variously the word the amen the comforter or om this sound has been experienced by Saints sages and Mystics throughout recorded history and has been in central part of their spiritual practice and experience of God it is referred to in the Old and New Testaments of the Bible The Vedas of India Buddhists texts and Sufi literature [Music] Saints in all religions Revere the cosmic vibration the Quran refers to the sound in the words be and all became Moses heard this very sound on Mount Sinai when in communion with God and the same word was audible to Christ when absorbed in his heavenly father in the wilderness Shiva heard om during his samadhi in the Himalayas this sound is a source of all Revelation to the Masters it is because of this that they know and teach one and the same truth thus observes hazrat in ayat Khan in the music of Life om is God's Consciousness in creation according to paramahansa Yogananda om is not an abstract principle it is a scientific way of understanding and merging with the Divine cosmic energy in the universe through the actual hearing of this Cosmic vibration a conscious contact with God or Christ's Consciousness can be established hence in order to scientifically contact God one must reach him first through om paramahansa Yogananda says I want to get this matter completely settled into your Consciousness that while prayer and meditation are good and we should practice we must not forget that the purpose of meditation is to receive this Holy Ghost no one if he doesn't know the OM vibration can get there that is all there is to it [Music] Mantra can be said to be the highest form of philosophy because it provides the concentrated form of language necessary to embody the highest truths beyond our physical reality David Frawley remarks that Mantra is a deeper level of speech that reflects the laws of the universe what is called Dharma that which upholds in Sanskrit Mantra is the language of Dharma that enables us to understand what Dharma is and how it works that is why in Mantra yoga different sounds correspond to the Natural and spiritual forces through which the universe operates starting with om itself as the cosmic word Mantra yoga provides us a means to understand the sacred sound from the perspective of a tradition that has taken it Beyond mysticism into an organized and codified fight spiritual signs Mantra yoga includes a study of the qualities inherent in sound itself through which words and meanings are properly formed it shows how sounds impact the nervous system mind and heart and how we can modify them to improve our lives regardless of which background or tradition you may personally follow the insights provided in Mantra yoga can be of enormous value to enable you to manifest your destiny creatively effectively and completely through understanding the power of the word says froly the word Mantra is derived from two Sanskrit words the first is Manas or mind which provides the man syllable the second syllable is drawn from the Sanskrit word try meaning to protect all to free from therefore the word Mantra in its most literal sense means to free from the mind the cognitive creative mind Mantra is at its core a tool used by the mind that eventually frees one from the vagaries of the mind but the journey from Mantra to Freedom is a wondrous one the Mind expands deepens and widens and eventually dips into the essence of cosmic existence on its Journey the Mind comes to understand the essence of the vibration of things a mantra a SRI aurobindo puts it is a word of power and light that comes from the overmind inspiration or from a very high plane of intuition a mantra is thus an inspired and intuitive and rhythmic utterance a revealed seeing it comes out of the realization of some inmost truth of God and self and man and nature Cosmos and life and thing and thought and experience and deed the ancient science of om fully unites the universe or the creation with the absolute Spirit it conceives the sacred sound as the essence of the universe infinitely emanating in Cosmic vibrations and perceivable by the souls absorbed in listening to the cosmic sound paramahansa Yogananda once asked God why did you create us and he replied I did so because I wanted to share my joy om or the holy spirit is the vibration of God's thought it is divine intelligence in creation Yogananda tells us that God's nature is bliss and to share his Bliss he created the world through Cosmic vibration God is om and God became his creation through om every atom every living creature is made of the cosmic vibration this is the essence of The Vedic science of the Sacred sound of om Joseph Bharat Cornell is the founder and and president of sharing nature worldwide one of the planet's most influential environmental educational programs in his wonderful book about the Holy sound of om om The Melody of Love Cornell says that om is God's Consciousness vibrating through creation it is the bridge that unites nature and spirit human and Cosmic Consciousness holy om is the stream of God's Consciousness into which the soul merges to discover its own highest nature there are many ways to enter this stream many paths and techniques but once one is in the Stream of om his experience is universal knowledge of the self knowledge of the divine within we are all children of om in Swami kriyananda's words om is essentially what religion is all about om transcends the conflicting ways of belief and offers mankind a universal Highway of Awakening foreign s occur in the ancient Hindu scriptures called The Vedas while The Vedas are voluminous and massive containing elaborate rituals and instructions the upanishads are short and condensed philosophical texts explaining the nature of reality the shortest and the most profound of the upanishads is the mandukiya upanishad it contains only 12 verses Dennis wait in his book AUM Awakening to reality makes a scholarly exposition of the Sacred Mantra in the context of the mandukya upanishad the upanishad conducts two essential investigations the first into the nature of the self and the second into the Mantra om as a metaphor for the nature of this reality the sound om is a fusion of three Primal Psalms in the language a u and M since all possible words contain at least one of these elements the word om contains all possible sounds so om is the entire universe all that is and that can be Mandu Kya upanishad states that the self is Brahma and it has four fundamental aspects modern Western philosophy recognizes three states of Consciousness waking dreaming and deep sleep States Advocate talks about a fourth state as well and that makes all the difference the first is the physical state of our waking experience it is the first and knowledge about the other states depends on it and this state is represented by the first sound a the second state is the dream state where the dreamer creates the world entirely out of the stuff in his own mind hence it is a Superior State to the waking State and is represented by the sound you the third state is a deep sleep state where there is no subject object due division it is not an unconscious state but conscious of nothing non-dual reality this state is represented by the sound M there is another state Beyond these three it is called turaya literally means fourth but in fact it is not a state after the third the upanishad says that the Traya is transcendent Beyond and other than the three changing states and at the same time imminent intrinsic to all the three states it is another name for the all-pervading reality itself Brahma hence the second Mantra of the upanishad states I am Atma Brahma this Atma is Brahma so in the sound om the silence beyond the third Psalm represents this Cosmic reality which is the self and the universe at the same time thus the sacred sound om captures the core of the advaithi philosophy of non-duality Dennis Waite tries to explain the semantic 6 of the word om this way language gives us the capability to speak in general or specific terms about the things that we perceive if we continue to follow this sort of series back to increasingly more General words we will have to find a catch-all world to include absolutely everything that word is om [Music] as the cosmic vibration is a manifestation of the Divine Consciousness this Divine vibration manifests itself in many aspects as light Divine love ecstatic Bliss absolute power Heavenly peace as a vast and dynamic calmness and as perfect wisdom says Joseph Cornell but the most compelling aspect of this Cosmic vibration is sound hence we may try to perceive it and merge our Consciousness with it by attempting to listen to the sacred sound of om and meditating on its meaning beautifully instructs us how to practice listening to the sacred sound in the Silence of our souls the cosmic vibration is inaudible to the human ear but can be heard inwardly by the year of intuition people sometimes get a hint of it in places where there is complete silence they may hear a soft hum or a gentle murmur like The Whisper of wind in the trees the sound emerges from no discernible point in space but seems rather to come from everywhere patanjali a great master in Ancient India compared this sound to oil flowing smoothly out of a barrel what is heard in quiet surroundings is not so much a spiritually uplifting experience as simply a whisper like that of a waterfall from afar of the mighty Thunder of om perceived in deep meditation the harmonious stimulation of each Center or chakra is accompanied albeit not invariably by subtle sounds with the stimulation of the coccyx Center the sound of a bumblebee is heard of the sacral the sound of a flute of the lumbar that of a stringed musical instrument being plucked of the heart or dorsal that of a deep Bell and of the cervical the sound of wind or of Rushing Waters heard less perfectly some of these sounds have the following variations the Bumblebee with the stimulation of the coccyx Center may sound like a motor the flute like crickets or like tickling water the Bell High toned instead of like a deep gong listen intently in the right ear specially to any subtle sound you hear if you hear them in the left ear try to bring that perception gradually to the right ear it is not likely that you will hear om clearly at first but concentration on any internal sound will help you gradually to attune your Consciousness to the subtle Cosmic vibration closing the troggy of the ears with the thumbs the elbows resting lightly on a cross piece of wood om is chanted mentally at the point between the eyebrows while the Mind concentrates on the sounds appearing in the right ear one should concentrate on only one sound at a time the very concentration on that sound will attune one to subtler levels of sound until one hears the cosmic vibration this yoga technique should be learned personally in its various ramifications from a true teacher reminds Swami kriananda giri om samadhi once om breaks the boundaries of the body there is nothing to stop it om spreads out into infinity and your Consciousness expands with it when you merge with om you acquire its quality of omnipresence this state is known as om samadhi says Joseph Bharat Cornell like ramakrishna said by following the trail of om you attain Brahma says one Saint said that every bird and animal is singing om how could this not be so when everything is a child of cosmic ohm while meditating on own treat every sound you hear with reverence om is the inward pulling call of divine mother drawing all her children back to her beloved presence in every sound you hear feel she is conversing with you and calling you to come home to Infinity living in the consciousness of om is the highest way to serve others then om's thrilling Bliss flows through your inner being and touches the hearts of all creation meditate on om I ramatitha said and be a giver of peace to mankind conclusion the manduka upanishad proclaims home to be the bow the arrow to be the soul and the target Brahma or Cosmic Spirit om is the omnipotent force that propels each Soul towards God om is the prime Mantra of the purusha the cosmic being the Atma or higher self as such it attunes us with our true nature and higher reality om is the sound of ishwara the cosmic Lord the Creator preserver and destroyer of the universe the eight attributes of God love peace Joy power wisdom calmness light and sound emanate from the cosmic vibration of om om is not a word but God himself says Swami Vivekananda there is tremendous power in chanting the sacred sound of O Mantra it attunes us to the cosmic energy of the Universal Soul whose Essence is love itself Joseph Bharat Cornell vertically puts it om is the outpouring of God's love flowing to you and to all creation when you commune with om you enter into and flow with the stream of God's love [Music] foreign [Music]

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Published: Wed Nov 02 2022

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