12/12/2021
Om / AUM
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Have you chanted this mantra before? Been inclined to follow the other students in class? Had absolutely no idea what it means but do it anyway?
From what I have learnt and know today, the original and widely recognized AUM mantra is a universal sound, symbolizing ultimate reality. When chanting through each A U M, the vibrations created align with 7 energy points within the body. Seven levels of consciousness, which are experienced on the inner journey of meditation and contemplation.
Remembering the sound vibration of AUM, along with a deep feeling for the meaning of what it represents, brings both the realization of the individual Self and the removal of obstacles that normally block that realization.
With practice, it gradually becomes easier for one to maintain awareness of these meanings as attention moves through the parts of the AUM Mantra (The A, U, M, and Silence of OM Mantra). Over time, that awareness brings increasing insight of the true nature of these levels of consciousness. Eventually one moves to the direct experience of the Absolute Reality, that consciousness which permeates All (Silence after A, U, and M of OM Mantra). This is the state of Self-realization.
"Swami Jnaneshvara Bharati"
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Om shanti
