"Try to chant in a soft voice." -Karunamayi
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> "Amma has advised us to chant "Om" before and after meditation because this
> helps to "fence" and hold the energy that is created during meditation. It
> is like putting walls up on both side of a river. When the river grows due
> to heavy rainfall, its waters will be contained and channeled instead of
> spreading across the land and leaking away."
>
> --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, cardemaister <no_reply@> wrote:
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> > > > > >
> > > > > > "Aum" is an alternate spelling in our alphabet, BillyG.
> > > > > > The Wikipedia article uses the "Aum" spelling throughout
> > > > > > (the article is titled "Om," but it's a redirect from
> > > > > > "Aum"):
> > > > > >
> > > > > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aum
> > > > >
> > > > > And your point is? (MMY doesn't use the term AUM or OM).
> > > >
> > > > I guess I was misled by your subject heading, "Maharishi
> > > > stopped using OM and started using Aaaaaaaum." If you didn't
> > > > mean that he'd, you know, stopped using OM and started using
> > > > Aaaaaaaum," what did you mean?
> > >
> > > I know we're getting older Judy, but did you put on your glasses? The
> > > post heading is "and started usning Aaa", not Aaaaaum, MMY dropped the
> > > um, Si? MMY doesn't use Aum at all anymore that I know of..
> > >
> >
> > That's *not* an English spelling thing.
> >
> > Cologne Digital Sanskrit Lexicon:
> >
> > 1 aum ind. the sacred syllable of the shuudras (see 3. %{au}).
> >
> > So 'au' in 'aum' rhymes with 'how', and 'o' in 'om' (approximately)
> > with 'oo' in 'door'. (Being originally the combination aka sandhi of 'a'
> > and 'u', 'o' is always pronounced long in [classical] Sanskrit).
> >
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