I guess it is, never having heard it myself: the three sounds a (a-kāra), u (u-kāra), m (ma-kāra), Wiki.
---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, <fairfieldlife@yahoogroups.com> wrote: And wgm, I remember something about it actually being 3 sounds: A, U, M. PS I'm still percolating on your other post about samskaras with regards to Adam and Eve. On Thursday, October 24, 2013 9:39 AM, wgm4u <no_re...@yahoogroups.com> wrote: "From that eternal silence a hum starts and this hum is called OM. You may have heard of the glory of OM and the greatness of OM, that OM is everything and that from OM the creation comes and into OM the creation dissolves, that OM is the sustainer of life, that OM is the beginning and end of all creation. All this is OM, that hum, which is the first silent sound, first silent wave that starts from that silent ocean of un-manifested life." MMY the Vedas (booklet). Just don't use it as a mantra (according to MMY IMO, it made India too passive, perhaps he's right). It is a sound not heard with the physical ears. Om is Mother Divine.... the Vedic Gods: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NRMtVr-s9vo http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NRMtVr-s9vo ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, <fairfieldlife@yahoogroups.com> wrote: So[m], what was Maharishi's particular teaching on "Om"? His was counter to everything "Om", wasn't it. He did not use "Om" in any of the mantras he gave. Succinctly, what was that? What is unique about his Vedic studies around "Om"? I got a dressing down recently about how Maharishi saved India around the understanding of "Om". What did he say that "Om" "aum" was so bad that puts him opposed to "Om"? While at the same time Brahmananda Saraswati [Guru Dev] it seems was very in favor of "Om" spiritually. See Guru Dev's discourses. Who do you believe? What is your experience with "Om"? I find it the vibration of the giant electro-magnet of nature turning over in the center of the Earth and unified sound of all of Nature and great to attune to as such to spin and line up the chakras of the subtle system . It seems the energetic pre-condition that all the nervous systems on earth have evolved with. It runs deep as a vibration (when people sit up) in the Dome as a vortex. Maharishi seems to have put the wammy of fear in to "Om" for the TM spiritual community. Does that explain something about the TM community? What is your experience with it and what was really said about it? Just wondering, -Buck ---In fairfieldlife@yahoogroups.com, <cardemaister@...> wrote: (Not to be taken all too seriously...) Just as 'om' may be "embedded" in the word 'soma', so in the tanakh (Hebrew Bible =~ Old Testament) it may be embedded in the word 'yom' (day) that appears several times in the first verses of bereshit (Genesis)...
