Ever thought about it…What was there when there was no creation? Imagine a time when there was no time. Time too was created. After time came OM in the form of Dhwani, sound. Before this Om existed as pure divinity, sukshma iti sukhshma (subtlest of the subtle). It was a void, it was silence, it was complete.
Interestingly, Dhyan Foundation scanned the vibrations of Om chant using a mantra scanner and the image that formed was the symbol of infinity, also representative of Damru of Bhagwan Shiv from where it is said the Creation emerged.
Om poornamadah poornamidam poornata poornam uddachyate poornasya poornamaadaya poornameva vashishyate, goes the sloka. That is, infinity plus infinity is infinity, infinity minus infinity is infinity, infinity multiplied by infinity is infinity and infinity divided by infinity is also infinity. Indicative of that, Om has everything in it. Now to get an experience of Om you can look up the night sky, fix your gaze at any one point and without shifting your gaze start rotating from right to left. After a while stop, close your eyes and stare at point internally…What was your experience? What you experienced inside you is just an iota of Om from which the Creation began, and to which everything will eventually return.
Om is not a mere sound, it is the essence of Brahmand (Creation), also called the Brahm naad. Om came after time, and so in a sense, it is bound by time, and yet independent of it. To understand this, listen carefully when a Guru chants Om. You will notice that it is a continuous loop of countless small Oms. The continuous Om is eternal, the smaller Oms being bound by time representing the temporary aspects of the physical Creation.
Each of us is an Om, which has the potential to become a continuous Om, under the sanidhya of a Guru. That, in fact, is the route to moksha, to reality. The experience of Om lies not in musical-CDs, television programs or social gatherings, it is a one to one relationship between the Guru and the shishya. At many a places you might have read or learnt about Om as A-U-M, the sounds of ‘a’, ‘ooo’ and ‘mmm’, very few know of the fourth component of Om which is silence. The continuous loop of Om has all four of these, including silence, for the Creation is a sum total of opposites. Om in being the essence of Creation is also just that, a sum of sound and silence, of light and dark, of night and day, of real and unreal, of temporary and eternal, of purush and prakriti. The dual aspects, purush and prakriti, unite to give form to Creation.
The chant of Om, holds in it the phenomenal power of Creation, giving form to your thoughts, but for the Om to have this effect, it must be chanted right under the guidance of your Guru.
While different mantras have their effect in different centers of the body, the vibrations of Om are felt in each and every cell, from Mooladhar to Agya, from toe to the head. And as the being progresses on the path of sadhna, his/her Om starts approaching the frequency of the eternal Om. The subtler is a being or energy, the closer it is to Om. A prime example of this is Surya, or Sun. You might be surprised to know, that the sun too emits the sound of Om and it is the source of shakti to all beings on earth. This has been validated by the researchers at Sheffield University, UK, who recorded the sound the sun.
Ashwini Guru ji of Dhyan Ashram maybe reached at dhyanashram.ya@gmail.com
