Om – The Cosmic Sound
Om – The Cosmic Sound
Bhagawan says,
“Listen to the primeval Pranava resounding in your heart as well as in the heart of the Universe.
Om is the symbol of the unchanging, eternal, universal, supreme God. Om
is the sound of the movement of the stars in the firmament;
it is the sound that manifested when the dawn of creative Will stirred the Niraakaara (the Attributeless)
into activity. As a matter of fact, every little disturbance of equilibrium produces sound, however minute.
The meeting of the eyelids when the eye winks, results in sound, however faint.
There are infinitesimally faint sounds, which no ear can hear.
So, you can understand that when the Elements originated and Creation started, the sound Om was
produced. That sound is the primal, the primeval One.”
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“Aum is the primordial Word which gives life to all other words. …
Aum is a name of God which can find universal acceptance.
The Christians say ‘Amen’ in their prayers everyday. It is only a different form of Aum.
Aum has universal relevance and applicability.
It cuts across all barriers of time, place, religion and culture, and can be uttered by all men.”
[Summer Showers in Brindavan 1979 p124-125).
“ … Out of the Primeval Sound became manifest all creation, composed of the five elements namely space, air, fire, water and earth. Omkara is the life principle of creation. That is why it is also called Pranava – meaning “ that which runs through Prana” or pervades all life.”
“Om ithyekaksharam Brahma”, the single letter OM is Brahman Itself, said Bhagawan explaining the purport and supreme significance of the Pranava Mantra. What does the Mantra stand for and what are its special significance. Bhagawan explained the same in a Divine discourse delivered on 1 October 1984 at the Poornachandra Auditorium in Prasanthi Nilayam.
Manthra is not a mere collection of words. It is a compounded set of words pregnant with enormous significance. It emanates from the inner power of man. Filled with such power, the manthra (sacred formula), when it is pronounced properly, brings out the Divine power in man.
The vibrations produced by the utterance of the manthra, uniting with the Cosmic naada (primal sound) in the Universe, become one with the Universal Consciousness. It is these Cosmic vibrations which assumed the form of the Veda (sacred revelations of spiritual knowledge).
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The existence of this Cosmic energy is also accepted in the scientific world:
In 1978, Arno Penzias and Robert Wilson were honoured with the Nobel Prize in physics for their discovery of the Cosmic Microwave Background radiation (CMB). The two researchers from Bell Laboratory serendipitously stumbled onto this phenomenon in June 1964, after first thinking it was an equipment malfunction. For a short while, they even attributed the background noise to what they referred to as “white dielectric material”-i.e., bird droppings (Fox, 2002, p. 78). The electromagnetic radiation they were experiencing was independent of the spot in the sky where they were focusing the antenna, and was only a faint “hiss” or “hum” in its magnitude. The microwaves, which can be related to temperature, produced the equivalent of approximately 3.5 K background radiation at 7.3 cm wavelength (“K” stands for Kelvin, the standard scientific temperature scale; 0 K equals absolute zero-the theoretical point at which all motion ceases: -459° Fahrenheit or -273° Celsius). Unable to decide why they were encountering this phenomenon, Penzias and Wilson sought the assistance of Robert Dicke at Princeton University who, with his colleagues immediately latched onto this noise as the “echo” of the Big Bang. A prediction had been made prior to the discovery, that if the Big Bang were true, there should be some sort of constant radiation in space, although the prediction was for a temperature several times higher (see Weinberg, 1977, p. 50; Hoyle, et al., 2000, p. 80).
[ Source: Sri Sathya Sai Service Organisation (UK) / Sai Oriented Centres Pack – Version 1: March 2004 ]