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Mystery and Origin of “Aum/OM” Mantra, often recited during meditation and

yoga

Bipin Shah May 2012

Abstract

Albert Einstein once said, ”Anyone who becomes seriously involved in the pursuit of science

becomes convinced that there is a spiritual manifest in the laws of the universe — a spirit

vastly superior to man.” This spirit is consciousness and omniscient. The universe is alive and

we, the humans on this earth, are part of it. All the planets in our solar system, our star Sun

that is a part of Milky Way Galaxy, where Sun appears as a tiny dot. The universe contains

unknown numbers of such Galaxies containing many stars like sun and its own unique

planetary systems that makes our universe so large and fathomless. We do not exactly know

how large it is, and perhaps we will never know. Some believe it is infinite. We are just

beginning to understand our own solar system with space exploration.

As one Indian ascetic said about recital of mantra : “ “OM” is basically a monosyllabic word,

as compared to “AUM”, which is tri-syllabic.” This is because of the difference in the way the

two words are pronounced. Aum is pronounced as “aa-uu-eemm” while in Sanskrit, 'O' is a

diphthong sound. These sound has some kind of effect in chanting and hearing during energy

release process from the body. As stated in Hindu Upanishad that “Om represents everything

– the beginning, the middle and the end, the past, the present and the future. It encompasses

all sounds – mankind, nature, machinery … it is the hum of the planet and universe.”

Universe Metaphysic and Chants

India’s Jainism and Buddhism that opposed Vedic religious philosophy of creation and formed

its own vision of the universe and cosmology over 3700 years ago is proving that this is the

sound of our universe that was created by the supreme beings that our scientists never

imagined or thought off. Jain cosmology is the description of the matter and soul in the

universe. The “Jiva” or “souls” that are energy source interacts with the cosmology while

matter is inert. Jaina cosmology describes how universe’ metaphysical laws function, while

dealing with space and time. The Jain doctrine postulates an eternal and ever-existing world,

that works on universal natural laws. Although, the existence of a creator deity is not known

or defined in the Jain doctrine. However, the unlimited power of soul is recognized and

employing right process and tool can achieve the highest status in the universe. The universe

has a firm and an unalterable shape, which is measured in the Jaina texts by means of a unit

called “Rajju” which is supposed to be exceptionally large. Similar thoughts prevailed in

Buddhism and other traditions. Buddhism has its “Heart sutra”. The Heart Sūtra (Sanskrit:

Prajñāpāramitāhṛdaya ) is a popular sutra in Mahāyāna Buddhism. Prajñāpāramitāhṛdaya,

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can be translated as "The Heart of the Perfection of Wisdom". The sutra explains "The living

form without soul is empty, emptiness is an inert form." It is a condensed exposé on the

Buddhist Mahayana teaching of the Two Truths doctrine, which says that ultimately all

phenomena are sunyata, empty of an unchanging essence. This emptiness is a 'characteristic'

of all phenomena, and not a transcendent reality, but also "empty" of an essence of its own.

It has been most frequently used and recited text in the entire Mahayana Buddhist tradition.

The five aggregates of human existence are described as 1. Physical form, 2. feeling , 3.

volitions, 4.perceptions and 5. consciousness.

The Heart Sūtra mantra in Sanskrit “गते गते पारगते पारसंगते बोिध ाहा” and when translated it means "gone, gone, everyone gone to the other shore, awakening, svaha” when put all together it establish relationship of chanting mantra, while meditating

in yogic position. Yogis often meditate using OM or AUM mantra chant. Each of these parts

has numerous metaphysical associations, that serve as meditative seeds. For example, a

(pronounced "ah") represents our waking state, which is also the subjective consciousness of

the outer world; u (pronounced "ooh") is the dreaming state, or the consciousness of our

inner world of thoughts, dreams, memories, and so on; and m is the dreamless state of deep

sleep and the experience of ultimate unity. This is the one explanation.

The question remains that how those ascetics/Yogis of early shramanism can perceive this

strand of thoughts that recognizes the existence of the universal laws. Its emphasis on the

universe being eternal and uncreated and works following its own laws that go against the

science theory of the Big Bang creation. The Stars are born and died, and new stars are

reborn, and this process continues in eternity, working on its own or just say being on an auto

pilot. The Universe itself is never created or destroyed; it is immortal.

India’s Buddhism perceived the universe differently. Unlike Jainism, the Buddhism envisions

the destruction of universe at some point. No entire one Buddhist sutra explains the Buddhist

perception of cosmology, so the inferences have to be extracted from various Suttas and

traditions. Buddhist cosmology can be divided into two parts: spatial cosmology, which

describes the arrangement of the various worlds within the universe, and temporal

cosmology, which describes how those worlds come into existence, and how they die.

In Buddhism, the divinities of creation are recognized while Jainism believes that once the

universe is self-created from single particle, it never dies. Buddhist Sutta have been refined

and reworked and the original tradition is only preserved in Theravada Branch of Buddhism.

Mahayana was reformist branch of Buddhism and included many other thoughts developed

later after Buddha’s death.

India’s Hinduism is more definitive and under Hindu cosmology the universe is cyclically

created and destroyed in the time cycle of 8.64 billion years. The Puranic view asserts that

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the universe is created, destroyed, and re-created in an eternally repetitive series of cycles

but it is infinite. Again, the question arise how these early Seers, sages and Shramana yogi,

during their meditation can perceive the physical aspect of universe without the help of

modern science?

Meditation and omniscient with OM mantra symbolic Omkara-Trianka Symbol -Buddhism

“AUMKARA” or “OMKARA” Mantra of Meditation

The compressed version of the Aumkara is two letter sound expressed as "OM” syllable. The

OM word is derived from Sanskrit “Omkāra”. Jainism altered it to call “Namokar” (Namo

means bow your head to the Arahants and Tirthankaras). In Buddhism, it may be referred as

“Aumkara” or “Om Mani Padme Hu”. It is also called “Pranav” in Sanskrit (meaning bow to

the divine with folded hands). In its abbreviated form, it is recited as a deep sound “Aum” or

“OM”. This begs a follow up question on the origin and existence of “Aum” mantra (OM) as

utilized in Yoga, Hindu, Jaina and Buddhist traditions. Most of us are not cognizant of that

that both of these reformist faiths derived their mantras from the same sound “AUM” or

“Om”.

The “OM” mantra recited in stretched nasalized Vowel as if the sound is originating deep

from inside of your body and it is clear and loud. It is placed at the beginning of most religious

texts of India. It is a sacred incantation to be intoned at the beginning and end of a reading of

the Vedas or prior to any prayer, meditation, or Yoga. The Vedic Sanskrit origin of “Om” and

“Pranava” derives from a root word “nu” meaning “to shout loud during the chant” or make a

“humming” loud sound during the recital. “AUM or OM” is the first and last sound in your

ears if you are attending a yoga class. Tibetan Buddhists believe that saying the mantra

(prayer), “Om Mani Padme Hum”, out loud or silently to oneself, invokes the powerful

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benevolent attention and blessings of Bodhisattva or Buddha. “Mani” here means jewels and

“Padma” means lotus flower, Buddhist sacred flower.

This uniformity in various Shramanic tradition of India suggests that OM may be one of the

primordial sound of the universe , these ancient sages, seers, and prophets of India

recognized and by reciting that sound they were paying respect to the existence of our

universe, who keeps us alive and support our existence either through some divine hands or

some unknown energy forces. Regardless of the theology as to who created this universe, this

primordial sound of universe emitted out of space at a frequency that human ear are

incapable of hearing must be respected through recital and that was the intention. The

illustration below is the manifestation of “OM” mantra in various scripts in the subcontinent

that has spread across eastern Asia through Buddhism and Tantric Yoga.

Om in Hinduism Om in Jainism Om in Sikhism Om in Buddhism

Om in Tibet Buddhism Om inscribed in coin

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Arabic word for Allah

Mantra recitation can be said to be the mother of meditation. With the recitation of a

mantra, the mind immediately focuses on a single thought leading to transcendence-

awareness beyond the mind. The method of conveying awakening of consciousness is

especially through the chantinf of mantra.

The idea that supernatural powers can be obtained by yogis practicising ascetism is central in

all Indian religions. The practice of ascetism is called in sanskrit “Tapas”. Tapas and Yoga can

give practioners powers to hear thing that average human find impossible. This also give

practioner power to see past, present and future and ability to fly. The main requirement of

Yogic ascetism is complete detachment with material world. We have seen many TV shows

where a yogic practioner has levitated defying the law of gravity.

Origin of OM mantra

If “Aum” or “Om” chant (Mantra) is considered to be the primordial sound of the creation

and it is thought that all languages emanates from this initial sound of vibration, then world’s

oldest language Sanskrit can clinch the title by expressing it in the symbol and in the words

through its Vedas and religious texts. All Sanskrit mantras (sacred sound prayers) in India

begin with “Aum” or “Om”, and a meditating yogis or Shramana may attest to the power of

“Aum” or “Om” without any hesitation. Those who are involved in the technique of advanced

meditation as practiced by an experienced yogi or meditating monks, probably describes the

power of Chanting Om mantra and many experts and teachers are said to believe that the

chant activate the entire nervous system. Ancient sages and seers had conquered this

technique and were able to see the past, present and future. The omniscient Mahavira,

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Buddha, Christ and many sages, prophets and seers have claimed that they can see past,

present and future. In order to see past, present and future, one has to break the time and

space barriers.

The references of “time travel” are found in various ancient texts of India but not taken

seriously. An advanced meditation Practitioner achieves the “Transcendental Meditation

stage”, where their spiritual awakening reaches to the highest level, so Saul or spirit develops

the power to leave the body temporarily or reenter the body at the will, thus freeing itself

and breaks the barrier of time and space and see and hear the things that ordinary mortals

cannot. We have heard the power of healings by world’s prophets and moving objects against

gravitational forces and treated those occurrences or incidents were treated as the miracles. .

“AUM” or “OM” sound first features in Hindu Upanishad texts. The Upanishads are

considered last “Veda” compiled around later Vedic period. The Upanishads are different

group of Sanskrit texts that contain the earliest emergence of the Brahmana (Hinduism).

Some of their central religious concepts also appear in Jainism and Buddhism that were non-

Vedic traditions.

Since Jainism and Buddhism are dated to 12th and 18th century BCE respectively, it can be

inferred that “Aum” mantra may have been practiced orally during the age of Cuneiform

civilizations of 23th century BCE (Bronze Age), there were many centers of Shramanic colonies

that existed in bronze age in places like Egypt, Greece, Babylon, Persia, India and perhaps

China that allowed many Shramanic activities to prosper under priestly group of people. They

were star gazers seeking answer to human existence from sun rise to moon light, tried to

interpret dreams, and relate them to those seeking answers. We had sages, seers, oracle

interpreter, Magis, Druze priests and others Shramana unknown to us, who made this a

hereditary profession. This led to other disciplines of religious theology, ritualistic traditions,

yoga as an instrument for deep meditation to awaken consciousness and establish

connection with the universe.

Rig-Veda does not explicitly mention OM but one of the hymns spells out instruction as to

how to chant any unspecified hymns or mantras. Rig-Vedic HYMN CLXIII is cited below. This

hymn probably is considered as the later addition to Rig Veda.

The Upanishads are considered by Hindus as “revealed truths” (Shruti) by Gods themselves to

the Supreme ascetics of India, the “septa Rishi” (seven seers), who also most likely composed

Rigveda and Atherveda. The Upanishads texts (probably composed during later ages,

explain the creation of universe, the nature of ultimate reality (Brahman) and

describing the character and ultimate method of human salvation (moksha). Since they are

last part of Veda series, the Upanishads are also called Vedanta.

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The “Mandukya” Upanishad, is entirely devoted to mantra “AUM”, it can be summarized in

plain English as "Om” and is described as the indestructible sound of the universe and as

expressed in the three alphabets “AUM”. The Mandukya Upanishad is the short text and is

very direct compared to other Hindu texts that dwells on the mantras. The main content of

“Mandukya” describes in detail various state of human consciousness and awareness. It is

described and written in prose, consisting of just twelve verses expounding the mystic

syllable “AUM”, the three psychological states of waking, dreaming and deep sleep, and the

transcendental fourth state of illumination or omniscient. The word “OM” is made up of

three syllables, as stated above: “A”, “U”, and “M”,or in English phonetically, "aaah," "oooh,"

and "mmm."

Some scholars opined that the visual “Om” symbol as shown in different scripts embodies

each of its syllables. What appears as number “3” is the Sanskrit letter for "ahh," that same

three with the mini “S” on it is "oooh," and the half crescent moon at the top is the "mmm."

Like all trinities in major faiths, it is all about sacred “threes” words. Most faiths have trinities

in their roots like Hinduism, where “Om” is thought to have been first expressed. The modern

Experts say these syllables can represent a slew of trios, including: the heavens, earth, and

the underworld; the Hindu gods Brahma, Vishnu, and Shiva (creator, preserver, and

destroyer) also in Christian world Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. The Islam does not accept the

concept of trinity like Jainism, but the word Allah still uses “Ohm” symbol in inverted way.

See below:

Hindu Om and Islamic world for Allah (God)

Mandukya Upanishad in Sanskrit:

“Bhūtau bhavad-bhaviuyad-iti sarvam Omkāra eva”, It means: “What had happened before,

what is now and what will be later – everything is Just Om”, a noticeably short but profound

word almost indirectly describing the infinite universe.”

Rig Vedic hymn # CLXIII as translated in English describes how any mantra or hymn should be

chanted without mentioning any mantra.

1. FROM both thy nostrils, from thine eyes, from both thine ears and from thy chin,

Forth from thy head and brain and tongue, I drive thy malady away.

2 From the neck-tendons and the neck, from the breastbones and from the spine, from

shoulders, upper, lower arms, I drive thy malady away.

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3 From viscera and all within, forth from the rectum, from the heart,

From kidneys, liver, and from spleen, I drive thy malady away.

4 From thighs, from kneecaps, and from heels, and from the forepart of the feet,

From hips from stomach, and from groin, I drive thy malady away.

5 From what is voided from within, and from thy hair, and from thy nails,

From all thyself from top to toe, I drive thy malady away.

6 From every member, every hair, disease that comes in every joint,

From all thyself, from top to toe, I drive thy malady away.

Although, the Sanskrit was the first known language to recognize “Aum” or “OM” and

introduced as syllable, it does not mean that it was not present in India’s oral tradition and it

will be difficult to claim its Vedic origin, when not found mentioned in Rig-Veda but in the

later phase of blended Hinduism when Upanishads were written, it was mentioned.

Mandukya Upanishad was believed to have been composed in later age when blending had

already occurred. There are no other hints of the mantra in any other civilization, so the

sound is India specific or Indian origin. Persian Magi had similar chanting of hymns but did

not resemble Indic “OM”.

Non-Vedic Origin?

This author has consistently believed and wrote about the presence of “Non-Vedic” traditions

that flourished during 23rd to 24th century BCE, when supreme ascetic of Indus-Sarasvati

civilization has recognized Shiva as supreme yogi as depicted in Yogi seal. During Janapada’s

stabilization period, various Vedic dynasties that sprung up after Mahabharata war promoted

and patronized non-Vedic traditions under the rulers’ Sponsorship. Hinduism over the period

continue to reform itself to be more inclusive of local traditions and now is presented itself as

unified religion of modern “Hinduism”. This Hinduism is not limited to “Brahmana” as Vedic

civilization may have known, it but includes Trinity concept of early “Shaivism”,

“Vaishnavism” and many other religious offshoots. Of course, Vedic language and culture left

a lasting legacy on modern Indian languages.

Below are two Harrapan seals discovered during archeological excavations at various Indus-

Saraswati (Harrapan) Sites. On the left is a simple yogi seal with the undeciphered symbols on

the top. On the right is Harrapan Chimaeras seal. Ferenz and Vidale published their

interpretation of chimaeras Seal from Parpola’s CISI volumes and called it as hypertext.

Indus civilization used square stamp seal made of soap stone which is a metamorphic rock

composed of mineral talc that is rich in magnesium. After inscription etched it was fired in the

brick oven. Ferenz and Vidalo believe that the seal bears composite creatures and with short

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narrative to convey some religious and mythological meaning, when treated as hypertext.

Since then more interpretation had emerged but there is no consensus.

Hypertext is defined as a text which contains links to other texts. The term was coined by Ted

Nelson around 1965. It is estimated that these composite seal were introduced during the last

phases of Indus civilization before or around 2900 BCE. Ferenz and Vidalo expressed the seal

as in the form of the component of hypertext conveying some meaning but not sure what.

Indus Yogi Seal Indus’ chimaeras seal when interpreted as hypertext

Both of them show the presence of Shramana or Yogi like figure with a bull that fits Shiva

deity of Hinduism, who commands all living beings. In Indus civilization they must have some

importance. Since we do not understand the script, we do not know what these Yogis seals

meant to convey. However, the inferences can be drawn that this ancient civilization of India,

who did meticulous urban planning that is unmatched of their time must have given great

importance to God and Priestly class . The yogic, Shramana culture probably was developed

among priestly class as inscribed in the seal. The presence and control of the animals make

this Yogi, the master of the universe, who was none other than Lord Shiva, a supreme Yogi

and ascetic.

This evidence creates the doubt of Shiva being of Vedic origin and it is hard to derive any

conclusion, except to say that he is India specific. It could be pre-Vedic and Sanskrit

articulated the yogic mantra OM, in the syllable and alphabet forms. The present follower of

Shaivism is using the OM mantra in every prayer and it is “Om Namo Shiva”.

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Rigveda does not include Shiva as one of their chief creator and the influence of the Sanskrit

is found in nearly 60 % of spoken languages of India. The religious traditions have also

blended catching ideas and rituals from each other. The blending occurred over several

centuries, when various pre-existing native culture and tradition interacted with Vedic

tradition. These interactions often lead to incorporation of loan world into each other

dictionary and the adoption of other deities and Gods.

There is overwhelming archeological evidence that the origin of Shramanic traditions of India

was present in India’s oldest “Indus-Sarasvati” civilization (commonly referred as

“Harrapan”). Although, we still do not have the language deciphered, but “Aum” or “OM”

might be present as far as 3000 BCE or beyond. Today, OM is the ways of life in Hindu

worship, just like the presence of Swastika. Unlike Swastika, the “Aum” or “OM” mantra’s

origin lies in the subcontinent of Asia. “Aum” mantra is India specific and is not found outside

of Indian civilization anywhere. It is also true that Vedic civilization gave a leg to “Aum”

mantra by inducting into Vedanta and it was also picked up by Jainism, Buddhism and other

ancient religious sects of India that opposed Vedic religion. Considering all these variables

and equation, Non-Vedic origin cannot be ruled out.

Vedic religion and Hinduism now show the presence of Shramana or Yogis.

Rigveda does not include Shiva as one of their chief deity, but Rudra is considered as one of

the Vedic deity mentioned in Rig Veda. Some have equated Rudra to Shiva, but when

functionally compared they are not the same. Their iconographic is so different that the

author has concluded that Blue Shiva was Pre-Vedic deity of India and now is fully

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incorporated in Hinduism. Shiva was supreme yogi and ascetic as described in present

Hinduism. The blue iconography has some kind of “varna” connotation meaning Pre-Vedic.

In addition to that, it is interesting to observe the Omkara-Trianka in image above.

It looks like three rings but at degree, it can be two OM nested to gather at 45-degree angle

with crescent moon and sun as a mark perhaps resembling supreme ascetic like Shiva.

“AUM” or “OM” as a Sun origin sound

NASA’ S (National Aeronautics and Space Administration) Findings of intersteller’s sound

picked by the Voyager:

NASA’s space physicist Don Gurnett reported at a NASA press conference in Sept. 2013, that

he had heard "the sounds of interstellar space", now shown in various Utube videos as

“symphony of the planet and sound of the sun.” (See appendix). Mr. Gurnett is the James Van

Allen professor of physics at the University of Iowa and the principal investigator for the

Plasma Wave Science instrument on Voyager 1. At the press conference, he played some

plasma wave data for the audience. The sounds, he explained, were solid evidence that

Voyager 1 had left the heliosphere. The heliosphere is a vast bubble of magnetism that

surrounds the sun and planets. It is, essentially, the sun’s magnetic field inflated to enormous

proportions by the solar wind. Inside the heliosphere is "home." Outside lays interstellar

space, the realm of the stars.

Strictly speaking, the plasma wave instrument does not detect sound. Instead it senses waves

of electrons in the ionized gas or "plasma" that Voyager travels through. No human ear could

hear these plasma waves. Nevertheless, because they occur at audio frequencies, between a

few hundred and a few thousand hertz, "we can play the data through a loudspeaker and

listen," says Gurnett. "The pitch and frequency tell us about the density of gas surrounding

the spacecraft." When Voyager 1 was inside the heliosphere, the tones were low, around 300

Hz, typical of plasma waves coursing through the rarified solar wind. Outside the heliosphere,

the frequency jumped to a higher pitch, between 2 and 3 kHz, corresponding to denser gas in

the interstellar medium and turned into the transition music to Gurnett’s ears. Gurnett felt

that we need solar events to trigger plasma oscillations.

Is “Aum” or “OM” is the sound of Sun?

The sun worshipping is very primordial, and we found them to exist in various ancient

civilizations in one form or other. The sound of the sun was considered by most ancient

religions as the most sacred sound of the universe. It is a sound that cannot be heard by the

human ear because the human ear only hears between 20-20,000 Hertz frequency. The

sound of the sun is really plasma wave data translated into sound and it changes with every

solar flares. If we listen to this sound, we can hear and feel the deep vibration.

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The sound of the sun recorded by NASA was probably heard or felt by those Shramana and

yogis of India, who reached the perfect state of meditation and became omniscient, so the

spirit or Saul can travel anywhere in the universe, past or present and see and hear the things

that mortal human cannot hear. This is what the ancient texts describe to us. Those select

few who attained omniscient status through ascetism , meditation and yoga can see past,

present and future breaking time barrier, hear any thing at any frequency probably leaving

the empty body during meditation and reenter the body during the consciousness phase of

meditation, thereby breaking the time and space barrier in a similar way NASA’s deep probe

voyager did. Each planets or celestial body makes its own sound and not all of them sound

like “Aum” mantra but they are rhythmic. Is it possible that those sages and seers heard

these types of sound and introduced as a mantra that can be intoned with human speech as

“OM.”? There are several links below included for the references. Out of many links given

below, assuming they are real recording of the celestial objects as described, the most

important are:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=azUXe82zQ2M The Sound of the sun in this recording is more rhythmic and sounds similar to “Aum” sound.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2cpXpgjUT2k This sounds like Symphony of the planets. But, none of these should be construed as a proof

or rebuttal of the origin of the sound of “OM”. What this article is trying to convey is that OM

mantra is exclusively used during meditation and some prayers as repetitive chants. Why this

mantra was selected by Shramana/yogi is a major mystery. There are plenty of other choices

from oldest texts of Veda, but OM is a supreme mantra where all Shramana and yogi deposit

their faith for salvation. Non-Vedic religions like Jainism and Buddhism also adopted them, so

I attach the importance that the sound of “OM” mantra is deliberated and conveys the

connectivity with the universe.

There are other links below for readers who are interested in this proposition to explore and

arrive at their own conclusion. There is no archeological evidence like Swastika, and none are

forthcoming as to when and how the mantra was originated except inferences and where,

when and how it was practiced.

Some related links

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2420739/First-sound-recording-solar-

beamed-Earth- NASA-Voyager-1-spacecraft.html

http://awakenvideo.org/2010/03/this-should-be-taught-in-school-1of16/

http://www.space.com/22781-voyager-1-interstellar-space-sounds-video.html

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http://player.ooyala.com/iframe.js#pbid=91ac0f6dc

Concept of supreme meditation=-kundalini 200-year mummy found in Mongolia meditating

Mummified monks found under the Buddha’s statue-1000 years old while meditating

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Stanford Solar center

Stanford university group taking the Voyager data try to replicate the sound pattern and it is

also duplicated the by European Space agency in video form to validate each other’s claims.

See link below:

http://solar-center.stanford.edu/singing/singing.html#sing

These MDI data (Michelson Doppler Imager) data was processes by A. Kosovichev.

The procedure employed for generating these sounds involved using Doppler velocity data,

averaged over the solar disk, so that only modes of low angular degree (l = 0, 1, 2) remained.

Subsequent processing removed the spacecraft (Voyager) motion effects, instrument tuning,

and some spurious points. Then Kosovichev filtered the data at about 3 MHz to select clean

sound waves (and not super granulation and instrumental noise). Finally, he interpolated

over the missing data and scaled the data (speeded it up a factor 42,000 to bring it into the

audible human-hearing range (kHz)). The video shows the repetitious sound of “Om-v”. Some

scientist says all celestial bodies of the deep space produces incredibly unique rhythmic

sounds.

“Om-y”. Perhaps, OM became the seed mantra of those hypersensitive meditating monks,

who can hear these sounds through higher level of consciousness. I am sure some may

question this hypothesis but it is certainly as mystical as many things we question repeatedly.

It is important to bear in mind that not every human beings are capable of hearing this sound.

We know some animals can hear well than we (dog). When we hear the story that a Yogi can

talk to animals, we do express surprise.

As Tibetan Chanting indicates, “OM” chant does produce the vibration. Stephen Cope,

founder of Kripalu's Institute for Extraordinary Living, and author opined that “OM sound

itself seems to calm the nervous system. It is also a unifier of the group doing the chanting,"

Yogananda says that chanting OM also creates a link with those who have practiced before

us.

"It's a sound that validates oneness and harmony," he says. "We chant it because yogis have

for thousands of years. And when we chant it, we are connecting with those yogis in a ritual

way, and drawing upon the support of the practices they've been doing for a long, long time."

We cannot leave the topic without mentioning something about largest religion of the world-

Islam which claims more followers. It is mind boggling that there is some uniformity after all,

with the word “OM” and that strengthens speculation that the origin of “OM” sound is much

older, pre-Vedic and perhaps primordial.

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Quran’s Magic Number 786 is a Corrupted Backward Spelling of Vedic

‘AUM’

All Arabic copies of the Koran have the mysterious figure “786” in Arabic language imprinted

on them. No Arabic scholar to my knowledge has been able to determine the choice of this

particular number as divine.

I stated in my earlier writing that the prophet of Islam was illiterate, and I must add that it is

not unusual in the history. Not all the prophets of the world were literate. It is said that

Prophet of Islam dictated Koran to his scribe, who later became the first caliph.

We can say that the same scribe who wrote Koran either did not differentiate numbers from

letters (highly unlikely) or he was copying a divine letter of the known world of Asia, while

altering it. This “magical” number is none other than the holy letter “OM” written in Sanskrit

(Refer to figure below). Buddhism was widespread in west Asia during early common eras. It

will not surprise me that the world was copied from Buddhist text. Anyone who knows

Sanskrit can try reading the symbol for “OM” backwards in the Arabic script and magically the

numbers “786” will appear!

References

1. Rigveda English translation http://www.sanskritweb.net/rigveda/griffith.pdf

2. www.AVGsatsang.org

3. http://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?61705-Sounds-of-the-Sun

4. http://awakenvideo.org/2010/03/this-should-be-taught-in-school-1of16/

5 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CcuZD0A7RwM NASA Sound Explanation

6. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2cpXpgjUT2k Symphony of the planets

7. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=azUXe82zQ2M Sound of the sun

8. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XRTpFSQ-b3U

9. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TfoRAdDolqA

10. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w_toXu2WF50

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11.https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=OM+sound+by+deep+Nasa+explorer

12.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WE2fTDecEww

13. Sword of Truth archives, Aditi Chaturvedi

14. http://www.spiritscienceandmetaphysics.com/harvard-neurosurgeon-confirms-

theafterlife-exists/

15. http://archaeologynewsnetwork.blogspot.com/2015/01/mummified-corpse-of-200-

yrold-monk.html#.VQH_CCzLrRg

16. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2983202/Alien-noise-Earth-like-world-

Mystery-signals-suggest-habitable-planet-exists-22-light-years-away.html

17. Harrapan chimaeras as hypertext by Denny Ferenz & Massimo Vidalo, south Asian

studies, Rutledge, London. 2012 publication, http://tandfonline.com/loi/rsas20

18. http://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/mummy-deador-trance-

180954170/?noist

19. http://www.dogonews.com/2015/2/27/the-mummified-monk-that-rests-inside-

anancient-buddha-statue

20. http://www.cnn.com/2015/02/27/asia/mummified-monk-statue/

21. http://solar-center.stanford.edu/singing/singing.html#sing