The Mandukya Upanishad - 4-1.7 : presented the quintessence of the acme of thought and experience reached in ancient times, – the Upanishads.

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22/11/2018
The Mandukya Upanishad - 4-1.7
Section 1: The Pranava or Omkara :-7.

When you recite Om properly, you enter into a meditative mood. You are not merely reciting a sound or a word or a phrase, you are creating a vibration. To point out once again; you are creating a vibration. What sort of vibration?

Not a vibration which agitates you, irritates you, or creates a desire in your mind for a particular object, but a vibration which melts all other particular vibrations, puts an end to all desire, extinguishes all cravings and creates a desire for the Universal. As fire burns straw, this desire for the Universal burns up all other desires.

A recitation of Om, even three times, correctly done, is enough to burn up all sins, to put a cessation to all desire and make you calm, quiet and satisfied within yourself. The test of a correct recitation or chant of Om is that you become calm in your mind and feel satisfied with what you are and what you have.


When you come out of your meditative mood with a desire persisting, it would only point out that your contemplation has not been perfect. The desire for things was lurking within while you were in a mood of contemplation; even the chant of Om was not properly done.

The chant of Om should go together with the thought of the Universal. It is a Japa and a Dhyana combined. While other Japas may lead you to a mood of Dhyana or meditation, while other Mantras may lead to Dhyana, the Japa of Om suddenly becomes Dhyana when it is properly done.

Here, Japa and Dhyana combine, and Nama and Rupa are brought together. Here, you do not have a distinction between the designator and the designated, because the Nama (name) which is Om, being Universal, merges into the Rupa (form) which is also Universal.

There cannot be two Universals; there can only be one Universal. So the designator and the designated, in the case of Om, become one. Japa and Dhyana mean the same thing in the case of the chanting of Om. It is a sudden entering into a realm which the individual mind cannot understand.

A rapture of ecstasy may take possession of you if you chant Om, thus. Omityetadaksharamidam sarvam – Om is, verily, everything.


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