02-05-2017, 01:59 PM
(02-01-2017, 03:31 PM)Ashim Wrote: You are referring to om, ॐ
In the beginning was thought but otherwise sounds good.
Hi Ashim, i dont want to be a smart ass, but would like to offer a different perspective.
Yukteswar is referring to a mantra, "aum", not really a word.
Not sure, if you're familiar with mantras, in case you're not a mantra is a "word" (or multiple words), which is the representation of a state of being.
This "state" would be a lets say vibration, this vibration would be translatable into "inner sounds", these inner sounds would arise in you , if you speak that mantra loud or mentally.
By means of resonance, you help this "state" arise in you.
Sorry, if you already knew!
In that regard, the "word" is not teally a thought, just like the "one original thought" ra refers to has not much to do with the kind or level of thought we usually have in our human form.
Aum, according to how experienced it would be the mantra that describes creation, the eternal process of evovolving from one-ness and uniting again with one-ness. I would say it describes more the "moving" nature of it, whereas om would describe the static portion, the unchanging completeness.
This is at least how i experienced it.
Are you familiar with mantra practice? If not, it might be interesting for you!