Visions of Champaklal

An Experience of Om

1981-06-06

“AUM”

The Mother has said,

“Om has a transforming power.
Om represents the Divine.
Om is the signature of God.”

Sri Aurobindo has said,

“In all Yoga, there are indeed many preparatory objects of thought concentration, forms, verbal formulas of thought, significant names, all of which are supports to the mind in this movement, all of which have to be used and transcended; the highest support according to the Upanishads is the mystic syllable AUM, whose three letters represent the Brahman or Supreme Self in its three degrees of status, the Waking Soul, the Dream Soul and the Sleep Soul, and the whole potent sound rises towards that which is beyond status as beyond activity. For of all Yoga of knowledge the final goal is the Transcendent.”¹

“AUM is the syllable (the Imperishable One); one should follow after it as the upward song (movement) for with AUM one sings (goes) upwards; of which this is the analytical explanation.”

“OM is the symbol and the thing symbolised.”²

[^2: Sri Aurobindo Birth Centenary Library, p. 393.

“OM is this imperishable Word, OM is the Universe, and this is the exposition of OM. The past, the present and the future, all that was, all that is, all that will be, is OM. Likewise, all else that may exist beyond the bounds of Time, that too is OM.”³