Om (Aum) Mantra - 54 Repetitions

The Om (Aum) symbol is a sacred syllable representing Brahman, the impersonal Absolute — omnipotent, omnipresent, and the source of all manifest existence.

By sound and form, AUM symbolizes the infinite Brahman (ultimate reality) and the entire universe.

A stands for Creation
U stands for Preservation
M stands for Destruction or dissolution

This is representative of the Trinity of God in Hindu dharma (Brahma, Vishnu and Shiva)

The three portions of AUM relate to the states of waking, dream and deep sleep and the three gunas (rajas, satva, tamas)

The three letters also indicates three planes of existence, heaven (swarga), earth (martya) and netherworld (patala)
http://www.buddhastatues.org/om.htm


Turiya is a state of pure consciousness, or the experience of ultimate reality and truth. It is a fourth state of consciousness, the momentary silence after each chanting of Aum.


When you experience Turiya you realize nothing is real. Waking is not real, dream is not real, sleep is not real, the world of multiplicity is not real. If that is so, bondage is not real and liberation is not real.

You don't talk of liberation of the Self or Brahman. Liberation and bondage relate to the individual soul and the individual soul itself is unreal. Therefore there is neither bondage nor liberation.

However, this remarkable realization is experienced only through enlightened intellect. It is only upon waking up from a horrible dream that you realize there was no horror. While you are trapped in the dream world your experiences are very real to you. As long as the intellect has not been enlightened, even though you are in the state of Turiya all the time, your problems have not ended. You are trapped in a world, a dream within a dream. Only when you wake up from the long dream of the world-process through enlightenment do you understand your true identity as Turiya Consciousness.

Thus, meditation on Om--A, U, M, and the ardha matra--leads the mind gradually to the higher levels of samadhi in which all sublime truths are revealed.
http://www.yrf.org/Om2.html


The Power of Chanting Om:
1. The chanting of Om drives away all worldly thoughts and removes distraction and infuses new vigor in the body.
2. When you feel depressed, chant Om fifty times and you will be filled with new vigor and strength. The chanting of Om is a powerful tonic.
3. Those who chant Om will have a powerful, sweet voice.
4. Those who do meditation of Om daily will get tremendous power. They will have luster in their eyes and faces.

Meditation on Om:
Retire to a quite place, sit down, close your eyes and completely relax your muscles and nerves. Concentrate on the space between your eyebrows and quieten and silence the conscious mind. Begin to repeat "Om" mentally while associating the ideas of infinity, eternity, immortality, etc. You must repeat Om with the feeling that you are the infinite and all-pervading.
http://www.omsakthi.org/worship/mantra.html


Be patient and persistent and meditate on the formula of Om again and again. Gradually you will ascend the ladder of Vedantic wisdom in the proper way.


This sound can be heard as the sound of one's own nerve system, and meditators and mystics hear it daily, like the sound made by an electrical transformer or a swarm of bees, or a thousand vinas playing in the distance. It is a strong, inner experience, one that yogis hold with great reverence. Hearing it one draws near to God Consciousness. When we are living in the lower chakras, or when the world too strongly dominates our mind, this sound may, for a time, not be heard. But it returns as awareness withdraws, as the mind becomes perfectly quiescent, silent, still. Listen for this sound in your quietest moments and you will learn to recognize it as a daily encounter with the Divine that lives within all men, within all creatures, within all existence.
http://www.iloveulove.com/spirituality/hindu/omaum.htm


The difference in spelling ["Om" or "Aum"] is merely a matter of transliteration.
http://www.iloveulove.com/spirituality/hindu/omaum.htm

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[57mamabear]

Thank you so much for posting this video. I use it amongst others you have posted to help calm my mind and rebalance myself. My wonderful son who was suffering from clinical depression took his own life in October. He was only 21. Listening and chanting the mantras is helping me to cope with the after shock, so thank you once again.

[LilaSakura]

Thank you too for this comment. I feel for you, I've lost two brothers and an uncle to suicide. I was heading that way when I was 18, I am much better now as I have opened up to meditation and mantras. I never planned to make mantra videos, just felt led by something within, time to time (:

[black2001panther]

hey just one correction

AUM does not represent brahman it represents 'brahma' which is assumed to be present everywhere in universe. 'Braahman' is the cast in hindu religion and AUM represent each and everything not just braahman.

[LilaSakura]

"Brahman" is different from "Brahmin" the priests/holy men [the cast in Hindu religion you're referring to]. "Brahmin" is derived from "Brahman" in the sense that a 'Brahmin is the one who knows Brahman'. The confusion between the terms can be dated back to the translation of the Upanishads into modern English. -Wiki

Brahma is a Hindu god (deva) of creation and one of the Trimurti. With Aum Brahma begin creations but Aum is Brahman "unchanging, infinite, immanent, and transcendent reality"

[felipepeixoto2]

Where can I find the mp3 version of this chant?

[LilaSakura]

Hi Felipe, I have it for free dl at mantra . lilasakura . com

[friendsforever3691]

While meditating on the chant of Om, one can actually feel the divine energy around you. Thanks for posting this video, and the write up. God bless.

[NAIKHABER]

this video was great...

[1234suicide]

please respect...

ancient and deep"religious"

bless for you all

[alainmarius]

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[gujjulasravankumar]

Tried other om chanting but this one is far superior and awakening

[bhodidaishin]

If you like chanting the Ohm video can do the trick. It is 54 repetitions. It will keep you in tune and help you be in the present. Breath while doing the mantra and feel the vibration throughout your body.

[lovethejourney75]

My whole body was in vibrations...

[psypunk66]

very nice :)

[MEb1718]

I feel so at peace when this is playing. It's almost indescribable.

Thank you for putting this on here. :)