Sutra 1.27: The Power of AUM (OM)

Sutra 1.27: Tasya Vacakah Pranavah

Aum or Om (Pranava) is the sacred word ascribed to Supreme Being or Ishvara.

Om, we’ve heard it a million times, hell, maybe even sang it at the opening or closing of a yoga asana class. It’s the most commonly associated word with yoga, but what the heck does it mean?

Om consists of three sounds A U M. The A (sounds like Aww) is the sound that comes out when you open your mouth without any effort of moving the lips. The U (sounds like O) and happens when you elongate the sound, and the M (sounds like mmmm) and comes when you close your mouth and bring your lips together to end the sound. Various combinations of these three sounds create all other sounds known to man. When we say the word a bit faster, it sounds like Om.

From nothing to something, from source to its’ formless manifestation, is sound. And the first sound was AUM, which is actually three sounds that encompass birth, life, and death or creation, preservation, and destruction, or Vishnu, Brahma, and Shiva. How extraordinary that we have been gifted the portal of this now moment (Atha), to hop on the Om Express to destination cosmos or God or Spirit or whatever resonates for you. The Om Express catapults us onto a trackless track that is right on time for, no time, into the stationless station that is home, or Om.

The Om Express is the direct path to Source. It departs every moment of every day and there is always a first class seat available. So let us ride daily to that place that is no place, a no place that is everywhere and no where, a place that consists of everything and no thing, of everyone and no one, of you and me, as we, we as one, one people, one voice…all singing together as a chorus to source. Let us buy an unlimited fare on the Om Express where the cost simply consists of sound, backed by sincerity. Let us go Om together, today, tomorrow, and until the end of timeless time.

May you be blessed. May you attune to the tune of Spirit. May you experience the experience of this now moment and bask in its’ immense and extraordinary love. May you be Om in your heart.

My heart sees, feels, and Om’s with yours,

Namaste,

Andrea Dawn