Chapter 3
The grace of the divine
๐ป Day 27 ๐ป
When the Buddists meditated, they found Aum. Jains meditated and they found Aum. Sikhs found Aum. Zoroastrians found Aum. Aum is very similar to Ameen. In the Jewish tradition, it is Shalom. Aum is there in Shalom. Aum is the eternal sound, Aum is what one hears.
So that which cannot be expressed by any name or form is represented by sound. That sound is Aum! Though it is beyond sound, it can be identified with the sound Aum.
When I was in Connecticut, one lady came back to me and said that she did an experiment with the sound Aum. They recorded the sound and frequency of Aum, it is exactly the same as that of earth’s rotation around its axis. Aum also has the same cycles. This just testifies what we hear all the time, that this universal sound Aum is always there. We were part of that before birth and that is where we will go after death, if we are not clogged by other cravings and aversions. ‘What that guy said, what this lady told and how bad they are’ – if all this is gone, what remains is Aum.
What do you get by realising Aum? Aum is glorified a lot. Not just chanting Aum, but realising it. So much is said about Aum. Whatever is that you want, you get through Aum. Realising it, one finds complete fulfilment of one’s longings. It is the greatest support to all seekers. Those in whose hearts Aum reverberates are unceasingly blessed and deeply loved as one who is the Self.
เคเคคเคฆाเคฒเคฎ्เคฌเคจँ เคถ्เคฐेเคท्เค เคฎेเคคเคฆाเคฒเคฎ्เคฌเคจं เคชเคฐเคฎ् ।
เคเคคเคฆाเคฒเคฎ्เคฌเคจं เค्เคाเคค्เคตा เคฌ्เคฐเคน्เคฎเคฒोเคे เคฎเคนीเคฏเคคे ॥
When your heart is reverberating, your consciousness is merged with the Universal
Consciousness. The universe is reverberating with Aum like the tuning fork. When you hit the tuning fork, it makes a sound and when you bring a string instrument near it, then it starts reverberating by itself. So one sound which is already being reverberated, when that reverberates within you, you feel the unity, the merger of that.
If it is within everybody, why doesn’t everyone see it? Because we are caught up in the gross. The mind is thick and gross. It is filled with names and forms, cravings
and aversions, right and wrong, likes and dislikes. Right and wrong, likes and dislikes are pairs. They go for holiday together in the mind. It needs death to take them away. Sometimes even death can’t take them away. You have to be born again for them to be taken away. As long as you are holding on to “things are wrong, wrong”, your mind is gross. When you are gross, you are agitated, thick. You can’t see the subtlety. Similarly, when you are holding on to, “I am the most righteous, most righteous”, even then you cannot see.
