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Hinduism: What Really Happened in India – M. M. Ninan 157 Even the early Upanishads written in Sanskrit, refer to it only indirectly as the udgîtha (“up sound”) and the pranava (“pronouncing”). In the Yoga-Sûtra (1.27), it is called the Word (vâcaka) of the Lord (îshvara). Patanjali further states (in 1.28) that in order to realize the mystery of the Lord, the om sound should be recited and contemplated. In the earliest Upanishads, (Brihad-Âranyaka, Chândogya, and Taittirîya), aum is mentioned many times both as aum and om-kâra Thus apparently the symbol and mantra Om emerged in Indian scene soon after the mission of St.Thomas the Apostle and seen only after that time. Surprisingly, all early churches in the Malankara had used this as the Christian symbol; and they appear at the entrance of the seven original churches. Even when these churches were remodeled and reconstructed, the ‘aum’ was retained. It was clearly part of the Malankara Christian tradition from the first century. They however associate it with the Christian Trinity and to Christ – the word who became flesh - which we will discuss later. An objective conclusion would be that Aum was indeed the original Christian concept as introduced by Thomas The Meaning of Om. Om as Amen A century ago, the German scholar Max Müller, ( M. Müller, Three Lectures on the Vedânta Philosophy, London: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1894) who introduced the Indian Scriptures to the west, had the idea that om might be a contraction of the word avam, “a prehistoric pronominal stem, pointing to distant objects, while ayam pointed to nearer objects. Avam may have become the affirmative particle om, just as the French oui arose from hoc illud.” This follows the common everyday use of a syllable produced by the “up sound” or exhalation producing Om to mean, “Yes, I agree” with the same meaning as “Amen”. Chândogya Upanishad clearly spells out the equation between the words udgîtha and pranava. The first record of this usage is in the Brihad-Âranyaka-Upanishad (3.9.1) itself, where om is employed seven
Hinduism: What Really Happened in India – M. M. Ninan 158 times in this manner. Indeed, the Chândogya-Upanishad (1.1.8) clearly states, “That syllable is a syllable of assent, for whenever we assent to anything we say aum [= om].” “If, then, om meant originally that and yes, we can understand that, like Amen, it may have assumed a more general meaning, something like tat sat, and that it may have been used as representing all that human language can express.” (Max Muller). Attempt to find Vedic Connection: Om from Soma Swami Sankarananda, (Swami Sankarananda, The Rigvedic Culture of the Pre-Historic Indus, Calcutta: Ramakrishna Vedanta Math, 1942), proposes that om is derived from the Vedic word soma. Through the influence of the Persians, who did not pronounce the letter s, the word soma was changed to homa and subsequently was shortened to om. This is only a conjecture to find a meaning in connection with Vedic religion. Earlier Sankara also hung on to this relation. Swami considers sacred syllable om as a symbol of Sun, since Aitareya-Brâhmana (5.32)says: “That which glows is om.” Evidently, it is a weak argument. Om as the Word of God However, the historic development of the meaning goes far beyond the Vedic gods and common Amen to identify Om with the shabdabrahman. In Om, the unknowable indescribable God expresses himself in creation through the Word. The cosmos was created by the Word.
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