Sathya Sai Baba The World-Avatar Teaching and Revelations

is better than saying, he is in all. It is a illusion (maya) which binds and
limits man; all spiritual discipline is to conquer maya. 7.2.59, (15-115)
The OM is the everpresent voice within, the echo of the Divine call,
from the cavity of the heart. Listen to it, be thrilled by it; that is the inner
adoration, of which the external ritual worship is the outer symbol.
Contemplate the OM, the symbol of the inner flame, which shines
through the waking hours, the dream twilight and the sleep night.
Repeat the OM slowly, contemplating its vast potentialities. The A
emerges from the throat, U rolls over the tongue and the M ends on
lips; that is to say, OM which is a composite of A, U, M is the sum and
substance of all the words that can emanate from the human tongue.
It is the primordial fundamental sound, symbolic of the Universal Absolute.
After the M there must be the unheard resonance, which represents
the attributeless, formless Abstract. The ascending voice of
the OM must take a curve at M and descend as slowly as it rose, taking
as much time as when it ascended disappearing in the silence, which
echoes in the inner consciousness. (27-136)
When one dives into the depth of the silence, one hears oneself, the
primeval cosmic, OM, the “pranava” that emanates from prana, the vital
vibration that fills the universe. To hear that sound, one has to approach,
as near as possible, the core of one’s being. (27-142)
Brahman also means sound, voice, word, mantra (sacred formula),
and, through the sound OM, as well as through various other mantras,
it is possible for man to develop the superfine intellect necessary to
grasp the immanent and transcendent principle called Brahman. Brahman
means the biggest, the vastest. It is described as bigger than the
biggest, vaster than the vastest. The universe is the body of Brahman
that emerged from it when the desire to become many arose in it. The
universe rose when Brahman uttered the first word, and so, the word
is also called Brahman. 1974, (23-98)
The symbol of the full is OM. The Vedas announce: “The one indestructible
sound OM is Brahman, the Universal Absolute.” The moving
and unmoving, everywhere are only paraphrasing OM, elaborating its
nature, illustrating its potentialities. The past that has gone, the
present that is here and the approaching future are all also OM. The
OM is the name, and Brahman is the named. The two are not separate.
All this is indeed Brahman. (...)
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