Mandukya_Upanishad

other languages; and the vocal organ, in the recitation ofOm, or Praṇava, vibrates also in a very comprehensivemanner. When you utter A, B, C, etc., a particular part ofthe vocal system begins to vibrate, but when you recite Om,the entire soundbox begins to vibrate. This is a matter forexperiment. Anyone of you can experiment with it andobserve the result. The whole soundbox begins to function,not merely a part of the soundbox; and all the languages aresupposed to be contained in Om because of the fact that inthe recitation of Om every part of the vocal organ begins tovibrate, and naturally every word, every phrase should besomehow included in the root-sound that is created whenOm is chanted. Not merely this; the recitation of Om hasanother significance or meaning. The chanting or thecalling out of a particular name produces a vibration inyou. You have a feeling generated within you by therecitation or the calling out of a name. Rasagulla, laddu,kheer, coffee, tea, rice: these are certain names of certainobjects, and you know that when you utter these names,different ideas occur to your mind and you have differentsensations in your body. Scorpion: a different sensation;disease, ugliness, earthquake, atom bomb, war;—all theseideas produce vibrations in your system. They are notmerely words; they are vibrations that are conveyed to yoursystem by a particular word or a phrase; and Om is also avibration, not merely a word or a sound. Om is a vibration,a Universal vibration with which creation commenced, asthey say.The Manusmṛiti, the Mahābhārata, the Purānas and theUpanishads describe the nature, the constitution, the22