Mandukya_Upanishad

structure and the glory of Om. With Om, Brahma createdthis cosmos, and from Om constituted of the three isolatedletters A, U, M, the vyāhṛitis came forth: bhūh, bhuvah,svah. From these three vyāhṛitis, the three pādas of theGāyatri-Mantra emanated. From the three pādsas of theGāyatri-Mantra, the meaning of the three sections of thePuruṣha-Sūkta emerged, and from the meaning of thePuruṣha-Sūkta, the meaning of the entire Vedas emanated,and from this vast meaning of the Vedas, Brahma createdthis cosmos, say the scriptures. So important is Om, not achant uttered by Brahṃa, but a vibration that rose from theSupreme Being in the initial stage of creation – acomprehensive vibration. And when we chant Om, we alsotry to create within ourselves a sympathetic vibration, avibration which has a sympathy with the cosmic vibration,so that, for the time being, we are in tune with the cosmos.We flow with the current of the cosmos when we reciteOm, and produce a harmonious vibration in our bodily andpsychological system. Instead of tearing ourselves awayfrom the world outside, we flow into the current of theworld. Instead of thinking independently as jīvas, we startthinking universally as Īsvara. Instead of thinking inrelation to objects segregated from one another, we think interms of nothing at all. There is thought thinking itself, as itwere. Can you imagine thought thinking itself? This isĪsvara’s Thought. When a thought thinks of an object, it isjīva’s thought. When the, thought thinks only itself, it isĪsvara’s Thought, Īsvara’s Will and when we recite Omproperly, with an understanding of its real connotation, wethink nothing in particular. We think all things in general;23