If you're new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!

Dear Visitors and Blog Subscribers:

Today’s post is simply a summary of twenty reasons that you can take to heart and that, for me, are reason enough to incorporate OM meditation into your life. As I have mentioned countless times on this blog, OM is the sound symbol for perfect non-duality, which really means perfect peace, harmony and happiness. Therefore, OM meditation is a worthwhile endeavor to experience the Absolute firsthand, beyond all external props, lectures, dogmas, or mythologies.

1. OM, according to the Himalayan Yogis, was the first revelation of the Absolute to man.

2. OM, according to the Himalayan Yogis, honors all time: past, present and future.

3. OM, according to the Himalayan Yogis, honors all life: creation, preservation, and dissolution.

4. OM, according to the Himalayan Yogis, honors all masculine and feminine divinity.

5. OM, according to the Himalayan Yogis, is the timeless sound of the Absolute Divine Spirit.

6. OM, according to the Himalayan Yogis, is the essence of all nature.

7. OM, according to the Himalayan Yogis, is the essence of the Sun.

8. OM, according to the Himalayan Yogis, is the essence of the Moon.

9. OM, according to many Realized Masters, is the original sound of the Universe.

10. OM, according to Maha Avatar Babaji, is the goal of the Kriya Yoga path.

11. OM, according to Babaji’s disciple Lahiri Mahasaya, is the Transcendental Absolute Plane.

12. OM, according to Mahasaya’s disciple Swami Yukteswar, is the name of Brahman (Divine Spirit).

13. OM, according to Yukteswar’s disciple Paramahansa Yogananda, is the Holy Spirit of God.

14. OM, according to Krishna (who spoke the Hindu Gita) is the goal of Bhakti-Yoga.

15. OM, according to Paramahansa Ramakrishna, is the goal of all spiritual paths.

16. OM, according to Sankaracharya, is the perfect sound-symbol of non-duality.

17. OM, according to Paramahansa Yogananda, is the original sound-form of Amen and Amim.

18. OM, according to Paramahansa Yogananda, is the equivalent of “I AM”, as Jesus once spoke.

19. OM, according to the current Dalai Lama (XIV), is the sound representing Buddhahood.

20. OM, according to Paramahansa Nityananda, is the perfect sound union of Shiva and Shakti.

Tags: om //