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According to the late spiritual master and author His Holiness Swami Sivananda of Rishikesh, India, the entire purpose of human life is “self-realization” or the experience by which we transcend our limited perspective as flesh and blood beings and see things from the perspective of our common source: Brahman (as the yogis say in the ancient Sanskrit language of India). Brahman is another way of saying “Divine Spirit” or “That which defines our existential source, yet is beyond definition”.

After many, many millenia, the conclusion of the greatest men of India, those who have exclusively pursued truth, is that the sacred invocation, or sacred syllable “OM” is the way we connect perfectly with our Divine Source. The Bible echoes this truth in the Book of St. John where it is written that “the Word was with God and the Word was God.” Because the Absolute Plane of Existence is beyond our ability to describe in words or ideas, we need another method, and that method is the invocation of a “holy sound” that perfectly represents the Absolute Itself. And this sound is “OM”.

Is “OM” God? Actually, this is a question that really should not be asked, because we are placing false or potentially superstitious meaning into “OM” if we ourselves have a wrong notion of God or the Absolute. OM is a way, a technique, and a vehicle that helps us to attain the right perspective on things, so that we overcome all negativities and can exist and abide in everlasting peace and happiness, that is, peace and happiness on the Transcendental level.

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