We are chanting AUM, yes or no?
In the morning or when we chant some mantra,
this AUM which we chant is not AUM.
Gurudev said it is not AUM. Why?
He said: AUM is Brahman, and Brahman is inexpressible, inexplicable, absolut.
When you say AUM it has a beginning and an end.
When you say AUM it has a beginning and a end.
So AUM has no beginning and no end.
So when it has no beginning, no end how can you chant it?
With the finite sense organ you cannot experience the beauty of the infinite
but you can have little experience of it.
So what we are chanting AUM it is an imitation
but a finite imitation it is not the real imitation.
It is not real AUM.
Gurudev spoke in Oriya: (Orya)
Brahma cannot be uttered cannot be explained through mouth, it is.
Just you think.
You chant AUM unending. You start with AUM but don't stop it.
Chant it ooo…
How long?
You have to stop it, so you can't chant.
When Gurudev said: (Sanskrit)
(Sanskrit) means (Sanskrit)
All the time new.
When you finish it is old.
How can it be new?
Because it is unending.
That which is finished is old.
That which is never finished?
Ever new because it is unending.
Once it is finished you will say oh it is done. That is old.
Old is that which is finished which has been ended.
So AUM that continuous sound is known as Nada Brahma.
AUM is Nada Brahma.
In the beginning there was word that word was with God.
That word is God.
Words are always associated with a sound.
If there is no sound there is no word.
Am I clear?
Any word is first a sound.
And then we express the sound with some sketches so it looks like one word.
So AUM is also one word.
AUM is also one word.
This word is consisting of how many letters?
3 and half letters.
You will say: "Three we knew and now you are telling 3 and half?"
(Sanskrit)
It is 3 and half letters.
A, U, M, and there is...
(Sanskrit)
There is nada bindhu.
There is bindhu.
That is half.
A, U, M - A, U, M,
and it is not easy to describe in,
there is one point.
In AUM there is a point.
So A, U, M and with a point it is AUM.
A, U, M with a point.
Just to make you understand it.
So there is one point, the point is half.
And A, U, M these are three they represent many things.
That is why AUM symbolises God.
(Sanskrit)
AUM is verbal expression of God, AUM symbolises God,
God means God's creation, everything.
AUM symbolises or AUM represents everything.
AUM represents everything.
How AUM represents everything?
I will just play with the words you will see.
A, U, M; A - U - M, okay?
A, U, M,
Now take U, M, A.
U, M, A; U - M - A
What is this?
UMA, U, M, A, is UMA UMA is mother Parvati.
U - A - M; U, A, M it is UAM.
It is UAM, U - A - M;
What is this UAM?
It is the seed mantra of Shiva.
It is seed mantra of Shiva.
So AUM is Shiva and Pavati together.
AUM is Shiva and Parvati together.
Who are Shiva and Parvati?
The divine couple.
The causeless cause of everything.
Okay?
So AUM is everything.
UMA and Shiva.
And when Lord Shiva took this you know he had a... what is this?
It is a hand kettle drum in the hand.
He made the sound.
Ah? In English?
In Shiva's hand.
Hand drum.
So from that drum came the first sound.
They say it is the sound for destruction, the sound for creation.
So AUM is the drum sound from the hand of Lord Shiva.
AUM is the flute sound of Lord Krishna.
AUM is the Veena sound of Saraswati.