http://www.writingsonthewall.net/superstrings Green anarchist philosophy politics and utopian dreaming Fri, 31 May 2013 10:14:29 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.2 http://www.writingsonthewall.net/superstrings/comment-page-1#comment-2144 s kaapoor Fri, 19 Sep 2008 20:52:36 +0000 http://www.writingsonthewall.net/?p=396#comment-2144 AUM or OM According to Hindu philosophy(see Mandukya Upanishad), the letter A represents creation, when all existence issued forth from Brahma's golden nucleus; the letter U refers to Vishnu the god of the middle who preserves this world by balancing Brahma on a lotus above himself, and the letter M symbolizes the final part of the cycle of existence, when Vishnu falls asleep and Shiva has to breathe in so that all existing things have to disintegrate and are reduced to their essence to him. More broadly, Aum is said to be the primordial sound that was present at the creation of the universe. It is said to be the original sound that contains all other sounds, all words, all languages and all life......and we are just embarking on this journey AUM or OM
According to Hindu philosophy(see Mandukya Upanishad), the letter A represents creation, when all existence issued forth from Brahma’s golden nucleus; the letter U refers to Vishnu the god of the middle who preserves this world by balancing Brahma on a lotus above himself, and the letter M symbolizes the final part of the cycle of existence, when Vishnu falls asleep and Shiva has to breathe in so that all existing things have to disintegrate and are reduced to their essence to him. More broadly, Aum is said to be the primordial sound that was present at the creation of the universe. It is said to be the original sound that contains all other sounds, all words, all languages and all life……and we are just embarking on this journey

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