In the beginning ...

Monday is under the influence of the Moon and is related to Crown Chakra.

Islamic tradition has it that on Monday is a day when the prayers are easily received if the man doesn't have any discord with anyone.

So I thought to write a few words on the Pranava - Om.

Also spelled Amin as is more familiars to muslims, christians or jews the Pranava has deep and profound meaning.

In Buddha Dharma is known that AUM for which Om is actually the symbol represent the pure body (A), speech (U) and mind (M) of a Buddha.

The A, U, M are sounds that can be pronounced without the use of the tongue and through the use of the tongue they can give rise to all other sounds.

In fact A corresponds to Vaikhari manifestation of sounds which include normal sounds including speech.

U corresponds to Madhyama which are whispered sounds without audible effect.

M corresponds to Pashyanti which are mental sounds, songs in dreams or in the head, mental visualization of sounds like silently listening to your thoughts or the silent repetition of a mantra. (That's where visualization take place during empowerements).

What follows AUM and is often overlooked are … which sometimes are also wrote which point to transcendental sounds also called Para which are premanifest sounds in the subtlest state as light or pure silence.

Now silence is not the absence of sound but rather sounds that emerge from inner spaciousness or Shunyata and thus when heard take one to inner spaciousness as well.

The … is the answer to the reflective inquiry question Who am I ? The answer is not conceptual it's the quiet attention that follows the question. And is in fact what Prajnaparamita Hridaya sutra points to … You are not the bodymind … you are that in which everything appears or disappears.

AUM … is a primordial sound, unstruck … If one repeats it with awareness and without using the lips or tongue one can touch upon Anahata (Ana - un, hata - struck) chakra. The M is not labial it has an Anusvara, a dot which is sometimes represented above or underneath due to samdhi (rules of pronunciation or rather how the tongue adjusts to pronounce sounds) but is not to be confused with Anunasika which is also represented as a dotted M and it reprent the nazalization of the vowel preceding the Anunasika pronounced with closed teeth and lips. So the Anusvara is basically a nasal sound often transliterated as NG. Sometimes in Sikh Dharma OM is transliterated as ONG is also a symbol so it's not O but rather AU which roll into a kind of O.

When Saint John writes in his Gospel “In the beginning was the Word” he is referring to Amin.

“In the beginning” in jewish transliteration is called Bereshit which is the first chapter of Torah (which by the way for observant jews is coming to a close in a few days) which in the Christian bible is called Genesis.

So in Torah with the jewish transliteration (mind that the jewish letters go from write to left):

Bereshit Bara Eloeim Et Ha-Shamaim Ve-Et Ha-Aretz’ {בראשית ברא אלוהים את השמים ואת הארץ}

“Bereshit Bara Eloeim” was translated as “In the beginning God created” and then what follows is ‘Et את’ which is a preposition sometimes assimillated with the article ‘the' ‘In the begining God created the heavens and the earth”

The interpretation of Torah on an esoteric level is a subjective science called Kabbalah. According to Kabbalah language and speaking are an essential part of Creation and thus they need an Alphabet which was created first.

If we look at את we see that is composed of Alef’ {א} and ‘Tav’ {ת} which are the first and last letter respectively of the hebrew Alphabet and, according to Kabbalah, the beginning and end of the world.