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Book: Yoga Studies in Five Minutes

Chapter: 10. What is OM?

DOI: 10.1558/equinox.46352

Blurb:

Originating as a Sanskrit utterance and symbol some three thousand years ago in Vedic traditions, OM has long been known as the foremost mantra in Hinduism. It is the celebrated sacred syllable of chanting, yoga, and meditation, generally regarded as the totality of knowledge, the cosmic vibration, and the sound of divinity and transcendence.

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