The secret of OM || Acharya Prashant, Navratri Exclusive, Day Six

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00:00When you say a, u, ma, you have now described the mind in its totality.

00:12When you say a, u, ma, you have described the mind in its totality because the mind

00:18has no state other than these three.

00:24Having talked of these three, you have circumscribed the mind.

00:29This is where the mind exists, a, u, and ma.

00:34These are the three states of consciousness.

00:36The first one is the jagrat avastha, the waking state.

00:42In the waking state, you are somebody else.

00:47The Rishi realizes that with such intensity that he gives you a separate, dedicated name

01:01for your existence in the waking state.

01:04He says you should be called Vaishwanar.

01:08You should be called Vaishwanar.

01:12Because right now you are not what you would be in the u state or the ma state.

01:20In the dream or sushupti state, you will not be the same person at all.

01:27So those persons must carry a different name.

01:32Right now you must have a specific, particular name for your particular state of consciousness.

01:39In this state of consciousness, who are you?

01:42Vaishwanar.

01:43The one who is conscious of the vishwa.

01:49The one who lives in the vishwa.

01:50The one who is experiencing the vishwa.

01:53Vishwa means world.

01:57And he says you have your sense organs and you have these gates in the body, 7 and 19.

02:06Through these, you feel connected to the world.

02:11Through these, you feel that the world is coming to you and you are doing things to

02:16the world and in the world.

02:18This is the Vaishwanar state of consciousness.

02:24And then the moment you fall asleep, you are a totally different person now.

02:31So you must be given a different name.

02:33Now your name is Taijas and your state is Swapna Vastha.

02:39You are in a different world now.

02:43Your world has entirely changed.

02:46You no more carry the same personality as you did an hour back.

02:52Getting it?

02:58So that's the dream state.

03:04And then there is Ma.

03:10The state in which all the gross remnants of personality dissolve.

03:20All that remains is a stressless, tensionless relaxation.

03:32It can be called bliss.

03:34Because all the identities you carry, whether in dream or in waking, are just a kind of

03:44tension, irrespective of what the name of the identity is.

03:51In dreamless sleep, the greatest relief is that you have no name, no past, no future,

03:58no identity, nothing.

04:00There is just a void.

04:04The seed, the germ of your existence is still there.

04:11But in its most rudimentary, most basic, most primordial form.

04:20The seed form is there.

04:22But the seed has no expression, no manifestation in the dreamless state.

04:32However, since the seed is there, so the manifestation can take place when you are

04:41shaken out of your sleep.

04:44You have not totally gone away.

04:47You are still present, but highly dormant.

04:51You are deep asleep.

04:55That is the closest the ego can come to an experience of non-existence.

05:05Your dreamless moments.

05:08And then there is dissolution.

05:13Then there is dissolution.

05:16Then there is silence.

05:17That silence is the fourth quarter.

05:22So, OM.

05:29You see how the mer tapers into silence?

05:35You see how gradually and peacefully and musically it fades away?

05:42That's the reason why OM is pronounced in a specific way.

05:51Nothing mystical about it.

05:54You just want to be true to the word.

05:59You just want to be true to the word.

06:03True to what the word has been designed to communicate.

06:08So it's OM, going, going, going, and then gone.

06:18That's OM.

06:21So, three layers of mind, three states of mind rather, and then that which is the substratum

06:31of mind.

06:33Then that which exists irrespective of the mind.

06:37It is not really the fourth.

06:41It is actually the first and the last and the second and the third.

06:47It is everything.

06:49But, you know, when you are dealing in such arithmetical terms, then you have probably

06:56no option but to call it the fourth.

06:58It's not the fourth.

07:02It is the first and the fundamental one.

07:06That which we are calling as the fourth one here.

07:09The self.

07:10Atma or Brahm.

07:15Now, you know what OM stands for?

07:19OM is a remembrance that firstly, everything is mind and secondly, there is peace beyond

07:30the mind.

07:34And that has been remembered and captured very pithily in the form of OM.

07:43You see?

07:44How precise, how succinct it is.

07:46You just say OM, and you have captured everything.

07:51You have captured the essence of all reality.

07:55OM ends somewhere, right?

08:02What is it meant to remind you?

08:06You too have to end.

08:08Because you are a, u, and ma.

08:10For how long will you keep playing the game of a, u, and ma?

08:23Fade away.

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08:25Fade away.

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