In the beginning was the word, And it was with God, It was indeed God! AUM the unstruck sound, Vast and Formless, Without no gender or face, Existed throughout without a trace, When the time was right, AUM strummed itself, Creating ripples in vast listless space, From formless into a form it took, AUM transformed itself into UMA, UMA is AUM made visible, To salvage and redeem dull minds, The formless took upon itself, A form of exquisite and matchless beauty, Just for the love of the created Universe, AUM became UMA in a jiffy, When AUM stayed still, It remained Shiva, When it fluctuated and moved, It became UMA...The Playful Mother Divine! Is not UMA, AUM turned inside out.......The cosmic Aum sound is he combined vibration of the three phases of Nature: creation, preservation, and dissolution operative in the physical, astral, and causal universes.He who knows Aum (Om) knows God..... Aum is not just a sound or vibration. It is not just a symbol. It is the entire cosmos, whatever we can see, touch, hear and feel. Moreover, it is all that is within our perception and all that is beyond our perception. It is the core of our very existence. If we think of Om only as a sound, a technique or a symbol of the Divine, we will miss it altogether. Aum is the mysterious cosmic energy that is the substratum of all the things and all the beings of the entire universe. It is an eternal song of the Divine. It is continuously resounding in silence on the background of everything that exists.... God manifests in creation as the Cosmic Vibration, which expresses itself as Cosmic Sound and Cosmic Light. The Cosmic Sound or Aum is the synthesis of all the sounds of the highly vibrating life forces (lifetrons), electrons, protons, and atoms. By listening to Aum, the yogi becomes a true brahmachari or one who is attuned to Brahman. By deep concentration the devotee can hear Aum at any time and in any place. he Cosmic Sound is spoken of in the Christian Bible as follows: In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.[John 1:1] The Word or Aum came from God; He manifests as the Cosmic Vibration in creation. The Bible also refers to the Word as the Holy Ghost or intelligent ghostlike unseen vibration that is the creator of all forms of matter. It is called Holy Ghost because this Invisible Force is guided by the Christ Intelligence that exists in creation as the reflection or sole begotten Son of the transcendental God the Father. Jesus Christ promised that the Holy Ghost or the great Comforter would come to his disciples after his bodily departure from the earth. [John 1:1; John 14:26] Kriya Yoga is a fulfillment of that blessed promise of Christ, as it gives the peoples of the world a scientific technique for contacting the Holy Sound. --Paramahansa Yogananda--
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