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balajiv_54 • April 29, 2003 


dear sir,
iam grateful for your apt replt to the meaning of pranavam(aum or ohm)
i am thinking in this way.
ohm is the begining of all,including brahma,vishnu and shivan.it is 
this shakti which makes all gods do their functions like brahma does 
the job of producing,vishnu does the job of protecting and shiva does 
the job of destroying. all the three take their orders by yogic 
power. as lord krishna says in geetha after he shows the virata 
roopam. he says he could show this because of the yogic power he has 
and all that is possible because he is an avatar of vishnu.

in sandyavandanam we invoke this ohm after doing achamanam and 
ganpathi dhiyanam.shuklam paradharam vishnum sasivarnam 
chathurbhujam,prasanna vadanam dhiyayeth sarva vikhnoba shanthayedh.
in doing pranayamam we invoke the ohmkaram

i do not know if iam correct.the learned may guide me.

balaji

--- In bhakti-list@yahoogroups.com, "Ram Anbil"  wrote:
> Dear friend:
> 
> As per our Siddhantam, PraNavam comprises of three 
syllables "a", "u" and 
> 'ma". "a" denotes Sriman Narayana. "u" represents "Thaayaar". In 
another 
> yojana, it is said to denote "only", since "a" itself is taken to 
denote the 
> divine couplle (Sriman Narayana and His inseparable Consort, Sri 
> Mahaalakshmi") "ma" represents the Jivatma. Taken together, it 
means that 
> the Jeevatma exists as the servitor ONLY for the divine couple as 
aforesaid.
> 
> Swami Desikan in his "Srimad Rahasya Traya Saaram" has established 
this 
> truth beyond any doubt quoting appropriate PramaaNams from the 
Vedas down to 
> the least of our scriptures.
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