The Omnipresent Sound of the OM
A number of years ago I traveled to India.
My decision to go to India was inspired first by intermittent but persistent guidance in my meditations when I seemed to receive an injunction to go to India.
At first, I dismissed this thought as a part of my mind chatter as I entered into meditation.
After all, I rationalized, meditation is universal and not limited by the constraints of time and place. Still, that quiet voice repeated time and again the direction, “Go to India”.
When a spiritual friend and fellow energy healer Dr. Steve Hinkey was giving a workshop in my home, he said he was going to India and had the opportunity to meet with some of the top Mahamandaleshwar leaders in the Hindi religion and did I wish to go? A “Mahamandaleshwar” means “Superior of great and/or numerous monasteries” or “Superior of a religious district or province” (maha = great, mandala = district, ishwara = head, sovereign), they hold a position similar to a Cardinal in the Chruch. Immediately my injunction was recalled to me and I realized that this is what I had been guided to do.
When I first arrived in India, from the moment that my feet touched Indian soil, I realized that something was different.
There was an energy that I could not find the words to name, that was unique to the land of India. This subtle and profound energy had a significant impact on me and upon my meditations immediately, despite the fact that my friend Steve said the hotel I had booked for us had landed us in the middle of one of the most impoverished ghettos of Asia. Still, we were safe, and it was clean despite the material lack of the people around us.
Immediately I noticed a significant shift in the quality, depth, and tenor of my meditations. At that time, I assumed that what I was feeling was a new development in my meditative life.
After all, my logical mind contended, how could a place impact my interior spiritual meditative life?
I observed the changes and transformations in my meditations from the role of a dispassionate observer. I enjoyed the graciousness and generosity of the people of India throughout my travels. I saw as one does with travel, many beautiful and amazing things. I engaged in new experiences and new relationships, bonding deeply with many with whom I felt deep and karmic bonds of love and energetic connections of love and spiritual community.
My friend Steve and I spent a week at the ashram of Mahamandaleshwar Swami Nityananda called Shanti Mandar, providing, as our Sava (service), energetic healing for many of the Brahmin boys who were there to learn the Vedic tradition at the ashram, as well as for a variety of Australians who had come for a scheduled trip with Nityananda (a journey for spiritual awareness).
We must dive deeper within ourselves,
we must become established in the knowledge of the Truth.
– Mahamandaleshwar Swami Nityananda
We chanted, meditated and enjoyed the energy of India, a place where the eons of spiritual striving and practice seem to have imbued the very earth itself with spiritual energy.
Throughout this time, no matter where we traveled and no matter what we did, I became aware of something I had never felt before, something I had been unable to access back in my home in America, until my experience in India.
It is that of which I write today: The Omnipresent Presence of the OM.
Beyond the Sound of the OM
According to legend, the sound of the OM is the sound created when all sounds are combined. Spiritually sounding of the OM is an often-taught tradition that crosses many lines of diverse disciplines. The OM is sounded to clear energy from one’s chakras, to send forth the energies contacted in both group and individual meditations, and to help meditators achieve various desired states of meditation.
All of this I have done and used throughout my 50-plus years of the practice of meditation, but what I am describing today is beyond that or an expansion of the regular use of the sounding of the OM.
It is an awareness of energy which can be accessed and utilized when engaging in the physical sounding of the OM, whether sounded firmly and clearly, or whispered, or sounded silent. It is the sound of the Omnipresence of the OM.
This Omnipresence of the OM embraces and includes everyone and everything as celestial music of the spheres. It resounds within the silence, the silence that is within all sound. It links us to the power of the Word and connects us with Universal Source.
This Omnipresent Presence of the OM holds within it the power to create.
It is both mystical and magical. It is both Universal and the thrumming of all of life force on earth.
When you use the sound of the OM in your meditation you are choosing to consciously open and align your life force with energies that are beyond what is physical and material, but resides in what is Spiritual, transcendent and eternal. The OM calls that to you.
– Genevieve Gerard
I invite you now to calm your mind, open your heart and invite the Light, to bring to you this resounding sound that connects you with your Soul, with all that you are and all you will ever be and all that you have ever been, in this sound.
Relax into it. Tune in to it. Let yourself enjoy it and receive it and stay with this experience for as long as feels right for you to do so.
Then take some time in quiet and reflection to feel what this experience brings, to become aware of the world beyond your physical hearing and enter into the joy of Oneness with the Universal Presence and pervading Love that travels on the waves of the Omnipresent OM.
It is available to you in the Eternal Now for your healing, for your joy, and for your empowerment. You are a beloved child of the Universe and this Omnipresence of the Om is your portal.
Many schools and systems of meditation use the sacred sound of the Om to ground the energies and insights that are accessed and received in meditation.
As the sound of the OM is explained as the sound created by the unity of all sound, so it is also a symbol of Unity in general.
Utilizing the sound of the OM in meditation brings your consciousness the awareness of the Oneness of all sentient consciousness. Sentient consciousness is more Universal than simply human consciousness. Focusing on the Universal sound of the OM opens awareness and residence with a sense of connection and unity that aligns you with Light, Love, and power that resides just beyond your usual perception.
The gift of the omnipresent sound of the OM is that through the simple act of you sounding the OM, you can align your consciousness to this thrumming that lies in the heart of all sound.
How to Use the OM In Your Meditations
The OM can be used as a sounding and entry point for meditation by using it as a way to center your energies as you “Calm Your Mind, Open Your Heart and Invite the Light.” This is the instruction and intention that I suggest that you use to open your awareness to receive the Presence of your enlightened awareness, your Higher Self, (your Soul).
To use the sacred sound of the OM as an entry point to your meditation, you simply sound it. Many schools of meditation suggest sounding it 3 times. Other schools of meditation suggest sounding it repeatedly until you have noticed your consciousness opening.
Whether you use it before simply sitting calmly, quietly and receptively, or choose to combine it with a guided meditation is a choice you can make.
The sound of the OM begins at your diaphragm and then let the sound rise through your whole body. Groups who use the repetitive sound of the OM in group meditation create a sound that aligns with what is known as “the Music of the spheres.”
Some suggest that the sound of the OM is the sound of the Soul, although I experience as an underlying thrum of Creative force that brings us into alignment and awareness of the Creator, Universal Soul, and Universal Love.
The OM can also be used to ground and complete your meditation. For many meditators, it is the final sound that acts as an Amen, or So Be It invocation to the energies that have been accessed in the meditation experience.
I suggest that you use and experiment with the Omnipresent sound of the OM with a spirit of joyful playfulness and open receptivity to your Soul.
Namaste,
Genevieve Gerard
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As someone who has meditated daily and sounded the OM daily, I am thankful for this beautiful article that touches me and inspires me to do more with this sacred word. I am used to emphasizing bringing in the light and sending light to others, and after reading this article, I’m wanting to be more attuned to that deep inner sound of the creation, as if the meditation could start with “Invite the Sound” in addition to “invite the light.” I just looked up something about how sounding the OM affects us mentally, emotionally, and physically, that I remembered from reading Alice A. Bailey’s Letters on Occult Meditation. On page 63 it says the OM drives out course particles and builds in finer ones, and stimulates the divine flow.
Thank you for the insightful comment. The concept that sounding the OM can impact and actually transform matter and stimulate Divine flow is powerful. your comment adds to our understanding of the ways we can use the OM in mediation. I remember our friend and mentor Dr. Robert Gerard used to refer to the sound of the OM and the silence that was within all sound as a part of the mystical aspect of the OM. Namaste