shanzy288
02-22-2007, 03:21 AM
The little boy on the beach with Jack in the beginning was wearing a shirt with the OM symbol all over it.
Wikipedia says - Aum (also Om, Devanagari , Chinese: ?) is a mystical or sacred syllable in the Dharmic religions. It is placed at the beginning of most Hindu texts as a sacred exclamation to be uttered at the beginning and end of a reading of the Vedas or previously to any prayer or mantra. The Mandukya Upanishad is entirely devoted to the explanation of the syllable.
"The one syllable [ev?k?ara, viz. om] is indeed Brahma. This one syllable is the highest. Whosoever knows this one syllable obtains all that he desires.
With Buddhism's evolution and breaking away from Vedic/Hindu tradition, Aum and other symbology/cosmology/philosophies are shared with the Hindu tradition. This character often appeared as "?" in Buddhist scripts in East Asia.
Wikipedia says - Aum (also Om, Devanagari , Chinese: ?) is a mystical or sacred syllable in the Dharmic religions. It is placed at the beginning of most Hindu texts as a sacred exclamation to be uttered at the beginning and end of a reading of the Vedas or previously to any prayer or mantra. The Mandukya Upanishad is entirely devoted to the explanation of the syllable.
"The one syllable [ev?k?ara, viz. om] is indeed Brahma. This one syllable is the highest. Whosoever knows this one syllable obtains all that he desires.
With Buddhism's evolution and breaking away from Vedic/Hindu tradition, Aum and other symbology/cosmology/philosophies are shared with the Hindu tradition. This character often appeared as "?" in Buddhist scripts in East Asia.