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Variations of OM For Practice - Yogi Explains

Summary

, 14 min

Variations of the OM sound for chanting into the chakras: OM versus AUM, Ong, the Tibetan Hum, the Christian Amen, and stretching the A, U or M to stress creation, preservation or dissolution. Includes a Swami Rama Tirtha story, a shower simulation of the inner OM sound, and why variety keeps practice alive.

In this video

Teaches
OM
Discusses
Swami Rama TirthaOM Japa in the ChakrasNada
Mentions
BibleChakrasKriya YogaBhagavad GitaKrishnaShiva

Key moments

00:00Question: OM spelled O M versus A U M01:01Swami Rama Tirtha's OM-only lecture in America02:22OM as the primordial vibration, and OM Japa in the chakras04:15The plain, clean OM of the Kriya lineage04:56Trying Ong, the Tibetan Hum and the Amen06:07AUM: creation, preservation and dissolution07:48Elongating the A, the U and the M10:27Why spell it OM, not AUM10:49Hearing the real sound: the shower simulation12:05Variations reawaken a stale OM Japa practice13:05Putting a sound heard in meditation into the chakras