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heard if you apply your mind to it. The Rishis have suffi¬ciently thought over this and published it.
When the Mantra period came people lost the reality (originality). People lost the reality during the Mantra period. But as they had faith and devotion in what the sages had said, they believed the mantras themselves to be the Sruti and developed this thought with due faith.
Existence —the world of Manifestation.
Sruti is complete word. The flow of creation starts from it only. This flow assumed three forms: (i) Creation or manifestation; (ii) State of preservation or Middle, (iii) Dissolution or end. All these three states are present in Om in the seed-form; and the order of these states always follows one after the other, working in the form of creation, preservation and dissolution. Knowledge is present in it because it is all-containing. Nay, it is knowledge itself! It is necessary that there should be knowledge along with the word. Word and its meaning go together and both are one. From this view point Sruti is called ‘the knowledge of the three worlds’.
How Om gave birth to the three attributes, three mantras, the principles and nature is the subject of Sankhya philosophical thought. It has been dealt with elaborately in the second volume separately. How human life manifests itself with its peculiarities is a subject related to human Iife which is action or Vyavahar.
Om has three peculiarities:
(i) A, U and M. The ‘A’ of Om is the beginning ‘U’ the middle; and ‘M’ the end. Om is all containing,
(ii) The ‘A’ of Om is Sat — existence; ‘U’ is Chit knowledge, and ‘M’ is Anand — Bliss.Om is Sachchidanand.
(iii) ‘A’ is the foundation or base; ‘U’ is the wall and ‘M’ is the roof. Om is in all the three.
(iv) ‘A’ is action — Karma, ‘U’ is Knowledge - Jnan and ‘M’ is Upaasana.
(v) ‘A’ is the body, ‘U’ is the heart, and ‘M’ is the soul or atma. Om is all the three.
(vi) ‘A’ is Sattva, ‘U’ is Raj and ‘M’ is Tam. Om is thus the constitution of three attributes.
Besides these, the words Vyavahar - business of the world, Prathibhas - appearance and Paramarth - Reality are substituted in order to express the inten¬tion of the heart, and make others understand (a) that the wordly affair -