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JAY SHREE RADHEKRISHNA SATHSANG
Radhekrishna Dear Readers,
In this post we start a very important topic which is “Why do we chant Om?”
Om or Aum, written universally as ॐ, in Devanāgari as ओ३म् or ओम् and in Tamil as ஓம், in Sanskrit known as praṇava प्रणव (lit. "to sound out loudly"), Omkara, or Auṃkāra (also as Aumkāra) ओंकार, is a sacred or mystical syllable in Hinduism,
Om is pronounced as ओ३म् where ३ is Pluti, (indicating a length of three morae) (long or over-long nasalized close-mid back rounded vowel, [õːː]), like OOOM, दीर्घ O,
The syllable consists of three phonemes, a Vaishvanara, u Hiranyagarbha and m Iswara, which symbolize the beginning, duration, and dissolution of the universe and the associated gods Brahma, Vishnu, and Shiva, respectively. The name Omkara is taken as a name of God in the Hindu revivalist Arya Samaj
The syllable om is first described as all-encompassing mystical entity in the Upanishads. Today, in all Hindu art and all over India 'om' can be seen virtually everywhere, a common sign for Hinduism and its philosophy and theology. Hindus believe that as creation began, the divine, all-encompassing consciousness took the form of the first and original vibration manifesting as sound "OM". Before creation began it was "Shunyākāsha", the emptiness or the void. Shunyākāsha, meaning literally "no sky", is more than nothingness, because everything then existed in a latent state of potentiality.
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Section II: Information about Indian herbs
In this post let us know about Bindal also known as Cotton Seed in English and Gossypium Indioum in Latin.
· It’s a fruit of a creeper also known as Bindal Doda
· It grows wild in the rain forests
· It’s a very good purgative and emetic
· It is used in epilepsy, jaundice and piles
· If taken internally it can induce abortion by inducing menstrual flow
That concludes the post for the fortnight. Till the next post, Radhekrishna!
Sarvam Guruvaarpanam
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