[Prev][Next][Index][Thread]
Re: Could someone explain the meaning of OM?
-
Subject: Re: Could someone explain the meaning of OM?
-
From: hstern3250@aol.com (HStern3250)
-
Date: 3 Oct 1995 06:19:06 GMT
-
Approved: srh <srh@rbhatnagar>
-
Article: 335 of soc.religion.hindu
-
Newsgroups: soc.religion.hindu
-
Organization: America Online
-
References: <43o0qi$hcq@babbage.ece.uc.edu>
In article <43o0qi$hcq@babbage.ece.uc.edu>, pateld@cs.man.ac.uk (delash)
writes:
>It can also be noted that after travels to India and such, The teaching
of
>Jesus
>Christ have come to include that "At first there was the word, and from
the
>word
>came
>God..." or summin. That word I beleive is AUM.
>
>
Jesus was Jewish and studied the Hebrew Bible (Old Testament) as a child
and teenager. The reference in the beginning of the New Christian
Testament to "The Word was God" or that the first sound was Om, comes from
the ancient Hebrew Bible, as follows:
"Vayikra Elohim L'Or ____*Y O M*____" (Genesis 1,5)
"..God said Let there be light...God called the light DAY."
The Hebrew word for 'day' is YOM (you've all heard of YOM KIPPUR, ie., the
Jewish DAY of Atonement.)
This early sentence in the Biblical story of creation said that God called
out (or made a vibrational sound) "YOM" upon creating light.
This Hebrew 'Y O M' is the equivalence of the Vedic ' O M' which occurs
in
the Veda creation myth. In the Veda's, in the beginning, there is a
Mahavakya (or "Grand Exclamation") of a vibration known (to rishis in
deep
meditation) as __*OM *__(or AUM).
Thus Hebrew Y ' O M = Sanskrit O M
Here there are other interesting parallels.
The Hebrew word for Gods calling forth is V a Y i K R a H.
The Sanskrit for calling forth is V i K H a R i.
or V
a K Y a.
Again, we're dealing with similar ROOT consonents in both languages, with
differences in vowel placements, hence differences in pronounciation.
It's also likely that the Hebrew letter Y or "yud" (in Y O M) is NOT A
CONSONANT, but a vowel and therefore shouldn't have a "y" sound but more
like
the Sanskrit visarga. That would make the Y O M even closer to A O M (or
AUM). I have other evidence to this which is too detailed to be presented
here.
Let me know if you are interested to pursue similarities between Biblical
Hebrew and Sanskrit.
Hesh
--
-----------------------------------------------------------------------
Moderator: Ajay Shah Submissions: srh@rbhatnagar.csm.uc.edu
Administrivia: srh-request@rbhatnagar.csm.uc.edu
Archives: http://rbhatnagar.csm.uc.edu:8080/soc_hindu_home.html (Soon!)
Follow-Ups:
