Om - The End & the Beginning
In the Vedic texts, the Upanishads, and in religions from Buddhism to Hinduism to Jainism to Sikhism, there is the symbol known in the west as "Om." In the East, it is AUM. It is said to be the primordial sound of the world. If God spoke the world into existence, I think he hummed it this way. All three parts of "Om" represent something: AU (ah-uh or "oh") - Atman or the Self within M - Brahaman, or the divine reality ___ - the sound of silence, the space at the end. This is the ending and the beginning OM/AUM also represents the 3 aspects of God: Brahma (beginning), Vishnu (living), and Shiva (death) As I ended yoga teacher training and my years of middle school teaching, I also approached the end of my 41st year on earth. Since at least my 20's, I have believed the year 42 will be the most significant year of my life. I have absolutely no basis for this, it is just the year my brain seized upon 2 decades ago. In Hitchhiker's Guide to the Gal