Omkara Is Brahma, Brahma Is Sri Hari
संहृतौ विशन्ति विश्वानि भूतानि अस्मिन्निति विश्वं – At the time of dissolution, everything enters back into Him.
यत् प्रयन्त्यभिसंविशन्ति – प्रयन्ति अभिसंविशन्ति – At dissolution, to whom everything goes back. अभिसंविशन्ति – even when existing as Jeevatmas, the beings are not different from Him. It is not that they become something and after some time stop being that. Even when they become that something else, they continue to be inseparable from Brahma.
सकलं जगत्कार्यभूतमेष विशति
अत्र सकलं विश्वं विशति
He only has entered the whole universe. The universe enters back into Him at pralaya – that is Brahma, Sri Hari.
This Brahma is not different from Omkara.
ओमिति ब्रह्म
ओमितीदं सर्वम्
You see those veins on a leaf. Those veins are all throughout the leaf. They form branches and sub-branches and sub-sub-branches. They give strength to the leaf. They nourish the leaf.
If you consider speech – the entire speech comprising of syllables and words and sentences – as the leaf, then Omkara is those veins which support and nourish speech.
शङ्कुना सर्वाणि पर्णानि संतृण्णानि एवं ओंकारेण सर्वा वाक् संतृण्णा
ओंकार एवेदं सर्वं
प्रणवो ह्यपरं ब्रह्म प्रणवश्च परः स्मृतः
अपूर्वोऽनन्तरो बाह्यो न परः प्रणवोऽव्ययः
अपरं ब्रह्म – the Saguna Brahma, Brahma with attributes, qualities. What are the attributes? Like color, smell, taste – with which you see one to be different from another. This is called Saguna Brahma or Apara Brahma.
Param Brahma, Nirguna Brahma, where there are no attributes. Everything is homogeneous, as it was before creation – one single whole, one single entity. Like the ocean. Then the wave called creation appeared from that ocean.
Apurvaha – there was nothing before.
Anantaraha – there will be nothing afterwards.
Na Bahyaha – there is nothing outside of this. There is nothing not covered by this.
This is Omkara.
This Omkara itself is Brahma.
This Brahma is Sri Hari.
That is why Omkara is called Pranava, Shabda Brahma.
The Sanyasis have got only one mantra – that is Omkara.
If you see Mantra Shastra and the Vedas, there are mantras for every conceivable desire and event – mantras to gain knowledge, wealth, health, protection, success, defeat of rivals.
But the Sanyasi has only one mantra – Omkara.
His one and only task is to attain Brahmatva, to become one with Brahma, one with Sri Hari. He doesn’t have any other object to be achieved.
What is Sanyasa?
सन्न्यासः कर्म्मणां न्यासः कृतानामकृतेः सह
कुशलाकुशलाभ्यान्तु प्रहाणं न्यास उच्यते ॥
Keeping down of all karma, abandoning all karma, putting down of all karma – which is called Nyasa.
Kritanam akriteh saha – karma that is done. Not to wait for its results to come – ‘I have done so many good things, let the results come, let me enjoy here and in heaven their results.’ No. I don’t want those results. They are not mine.
Along with what is left to be done – all the duties and responsibilities – elderly parents to be taken care of, daughter to be married off – that is akruta karma. Both are put down, kept down.
‘I will keep only what I like, what I am good at. I like devotion, I like bhajans. Let me leave everything else.’ That is not Sanyasa. That is religious life. That is spiritual life. Not Sanyasa.
Sanyasa is abandoning all karma.
Sanyasi has only one goal – to become Brahma, to become Sri Hari.
And he has only one mantra – Omkara.
By perpetually chanting Omkara, he becomes Omkara.
He becomes Brahma.
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