AUMKAAR

From the teachings of Bhagawan Sri Sathya Sai Baba
The Aum is a prefix to every mantra. Without the Aum, a mantra loses its value. The Aum has 4 parts. The first sound is ‘Aa’, the second sound ‘Uu’, the third sound is ‘Ma’ and the fourth part is ‘Mmm’. The first three all culminate with ‘Mmm’, the fourth part. These are the 4 parts of Aumkara.

To bring the significance of ‘Aa’, ‘U’, ‘Ma’ and ‘Mmmm’ to your attention, and to help us to understand the significance of each of the four states of consciousness that these parts represent, let us further examine study each one of these syllables.

The first part of Aum is letter ‘A’. The ‘A’ represents the waking state or jagrath. This is the first level of awareness or consciousness. In this state, you think, you see, you hear and you experience. This waking state connects to and is experienced by all three of our major aspects, the body, the mind and the Atma. Waking state is experienced with mind, Body and Atma.

All three, the mind, the body and the Atma, grant you worldly experiences in the waking state, along with the five senses of perception, called jnanendriyas, and the five senses of action, called karmendriyas. In the waking state, we experience with the body, mind and Atma (or the ‘MBA’ to help you remember), and with the karmendriyas and jnanendriyas. The waking state is represented by the ‘A’ in Aum, the first part of Aumkar.
The second part of Aum, the ‘U’, represents the dreaming state. In the dream state, the body is at rest in bed, but the mind may travel anywhere and everywhere. It can journey to any place in space... In the dreaming state, you can feel hungry,have discussions on reality or you can imagine that you are the President of the country…. Why not? In the dreaming state, you are free to dream what you want. So the ‘U’ in Aum represents the dreaming state or swapna. In this state, you only have two aspects involved and participating--the mind and Atma. So, the MBA (mind, body and Atma) is involved in the waking state; but only the MA (mind and Atma) is involved in the dreaming state.

All of our experiences in the waking state are called visudu. The experiencer who sees and listens, who feels all the stimuli and responds, is called visudu. The experiencer in the dreaming state is what we call taijasa. Taijasa is an experiencer and visudu is an experiencer. Visudu is the one who experiences the waking state, and is represented by the first part of Aumkara, the ‘A’. Taijasa is the one who experiences in the dream state, and is represented by the second part of Aumkara, the ‘U’.

Only Atma is present in the deep sleep state. The third part of the Aumkara, the ‘Ma’, relates to the state of deep sleep or sushupti. In this state, there is no mind involved; there is only Atma, the spirit, pure consciousness as a witness. The experiencer in this state is called pradnya.
So once again, the experiencer of the waking state is visudu, the experiencer of the dreaming state is taijasa, and the experiencer of the deep sleep state is pradnya. Understand clearly that though the experiencer has three names in three different levels of consciousness, three different levels of awareness, the experiencer is one and the same. It is the same Atma in all the three states, but we call the experiencer visudu in the waking state, taijasa in the dreaming state and pradnya in the deep sleep state.

The same atma has different names in different states. To your co-workers, you may be the boss. To your husband,you are the wife. To your children, a mother. But essentially you are the same person. Your capacities in each of those roles, however, are each quite different. In the office, you may function as a boss and be quite friendly with your colleagues. For the husband, you equally participate in the running of the household. With your children, you command and teach them, getting things done for them and with them. Despite this, throughout these experiences you remain the same person.

Similarly, you may call the experiencer within you as visudu or taijasa or pradnya, depending upon the state you are in. These are the three names given to the same Atma, which is based upon which of the three states of consciousness or levels of experience you are experiencing at any given time. This Atma in me is present everywhere, in each of us at all times.

Atmavat Sarva Bhutani,Isa Vaasya Midagam Sarvam…

This means that the Atma is present in all beings, that Atma is all-pervasive. This consciousness is all-pervasive. The individual consciousness and the collective or cosmic consciousness are one and the same. This universal consciousness is the final fourth state,of the Aum.
Atiratha or the final state of AUM is the ultimate.

The fourth and final state of Aum is ‘Mmmm’, and this state is called atiratha. The atiratha state of consciousness is completely non-dual. It is supreme and eternal. This state is called thuriya. The atiratha state is called the thuriya state - the ultimate.

The waking state is jagrath, the dreaming state is swapna, sushupti is the state of deep sleep and atiratha is the thuriya state, the ultimate. In this state of the ultimate, thuriya, this consciousness is called vaisvanara.

In all its totality, the cosmos is represented in the Aumkar. The individual self experiences deep sleep through the Atma, the dream state through the mind and Atma (MA), and the waking state through the mind, body and Atma (MBA). So this waking state or jagrath state of consciousness is visudu. The dream state is taijasa and deep sleep is pradnya. The whole totality Aumkar is vaisvanara.

A – Waking state

U – Dreaming state

M – Deep sleep state

All of them together make up Aumkar.All states in their totality represent Aumkar

And for this,the mind must withdraw….When the mind is withdrawn, there is no individual.

Jai Sai Ram

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