Darshan of Swami Krishnananda in 1998

by Swami Krishnananda

46. Om Is a Vibration

(Darshan given on November 30th, 1998)

Swamiji [chants Om]: Aaaaauuuuummmmm, Aaaaauuuuummmmmm, Aaaaauuuuummmmmm, Aaaaauuuuummmmm, Aaaaauuuuummmmmm, Aaaaauuuuummmmmm. With intonation, with beautiful sound, slowly, leisurely, chant this mantra Om: Aaaaauuuuummmmm. Do this for one hour, one hour.

Om is not a sound. It is a vibration. It stimulates every cell of the body, and sets dissipated energy in order. The nerves and the muscles and the whole operative system of the body are attuned together, and you feel a wholesome man, not a distracted man. Om, Om, Om, Om, Om – go on feeling in the mind. Imagine that you are sitting on a big lake of water, and you are like a stone thrown into it, and then ripples start. The ripple goes on widening, widening, widening, widening. If you throw a stone on water, circular ripples are formed. Go on widening, widening, widening, widening, widening. Go on feeling widening, widening, widening: “The vibration that I have created with the chant of Om is forming a circle and going round, round, round, round, round. It has gone, gone, gone, gone. It has touched the sky. Oh, so big! I have touched the sun, moon, stars and am so big as the circular movement of the space-time universe, so big, so big, so big. I am as large as the whole space-time cosmos. I am not coming from Orissa and all that, not Pondicherry. I am a ripple in the cosmic vibration. I have touched the cosmic. I have become the Cosmic Being, I have become the Cosmic Being.” Go on telling loudly, not mentally: “I have become the Cosmic Being, I have become the Cosmic Being!” There is nobody outside you. “I am all in all. The whole universe is inside me. I am the universe, I am the universe, I am the universe, I am the universe.” Go on telling this.

What I am saying may look like a joke, but it is not a joke. It is a medicine. It is a homeopathic medicine, or allopathic, whatever you call it. Every day, one hour you do it, and tell me afterwards what is the result.

You must pray to the sun every day. Energy comes, energy, strength. The whole Earth is moving with this force, and all the planets, not only Earth. What radiance, what strength, what energy, what gravitational pull, by which our hair also grows. It is a little bit of contemplation on these mighty forces of nature, of which we are a part. You must meditate like that. Then the energy will come from the universe. Aaaaauuuuummmmm. Chant like that, then energy comes. Aaaaauuuuummmmm. Feel that you are expanding. This energy, the vibration of Om, expands. It goes beyond you. It becomes larger and larger, wider and wider, stronger and stronger.

Aaaaauuuuummmmm, Aaaaauuuuummmmm, Aaaaauuuuummmmm, Aaaaauuuuummmmm. Beautiful sound must come – not with reluctance, with great joy. Om is nothing but a power that is inside you which you are manifesting by the sound. Aaaaauuuuummmmm. Chant like this for fifteen minutes at least, continuously. If you can do it for half an hour, it is still better – both morning and evening. You are a part of this universe, so don't think you are an independently working man in Calcutta. It is not like that. There is no independence like that. The whole universe is vibrating, and when it vibrates, you also vibrate. There is a great truth in it. You may believe in God or not. These are all words only, but there is something. Someone said, “If there is no God, okay, doesn't matter. But if there is, then beware,” he said. “If He is there and you don't believe in Him,” beware, he said. He will put a rod on your head.

Chant Om like this.