pranava
प्रणव pranavaThe sacred syllable Om, which Patanjali calls the word that expresses Ishvara.
Where this term appears
- The Gayatri Mantra Worship
As practised it goes: Om, the pranava ; then the three vyahritis , the "utterances," bhur (earth), bhuvah (mid-air), svah (heaven), the three worlds stacked and named; then the verse.
- What Does Om Mean? Deities
It calls Om the pranava , and it treats this single syllable as the audible form of the ultimate reality itself.
- What is a Mantra? Worship
Om, and the syllable that holds everything If any one sound carries this weight, it is Om , also called the pranava .
- Why is Om chanted at the start and end of prayers and yoga? Journal
Between the Om that opens a rite and the Om that ends a life, Krishna also says, plainly, that he is the pranava in all the Vedas (9.17), the seed syllable underneath every sacred word.
- Meditation and the Eight Limbs Yoga
Yoga Sutras 1.27, in Vivekananda's translation: "His manifesting word is Om." The aphorism is tasya vachakah pranavah , the word that expresses Ishvara is the pranava , Om.
- Yoga as a Darshana Philosophy
His designator, the text adds, is the sacred syllable pranava , Om (1.27).
- Ajna: The Command Treatise
The seed-syllable is OM , the Pranava , called in the text the first seed of the Vedas, the primordial sound.
- Bhuvaneshvari: She Whose Body Is the World Treatise
…eative power that spins out the appearance of the world, and the Devi-pranava , the Goddess's Om , held to be for the Goddess what the syllable Om is for the whole of the sacred.