Désigner le AUM comme l'élan créateur de Son amour serait-il audacieux, au regard de cette racine commune : AUM, ÂME, AMOUR ?
En Inde la Mère Divine (ou Prakritti en sanskrit) est aussi nommée Maya Primordiale ou Océan Primordial, elle est considérée comme le reflet du grand Centre (Purusha en sanskrit) dont on ne peut rien dire. Un Purusha qui serait un Vide d'où tout procède. Elle, la Maya primordiale est également éternelle et indestructible. Purusha et Prakriti forment un couple, comme deux aspects de la Déité (au sens où maître Eckhart l'entend). C'est de cet Océan, que naît notre univers (le grand Brahman), ses mondes et ses créatures. Au coeur de la manifestation (aussi appelée Nature ou maya) la Mère Divine est l'objet de louanges, de chants et de prières ; le mantra force Son attention, mais celui qui connaît le Purusha, le Tout-Puissant en amont de la grande Prakritti, le Centre des Centres, l'Immobile, en silence, il demeure.
Schéma du retour vers la Source dans la pensée indienne :
Remontée au-delà des 5 aspects de la matière, des sens subtiles, de la conscience de l'ego (ahankara), de l'intelligence (buddhi), de la fusion "océanique" (mahat Khaal - le temps), du para-Brahman (Prakritti primordiale) et enfin de la Réalisation du grand Centre (le Purusha suprême)
Selon les textes sacrés indiens, les Upanishads, le son AUM (ou OM) est défini comme :
"He who utters Om with the intention ‘I shall attain Brahman’ does verily attain Brahman." - Taittiriya Upanishad 1.8.1
"The Self is of the nature of the Syllable Om...Meditate on Om as the Self" - Mandukya Upanishad 1.8.12, 2.2.3)
"The form of meditation that came to manifest as the foremost of all, for the regeneration of all seekers, was the First Word, indicative of Brahman [God]: the Syllable Om. Meditation on Om should be resorted to by seekers after liberation. This Syllable is the Supreme Brahman." – Atharvashikha Upanishad 1:1,2
"God is the Syllable Om, out of Him proceeds the Supreme Knowledge." – Svetasvatara Upanishad 4:17
"Om is Brahman, the Primeval Being. This is the Veda which the knowers of Brahman know; through it one knows what is to be known." – Brihadaranyaka Upanishad 5.1.1
"One should meditate on this Syllable [Om]." – Chandogya Upanishad 1.1.1
"The Syllable Om is the bow: one's self, indeed, is the arrow. Brahman is spoken of as the target of that. It is to be hit without making a mistake. Thus one becomes united with it [Brahman] as the arrow becomes one with the target." – Mundaka Upanishad 2.2.4
Selon les plus grands mystiques indiens :
Kabir :
“This is the Ultimate Word: but can any express its marvellous savor? He who has savored it once, he knows what joy it can give. Kabir says: Knowing it, the ignorant man becomes wise, and the wise man becomes speechless and silent.”
Sri Aurobindo :
“OM is the mantra, the expressive sound-symbol of the Brahman Consciousness in its four domains from the Turiya to the external or material plane. The function of a mantra is to create vibrations in the inner consciousness that will prepare it for the realisation of what the mantra symbolises and is supposed indeed to carry within itself. The mantra OM should therefore lead towards the opening of the consciousness to the sight and feeling of the One Consciousness in all material things, in the inner being and in the supraphysical worlds, in the causal plane above now superconscient to us and, finally, the supreme liberated transcendence above all cosmic existence. The last is usually the main preoccupation with those who use the mantra.” Letters on Yoga, Vol. II, p. 745-46
Ramakrishna Parahamsa :
‘What will you gain’, some sages ask, ‘by merely hearing this sound?’ You hear the roar of the ocean from a distance. By following the roar you can reach the ocean. As long as there is the roar, there must also be the ocean. By following the trail of Om you attain Brahman, of which the Word is the symbol. That Brahman has been described by the Vedas as the ultimate goal.”
Ramana Maharshi :
“The purport of prescribing meditation on the Pranava is this. The Pranava is Omkara…the advaita-mantra which is the essence of all mantras…. In order to get at this true significance, one should meditate on the Pranava. …The fruition of this process is samadhi which yields release [moksha], which is the state of unsurpassable bliss.”
Ma Ananda Moyi :
“[Remembrance of the Pranava] must become so automatic that you cannot breathe without remembering It.” et “Om is the root of all sounds. Every other sound is contained in That, and It is used to take one beyond all sound.”
Patanjali :
"Ishwara [God] is a particular Purusha [Spirit, Person] Who is untouched by the afflictions of life, actions, and the results and impressions produced by these actions. In Him is the highest limit of omniscience. 36 Being unconditioned by time He is teacher even of the ancients. His designator [vachaka] is the Pranava [Om]. 37 Its japa [constant repetition] and bhavanam is the way [or: should be done]. From it result [come] the disappearance of obstacles and the turning inward of consciousness. Disease, languor, doubt, carelessness, laziness, worldly-mindedness, delusion, non-achievement of a stage, instability, these cause the distraction of the mind and they are the obstacles. [Mental] pain, despair, nervousness, and agitation are the symptoms of a distracted condition of mind. For removing these obstacles [there should be] the constant practice of the one principle [the japa and bhavanam of Om]." – Yoga Sutras of Patanjali 1:24-32
extraits de : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pranava_yoga#cite_note-8
Om selon wikipedia :
- A représente le commencement, la naissance, et le dieu créateur Brahmā ;
- U représente la continuation, la vie, et le dieu Vishnu ;
- M représente la fin, la mort, et le dieu destructeur Shiva.
La prononciation du om̐ est parfois décrite ainsi : a émerge du fond de la gorge, vers le palais, u roule sur la langue et m termine sur les lèvres. a symbolise la veille, u, le rêve, m, le sommeil. L'éveil correspond au quatrième temps : le silence, départ et retour du Pranava, et donc, Kali, déesse temporelle.
Les concepts d'AUM et d'UMA (A mâle, U femelle et M union moniste des deux principes) auraient une origine sumérienne4.
