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An sacred syllable and mantra (chant) with various religious meanings, which is ostensibly the highest of all sounds. Krishna encourages devotees to chant “om tat sat” (“om is the truth”) during their discipline and sacrifices to demonstrate their awareness of Brahman.
Om/Aum Quotes in The Bhagavad Gita
The The Bhagavad Gita quotes below are all either spoken by Om/Aum or refer to Om/Aum. For each quote, you can also see the other terms and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
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Discourse 9
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I am the father of the world —
its mother, its arranger
and its grandfather;
I am what is to be known;
the purifier;
the sound ‘Om’;
the Rig, the Sama
and the Yajur Veda.
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Discourse 17
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Om tat sat.
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Om/Aum Term Timeline in The Bhagavad Gita
The timeline below shows where the term Om/Aum appears in The Bhagavad Gita. The colored dots and icons indicate which themes are associated with that appearance.
Discourse 7
Krishna explains that he comprises everything, including the waters’ taste and the sound of “Om,” the Earth’s smell and the discipline of yoga practitioners. He is the “ancient seed of...
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Discourse 8
...on which one only desires knowledge of the infinite, restricts the body, and concentrates on “Om,” leads one on “the highest way.”
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Discourse 9
...one gives in sacrifice; the father, mother, and grandfather of the world; the purifier, the “Om,” and the Vedas; the way, the seer, home, “birth, death and sustenance,” and the “eternal...
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Discourse 10
...of waters, he is the ocean. He is the greatest of sages and the syllable “Om” among utterances, the ashvattha tree among trees, and so on—he continues through sages and chiefs,...
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Discourse 17
Brahman’s “threefold / designation” is “Om tat sat,” or (roughly) “Om is the truth.” Anyone who sacrifices, gives gifts, or performs...
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