Aum.
What the symbol is.
This symbol is the universe, all that is and could be. It does not stand for the universe, it is the universe. It is extremely auspicious.
The graphic is a Sanskrit syllable, the part that looks like a 3 is the A, the tail hanging off that is the U and the dot above them is the M. There is a fourth part as well, a soundless part, at the end.
The A is creation, it happens at the back of the throat where the sound originates; the U is preservation, it happens in the middle of your mouth and the M is destruction, it happens at the lips where the sound stops. The A is also symbolic of the waking state of consciousness, the U the dreaming state, the M deep sleep and the soundless fourth part is symbolic of the state beyond these three.
To quote a famous (at least in Melbourne, Australia, where I grew up) TV personality,
Julius Sumner-Miller --
Why is it so? One good answer comes from the more creative interpretations of Quantum Mechanics, and that is that the Universe is a hologram, or at least that the laws which govern a hologram are good for the Universe too. This comes from the mathematics that is Quantum Mechanics, where a particle is not really separate from it's description (it isn't in fact a particle at all) and the whole physical Universe is built out of those particles and therefore the Universe is a hologram.
Each bit of a hologram contains all the information that the rest of
hologram does, all that happens if you break the hologram into several
physically separate chunks is that each chunk has more error in it, it gets more blurred. So any part of the whole contains the whole, so a symbol like Aum can literally be the Universe. Viewing the Universe as a hologram also has several other rather interesting ramifications, one of which related to this point is that you contain rest of the Universe, or at least your subconscious does anyway. All solutions lie in you, you don't have to search out there.
Another ramification answers a paradox that exists at the core of a number of Asian systems of metaphysics (and probably a bunch of Occidental ones as well) and that paradox is that nothing has ever happened, the Buddhists say all that you see is illusion and the Yogis say that it is only your ignorance. The
structure of a hologram is constant, homogenous. Yet that hologram contains
any number of different images, the difference being perceivable if you
change the angle at which you are looking at the hologram. So here is something that
never changes yet appears to change with your motion.
The hologram never changes, it just is, however
from each of the infinite points of view you have a dynamic ever changing experience.
Another good answer comes from recent findings in cosmology where the
mathematicians are discovering that space and time are looking like they are
derivative, and not fundamental. Now whatever it is that time and
space are imposed upon that something else is beyond time, it's still present
therefore. And it's beyond space, therefore omnipresent. Of course
the cosmologists are no where near figuring out that that something else is
actually being, pure existence itself (being's gotta be before anything else can be)
and that that being is
consciousness itself. But hey, give them time, they'll get to where the
seers of yore were many millennia ago. . .
And it doesn't stop there. That being is a single thing, the
only thing and it still is, it is therefore our being too. And because
it's single we assume we're separate and single, ego is born.
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