Aum: The Melody of Love by Joseph Cornell

Author:Joseph Cornell
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781565895171
Publisher: Crystal Clarity Publishers

AUM

CHAPTER TWELVE

How the Guru Frees Us

Jesus told his disciples, when the Holy Ghost comes, “ye shall receive power.” Later, Jesus “breathed on them and said, ‘Receive ye the Holy Ghost.’” The guru sends the Comforter, and through the Comforter, the disciple receives the guru’s inner blessings. AUM’s expanding power spreads the disciple’s consciousness to Infinity; he hears and feels the hum of every atom in the universe. The disciple begins at last, to experience the guru’s consciousness.

Mrs. Wellman, an elderly American lady, once came to Swami Rama Tirtha for a private interview. She wept as she recounted her domestic troubles to the swami, who sat cross-legged with his eyes closed. No kind look or word of sympathy came from him. As he continued to sit like a stone statue, Mrs. Wellman silently muttered, “These Indians are so impudent and proud.”

Then Swami Rama Tirtha opened his eyes. He looked at Mrs. Wellman and said, “Mother,” and chanted his favorite mantra, “AUM, AUM!” His eyes, bursting with power, transmitted to her a strange, new consciousness. “I seemed to have been lifted from the earth,” she said. “I swam in the air as a figure of light, and I felt myself the mother of the Universe. My joy never fails me. Oh! The word OM reverberates through my bones.”*

Paramhansa Yogananda said of his disciple, Sister Gyanamata, “she has lived in my vibrations for a long time.” Whenever he sent her a special inner blessing, she would feel it instantly. While living in Seattle, she had several serious physical ailments. When Gyanamata’s condition worsened, she wrote a letter to Yogananda, who was then lecturing in New York City, asking for his prayers. On the day she thought the letter had arrived, she heard AUM’s tremendous roar and felt her body shaking. Her guru had received her letter and had sent Cosmic AUM to heal her.

Bathing in AUM’s sacred vibrations is the true baptism. The technique for listening to AUM is usually given as an initiation because of the importance of the guru’s magnetism. The guru is beyond vibratory creation and guides his disciples—through Cosmic Vibration—to the deepest states of enlightenment.

As you listen for, and attune to, the inner sounds, pray to your guru, if you have one. Ask to be introduced to Holy AUM.

A guru once told her disciples, “I’m the gatekeeper. When God is pleased with you, I’ll give you AUM.”

In The Essence of Self Realization, Paramhansa Yogananda shares the stages that unite the devotee with Spirit:

AUM fills the brain; its vibration moves down the spine, bursting open the door of the heart’s feeling, then flowing out into the body. The whole body vibrates with the sound of AUM.

Gradually, with ever-deeper meditation, the consciousness expands with that sound. Moving beyond the confines of the body, it embraces the vastness of infinite vibration. You realize your oneness with all existence as AUM, the Cosmic Vibration.

This state is known as AUM Samadhi, or union with God as Cosmic Sound.

By still deeper meditation, one perceives in

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