What does the Buddhist OM symbol mean?
OM also AUM or prnava [Sanskrit] In Buddhism it has a different meaning than in Hinduism OM is a symbol of form as well as sound It is a manifestation of Spiritual power and a symbol found throughout the East The worlds of the physical mental and unconscious are represented in the letters of the symbol OM by the three curves If You lay the symbol in front of You With the point of the large curve [ the bottom one ] on your left I’ll talk You through it The supreme consciousness is represented by the point outside and above the rest [very top ] This illuminates and reveals the other three The form of Om is a concrete manifestation of the visible truth No concept or object of this universe is independent All are permutations of the one consciousness and partake in its nature to various degrees In this way they are connected with one another The material world of the wakeful consciousness the level of external activity and the most palpable is symbolised by the large lower curve The level
