Om Mantra: The Heart of Traditional Yoga

Vaishvanara describes the gross world and the waking state, where conscious and unconscious mind operate through sensory experience, alongside the four states: waking, dreaming, deep sleep, and turiya.

Unmani is the transition phase between waking and dreaming, part of seven levels of consciousness, not samadhi.

Explore Taijasa, the dreaming state between waking and dream, examining the active unconscious, the subtle plane, and how internal cognitive senses function in dreaming.

Explore the Aladani transition between dream and waking states, revealing how latent memories move from seed form through the curtain into the conscious mind.

Discover prajna, supreme knowing beyond intellect, and how it arises from the conscious mind. Explore microcosm and macrocosm, yoga nidra, and the latent samskaras and karma shaya that shape experience.

Explore the many labels of samadhi and the apple metaphor, where the observer and observing fade to reveal pure consciousness.

Explore turiya, the fourth state beyond waking, dreaming, and deep sleep, where silence reveals awareness of the self. See how Aum guides consciousness through prana, atman, and purusha toward awakening.

Explore how tantra explains multiplicity as a manifestation of one reality, with Shiva and Shakti's unity expressed through Tripura's three cities, or three worlds, and the divine mother's Lila.

Explore dimensions within the levels of om by mapping waking, dreaming, and deep sleep to the gross, subtle, and causal planes; examine samskaras and karma driving actions.

Explore the Mandukya Upanishad’s 12 verses outlining the four states of consciousness—waking, dreaming, deep sleep, and turiya—and the sacred syllable om as the unity of self, consciousness, and universe.

Explore Patanjali’s Yoga Sutras, a codified system of 196 pithy sutras, conveyed through oral tradition and the om mantra pranav, leading toward samadhi and the seed of omniscience.

Explore the Bhagavad Gita's yoga journey as Krishna guides Arjun, teaching karma yoga, deonna yoga, and bhakti yoga through contemplation and meditation with the om mantra.

Explore Tripura Rahasya's symbolic tale of the one who dwells in the three cities, revealing that all forms originate from the same ultimate reality and that knowing this is yoga.

Learn the five-syllable mantra Om Namah Shivaya, its meaning across levels of consciousness, and how japa, contemplation, and meditation reveal the unity of Shiva and Shakti and the atman.

Follow a sincere student as he learns that the Gayatri mantra, the three seed mantras, and inner purification reveal the Atman, guiding liberation and steady japa practice.

focus on the one looking through waking, dreaming, and deep sleep—the three eyes—so that the mantra permeates all and leads to moksha, liberation from bondage.

Discover how the Om tat sat mantra points to Brahman, the oneness of existence, consciousness, and bliss. It guides direct experience through japa and meditation toward inner silence beyond words.

Remember Om and turiya in daily life by pausing to connect with the center of consciousness at home, practicing mantra meditation for peace.