Torkom’s Writings — Sacred Word

THE SACRED WORD

Part I

OM. This imperishable syllable is the whole world.

Its further explanation is:

The past, the present, the future — everything is just the word OM.

And whatsoever else that transcends threefold time — that, too, is just

the word OM.

Mandukya Upanishad I (1)

There are, assuredly, two forms of Brahma: the formed and the

formless. Now, that which is formed is unreal; that which is the

formless is real, is Brahma, is light.

Light, that is the sun, and even it has the syllable OM, as its

SELF. (2)

The Word was in the beginning, and that very Word was with

God, and God was that Word. All things were made by Him, and

without Him was not anything made that was made. In Him was life,

and the life was the light of man. (3)

The Sacred Word symbolizes the two worlds — the manifested one, the

world of forms, and the formless world. It symbolizes also the bridge

between these two worlds through which the formless passes to the world of

phenomena, and the world of phenomena passes into the world of noumena,

into the formless world, thus keeping the manifestation in cyclic continuity.

In meditation the goal of the student is to pass from the planes of form

into formless levels of awareness, and there to come in contact with

archetypes, ideas, and energies, expanding his awareness and beingness

beyond the limitations of the mind. Thus he registers his elevated states of

awareness in his higher mind and in his brain consciousness as far as

possible. …

(Torkom Saraydarian, The Science of Meditation, Ch. 22)

Continue reading the rest of the chapter here.

(1) Hume, Ernest Robert, tr., Thirteen Principal Upanishads, p. 391.

(2) Maitri Upanishad 6:3, Philosophies of India, Heinrich Zimmer, p. 361.

(3)  John 1:1-3