Mantra · Reading
AUM
The primordial sound. Three sounds, A, U and M, and the silence that follows them.
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Meaning
AUM is chanted as three sounds that flow into one: A from the back of the throat, U rounding through the mouth, M humming at the closed lips. The tradition reads the three as waking, dreaming and deep sleep, and the silence after them as the fourth state, turiya, which contains them all.
When it is chanted
Chanted alone, or at the start and end of practice and of other mantras.
Where the text comes from
The reading of A, U and M as the three states and the silence as the fourth comes from the Mandukya Upanishad.
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Sources and tradition
- YOG Union App Content Map, 2 November 2026, p. 9, mantra list
- Text as commonly chanted; the exact recension, transliteration and translation await subject review