( Sri Krishna says : )”I am Pranava in all the Vedas,” that is to say, the basic syllable OM, which is the foundation of all the potent creative sounds of the revealed word; Om is the one universal formulation of the energy of sound and speech, that which contains and sums up, synthetises and releases, all the spiritual power and all the potentiality of Vak and Shabda and of which the other sounds, out of whose stuff  words of speech are woven, are supposed to be the developed evolutions.

SRI AUROBINDO

ESSAYS ON THE GITA

THE COMPLETE WORKS OF SRI AUROBINDO  – VOLUME 19 – THE TWO NATURES

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