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to say, you can say it in a very few lines, few words -- even a single word may be enough. The less you have to say, the more words you will have to use. The more you have to say, the less words you can use.
Now it has become a known fact to psychologists that words are used not to say, but to hide. We go on talking because we want to hide something. If you want to hide something you cannot be silent, because your face may say it, your silence may indicate it. The other may become suspicious that you are hiding something. So a person who has to hide something will go on talking continuously. Through words you can deceive; through silence you cannot deceive.
The Upanishads really have something to say, so they say it in seed form -- in sutras, in aphorisms. This Upanishad has only seventeen sutras. They can be written on a half page. On one postcard this whole Upanishad can be written -- on one side! But it has a very potent message, so we will take each seed word and try to penetrate it, to be in a living response with it. Something may begin to vibrate in you. And it can begin because these words are very potential, they have much. If their atoms could be broken. much energy would be released. So be open, receptive, in a deep trust, and let the Upanishad work.
Now we enter into the "Atma Pooja -- Worship of the Self -- Upanishad":
AUM MEDITATION IS THE CONSTANT CONTEMPLATION OF THAT.
"AUM": this word "AUM" is very significant -- significant as a sign, as a symbol, as a secret key. So first we must decode it.
AUM has five matras, five steps. The first step is A, the second is U, the third is M. These are gross steps. When we utter AUM, A-U-M -- these are three words. But utter AUM [long], and in the end the M resounds -- "mmm". That is a half step -- the fourth. Three are gross and can be heard. The fourth is half gross. If you are very aware, only then is it heard; otherwise it is lost. And the fifth is just never heard. When the sound of AUM vibrates and the vibrations go into the cosmic emptiness, when the sound has gone and a soundlessness remains, that is the fifth. You utter the word AUM, then A-U-M is heard very
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