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OUR SYMBOL Often we are asked about the meaning of the logo that we have chosen to identify our association.
Its easy it is the graphic representation of the OM sound, spoken by the Indian mystic Literature as the primaeval Sound which, in its three sillabics components A - U - M reminds the three states of consciousness analysed by the Upanishadic mysticism (see the Mandukya Upanishad), up to the so-called Fourth State that, being transcendent, it is so to say expressed by the silence, when the sound vanishes. Universally known is, on the other side, the sillabic OM symbol written in devanagari characters, reproduces here below and belonging originally to the Vedic culture who first spoke of it.
Recently, moreover, it is entered in the domain of a certain notority the correspondent sign utilised by the Tibetan language, which is very beautiful indeed. Here we have reproduced it with the colours that are indicated in Vajrayana mysticism.
Surely less known, but very suggestive in its form, is the OM symbol written in the Tamil language, who reminds a shell and which instead of indicating an ascending movement, as in Tibetan and Sanskrit languages, or in our that, as we have said, indicates a way of descent into matter it seems to evoke a movement of interiorization, or at least a way towards the center.
Thats it. We have offered a brief but, let us hope, exhaustive view of the symbol. Now, we need only to dive into the truth it expresses!
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