Figuratively, we say that Om, comprising ‘A, U, M’ (Akār–Ukār–Makār), representing the three states of consciousness, dissolves into silence, and silence is the target. Similarly, the mind, leaving behind all its three states, disappears into the target. Pass through all that you can experience — all that is possible in waking, dreaming, sleeping — and then transcend into 'non-being'. Within the three states, you are you, but when you leave the three states behind, you have left yourself behind. And when there is no you, then there is no mind, no ego. That is. That is.
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Acharya Prashant: The disappearance of sound into silence, as it happens in Om, is analogous to the disappearance of the arrow mind into the Brahman target. What is Om? Sounds finely dissolving into, tapering off into silence. That's how it happens.
And then figuratively, we say that Om, comprising of A, U, M, (Akār-Ukār-Makār), representing the three states of consciousness, dissolves into silence. And silence is the target. Similarly, the mind, leaving behind all its three states, the various three thousand states possible to three states, disappears into the target. So, that's how Om sends the mind rushing into the target.
Pass through all that you can experience — all that is possible in waking, dreaming, sleeping, and then cross over, jump over, transcend. Into what? Into non-being, into your absence, because your presence is only within the three states. Now, within the three states, you are you. And what happens when you leave the three states behind? You have not left merely the three states behind, you have left yourself behind. And when there is no you, then there is no mind, no ego. That is. That is.
