Om Emanates from Krsna?
By Jayadvaita Swami
Posted August 31, 2003

Similarly pranava or the omkara transcendental sound used in the beginning of every Vedic hymn to address the Supreme Lord also emanates from Him.

And pranava, or the omkara transcendental sound used in the beginning of every Vedic hymn, addresses the Supreme Lord.

Similarly, Pranavah or the Omkara transcendental sound in the beginning of every Vedic hymn is also addressing the Supreme Lord.

The critic comments, "Om emanates from Krsna?" And well he might ask. Does om emanate from Krsna, or is it identical with Krsna?

In the Introduction to Srimad-Bhagavatam, Srila Prabhupada quotes Lord Caitanya as saying, "Pranava [om], or the omkara in the Vedas, is the primeval hymn. This transcendental sound is identical with the form of the Lord."

And again in the Second Canto (2.1.17, purport): "As we have explained before, the Lord's holy name is identical with the Lord Himself. So also is omkara."

Srila Prabhupada discusses this elaborately in the puport to Cc Adi 7.128.

Anyway, what's here in Bhagavad-gita As It Is— in the Second Edition— emanates from the original manuscript.

Hare Krsna.

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