What is the meaning of 'SOHAM' ?

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SOHAM is a Sanskrit word comprising two different words viz. Sah (He or She) and Aham (I am). It means 'She is, I am' or She is my self. In Vedic philosophy it means identifying oneself with the Cosmic energy or universal consciousness.

Answer 2

It's close but the actual word is "CHOAM".

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Soham Meaning

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What is the meaning of 'SOHAM' ?

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"He is I"; a mystical permutation of Ahamsa (I am he). Shoam contains the mystical teaching of the identity of man's essence with divinity.

Every soul has a presence of God in it. In other words, it means "God is within".

It is also one of the most powerful universal mantras of meditation

Hindu saints and gurus state that one can attain moksha, or mukti (release) or liberation from the cycle of life and death by concentrating on the breath and mentally saying the word "so" when inhaling and the word "ham" (pronounced hum) on exhaling. By doing so, all evil is destroyed and one is believed to reach the position of ultimate power, equivalent to gurus and gods of Hinduism.

When the "I" merges with the "That", the ego of the "I" identity merges with the Other, who is Ishwara of the Vedas, Brahman of the Upanishads, Bhagawan of the Puranas.

"Sa" in Sanskrit is the combination of the "lifeless" (or, static) consonant S with the dynamic vowel A – that is, with the meaning of Prana or vital force. Also Sa is Vishnu and Shiva according to the Vedic Nirukta. The Sandhi means Yoga (union) or self realization.

The meaning of the phrase might be expressed as follows: "I" am obviously not this body because the physical constituents of the body are changing every moment. Ultimately, the body dies. Atman the soul or self never dies – it is "That". "That" is Absolute Reality. It is the witness of all, it is what the mind does through the body. This self is always on the path of progression, which according to Shaivistic thought is Chaitanya or consciousness. The Shiva Sutra speaks of ‘Chaitanyam – Atma’. Consequently, Aham, myself, is Sah, that Self. This is called spiritual awareness.

Soham is a combination of the two syllables so and ham. When we inhale, the sound produced is 'ham'; when we exhale, it is 'so'. Thus Soham is a combination of these two vibrations as breath comes in and goes out of the body. Soham or Hamsa mean the same.



Soham is derived from a text, Vigyana Bhairava, a science related by the primordial transcendental principle, Shiva or Bhairava. It is in the form of a dialogue between Shiva and his consort Shakti. A combination of consciousness which is absolute and energy which is creative is what makes the life breath for us.



That gives us the force which sustains the physical body. Each one of us is constantly going through this process of Soham which translates in Sanskrit to "that I am" - Soham, or "I am that" - Hamsa.



It is believed that the entire creation was manifested with the sound of Om, the Nada Brahman. Om is a combination of So and Ham. This sound vibrates every moment of our life till there is life in our body, till life continues to flow through the Kundalini.



The force which produces that sound, which moves the breath through the respiratory system, is the force which is consciousness, that which makes us aware that we are a part of the entire cosmic consciousness - Aham Vimarsa. I am awareness, the awareness of the Absolute 'I'.



When the sound travels through the various bodies it gets refined and the vibration ultimately merges in Om. It is constantly chanted within us and is thus called the highest mantra, the Mantra Maheshwara. Ham beejam, says the Guru Gita, which means the sound of Ham is the seed of the entire consciousness which pervades us.



In the Vigyana Bhairava, Shakti asks a series of questions of Shiva. Questions such as what is life are treated as part of a larger quest for living and thence discovering the fundamental process, the core being the importance of breath or subtle energy for life.



The spiritual aspirant focuses on the space between the eyebrows, agna chakra, and with eyes closed watches the breath as it comes in and goes out. In observing the breath he becomes a part of the process of breathing itself.



The space between the incoming breath and the outgoing breath is called madhya dasa. While breathing in and out, there is a split second gap between the two. In retaining the breath we expand that gap. That space is the time when the mind is absolutely stilled.



The more we prolong the duration of the space, the greater our mind develops to concentrate and purify the body through the breath and in the process we enable ourselves to reach the state of self- realisation.



The ultimate goal of human life is to realise the self, the most exalted state which is within each one of us. We draw from the same source of energy, the same breath which comes in and goes out. It is estimated that on an average day we take 21,600 breaths in all. In a lifespan of 80 years, this would amount to 62 million breaths.



Soham, therefore, is the science of life, a study through self-awareness. As the sun cannot be detached from light, so also we who possess light and energy cannot detach that from the self which is the illumination of our being. We may not be conscious of that at our birth but during the course of the evolution of our consciousness, we become aware of the basic principles and then the whole game becomes simple.

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