Hindu Symbols


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Prayer Wheels: Tibetan Spiritual Technology
Tibetan prayer wheels (called Mani wheels by the Tibetans) are devices for spreading spiritual blessings and well being.
dharma-haven.org/tibetan/prayer-wheel.htm

Hinduism Symbols We Live With - about.com
Hinduism employs the art of symbolism with amazing effect. No religion is so replete with symbols as this ancient religion.
hinduism.about.com/library/weekly/aa121400a.htm

Horned God in India and Europe
Pashupati is the Horned God of the Indus Valley, of the great Harappan city culture that developed from a village culture approximately 6000 years ago, in northern India and what is now Pakistan.
realmagick.com/articles/93/1493.html

Tantra - The Art of Philosophy
Discusses the tantric imagery, in which deities are geometrically represented as Yantras, the concepts of kundalini, chakras depicting the human body and other tantric iconographic images.
tantra.exoticindiaart.com/

 

Om

Om - wikipedia.org
Aum is pronounced in three sounds - A (aaa) , U (ooooo) and M (mmmmm) and signifies Right (A) and Left (U) Sympathetic Nervous Systems (SNS) and (M) Parasympathetic Nervous System.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Om

Om: Symbol of the Absolute - about.com
Om or Aum is of paramount importance in Hinduism. This symbol is a sacred syllable representing Brahman, the impersonal Absolute of Hinduism.
hinduism.about.com/od/omaum/a/meaningofom.htm

Om and Mantras
Before the beginning, the Brahman (absolute reality) was one and non-dual. It thought, "I am only one -- may I become many." This caused a vibration which eventually became sound, and this sound was Om.
omsakthi.org/worship/mantra.html