Read the part what it says about power of chanting Om daily. I highlighted it and made it bigger fonts with blue color.
The Om (Aum) symbol is a sacred syllable representing Brahman, the
impersonal Absolute — omnipotent, omnipresent, and the source of all
manifest existence.
By sound and form, AUM symbolizes the infinite Brahman (ultimate reality) and the entire universe.
A stands for Creation
U stands for Preservation
M stands for Destruction or dissolution
This is representative of the Trinity of God in Hindu dharma (Brahma, Vishnu and Shiva)
The three portions of AUM relate to the states of waking, dream and deep sleep and the three gunas (rajas, satva, tamas)
The three letters also indicates three planes of existence, heaven (swarga), earth (martya) and netherworld (patala)
http://www.buddhastatues.org/om.htm
Turiya
is a state of pure consciousness, or the experience of ultimate reality
and truth. It is a fourth state of consciousness, the momentary silence
after each chanting of Aum.
When you experience Turiya you
realize nothing is real. Waking is not real, dream is not real, sleep is
not real, the world of multiplicity is not real. If that is so, bondage
is not real and liberation is not real.
You don't talk of
liberation of the Self or Brahman. Liberation and bondage relate to the
individual soul and the individual soul itself is unreal. Therefore
there is neither bondage nor liberation.
However, this remarkable
realization is experienced only through enlightened intellect. It is
only upon waking up from a horrible dream that you realize there was no
horror. While you are trapped in the dream world your experiences are
very real to you. As long as the intellect has not been enlightened,
even though you are in the state of Turiya all the time, your problems
have not ended. You are trapped in a world, a dream within a dream. Only
when you wake up from the long dream of the world-process through
enlightenment do you understand your true identity as Turiya
Consciousness.
Thus, meditation on Om--A, U, M, and the ardha
matra--leads the mind gradually to the higher levels of samadhi in which
all sublime truths are revealed.
http://www.yrf.org/Om2.html
The Power of Chanting Om:
1. The chanting of Om drives away all worldly thoughts and removes distraction and infuses new vigor in the body.
2.
When you feel depressed, chant Om fifty times and you will be filled
with new vigor and strength. The chanting of Om is a powerful tonic.
3. Those who chant Om will have a powerful, sweet voice.
4. Those who do meditation of Om daily will get tremendous power. They will have luster in their eyes and faces.
Meditation on Om:
Retire
to a quite place, sit down, close your eyes and completely relax your
muscles and nerves. Concentrate on the space between your eyebrows and
quieten and silence the conscious mind. Begin to repeat "Om" mentally
while associating the ideas of infinity, eternity, immortality, etc. You
must repeat Om with the feeling that you are the infinite and
all-pervading.
http://www.omsakthi.org/worship/mantra.html
Be
patient and persistent and meditate on the formula of Om again and
again. Gradually you will ascend the ladder of Vedantic wisdom in the
proper way.
This sound can be heard as the sound of one's own
nerve system, and meditators and mystics hear it daily, like the sound
made by an electrical transformer or a swarm of bees, or a thousand
vinas playing in the distance. It is a strong, inner experience, one
that yogis hold with great reverence. Hearing it one draws near to God
Consciousness. When we are living in the lower chakras, or when the
world too strongly dominates our mind, this sound may, for a time, not
be heard. But it returns as awareness withdraws, as the mind becomes
perfectly quiescent, silent, still. Listen for this sound in your
quietest moments and you will learn to recognize it as a daily encounter
with the Divine that lives within all men, within all creatures, within
all existence.
http://www.iloveulove.com/spirituality/hindu/omaum.htm
The difference in spelling ["Om" or "Aum"] is merely a matter of transliteration.
http://www.iloveulove.com/spirituality/hindu/omaum.htm
-taken from video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RlWy4hPN3uQ
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