Core Insight:
According to Osho, Om is not a word but the symbol of the universe’s heartbeat—the sound of the soundless—from which Eastern scriptures begin. As one attunes to it, silence deepens; hence Shantih (silence) is intoned thrice, marking three steps into vanishing: by the fourth, ‘you’ are gone and only silence remains. Scriptures start and end thus, affirming the circle where beginning and end are one.