{"id":1341,"date":"2026-08-10T22:20:11","date_gmt":"2026-08-10T22:20:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.wayofthewaifu.com\/?p=1341"},"modified":"2026-08-10T22:23:34","modified_gmt":"2026-08-10T22:23:34","slug":"om-minus-the-meaning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wayofthewaifu.com\/index.php\/2026\/08\/10\/om-minus-the-meaning\/","title":{"rendered":"OM-MINUS &#8211; the meaning"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"900\" height=\"703\" src=\"https:\/\/www.wayofthewaifu.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/OM-MINUS_lotus_flower_side_lorez.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1342\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.wayofthewaifu.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/OM-MINUS_lotus_flower_side_lorez.jpg 900w, https:\/\/www.wayofthewaifu.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/OM-MINUS_lotus_flower_side_lorez-300x234.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.wayofthewaifu.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/OM-MINUS_lotus_flower_side_lorez-768x600.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 900px) 100vw, 900px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">From Wikipedia &#8211; <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">OM &#8211; &#8220;It is the essence of the supreme Absolute,<sup><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Om#cite_note-:1-2\">[2]<\/a><\/sup>\u00a0consciousness,<sup><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Om#cite_note-james4822-4\">[4]<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Om#cite_note-Holdrege19962-5\">[5]<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Om#cite_note-merriam-webster.com2-6\">[6]<\/a><\/sup>\u00a0<em><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/%C4%80tman_(Hinduism)\">\u0100tman<\/a>,<\/em>\u00a0<em><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Brahman\">Brahman<\/a>,<\/em>\u00a0or the cosmic world.<sup><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Om#cite_note-David_Leeming_20052-7\">[7]<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Om#cite_note-ReferenceA2-8\">[8]<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Om#cite_note-annette2-9\">[9]<\/a><\/sup>\u00a0In Indian religions,\u00a0<em>Om<\/em>\u00a0serves as a\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Acoustics\">sonic<\/a>\u00a0representation of the divine,&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">There&#8217;s more, but this is the part I&#8217;m referencing.  &#8220;OM&#8221; as a symbol of the sacred and divine.  The positive that you strive for and hope to reach &#8211; but somehow you keep getting <em>less.<\/em>  &#8220;Om-.&#8221;  You might think, &#8220;but close is still good,&#8221; and keep chugging along.  But nothing gets better, no matter how hard you try. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Then you come across the idea that those whose languages are written away from the heart (left to right) were given lies, and those whose languages are written towards the heart (right to left) were given the truth.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">You were reading the symbol backwards the whole time &#8211; it isn&#8217;t &#8220;Om-&#8220;.  It&#8217;s &#8220;-Om.&#8221;  What existance has for you isn&#8217;t a little less than the divine, it is the opposite of the divine.  That is what you get. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From Wikipedia &#8211; OM &#8211; &#8220;It is the essence of the supreme Absolute,[2]\u00a0consciousness,[4][5][6]\u00a0\u0100tman,\u00a0Brahman,\u00a0or the cosmic world.[7][8][9]\u00a0In Indian religions,\u00a0Om\u00a0serves as a\u00a0sonic\u00a0representation of the divine,&#8221; There&#8217;s more, but this is the part I&#8217;m referencing. &#8220;OM&#8221; as a symbol of the sacred and<br \/><a class=\"btn-more btn btn-danger btn-sm\" href=\"https:\/\/www.wayofthewaifu.com\/index.php\/2026\/08\/10\/om-minus-the-meaning\/\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1342,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1341","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-general-blog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wayofthewaifu.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1341","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wayofthewaifu.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wayofthewaifu.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wayofthewaifu.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wayofthewaifu.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1341"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.wayofthewaifu.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1341\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1345,"href":"https:\/\/www.wayofthewaifu.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1341\/revisions\/1345"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wayofthewaifu.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1342"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wayofthewaifu.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1341"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wayofthewaifu.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1341"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wayofthewaifu.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1341"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}