Description
Handwoven beads with a double-sided Om Lotus
Om: Om is described as all-encompassing, universal healing vibration. It is believed that as creation began, the divine, all-encompassing consciousness took the form of the first and original vibration manifesting as sound – Om. Before creation began, there was emptiness or the void. But it was more than nothingness because everything then existed in a latent state of potentiality. The vibration of “OM” symbolizes the manifestation of the divine in physical form and is the reflection of the absolute reality. It is said to be without beginning or the end and embracing all that exists. Om is a powerful healing vibration that brings us back into wholeness and harmonious connection with all that is.
Lotus: The bud of the lotus symbolizes potential, specifically of a spiritual nature. Because the lotus rises from unclean water to blossom as a pure, uncontaminated flower, it is a symbol of purity and resurrection. In the same way, the lotus flower goes through much in its growth before emerging from the dirty water to become a beautiful flower, the individual consciousness does the same on its path to enlightenment as the so-called impurities of unenlightened thinking gradually fade.