that utilize and support wholesome physicality, and healthful community
life. All our activities—in householding, work, relationship, social wel-
fare, recreation, the arts, and so on—can be performed in a spirit that af-
firms wholeness and holiness.
Om!One should reverence the Udg ̄ıtha (song) as this
syllable, for one sings the loud chant beginning with ‘Om.’The essence of things here is the earth.
The essence of earth is water.
The essence of water is plants.
The essence of plants is a person.
The essence of a person is speech.
The essence of speech is the ÓRg (hymn)
The essence of the Rg is the S ̄aman (chant).
The essence of the S ̄aman is the Udg ̄ıtha (song)
The ÓRg is speech.
The S ̄aman is breath.
The Udg ̄ıtha is this syllable Om.^10Om!—This syllable is the whole world...
... Omis the Self indeed...^11174 religious therapeutics