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proceeds. When adhvaryu priest gives an order in a
sacrifice, he says Om. When the hotri priest recites the
hymn, he says Om. When the udgatri priest sings the
Saman, he says Om. All this is done for the glory of the
Imperishable Atman by the greatness of that syllable and
by its essence.
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It may be contended that he who knows this true
meaning of the syllable Om and he who does not,
perform the same sacrifice and therefore must reap the
same fruit. But this is not so. The results of knowledge
and ignorance are different. Work that is done with
knowledge, faith and the Upanishad (i.e. meditation on
the deities) produces more powerful fruit. This is, verily,
the detailed explanation of the syllable Om.
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