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Don't rhyme very well at all for me....

Bomb on the other hand, rhymes with om very well.

 

Oh yes Bomb does rhyme. Womb also, so does Tomb.

 

Duuuuude, great to see you back. You have made my day. I hope your self-exile and introspection was fruitful and productive.


As for the words , why not.........

Amen is pronounced as AMEEEEN. Emphasis on MEEEE.

Muslims pronounce Ameeeen . Emphasis on meeee.

Om is pronounced OoooMMM. Emphasis on MMM.

There is indeed a certain similarity between the words.

I have not heard Shalom being stated by a jew, so I don't know how the pronounciation is . Still 'om' sound is there in Shalom .

 

Amen is pronounced a-men, as in the word 'men'. At least by christians.
Protestants tend to soften the a syllable to ah.

BTW -my exile was not self imposed.

Anyway, good to be back.

 

Well, when I heard amen in India, it sure sounded a lot like OM.

Also Om is pronounced more accurately as AUM.

And indeed, whatever you say, there is a resemblance between Aum, amen and ameen and shalom.

 

All 3 are words - but they simply don't rhyme - you must have heard a mis-pronunciation of 'amen' to make it rhyme with 'aum'.

Amen rhymes well with 'zen' - but there's no real connection.

 

There is a resemblance between these words. They are not as far removed as 'together ', 'honey', ' buffalo'. There is indeed a striking resemblance between aum, amen, ameen, shalom.

Others too have observed this.

 

And what do you think the significance might be?

 

AUM STANDS for the supreme Reality.
It is a symbol for what was, what is,
And what shall be. AUM represents also
What lies beyond past, present, and future.

---------mandukya upanishad



According to the Mandukya Upanishad , "Om is the one eternal syllable of which all that exists is but the development. The past, the present, and the future are all included in this one sound, and all that exists beyond the three forms of time is also implied in it".



The Yoga Sutras of Patanjali states in verse (1:27):

"tasya vacakah pranavah" which translates as, "God's voice is Aum."

Zoroastrians start off their prayers by chanting, On Ashem Vohu. They like the Sikhs pronounce the sacred syllable On rather than most believers.

http://www.akhandjyoti.org/?Akhand-Jyoti/2005/Sep-Oct/OmEternalSyllable/

The followers of the dharmic religions ,the hindus , buddhists (om mani padme hum ), sikhs (ik onkaar ), jains revere Om. On is there in zoroastrianism.



Hence you can see that more than 2 billion dharmiks revere Om.

Om is considered as the primordial sound in Hinduism, and the first word uttered in the universe.

The verses in the vedas dealing with the origin of the universe, uncannily resembles the Big Bang. Om is stated to be the sound of the Big BAng.

This must have been intuitively understood by the prophets of the abrahamic religions , and that may be why their sacred words too resembles Om deeply.

 

Even in the Christian Bible, the Testament of John starts with :

In the beginning there was the Word, and the Word was God.

THe trinity as told by Jesus is like
The Father Conciousness (The Hand the guides the symphony of the universe)
The Christ COnciousenss that we may all realize
The Holy Ghost, which I believe is referring to the Word, Aum

WE are like a storm on the ocean of Gods essence.
The wind is His Dream, the Waves are our physical Universe, and
we are being played out like a massive symphony
the waves eventually die down and crash on
the shore for the last time
and the sea is calm, without disruption

 

Have you listened to Omkara/Anahata?
You might try the wotk of Russill Paul, or the Chishti Order of Sufis & the work of Hazrat Inayat Khan, notabily "The Mysticism of Sound and Music."