Mandiram Mandala

The Mandiram Mandala is a trinity mandala. Using this ancient Aum symbol in a symmetrical fashion satisfies something deep within our psyches, as sacred geometry has been doing since the beginning of time.

The Aum symbol in it’s own right, as a stand alone icon, is a sacred or mystical syllable, seen in most Dharmic or Indian religions, specifically Hinduism, Jainism and Buddhism.

It is written in Devanāgari as a ॐ symbol and as ओम् in Sanskrit. It is also known as praṇava प्रणव, Omkara, or Auṃkāra ओंकार.

Om is pronounced as a long nasalized rounded vowel, though there are other enunciations used in other traditions. It is placed at the beginning of most Hindu texts as a sacred incantation to be intoned at the beginning and end of a reading of the Vedas or prior to any prayer or mantra. The Māndukya Upanishad is entirely devoted to the explanation of the syllable. The syllable consists of three phonemes, a Vaishvanara, Hiranyagarbha and Iswara, which symbolize the beginning, duration, and dissolution of the universe and the associated gods Brahma, Vishnu, and Shiva, respectively. The name Omkara is taken as a name of God in the Hindu revivalist Arya Samaj.