Symbol - Anyone recognize?

[Aros]

I've been drawing the symbol below for years. I don't have any idea what it means (well, not consciously at least). I'm not really expecting anyone to recognize it, but hey, you never know, right? So here it is...Any comments, thoughts, theories and ideas are all gladly welcomed.

[karnautrahl]

Sun/moon, bridge, river of life..

Just what occured to me as I looked at it . I read it as a bridge between the moon and the sun as one, over the river of life...

I must be in one of my "mystic" moods . I wouldn't take my post seriously particularly...unless it resonates...

[Telos]

It reminded me of a sea-horse.

[Nay]

It reminds me of a duck with his chest puffed out.

[Nick]

Sort of reminds me of the ancient OM/AUM symbol:

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[Nay]

DING, DING, DING!!!!

Nick is the winner!  Now folks lets hear what he has won tooooday....

Nay

[Aros]

The OM symbol certainly makes the most sense so far. That's really interesting. Perhaps I picked that up subconsciously somewhere along the way. However, my heart is still tugging me in more of a, well...How do I say...a celestial direction....

*sigh*

Sort of like my user name "Aros". I know it means something profound deep down, but on a conscious level...Forget it.

[Nick]

Seriously, there could be more to it, as you suggest Aros. People do receive information, images, ideas, and such from the nonphysical realms. That sign you drew could very well have a deeper significance. Perhaps in time you'll find out.

Best regards,
Nick

[Aros]

Yes, indeed, perhaps I may one day find out the true significance. However, I AM intrigued with the similarities between my symbol and the OM symbol. Perhaps there is a tie there...It really does look quite similar...The story continues...Thank you all for your insight.

[sweetbliss]

Wow, definitely Nick is the winner!  

Aros, it might be possible that you picked up that symbol subconsciously, but I would rather say that it came from your uncouscious, from a deeper level of consciousness that you have reached.

The 'Aum' stands for what Indian saints have called the forth Dimension of consciousness (Turya), which is the ever unaltered state of meditation and innocence which underlies our psyche. See, the Symbol has 3 curls, they represent the 3 gunas, tendencies, which create the illusory reality we are living in, necessary for our growth, nevertheless to be transcended. Hindus call it Maya and it is exactly what has been described in the Matrix movie as the Matrix. It is for them the feminine aspect of God.
There is also a half curl, represented as a moon, sustaining a star. So it makes three and a half curls; Kundalini also has three and a half coils, and the archetype Indians identify with the Aum symbol and with the Turya state is the divine child Ganesha, the guardian of Kundalini. Kundalini is his mother, so he allows her Awakening only in the seeker who respects the protocol towards the Mother, that's what they say.
Christ also has this aspect when saying that: "Anyone who speaks a word against the Son of Man will be forgiven, but anyone who speaks against the Holy Spirit will not be forgiven, either in this age or in the age to come." (Matthew 12:32) (Note that for the Christian Gnostics, at the beginning of the church, the Holy Spirit was the Mother, so there can be a particular similarity...)

When the awakening occurs, what happens is that we reach beyond the three gunas, in the realm of the primordial sound/word Aum. (So Indian also believe that 'In the beginning was the Word'... )

More info you can find at this link, it's more clear that what I am able to explain:

http://www.sol.com.au/kor/11_02.htm

It's nice you felt that, Aros, it has come from within, no doubt. I meet a similar situation with the baby of some friends. When she was about 2 year old, she had this habit, when she was left alone and satisfied, to sing slowly this ooooommmm. I guested she must have been hearing it, because of her innocence. It was less probable to have picked it up from an outer source, because we only use short 'aum' recited at the beginning of mantras, but never this long incantation, like what she was doing.
Basically we all are able to get in touch and enjoy our own innocence and bliss of meditation, so it happens...

Wait for more...

Ana-Maria

[You]

It reminds me of a fat paperclip, do you use a lot of MS word?

[sweetbliss]

I just found this explanation this morning:

EXPOSITION OF THE SACRED SYLLABLE OM

Source: Markandeya Purana Chapter 42

Dattatreya spoke:

The Yogi who lives thus, rightly busied in religious devotion, cannot be turned away even by hundreds of other lives. And when he has beheld the Supreme Soul, visible, existing in all
forms, whose feet and head and neck the universe composes, the Lord and Creator of this universe, let him in order to attain there to utter the one mighty and holy syllable OM! Let it be his
study as he listens to its true form.

A and U and M are its three letters; these are its three
instants; they are characterised by goodness, passion and ignorance. And another, a half instant, which has its seat on the top (of the syllable, of the head) is without quality and can
be understood by Yogis only. It is called gandhari, as it is to be uttered in the gandhara note (Ga). Being pronounced it reaches the head and it conveys the feeling of ants moving
(over the body, on the top of the head).

AS the syllable OM being pronounced reaches the head, the Yogi who is lost in meditation of OM should become united with Brahma, the Supreme Soul. Life is his bow, the soul is his arrow, Brahma is the target sublime. It is to be pierced by the heedful man; he should be united with Brahma, as the arrow becomes embedded in the target.

The syllable OM, consisting of three and a half instants, should be known in its true sense as the three Vedas " the Rig, Sama and Yajus" the three worlds, the three fires, and the three deities Vishnu, Brahma and Shiva. And the Yogi who is absorbed in religious meditation thereon, may obtain extinction therein.

Moreover the letter A is designated the Bhur-loka (Earth), and the letter U the Bhuvah-loka (Sky) and the letter M with its nasal mark is decided to be the Swah-loka (Heaven). Now the first instant is called the discrete (manifest) the second the indiscrete, and the third instant is the intellectual faculty (consciousness, attention); the half instant is the highest abode (final emancipation from existence). In this very order must these stages of religious meditation be known. By uttering the word OM everything both existent and non-existent may be grasped. Now the first instant is short the second is long (two instants) and the third is prolated (three instants) and the half instant is not cognisant to speech.

Such is this word. Brahma is designated the Supreme OM. The man who truly understands it and further meditates on it, escaping the circle of mundane existence casts off the three-fold bonds, and gains sublime extinction in Brahma, the Supreme Soul. And he who is bound with the unconsumed results of his actions, after experiencing death through ill omens, and recollecting it at the time of his departure, attains to a yogi's condition again. Hence by means of imperfect religious devotion, or again by perfected religious devotion are always to be known the ill omens‚ so that he does not sink into despondency at the time of his departure.
End of chapter 42.

'Yogi' is referred here not as person who practice a yogic meditation technique, but the one who has attained/stabilized the state of yoga (union with the divine/Brahma) - the equivalent of the Christian 'unio mistica'. So it defines an inner happening, not the adhesion to one (of the many yogic) tradition(s).