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'''''Aum''''' (ook '''Om''', in Devanagari geskryf as ॐ, in Sjinees as 唵, in Tibetaans as ༀ, in [[Sanskrit]] bekend as '''''{{IAST|praṇava}}''''' {{lang|sa|प्रणव}} letterlik "om hard uit te spreek" of '''''{{IAST|oṃkāra}}''''' {{lang|sa|ओंकार}} letterlik "''oṃ'' lettergreep") is 'n mistiese en heilige lettergreep in die Indiese godsdienste, insluitend [[Hindoeïsme]], [[Djainisme]], en [[Boeddhisme]].
Die naam ''omkara'' word gesien as 'n naam van [[God]] in die Hindoe opwekkingsbeweging ''Arya Samaj''. Op soortgelyke wyse word ''om'', wat ''onkar'' genoem word in die in die [[Punjabi]], in [[Sikhisme|Sikh teologie]] aangetref as 'n simbool van God]. Dit onderstreep byna altyd God se ''singularity'', uitgedruk as ''Ek Onkar'' ("Een Omkara" of "Die Aum is Een"), wat stel dat die veelvoudigheid van bestaan gesimboliseer in die ''aum''-lettergreep in werklikheid in 'n enkelvoudige God gevind word.<ref>Wazir Singh, ''Aspects of Guru Nanak's philosophy'' (1969), p. 20: "the a, u, m of aum have also been explained as signifying the three principles of creation, sustenance and annihilation. ... Onkar in relation to existence implies plurality, ... but its substitute Ekonkar definitely implies singularity in spite of the seeming multiplicity of existence. ..."</ref>
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