"tat tvam asi"

The principal word in the Vedas, Pranava Omkara, is the sound representation of the Supreme Lord. Therefore Omkara should be taken as the sound Supreme. Sankara has falsely preached Tatvamasi as the Supreme vibration in the Vedas, instead of Omkara. Omkara is the reservoir of all the energies of the Supreme Lord. The accent on the word Tatvamasi by Sankara, as the Supreme vibration of the Vedas, is wrong, because this word Tatvamasi is a secondary word only. This word suggests only a partial representation of the Vedas. In the Bhagavad Gita the Lord has in many places given importance to Omkara. The importance of Omkara is mentioned in the Eighth Chapter, 13th verse, Ninth Chapter, 17th verse, and Seventeenth Chapter, 23rd verse. Similarly, the importance of Omkara is stated in the Atharva Veda. Similarly, we get the importance of Omkara vibration in the Mandukya Upanishad.    (More...)

The sound vibration of the Supreme Lord is identical with the Supreme Lord. In the Narada Pancharatra also it is stated that when sound vibration is practiced by the conditioned soul, the Supreme Lord is present on the tongue of such a vibrating person. In the Mandukya Upanishad the same importance is given, in that whatever is seen as spiritual, with the addition of Omkara, is perfect spiritual vision. In the Spiritual World or in the spiritual vision there is nothing except Omkara, or the one alternate, Om. Unfortunately, Sankara has given up this chief word, Omkara, and he has whimsically accepted Tatvamasi as the Supreme vibration of the Vedas. By accepting such a secondary word of the Vedas as Tatvamasi, leaving aside the principal word Omkara, he has given up direct interpretation in favor of his own indirect interpretation of the Scripture.    (More...)

Pranava or Omkara is the chief indication of Vedic hymns, and Omkara is considered as the sound Form of the Supreme Lord. From Omkara, all Vedic hymns have emanated, and the world has also emanated from the Omkara sound. The world Tatvamasi, picked up from the Vedic hymns, is not the chief word, but it is an explanation of the constitutional position of the living entity. The meaning of this Tatvamasi is that the living entity is a spiritual particle of the Supreme spirit; but this is not the chief motif of the Vedanta or Vedic literature. The chief sound representation of the Supreme is Omkara.    (More...)