Om is a sacred symbol in Hinduism ... Lord Krishna says, “I am Om of the Vedas.” That is why it is the supreme support; it is the ultimate refuge. Meditate on Om and you will be ‘That’.

Om was first attested in the Vedas, a massive corpus of ancient ... In all these respects, the syllable has served as the quintessential symbol of religious authority in Hinduism – a role ...

Originally found in the Vedas, a collection of Hindu texts written in India between 1500 and 1000 BCE, om is also referred to as “Shabdha Brahman”—”God as sound” or “God as vibration ...