Om?

No. But practicing it can IMO. Mind over body is a powerful thing. It's used in yoga and other meditations. Bring your body functions into alignment and it has a better ability to heal itself. Just hearing it though? No. I'd really doubt that.

The full mantra goes:

OM Mani Padmi OM ... Om Mani Pami OM ...

The "M" in Om is drawn out. Mani and Padmi are rendered with the emphasis on the first syllable. Thus, Ma-ni and Pad-mi.

This mantra is widely used in a number of Buddhist schools, and is the "lynch-pin" of the Diamond Sutra. The Sanskrit pronunciation doesn't always survive translation into more modern languages, yet it is still credited with great power.

I believe that what power this, or other mantras, possess is not supernatural at all, but a by-product of forcing the practitioner to focus the mind to the point where other thoughts find it difficult to intrude. Thus focused, the practiontioner can "ignore" thirst, hunger, pain, heat and cold. This can be powerful stuff when employed by a practiced and disciplined adept. However, mantras are only one tool out of a much larger toolbox, and the student should become practiced with more than one technique.

Visnan you ask if chanting om can cure disease but earlier you said


"Therapeutically, several and repeated experiments in its vibrations have conclusively proved its curative, sedative and healing effects."

so why ask?

and what do you mean by

"effectuates a sublimation of the conational substance"

I dont understand this.

Bokonon says In the beginning, God created the earth, and he looked upon it in His cosmic loneliness.
And God said, "Let Us make living creatures out of mud, so the mud can see what We have done." And God created every living creature that now moveth, and one was man. Mud as man alone could speak. God leaned close as mud as man sat up, looked around, and spoke. Man blinked. "What is the purpose of all this?" he asked politely.
"Everything must have a purpose?" asked God.
"Certainly," said man.
"Then I leave it to you to think of one for all this," said God.

And He went away uttering "Aum"

Forgot to give the reference to that statement ... it was displayed on some website related to spirituality.... So me too wanted questioning that statement...

ok understand

(its rubbish imo )

No, it can't cure diseases, unless the disease happens to be stress. It can be quite good for easing stress, but that's about it.

Luckily though, easing stress is good for you anyway.

Well, often stress will either cause or exascerbate illness. It is not a huge conceptual leap to believe that the control of stress would enable a body to heal itself much more efficiently.

Can it cure diseases? YES! If you believe it can.... For very interesting text on the power of the mind and religion please read 'The Holographic Universe' quite interesting...

Also Asherman.... The mantra you mentioned is a Tibetan Buddhist Mantra (as you noted) and is much different from the 'om' inquired about by vinsan. And the 'Padmi' in the mantra is actually padme pronounced more like 'pay-me'.
There are millions of mantras, many of them begin (and end) with OM.... Think of it more like 'Religious quotation marks' Beginning with an Om sets the stage so to speak, clearing the path for the sacred uttereance to follow. Ending with an Om is much the same as saying over and out.

Plus...Om is not 'om' in reality.... It is the principle vibration of 'reality' in Hinduism. The tone, inflection and volume of om do not change during a chant... Try this, close mouth and produce an
mmmmmmmmmmmm noise. now open mouth slightly, the sound has 'changed' to aaaaaaaaaaaa.... make a little 'o' with the lips and the sound 'changes' to ooooooooooo. return to the closed mouth position and you've completed your OM!
This is the 'primordial sound in its three distinct phases' Or four, or seven, or 108, all depends on who and what you refer to...

mmmmmmmmmmaaaaaaaaaaaoooooooooouuuuummmmmmmmmm...