1. AUM: Akar, Ukar and Makar.

2. Akar means shape or to create a shape. Bramha or the creator God worshipped as supreme in the Abrahamic religions. All religions and cults emphasizing creativity would find people to be more neurotic because Adi Naadi or passionate mode of energy also known as rajas is operand. Ida or Surya Naadi. Left brain. Word. Logos. Right nostril. Right hand.

3. Ukar is balancing, protection and harmony providing God indicated by Satva or middle Naadi or Sushumna. Vishnu or Buddha or Vaasudev is worshipped by such religions. Saint Matt or gnosticism. Harmony between both hemispheres, ambidextrous disposition, the alternate nostril breathing, yin and yang. Love.

4. Makar: Capricorn is also known as Makar the crocodile. Right brain. Imagination. The religions worshipping moon or feminine deities have excess of aloofness in them for dissolution and recreation. Like Shaivism of Kashmir in India which actually considered feminine receptive or neutral Shiva to be the cosmic womb of mystery. Pingla Naadi.

My mother told me that early Tantric masters defined five makara as:

1. Maansa or Non-vegetarian food.

2. Madeira or wine.

3. Mainthuna or union.

4. Mudra or postures.

5. Mantra.

Some vajrayana and Mahayana practitioners retained some of them or considered only their inner aspects whereas gnosticism emphasizing on middle path completely focussed on Sushumna, Sukhmani or Sukhavayi the middle narrow path to the golden temple or Amritsar.

The moon shape in Omkar represents Pranav’s sound and dot represents Bindu or indestructible drop in which all such sounds merge in the end. Beyond which Niranjan or formless heavens start getting subtler.