The Door
Welcome. You have arrived here from somewhere — an essay, a search, a message from someone. This page is for the reader who has no prior knowledge of OMJOOMSUH, of Arjun, or of the tradition behind either. It is short, and it is meant to be read once, in order, without any need to click away.
What OMJOOMSUH is
OMJOOMSUH is a small modern effort to help ordinary people — householders, working adults, parents — reclaim the quiet daily practices that keep a human being well.
It exists because a great deal of what is sold today under the words health, wellness, and nutrition is not helping most people become well. It is helping them consume more, monitor more, buy more, and often feel worse. OMJOOMSUH holds the opposite proposition. Health is not something you purchase. It is something you live into, slowly, through practices that were tested across thousands of years by people who watched their own bodies and minds carefully, and wrote down what they found.
The work is a wiki (this site), a weekly newsletter, a morning practice group, and a journal. All of it is anchored in one small daily rhythm — a morning chanting practice that takes about fifteen minutes and that anyone can join.
What the name means
OMJOOMSUH is the English spelling of three Sanskrit sounds: ॐ जूं सः — Om, Joom, Sah. Each is a seed syllable, a compressed sound the tradition treats as carrying a specific meaning.
- ॐ (Om) — the primordial sound of the universe. Consciousness, peace, the ground of everything.
- जूं (Joom) — the seed syllable that carries the power to move fear of death and disease.
- सः (Sah) — liberation, life-energy, the holding of that energy within oneself.
These three syllables are drawn from an ancient prayer called the Mahamrityunjaya Mantra — the mantra that faces death and asks for freedom from it. It comes from the Rig Veda, one of humanity’s oldest texts, composed several thousand years ago. In its expanded form the mantra reads:
ॐ हौं जूं सः । ॐ भूर्भुवः स्वः । ॐ त्र्यम्बकं यजामहे सुगन्धिं पुष्टिवर्धनम् । उर्वारुकमिव बन्धनान् मृत्योर्मुक्षीय मामृतात् ॥ ॐ स्वः भुवः भूः ॐ सः जूं हौं ॐ ॥
We honour the three-eyed One who nourishes all beings with fragrance and strength. As a ripe cucumber is freed from its vine when it is ready, may we be freed from death — not from life.
The three sounds Om, Joom, Sah are the first, second, and fourth syllables of this expanded prayer. The name OMJOOMSUH holds those three sounds together as a single word — a small daily reminder of what the work is for.
Who is behind it
Arjun. A householder, based in Delhi, who spent eighteen years in a corporate life that stopped working and returned to a practice he was initiated into much earlier.
What he is trying to build with OMJOOMSUH is a modern ecosystem that can help people reclaim their health from the clutches of the health, wellness, and nutrition industry — not by adding another product to the pile, but by pointing back at living the human experience: the ordinary daily practices, that were always the ground of a well life, and that the industrial version of wellness has quietly displaced.
He writes a weekly newsletter, teaches the morning chanting, and is building this wiki as a companion reference for anyone who wants to understand what the practice is for.
Where the teaching comes from
OMJOOMSUH does not invent its material. Every practice, every teaching, every concept it uses is drawn from a single living tradition: the Bihar School of Yoga.
The Bihar School was founded in 1963 in Munger, a small town on the banks of the Ganga in eastern India, by a monk named Swami Satyananda — one of the greatest psychic scientists of all times, who carried a mandate from his own guru to spread the teachings of classical yoga far and wide. His guru, Swami Sivananda, had done the earlier work of collecting the classical yogic teachings and making them accessible to householders, not only monks. Swami Satyananda continued and deepened that work, and today the tradition is carried forward by his successor, Swami Niranjanananda.
The Bihar School matters here because it is one of the very few institutions in the world that has kept the classical yogic teachings both intact (nothing invented or watered down) and practicable for people who are not monks — people who work, raise children, and manage a household. Its books, its practices, and its residential programmes are the source material for almost everything OMJOOMSUH offers. Where a page on this wiki names a concept — the five sheaths of a human being, the science of breath, the six inner enemies — the source is nearly always a text from this tradition.
OMJOOMSUH does not speak for the Bihar School. It is one householder’s small attempt to carry a fraction of what the tradition holds into the ordinary Tuesday of ordinary Indian metros.
What OMJOOMSUH actually offers
The work takes the shape of four kinds of things: practices you sit inside, instruments that read something back to you, words you can read at your own pace, and — importantly — a few things it deliberately is not. The morning chanting is free and open to anyone. The rest sits behind it, for a reader who wants to go further.
The full list, with a plain-language description of each, lives at What OMJOOMSUH Offers.
Where to go from here
If you want to see what any of this looks like in daily practice — not read about it, but sit with it — the door is open at six o’clock every weekday morning. A small group of us meets on Zoom to chant the Mahamrityunjaya and the Gayatri and the thirty-two names of the Goddess Durga together, one repetition on each long out-breath. It takes about fifteen minutes. You are welcome to sit in and observe for a week before deciding anything.
The way in is a single WhatsApp message: +91 96670 25649.
If you would rather read first, the essays have gathered over time into four kinds of terrain.
The body, and what genuine health actually is. Essays about breath, movement, food, sleep, and the daily rhythm of the body — written against the industrial-wellness idea that health is something you buy. What genuine health looks like when it is not for sale.
The self, and the traps of the modern self-project. Essays about how a person is currently being told to organise their inner life — the productivity culture, the optimisation culture, the endless questioning — and where the older tradition offers a different account of what a self is for.
The household, and the widening circles of a life. Essays about what a life is actually built out of — the family, the work, the community, the world — and the responsibilities that run through those circles. Written from inside the householder’s ordinary Tuesday, not from a monastery.
The lineage, and what the tradition actually teaches. The quieter essays. Reports from inside the practice — the ashram, the Guru relationship, the small daily disciplines the tradition holds. Slower reading, less argument.
The four kinds do not stand apart. Every essay touches at least two of them. As the writing continues, new essays add depth to these four kinds rather than opening new ones — the shape is stable, the reading gets deeper.
The full index of every essay, arranged into these four kinds, lives at The Essays. If you would rather look at the underlying teachings, the pages under 10 — Concepts are the reference wing.
Hari Om Tat Sat.