Ifif you chant the ome, whether you are a householder or brahmin or non brahmin, ar, woman or a man, a child or an old person, an indian or western or chinese, whatever, you can only benefit from it. The question that is asked is whether it should be used in ricuals, or in upa sanavices wor mental worship, or in gana, god realization, brama kan. There's a very interesting insight about the wedes. All of the weders, ththe wedes themselves have three parts. A one is rituals, sanscrit garma. In weda it means religious work,